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New Rice for Africa (NERICA) cultivars exhibit different levels of post-attachment resistance against the parasitic weeds Striga hermonthica and Striga asiatica by Cissoko, M., Boisnard, A., Rodenburg, J., Press, M.C., Scholes, J.D.

“…Striga hermonthica and S. asiatica are root parasitic weeds that infect the major cereal crops of sub-Saharan Africa causing severe losses in yield. …”
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Rebalancing global nitrogen management in response to a fertilizer and food security crisis by Snapp, Sieglinde S., Sapkota, Tek Bahadur, Chamberlin, Jordan, Cox, Cindy M., Gameda, Samuel, Jat, Mangi Lal, Marenya, Paswel Phiri, Mottaleb, Khondoker Abdul, Negra, Christine, Senthilkumar, Kalimuthu, Sida, Tesfaye, Singh, Upendra, Stewart, Zachary, Fantaye, Kindie Tesfaye, Govaerts, Bram

“…Across over- and under-fertilized agricultural systems, nitrogen (N) fertilizer price spikes will have very different effects and require differentiated responses. For staple cereal production in India, Ethiopia, and Malawi, our estimates of N-fertilizer savings show the value of integrated organic and inorganic N management. …”
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Supplementary datasets for: State of ex situ conservation of landrace groups of twenty-five major crops by Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando, Khoury, Colin K., Achicanoy Estrella, Harold Armando, Díaz, Maria Victoria, Mendez, Andres, Sosa, Chrystian C

“…Here we modeled the potential distributions of eco-geographically distinguishable groups of landraces of 25 cereal, pulse, and starchy root/tuber/fruit crops within their geographic regions of diversity. …”
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Genotyping by sequencing advancements in barley by Rajendran, Nirmal Raj, Qureshi, Naeela, Pourkheirandish, Mohammad

“…Barley is considered an ideal crop to study cereal genetics due to its close relationship with wheat and diploid ancestral genome. …”
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Over-expression of TaDWF4 increases wheat productivity under low and sufficient nitrogen through enhanced carbon assimilation by Milner, Matthew J., Swarbreck, Stéphanie M., Craze, Melanie, Bowden, Sarah, Griffiths, Howard, Bentley, Alison R., Wallington, Emma J.

“…There is a strong pressure to reduce nitrogen (N) fertilizer inputs while maintaining or increasing current cereal crop yields. We show that overexpression of TaDWF4-B, the dominant shoot expressed homoeologue of OsDWF4, in wheat can increase plant productivity by up to 105% under a range of N levels on marginal soils, resulting in increased N use efficiency (NUE). …”
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Breeding cowpea for adaptation to intercropping for sustainable intensification in the Guinea Savannas of Nigeria by Omoigui, L., Kamara, A., Shaibu, A.S., Aliyu, K.T., Tofa, A., Solomon, R., Olasan, O.J.

“…Based on our findings, UAM14-122-17-7 and UAM14-123-18-3 are recommended for a cereal-cowpea mixture because they are adapted to intercropping and produce high-grain yield under intercrop and sole-cropping systems.…”
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Machine learning technique unraveled subspecies-specific ionomic variation with the preferential mineral enrichment in rice by Tiozon, Rhowell N., Buenafe, Reuben James, Jain, Vinay, Sen, Partha, Molina, Lilia R., Anacleto, Roslen, Sreenivasulu, Nese

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The role of responsive heterogeneity in sub-Saharan smallholder farming sustainability: socio-economic and biophysical determinants of mineral and organic fertilizers used in South... by Thiombiano, Boundia Alexandre, Le, Quang Bao, Ouédraogo, Dénis

“…The results revealed that the determinants of SMN adoption include not only common determinants to whole sampled population (income, household size, access to roads and cereal areas), but also specific determinants to farm types (small ruminants, animal power, educational level and access to agro-training). …”
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Bigger data from landscape-scale crop assessment surveys empowers sustainability transitions by McDonald, Andrew J., Malik, Ram K., Ajay, Anurag, Craufurd, Peter Q., Dubey, Shantanu K., Gautam, Udham S., Karki, Saral, Kishore, Avinash, Krupnik, Timothy J., Kumar, Virender, Mkondiwa, Maxwell, Nayak, Hari S., Parihar, Chiter M., Paudel, Gokul, Peramaiyan, Panneer, Pundir, Ajay, Poonia, Shishpal, Samaddar, Arindam, Sherpa, Sonam, Balwinder-Singh, Singh, Sudhanshu, Urfels, Anton, Veettil, Prakashan, Pathak, Himanshu, Singh, Ashok K.

