Assessing the demand and current status of agricultural mechanization in major coffee-production areas of Ethiopia by Dessye Belay Tikuneh, Mubarek M Issa, Yared D Tefera

“…Coffee harvesting is a highly time-sensitive operation for 49.4% of smallholder farmers, with hand tools being the main implement dominantly used for weeding. Poor harvesting practices reduce the quality of coffee during processing, and some unions have two or more wet mills using old machinery. …”
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<i>Solanum nigrum</i> L. is a potato spindle tuber viroid reservoir by N. V. Mironenko, A. V. Khiutti, E. I. Kyrova, N. M. Lashina, O. S. Afanasenko

“…Background. Among the weeds of the Solanaceae family, a potential viroid infection reservoir, black nightshade (Solanum nigrum L.), is ubiquitous in Russia.Materials and methods. …”
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Seasonal Variations of <i>Spodoptera frugiperda</i> Host Plant Diversity and Parasitoid Complex in Southern and Central Benin by Jeannette K. Winsou, Ghislain T. Tepa-Yotto, Karl H. Thunes, Richard Meadow, Manuele Tamò, May-Guri Sæthre

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The Epidemiological Framework for Biological Invasions (EFBI): an interdisciplinary foundation for the assessment of biosecurity threats by Philip E. Hulme, Richard Baker, Robert Freckleton, Rosemary S. Hails, Matt Hartley, John Harwood, Glenn Marion, Graham C. Smith, Mark Williamson

“…Emerging microparasite (e.g. viruses, bacteria, protozoa and fungi) epidemics and the introduction of non-native pests and weeds are major biosecurity threats worldwide. The likelihood of these threats is often estimated from probabilities of their entry, establishment, spread and ease of prevention. …”
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Study on the Hole-Forming Performance and Opening of Mulching Film for a Dibble-Type Transplanting Device by Xiaoshun Zhao, Zhuangzhuang Hou, Jizong Zhang, Huali Yu, Jianjun Hao, Yuhua Liu

“…In order to improve the quality of transplanting devices and solve the problems of the poor effect on soil moisture conservation and more weeds easily growing due to the high mulching-film damage rate with an excessive number of hole openings, we developed a dibble-type transplanting device consisting of a dibble-type transplanting unit, a transplanting disc, and a dibble axis. …”
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Comparative Risk Assessment of Three Native <i>Heliotropium</i> Species in Israel by Jakob A. Shimshoni, Shimon Barel, Patrick P. J. Mulder

“…<i>Heliotropium</i> species (Boraginaceae) are PA-producing weeds, widely distributed in the Mediterranean region, that have been implicated with lethal intoxications in livestock and humans. …”
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Analysis of the Influence of Parameters of a Spraying System Designed for UAV Application on the Spraying Quality Based on Box–Behnken Response Surface Method by Dashuai Wang, Sheng Xu, Zhuolin Li, Wujing Cao

“…With the development of precision agriculture (PA), low-altitude and low-volume spraying based on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is playing an increasingly important role in the control of crop diseases, pests, and weeds. However, the aerial spraying quality and droplet drift are affected by many factors, some of which are controllable (e.g., flight and spraying parameters) and some of which are not (e.g., environmental parameters). …”
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Efeito do Fogo nas Características Químicas e Biológicas do Solo no Sistema Agroflorestal da Bracatinga Effects of Burning Harvesting Residues on Soil Chemical and Biological Chara... by Danielle Janaina Westphalen Pomianoski, Renato Antonio Dedecek, Luciano Javier Montoya Vilcahuaman

“…This system uses to burn residues to assure revegetation of new harvest and to control weeds. Treatments tested were revegetation using fire and without fire and a test plot consisting of native forest. …”
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Freezing stress affects the efficacy of clodinafop-propargyl and 2,4-D plus MCPA on wild oat (Avena ludoviciana Durieu) and turnipweed [Rapistrum rugosum (L.) All.] in wheat (Triti... by Alireza Hasanfard, Mehdi Rastgoo, Ebrahim Izadi Darbandi, Ahmad Nezami, Bhagirath Singh Chauhan

“…Wheat and its two common weeds, winter wild oat (Avena ludoviciana Durieu) and turnipweed [Rapistrum rugosum (L.) …”
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Unsupervised Methodology for Large-Scale Tree Seedling Mapping in Diverse Forestry Settings Using UAV-Based RGB Imagery by Sadeepa Jayathunga, Grant D. Pearse, Michael S. Watt

“…While spectral and structural metrics efficiently filtered out non-vegetation objects and weeds, they struggled to differentiate planted seedlings from regenerating ones due to their similar characteristics, resulting in a large number of false positives. …”
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Synthesis and validation IPM technology and its economic analysis for bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) by JAYDEEP HALDER, H R SARDANA, M K PANDEY, NAGENDRAN KRISHNAN, M N BHAT

