Long-term agricultural land-cover change and potential for cropland expansion in the former Virgin Lands area of Kazakhstan

During the Soviet Virgin Lands Campaign, approximately 23 million hectares (Mha) of Eurasian steppe grassland were converted into cropland in Northern Kazakhstan from 1954 to 1963.As a result Kazakhstan became an important breadbasket of the former Soviet Union.However, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 triggered widespread agricultural aban

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Impact of high atmospheric carbon dioxide on the biotic stress response of the model cereal species Brachypodium distachyon

Losses due to disease and climate change are among the most important issues currently facing crop production.It is therefore important to establish the impact OPULENT VOLUME SPRAY of climate change, and particularly of high carbon dioxide (hCO2), on plant immunity in cereals, which provide 60% of human calories.The aim of this study was to determi

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