Field Crop Abstracts

Overview

Field Crop Abstracts is a fully searchable abstracts database of internationally published research on all aspects of field crop production, from germination to storage.

Derived from CAB Abstracts, the original applied life sciences database, Field Crop Abstracts coverage includes: agronomy and crop management, cultivars, crop protection, crop physiology, environmental impact on crops, harvesting, storage, and crop quality of cereals, grain legumes, root crops, fibre crops, oilseed crops, sugar crops, as well as other regionally important crops such as pseudocereals and tobacco.

Each week Field Crop Abstracts Online delivers all the new highly-targeted, searchable summaries covering key English and non-English language journal articles, reports, conferences and books about Field Crops. Over 12,000 records are added to the database each year.

The database includes a fully searchable backfile to 1973 and over 394,000 research summaries bringing a wealth of current and seminal research in field crops to your fingertips!

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Coverage


Cultivars and taxonomy

• The use and comparison of cultivars of field crops in agronomic and experimental situations
• Cultivar registrations and descriptions
• Techniques for cultivar identification
• Taxonomy of field crop species including wild relatives where they relate directly to the commonly grown species
   

Agronomy and crop management

• Farming systems (intensive systems, organic farming, low input agriculture, sustainability, and traditional methods)
• Cropping systems (rotations, intercropping, multiple cropping, mixed cropping, cultivar mixtures
   

Agronomic methods

• Seedbed preparation
• Soil fumigation or sterilization
• Soil cultivation and tillage
• Seed and seed-tuber treatment
• Sowing and planting
• Crop establishment
• Spacing and plant density
• Mulching and irrigation
• Chemical growth regulation on a field scale
• Growth regulation by physical methods (such as topping and sucker removal)
• Fertilizer application dates method and forms of fertilizer application
• Soil amendments
• Green manures

Seed production

• Seed anatomy, morphology and embryology
• Seed development
• Seed composition, seed quality and testing
• Seed ageing
• Artificial seeds
   

Land use and suitability

• Crop monitoring, including remote sensing
• Yield forecasting
   

Control of diseases, pests and weeds

• Chemical, physical, cultural, biological or integrated methods
• Selection and assessment of resistance of crop varieties to diseases and pests
• Weed competition
• Allelopathy
   

Physiology and environmental factors

• Field crop physiology
• Plant morphology and anatomy
• Germination
• Dormancy
• Embryology
• Tissue culture and organ culture
• Growth, flowering, grain and fruit development and ripening
• Senescence
• Postharvest physiology
• Photosynthesis, respiration, transpiration, translocation, ion transport, nutrition, nitrogen fixation, enzymes, growth regulators and metabolic inhibitors
• Plant composition
• Plant metabolism
• Water relations, techniques and models
• Abiotic stresses such as soil conditions, drought, heat, cold, salinity, and pollution and the effects of biotic factors such as mycorrhizas on crops
   

Harvesting and storage

• Harvesters
• Time of harvest
• Threshing, grain drying, handling and transport.
• Crop storage conditions and their effects on crop quality
   

Crop quality

• Crop quality as affected by agronomic treatments,crop management and storage
• Crop quality assessment methods before processing, such as image processors and assays

Updates to this list are produced monthly. Designation of Open Access publications are currently available in the downloadable version.

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