Challenges and opportunities for improving N use efficiency for rice production in sub-Saharan Africa

Laboratory Visible and Near-Infrared Spectroscopy with Genetic Algorithm-Based Partial Least Squares Regression for Assessing the Soil Phosphorus Content of Upland and Lowland Rice Fields in Madagascar

(2019) Kensuke Kawamura et al.   Remote Sensing

Phosphorus micro-dosing as an entry point to sustainable intensification of rice systems in sub-Saharan Africa

(2018) Elke Vandamme et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Mapping abiotic stresses for rice in Africa: Drought, cold, iron toxicity, salinity and sodicity

(2018) P.A.J. van Oort   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Review: Taking stock of Africa’s second-generation agricultural input subsidy programs

(2018) Thomas S. Jayne et al.   FOOD POLICY

Grain yield responses of lowland rice varieties to increased amount of nitrogen fertilizer under tropical highland conditions in central Kenya

(2018) Symon M. Njinju et al.   PLANT PRODUCTION SCIENCE

Root plasticity under fluctuating soil moisture stress exhibited by backcross inbred line of a rice variety, Nipponbare carrying introgressed segments from KDML105 and detection of the associated QTLs

(2018) Stella Owusu-Nketia et al.   PLANT PRODUCTION SCIENCE

Functional roles of root plasticity and its contribution to water uptake and dry matter production of CSSLs with the genetic background of KDML105 under soil moisture fluctuation

(2018) Stella Owusu-Nketia et al.   PLANT PRODUCTION SCIENCE

Spatial Variation in Surface Soil Total Carbon and Its Relationship with Soil Color in a River Floodplain Ecosystem of Northern Ghana

(2018) Keisuke KATSURA et al.   JARQ-JAPAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH QUARTERLY

Phosphorus uptake of rice plants is affected by phosphorus forms and physicochemical properties of tropical weathered soils

(2018) Tomohiro Nishigaki et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Yield-limiting macronutrients for rice in sub-Saharan Africa

(2018) Kazuki Saito et al.   GEODERMA

On-farm rice yield and its association with biophysical factors in sub-Saharan Africa

(2017) Atsuko Tanaka et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY

The effect of sulfur fertilization on rice yields and nitrogen use efficiency in a floodplain ecosystem of northern Ghana

(2017) Yasuhiro Tsujimoto et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Variability and determinants of yields in rice production systems of West Africa

(2017) Abibou Niang et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Impacts of climate change on rice production in Africa and causes of simulated yield changes

(2017) Pepijn A. J. van Oort et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Yield variation of rainfed rice as affected by field water availability and N fertilizer use in central Benin

(2017) A. Niang et al.   NUTRIENT CYCLING IN AGROECOSYSTEMS

Soil nutrient maps of Sub-Saharan Africa: assessment of soil nutrient content at 250 m spatial resolution using machine learning

(2017) Tomislav Hengl et al.   NUTRIENT CYCLING IN AGROECOSYSTEMS

Improving phosphorus use efficiency: a complex trait with emerging opportunities

(2017) Sigrid Heuer et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Association between root growth angle and root length density of a near-isogenic line of IR64 rice with DEEPER ROOTING 1 under different levels of soil compaction

(2017) Poornima Ramalingam et al.   PLANT PRODUCTION SCIENCE

Global Sequestration Potential of Increased Organic Carbon in Cropland Soils

(2017) Robert J. Zomer et al.   Scientific Reports

Vis-NIR Spectroscopy and PLS Regression with Waveband Selection for Estimating the Total C and N of Paddy Soils in Madagascar

(2017) Kensuke Kawamura et al.   Remote Sensing

Agronomic biofortification of crops to fight hidden hunger in sub-Saharan Africa

(2017) A.W. de Valença et al.   Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment

High Resolution Mapping of Soil Properties Using Remote Sensing Variables in South-Western Burkina Faso: A Comparison of Machine Learning and Multiple Linear Regression Models

(2017) Gerald Forkuor et al.   PLoS One

Strategic phosphorus (P) application to the nursery bed increases seedling growth and yield of transplanted rice at low P supply

(2016) Elke Vandamme et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

From promise to application: root traits for enhanced nutrient capture in rice breeding

(2016) Matthias Wissuwa et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

On-farm testing of a nutrient management decision-support tool for rice in the Senegal River valley

(2015) Kazuki Saito et al.   COMPUTERS AND ELECTRONICS IN AGRICULTURE

Improved nursery management further enhances the productivity of stress-tolerant rice varieties in coastal rainfed lowlands

