Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

The Efficacy of Growing and Consuming Locally Grown Produce in New England (USA) and New Zealand
(Ben Tyson, Chelsea Pitvorec, Nick Edgar, Central Connecticut State University, and New Zealand Landcare Trust)

Significance of Seed and Root Crop Properties in Organic Farming
(Ladislav Bláha, Crop Research Institute, Division of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Prague, Czech Republic)
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Diagnostic Methods for Seed-transmitted Viruses
(Marcio Martinello Sanches, Fernanda Rausch Fernandes, Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Embrapa Plant Quarantine, Brasilia, Brazil)

Remotely Sensed Detection and Monitoring of Crop Diseases
(Jingcheng Zhang, Lin Yuan, Wenjiang Huang, Jihua Wang, Guijun Yang, Beijing Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, China, and others)

Rice Tolerance to the Impact of High Temperatures
(J. K. Goncharova and E. M. Kharitonov, All-Russian Rice Research Institute, Krasnodar, Russia)

Enzyme Activity Variability in Soils under Medicinal and Food-crop Plants
(Jiaojiao Zhao and Wenke Liu, Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Lab of Energy Conservation and Waste Management of Agricultural Structures, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing)

Determining the Efficient Relations between Climatic Factors and Cotton Flower and Boll Production Behavior by Appropriate Time Scale
(Zakaria M. Sawan, Cotton Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Ministry of Agriculture & Land Reclamation, Giza, Egypt)

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