It reports the development of the P routines based on maize crops grown in semi-arid eastern Kenya, and validation in contrasting soils in western Kenya and South-western Colombia to demonstrate the robustness of the routines. The creation of this capability required: (1) a new module (APSIM...
The APSIM modules performed reasonably well in reproducing measured aboveground plant values including groundcover, biomass, N uptake, and LAI for the range of cover crop species grown in both monocultures and mixtures (Fig. 2C-F; Table 1). Overall, there was good correspondence between measured...
Row-crop farming is an intensive practice that requires significant quantities of fertilizers and a stable water supply to ensure the highest quality yields as possible. Irrigation plays a crucial role in meeting each crop’s specific water needs so that plants can absorb the nutrients they need t...
crops are grown continuously in horticultural areas surrounding the major urban centres in each Australian state, occupying a total area less than 1% of total canola plantings22. Other host plants forP. xylostellaincludeBrassicaforage crops grown during spring and summer as stock feed, and a divers...
FIELD experiments were established at Bundaberg (South Queensland) and Abergowrie (North Queensland) to quantify the impact of different durations of bare fallow and inputs of organic materials of differing quality (grass, legume or grass/legume mixtures) and origin (grown in situ or imported) on...
However, different cultivars within crops, and even the same cultivars grown in different environments/climates, can exhibit both response types. Nevertheless, understanding which behaviours predominate in which crops and circumstances may be beneficial. This paper describes different physiological water ...
When devoid of conventional insecticides, relatively warm and stable conditions of the early dry season in 'winter' grown ORIA Bt-transgenic cotton crops are conducive to Trichogramma proliferation and biological control appears effective. Further, there is considerable scope to improve Trichogramma's ...
(taste and nutrition) allowing a more diverse set of crops to be grown in controlled-environment farms. CSIRO is looking to apply our establish capability and skills to support the urban and vertical farming industry to contribute to the nutrition of city dwellers as urban populations continue to...
The experimental data were treated as cropping sequence and each year were analysed separately to account for the difference in the cash crop grown and seasonal variations. Pearson correlation analysis was conducted to evaluate relationships between cover crop performance indicators and fallow soil water ...
In this study we simulated two contrasting field experiments where crops were grown for 5 and 16 consecutive years under uniform management, but in which yield at Noptwas poorly correlated to Nopt. We found that N lost to the environment relative to yields (i.e., kg N t-1) varied +/-...