“…Here we present results from a collaboration between the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) and the Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) to address agricultural data gaps in India. …”
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Income mobility of rural households: Are female headed households participating in Ethiopia’s economic growth? by Warner, James, Mekonnen, Yalew

“…We conclude that female headed households, at the lower asset quartiles, are earning less income, marketing a smaller share of cereal crops, and experiencing less growth which, unlike comparable male headed households in lower quartiles, is leading to relative stagnation, and rising inequality. …”
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Forward breeding for efficient selection. In Sustainability Sciences in Asia and Africa by Bohar, R., Dreisigacker, S., Lindqvist-Kreuze, H., Kante, M., Pandey, M.K., Sharma, V., Chaudhari, S., Varshney, Rajeev K.

“…Here, we summarize the available forward breeding genomic resources in the space of low-mid-density genotyping platform with special emphasis on shared services for four crop groups: 1. Wheat (cereal) 2. Potato (roots, tubers, and bananas (RTB crops)) 3. …”
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Global maize production, consumption and trade: trends and R&D implications by Erenstein, Olaf, Debello, Moti J., Sonder, Kai, Mottaleb, Khondoker A., Prasanna, Boddupalli M.

“…Maize is already the leading cereal in terms of production volume and is set to become the most widely grown and traded crop in the coming decade. …”
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Focus Group Discussions-Agrobiodiversity Assessment by International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The project aimed at testing the hypothesis that the application of sustainable intensification technologies (cereal-legume-vegetable-livestock integrated systems) by smallholder households in North Ghana changes the level of inter and intra-specific crop diversity managed on-farm at household level. …”
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A Survey on Nutrition Related Issues by AVRDC by World Vegetable Center

“…s main objective is to identify and validate scalable options for the sustainable intensification of key African cereal-based farming systems to increase food production and improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers and at the same time conserve or improve the natural resource base. …”
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Does a “Blue Revolution” help the poor? Evidence from Bangladesh by Rashid, Shahidur, Minot, Nicholas, Lemma, Solomon

“…In some Asian countries, fish availability has increased at a faster rate in recent decades than did cereal availability during the Green Revolution. As an example, Bangladesh is one country where aquaculture has increased almost eightfold since the early 1990s. …”
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Efficacy of iron-biofortified crops by Boy, Erick, Haas, Jere D., Petry, Nicolai, Cercamondi, C. I., Gahutu, Jean B., Mehta, S., Finkelstein, Julia L., Hurrell, Richard F.

“…The low genetic variability of iron in the germplasm of most cereal grains is a major obstacle on the path towards nutritional impact with these crops, which is solvable only by turning to transgenic approaches. …”
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The rapid expansion of herbicide use in smallholder agriculture in Ethiopia: Patterns, drivers, and implications by Tamru, Seneshaw, Minten, Bart, Alemu, Dawit, Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane

“…Adoption of herbicides by smallholders has grown rapidly over this period, with the application of herbicides on cereals doubling to more than a quarter of the area under cereals between 2004 and 2014. …”
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Yield gaps and potential agricultural growth in West and Central Africa by Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, Johnson, Michael, Magalhaes, Eduardo, You, Liangzhi, Diao, Xinshen, Chamberlin, Jordan

“…Results indicate that the greatest agriculture-led growth opportunities in West Africa reside in staple crops (cereals and roots and tubers) and livestock production. …”
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Biofortification as a food-based strategy to improve nutrition in high-income countries: A scoping review by Gulyas, Boglarka Z., Mogeni, Brenda, Jackson, Peter, Walton, Jenny, Caton, Samantha J.

“…Most research was conducted in the USA (n = 15) and Italy (n = 11), on cereal crops (n = 14) and vegetables (n = 11), and on selenium (n = 12) and provitamin A (n = 11). …”
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Livestock to 2020: the next food revolution by Delgado, Christopher L., Rosegrant, Mark W., Steinfeld, Henning, Ehui, Simeon, Courbois, Claude

“…Looking forward to 2020, they argue convincingly that the structural shifts in world agriculture being brought about by shifts in developing-country demand for foods of animal origin will continue and that increasingly global markets have the ability to supply both cereal and animal products in desired quantities without undue price rises. …”
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