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 17,000 records are added to the database each year.

The database includes a fully searchable backfile to 1971 and over 450,000 research summaries bringing a wealth of current and seminal research in field crops to your fingertips!

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Agronomy and crop management

• • – cropping systems (rotations, intercropping, multiple cropping, mixed cropping, cultivar mixtures

  – farming systems (intensive systems, organic farming, low input agriculture, sustainability, and traditional methods)

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• Agronomic methods
• – chemical growth regulation on a field scale
• – crop establishment
• – fertilizer application dates method and forms of fertilizer application
• – green manures
• – growth regulation by physical methods (such as topping and sucker removal)
• – mulching and irrigation
• – seed and seed-tuber treatment
• – seedbed preparation
• – soil fumigation or sterilization
• – soil cultivation and tillage
• – sowing and planting
• – spacing and plant density
• – soil amendments

Cultivars and taxonomy

• – cultivar registrations and descriptions
• – taxonomy of field crop species including wild relatives where they relate directly to the commonly grown species- techniques for cultivar identification
• • – the use and comparison of cultivars of field crops in agronomic and experimental situations

Control of diseases, pests and weeds

• – allelopathy- chemical, physical, cultural, biological or integrated methods
• – selection and assessment of resistance of crop varieties to diseases and pests
• – weed competition

• 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

  Harvesting and storage

  • • – crop storage conditions and their effects on crop quality

    – harvesters

  • • – threshing, grain drying, handling and transport.

    – time of harvest

  • Land use and suitability

    • – crop monitoring, including remote sensing
    • – yield forecasting

Physiology and environmental factors

• – abiotic stresses such as soil conditions, drought, heat, cold, salinity, and pollution and the effects of biotic factors such as mycorrhizas on crops- field crop physiology
• – dormancy
• – embryology
• • – germination

  – growth, flowering, grain and fruit development and ripening

• – photosynthesis, respiration, transpiration, translocation, ion transport, nutrition, nitrogen fixation, enzymes, growth regulators and metabolic inhibitors
• • • – plant composition
    • – plant metabolism

    – plant morphology and anatomy

• • – postharvest physiology
  • – senescence
  • – tissue culture and organ culture

  – water relations, techniques and models

Seed production

• – artificial seeds- seed anatomy, morphology and embryology
• • – seed ageing

  – seed composition, seed quality and testing

• – seed development

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