Plant Breeding and Drought in C3 Cereals: What Should We Breed For?

JL Araus, GA Slafer, MP Reynolds, C Royo - Annals of botany, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Drought is the main abiotic constraint on cereal yield. Analysing physiological determinants
of yield responses to water may help in breeding for higher yield and stability under drought …

Isotopes in pyrogenic carbon: A review

MI Bird, PL Ascough - Organic Geochemistry, 2012 - Elsevier
Pyrogenic carbon (PC; also known as biochar, charcoal, black carbon and soot) derived
from natural and anthropogenic burning plays a major, but poorly quantified, role in the …

First Farmers: the Origins of Agricultural Societies, by Peter Bellwood. Malden (MA): Blackwell, 2005; ISBN 0-631-20565-9 hardback£ 60; ISBN 0-631-20566-7 …

P Bellwood, C Gamble, SA Le Blanc… - Cambridge …, 2007 - cambridge.org
There can be no doubt that Peter Bellwood's First Farmers is a major new statement which
presents a robustly expressed solution to one of those classic problems which provides a …

Crop manuring and intensive land management by Europe's first farmers

A Bogaard, R Fraser, THE Heaton… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
The spread of farming from western Asia to Europe had profound long-term social and
ecological impacts, but identification of the specific nature of Neolithic land management …

The impact of manuring on nitrogen isotope ratios in cereals: archaeological implications for reconstruction of diet and crop management practices

A Bogaard, THE Heaton, P Poulton… - Journal of Archaeological …, 2007 - Elsevier
Recent archaeological studies of human diet have used stable nitrogen isotope ratios
(δ15N) from human bone collagen to infer the relative importance of terrestrial plant and …

Climatic, vegetation and cultural change in the eastern Mediterranean during the mid-Holocene environmental transition

N Roberts, WJ Eastwood, C Kuzucuoğlu… - The …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
The eastern Mediterranean region witnessed changes in human culture of the highest
importance between~ 9000 and~ 2500 cal. BP (7000—500 BC) and over the same time …

Environmental factors determining carbon isotope discrimination and yield in durum wheat under Mediterranean conditions

JL Araus, D Villegas, N Aparicio, LFG Del Moral… - Crop …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The effect of environment on the relationship between grain carbon isotope discrimination
(Δ) and yield was studied for durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. var. durum) under …

Stable carbon isotope analysis as a direct means of inferring crop water status and water management practices

M Wallace, G Jones, M Charles, R Fraser… - World …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Stable carbon isotope analysis of plant remains is a promising tool for researchers studying
palaeoclimate and past agricultural systems. The potential of the technique is clear: it offers …

Influence of seabird guano and camelid dung fertilization on the nitrogen isotopic composition of field-grown maize (Zea mays)

P Szpak, JF Millaire, CD White, FJ Longstaffe - Journal of Archaeological …, 2012 - Elsevier
Organic fertilizers have the capacity to alter the nitrogen isotopic composition of plants.
Camelid dung and seabird guano are two potentially important fertilizers in the agricultural …

Drought stress variability in ancient Near Eastern agricultural systems evidenced by δ13C in barley grain

S Riehl, KE Pustovoytov, H Weippert… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
The collapse and resilience of political systems in the ancient Near East and their
relationship with agricultural development have been of wide interest in archaeology and …