Boron (B) is essential for vascular plants. Rapeseed (Brassica napus) is the second leading crop source for vegetable oil worldwide, but…
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Sustainable Cropping
Global food demand places significant pressure on the environment and human societies, including land degradation, deforestation, water scarcity and food inequality. Sustainable agriculture is crucial to meet society’s demands in the present and for future generations, while ensuring a healthy environment, economic profitability, and social responsibility.
In this collection, we present a selection of articles curated by PLOS Genetics, PLOS Biology and PLOS ONE editors. Here we highlight recently published research into food production systems to meet society’s demands, while preserving the natural resources and providing social and economic viability for farmers and their communities.
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PLOS Genetics
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PLOS Genetics Genetic variation of BnaA3.NIP5;1 expressing in the lateral root cap contributes to boron deficiency tolerance in Brassica napus
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PLOS Genetics Common gardens in teosintes reveal the establishment of a syndrome of adaptation to altitude
In plants, local adaptation across species range is frequent. Yet, much has to be discovered on its environmental drivers, the underlying…
PLOS Biology
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PLOS Biology Small-scale integrated farming systems can abate continental-scale nutrient leakage
Beef is the most resource intensive of all commonly used food items. Disproportionate synthetic fertilizer use during beef production…
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PLOS Biology Peroxiredoxin alleviates the fitness costs of imidacloprid resistance in an insect pest of rice
Chemical insecticides have been heavily employed as the most effective measure for control of agricultural and medical pests, but…
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PLOS Biology Climate change and disease in plant communities
Climate change is triggering similar effects on the incidence and severity of disease for crops in agriculture and wild plants in natural…
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PLOS Biology Optimising risk-based surveillance for early detection of invasive plant pathogens
Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) of plants continue to devastate ecosystems and livelihoods worldwide. Effective management requires…
PLOS ONE
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Image creditCorn by 491013/, Pixabay licensePLOS ONE One CGIAR and the Integrated Agri-food Systems Initiative: From short-termism to transformation of the world’s food systems
Agri-food systems are besieged by malnutrition, yield gaps, and climate vulnerability, but integrated, research-based responses in public…
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PLOS ONE An integrated approach of Ecological Footprint (EF) and Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) in human ecology: A base for planning toward sustainability
Environmental challenges to natural resources have been attributed to human behavior and traditional agricultural production techniques.…
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PLOS ONE Multi-criteria suitability analysis for neglected and underutilised crop species in South Africa
Several neglected and underutilised species (NUS) provide solutions to climate change and creating a Zero Hunger world, the Sustainable…
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Image creditOlive trees by ulleo, Pixabay licensePLOS ONE Perennial vegetables: A neglected resource for biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and nutrition
Perennial vegetables are a neglected and underutilized class of crops with potential to address 21st century challenges. They represent…
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PLOS ONE Exploring the future of land use and food security: A new set of global scenarios
Facing a growing and more affluent world population, changing climate and finite natural resources, world food systems will have to change…
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PLOS ONE Impacts of climate change on agro-climatic suitability of major food crops in Ghana
Climate change is projected to impact food production stability in many tropical countries through impacts on crop potential. However,…
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PLOS ONE Climate smart agriculture and global food-crop production
Most business-as-usual scenarios for farming under changing climate regimes project that the agriculture sector will be significantly…
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PLOS ONE Agroecosystem resilience. A conceptual and methodological framework for evaluation
This article proposes a conceptual and methodological framework for analyzing agroecosystem resilience, in which aspects such as agrarian…
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PLOS ONE Global drivers of food system (un)sustainability: A multi-country correlation analysis
At present, our ability to comprehend the dynamics of food systems and the consequences of their rapid ‘transformations’ is limited. In…
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PLOS ONE Innovating within or outside dominant food systems? Different challenges for contrasting crop diversification strategies in Europe
Innovations supporting a shift towards more sustainable food systems can be developed within the dominant food system regime or in…
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PLOS ONE The environmental consequences of climate-driven agricultural frontiers
Growing conditions for crops such as coffee and wine grapes are shifting to track climate change. Research on these crop responses has…
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PLOS ONE Vulnerability of the agricultural sector to climate change: The development of a pan-tropical Climate Risk Vulnerability Assessment to inform sub-national decision making
As climate change continues to exert increasing pressure upon the livelihoods and agricultural sector of many developing and developed…
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Image creditCanola fields by stevepb/, Pixabay licensePLOS ONE Food security and food self-sufficiency around the world: A typology of countries
The particularities of agriculture, as a sector which ensures food supply, result from many factors, including the multilateral…