Agronomy

Agronomy is the science and technology of using plants for food, fuel, feed, and fibre. It encompasses work in the areas of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and soil science, and it applies a combination of sciences like biology, chemistry, ecology, earth science, and genetics. Agronomists today are involved with many issues, including producing food, creating healthier food, managing environmental impact of agriculture, and creating energy from plants. Agronomists often specialize in areas such as crop rotation, irrigation and drainage, plant breeding, soil classification, soil fertility, weed control, and insect and pest control.Selected Contents: Microarray Analysis of Iron Deficiency Chlorosis in Near-Isogenic Soybean Lines; Pilot-Scale Conversion of Lime-Treated Wheat Straw into Bioethanol: Quality Assessment of Bioethanol and Valorization of Side Streams by Anaerobic Digestion and Combustion; Input Subsidies to Improve Smallholder Maize Productivity in Malawi: Toward An African Green Revolution; Integration Options for High Energy Efficiency and Improved Economics in a Wood-to-Ethanol Process; Nicotine's Defensive Function in Nature; Simulated Responses of Soil Organic Carbon Stock to Tillage Management Scenarios in the Northwest Great Plains; The -Gliadin Multigene Family in Common Wheat (Triticum aestivum) and its Closely Related Species; Removing Celiac Disease-Related Gluten Proteins from Bread Wheat While Retaining Technological Properties: A Study with Chinese Spring Deletion Lines; Expressed Sequence Tags (Ests) and Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) Markers From Octoploid Strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa); Genetically Modified Parthenocarpic Eggplants: Improved Fruit Productivity Under Both Greenhouse and Open Field Cultivation; A Physical Map of the Heterozygous Grapevine 'Cabernet Sauvignon' Allows Mapping Candidate Genes for Disease Resistance; Identification of Potentially Safe Promising Fungal Cell Factories for the Pr