“…The IPM technology that synthesized comprising seed treatment with Trichoderma viride @5 g/kg of seed; installation of cue lure traps (MAT) for fruit flies @10/acre; raking of soil for exposing fruit fly pupae and removal of weeds, need based application of Bacillus thuringiensis @2 g/litre against Sphenerches caffer; need based spraying of Azadirachtin based neem insecticide @10 ml/litre and Imidacloprid 17.8SL @0.33 ml/litre of water for mirid bugs and whiteflies; fungicide Cymoxanyl 8WP+Mancozeb 64WP @2.5 g/litre against downy mildew were found effective in reducing the incidence of pests and minimizing the yield losses. …”
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From the ground up: Patterns and perceptions of herbaceous diversity in organic coffee agroecosystems by Sarah Archibald, Clementine Allinne, Carlos R. Cerdán, Marney E. Isaac

“…Farmer perception of plant traits in the herbaceous community was differentiated into competitive (weeds) or neutral/positive effects. These perceptions aligned with well‐established functional trait trade‐offs. …”
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Variabilidad genética de la bacteria Ralstonia solanacearum (Burkholderiales: Burholderiaceae) en la zona bananera de Urabá (Colombia) by Carolina Cardozo, Paola Rodríguez, José Miguel Cotes, Mauricio Marín

“…This is the first study of its variation in Colombia and was done with AFLP molecular markers on a population of 100 isolates from banana plants, soils and "weeds". The high level of genetic diversity, with Nei and Shannon indexes of h=0.32 and I=0.48, respectively, and the AMOVA, showed that this population is subestructured (Fst=0.66): the host is the main factor of differentiation. …”
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Non Target Site Tolerance Mechanisms Describe Tolerance to Glyphosate in Avena sterilis by Pablo Tomas Fernandez-Moreno, Ricardo Alcantara-de la Cruz, Hugo Enrique Cruz-Hipolito, Antonia Maria Rojano-Delgado, Ilias Travlos, Rafael De Prado

“…The above-mentioned results indicate that innate tolerance to glyphosate in A. sterilis is probably and partly due to reduced herbicide absorption and translocation and metabolism compared to the susceptibility of other grasses weeds like Chloris inflata, Eleusine indica and Lolium rigidum.…”
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Allelopathic Toxicity of Cyanamide Could Control Amaranth (<i>Amaranthus retroflexus</i> L.) in Alfalfa (<i>Medicago sativa</i> L.) Field by Weihong Sun, Chaowei Yang, Xinhe Shan, Mingzhu An, Xianguo Wang

“…Despite increasing knowledge coming to light of allelochemicals as leads for new herbicides, relatively little is known about the mode of action of allelochemical-based herbicides on herbicide-resistant weeds. Cyanamide is an allelochemical produced by hairy vetch (<i>Vicia villosa</i> Roth.). …”
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Transplanting assembly of individual carbon nanotubes by Kim, Soohyung

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Simulating capture efficiency of pitfall traps based on sampling strategy and the movement of ground-dwelling arthropods by Ahmed, DA, Beidas, A, Petrovskii, SV, Bailey, JD, Bonsall, MB, Hood, ASC, Byers, JA, Hudgins, EJ, Russell, JC, Růžičková, J, Bodey, TW, Renault, D, Bonnaud, E, Haubrock, PJ, Soto, I, Haase, P

“…We contextualise our results by considering the locomotion of Pterostichus melanarius, a highly active carabid beetle often serving as a biocontrol agent for the suppression of pest insects and weeds. <br> 3. By simulating the trapping of randomly moving ground-dwelling arthropods, we show that there is an optimal inter-trap separation distance (trap spacing) that maximises captures, that can be expressed using exact formulae in terms of trap opening sizes, sampling area and trap number. …”

Ground-level ozone: a threat to rice crop in Muda irrigation area of Peninsular Malaysia. by Ismail, Marzuki, Abdullah, Ahmad Makmom, Mohd Sofian, Nur Zafirah

“…The results of the study clearly indicate that at ozone concentrations even lower than the Malaysian air quality guidelines (60 ppb 8 hr mean) level, there exist a significant impact on the growth and yield of the popular rice cultivar MR-219. Even though weeds, diseases, and insect pests were absent, water and nutrients were in abundance, no adverse soil conditions, and that no extreme weather event such as typhoons occurs; the physiological, growth and development performances of rice plants exposed to ambient ozone were found to be significantly (P< 0.05) reduced by AOT40 compared to control rice plants in filtered chamber. …”
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Spatial distribution of carbon and nitrogen stable isotope in soil of an oil palm plantation by Alaswad, Fathia, Mohamat-Yusuff, Ferdaus, Ismail, Roslan, Mohd Kusin, Faradiella, Asha’ari, Zulfa Hanan, J., Khairiah

“…The objective of this study was to investigated the total organic carbon (TOC) and nitrogen (TON) content, and δ 13C and δ 15N values of soil in an oil palm plantation at different soil depths: 0-30, 30-60 and 60-90 cm and at different distances ((1.5 m: weeded circle), 3.5 (inter-rows) and 4.5 m (frond heap)) away from the tree base. …”
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The effect of 2, 4-D (2, 4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid) and glyphosate (N-phosphonomethyl glycine) toxicity on stingless bee, Trigona itama using direct spray and bioassays methods by Md Amin, Mohd Hairul Fazli

“…Although it is used to killed weeds, however, it could killed stingless bees directly or indirectly. …”
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