(2015) Sukanta K. Sarangi et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Causes of yield stagnation in irrigated lowland rice systems in the Senegal River Valley: Application of dichotomous decision tree analysis

(2015) Atsuko Tanaka et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Managing nitrogen for sustainable development

(2015) Xin Zhang et al.   NATURE

Zinc-enriched fertilisers as a potential public health intervention in Africa

(2015) Edward J. M. Joy et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Mid-Infrared and Total X-Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy Complementarity for Assessment of Soil Properties

(2015) Erick K. Towett et al.   SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL

Rice yield growth analysis for 24 African countries over 1960–2012

(2015) Kazuki Saito et al.   Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment

Assessment of rice self-sufficiency in 2025 in eight African countries

(2015) P.A.J. van Oort et al.   Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment

En route to plentiful food production in Africa

(2015) Pedro A. Sanchez   Nature Plants

Unmasking Novel Loci for Internal Phosphorus Utilization Efficiency in Rice Germplasm through Genome-Wide Association Analysis

(2015) Matthias Wissuwa et al.   PLoS One

Narrowing the rice yield gap in East and Southern Africa: Using and adapting existing technologies

(2014) Nhamo Nhamo et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Soil quality and constraints in global rice production

(2014) S.M. Haefele et al.   GEODERMA

Soil color analysis for statistically estimating total carbon, total nitrogen and active iron contents in Japanese agricultural soils

(2014) Naoki Moritsuka et al.   SOIL SCIENCE AND PLANT NUTRITION

How do fertilizer subsidy programs affect total fertilizer use in sub-Saharan Africa? Crowding out, diversion, and benefit/cost assessments

(2013) T.S. Jayne et al.   AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

Spatial and temporal variation in yield of rainfed lowland rice in inland valley as affected by fertilizer application and bunding in North-West Benin

(2013) Omonlola Nadine Worou et al.   AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT

Limited Si-nutrient status of rice plants in relation to plant-available Si of soils, nitrogen fertilizer application, and rice-growing environments across Sub-Saharan Africa

(2013) Yasuhiro Tsujimoto et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Explaining the African food riots of 2007–2008: An empirical analysis

(2013) Julia Berazneva et al.   FOOD POLICY

Control of root system architecture by DEEPER ROOTING 1 increases rice yield under drought conditions

(2013) Yusaku Uga et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Factors affecting variation in farm yields of irrigated lowland rice in southern-central Benin

(2012) Atsuko Tanaka et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY

Topographic distribution of the soil total carbon content and sulfur deficiency for rice cultivation in a floodplain ecosystem of the Northern region of Ghana

(2012) Yasuhiro Tsujimoto et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

When yield gaps are poverty traps: The paradigm of ecological intensification in African smallholder agriculture

(2012) Pablo Tittonell et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

The protein kinase Pstol1 from traditional rice confers tolerance of phosphorus deficiency

(2012) Rico Gamuyao et al.   NATURE

The Malawi agricultural input subsidy programme: 2005/06 to 2008/09

(2011) Andrew Dorward et al.   International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

Identification of qSOR1, a major rice QTL involved in soil-surface rooting in paddy fields

(2011) Yusaku Uga et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

Rice yield and its relation to root growth and nutrient-use efficiency under SRI and conventional cultivation: an evaluation in Madagascar

(2010) Joeli Barison et al.   Paddy and Water Environment

The effects of soil drying and rewetting on rice growth in lowland aquatic Ferralsols in the southeastern forest region of Madagascar

(2010) Yasuhiro Tsujimoto et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Agronomic use efficiency of N fertilizer in maize-based systems in sub-Saharan Africa within the context of integrated soil fertility management

(2010) Bernard Vanlauwe et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Fine-mapping of qRL6.1, a major QTL for root length of rice seedlings grown under a wide range of NH4 + concentrations in hydroponic conditions

(2010) Mitsuhiro Obara et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

Factors influencing the profitability of fertilizer use on maize in Zambia

(2009) Zhiying Xu et al.   AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

Soil quality and fertilizer use rates among smallholder farmers in western Kenya

(2009) Paswel P. Marenya et al.   AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

Soil management: The key factors for higher productivity in the fields utilizing the system of rice intensification (SRI) in the central highland of Madagascar

(2009) Yasuhiro Tsujimoto et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Response of lowland rice to agronomic management under different hydrological regimes in an inland valley of Ivory Coast

(2009) Amadou Touré et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Investment, subsidies, and pro-poor growth in rural India

(2008) Shenggen Fan et al.   AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

Rice Yield Gap due to Iron Toxicity in West Africa

(2008) A. Audebert et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY AND CROP SCIENCE