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植物学

Plant Production Science

Special issue on: Plant Production Research for Rural Development: Effective use of agricultural machinery for optimising cropping systems

全文截稿: 2018-06-23

影响因子: 0.848

中科院JCR分区:

  • 大类 : 农林科学 - 4区

  • 小类 : 农艺学 - 4区

网址: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tpps20/current

Plant Production Science, Official English Journal of Crop Science Society of Japan, is an open access journal published by Taylor & Francis. The journal wishes to call for papers for Special Issue.

In many parts of the world, agricultural machinery is used for crop production and this has contributed to rural development in recent time. In some areas traditional methods of manual operations are being replaced by machinery to improve labour productivity, and cropping systems may be modified. In other areas mechanised cropping has been conducted but further improvement in cropping systems is achieved by the introduction of innovative machinery.

In this special issue, we invite researchers to submit original plant production research and review papers that explore the effective use of agricultural machinery for optimising cropping systems for rural development.

The special issue will consist of plant production research papers on adoption of agricultural machinery for efficient crop production. Topics may include plant production as affected by the use of machinery in the areas of;
- Land preparation,
- Planting,
- In-crop operations,
- Harvesting,
- Postharvest operations,
- Crop rotations

Papers on socioeconomic aspect of mechanised plant production in relation to impact on rural development will be considered.

植物学

Plant Production Science

Special issue on: Field Experimental Evaluation of Crop Response to Climate Change

全文截稿: 2018-08-18

影响因子: 0.848

中科院JCR分区:

  • 大类 : 农林科学 - 4区

  • 小类 : 农艺学 - 4区

网址: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tpps20/current

Plant Production Science, Official English Journal of Crop Science Society of Japan, is an open access journal published by Taylor & Francis. The journal wishes to call for papers for this special issue on: Field Experimental Evaluation of Crop Response to Climate Change.

The need for accurately predicting the impacts of climate change is growing. Crop models play a pivotal role, butrecent model intercomparisons studies suggest that models still have large uncertainty in predicting yield under changing climate. To understand the impacts of climate change and develop countermeasures, we need better understandings of mechanisms by which crop production is affected by climate. To this end, we need high-quality experimental results that examine the effects of climate change on yield and quality of crops.

Amongst different types of experimentation, open-field experiments under multiple environments using environmental manipulation experiments such as free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) and ecosystem warming, multi-locational or long-term field trials are particularly important for understanding crop response to climate change. Many publications are already available through these experiments, but there are much more data that are not published, not because experiments were conducted poorly, but because results did not have significant impacts or surprises. Experiments with such ‘negative’ results are often neglected or not considered for publication or submission.

Disclosing these negative results can benefit our scientific community in two ways:
- Negative results can be passed on to next generations: They will have to repeat the same experiments without knowing the previous results.
- Published results can be less-biased toward positive effects, because negative data are also evaluated.

The unbiased data collected in a sound scientific manner can be a very important basis of our science. In this special issue, we invite researchers to submit original field experimental research that examine the environmental response of crops. We particularly welcome experimenters from FACE, ecosystem warming, multi-locational or long-term field trials, which datasets can also be used for crop modelling studies. No significant impacts of the results are needed, but please describe clearly the environmental conditions under which experimentation was conducted. We also invite review papers describing summary of long-term projects of the crop FACE.

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