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Datasets to Advance Agriculture

Guest Editor:
Samuel Brod: BMC Research Notes


BMC Research Notes has published this collection, 'Datasets to Advance Agriculture'.

As nations grapple with an increasingly variable climate and growing restrictions on energy use, agriculture faces the combined challenge of maximizing productivity while remaining sustainable. Answers may lie in the wealth of data produced by the fields of Plant Omics and Precision Agriculture. When applied, such research can increase the hardiness and yield of a crop plant and apply these gains at scale. This collection sought to bring these disciplines together, curating a series of data sets and articles focused on improving the productivity and sustainability of agriculture methods across the globe.

Meet the Guest Editors

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Samuel Brod: BMC Research Notes

Prior to joining the BMC series Samuel was an Associate Editor at Scientific Reports, where he helped drive better practice in data presentation at the journal, and worked to improve systematic review and meta-analysis reporting. Before that, he was a Science Manager at the NC3Rs, working to improve the quality and reproducibility of in-vivo research. He holds an MSc in Science Communication from the University of West England and a PhD in inflammatory immunology from Queen Mary University of London. Samuel is a strong advocate for open science and better inter-disciplinary engagement across all research fields.

About the collection

BMC Research Notes has published this collection on 'Datasets to Advance Agriculture'. 

Current projections by the UN predict that food production needs to increase by 70% in the next 25 years to feed the world population. As nations grapple with an increasingly variable climate and growing restrictions on energy use, agriculture faces the combined challenge of maximizing productivity while remaining sustainable.

Solutions lie in the wealth of data produced by the fields of Plant Omics and Precision Agriculture. When applied, such research can increase the hardiness and yield of a crop plant and apply these gains at scale. This collection sought to bring these disciplines together, curating a series of data sets and articles focused on improving the productivity and sustainably of agriculture methods across the globe.

This collection welcomed Data Note* Articles covering:

· Tree and crop plant Omics: phenomics, ionomics, genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, lipidomics, metabolomics, and panomics

· Natural resource variables: soil and landscape variability, soil mapping, geostatistics, geographic information systems, microclimate, weather forecasting, remote sensing, management units, and digital elevation models

· Environmental data: Crop protection chemicals, sediments, leaching, runoff, practices, field, watershed, artificial drainage, ground, and surface water 

· Management data: Sampling techniques, site-specific nutrient, and crop protection chemical recommendation, crop quality, tillage, seed density, seed variety, yield mapping, remote sensing

· Economic data: Best management practices, crop quality, technology cost, sustainability, social impacts, marketing, cooperatives, farm scale and crop type


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  1. Little research has been done on managing soil health for large-scale, outdoor hemp production, contributing to the possible overuse of black plastic for weed suppression. Our experiment aimed to understand th...

    Authors: Erika Osorio, Benjamin Fisher, Matt Foster, Brian Voigt and Eric J. B. von Wettberg
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2023 16:252
    Content type: Research Note Published on:

  2. This release note describes the Maize GxE project datasets within the Genomes to Fields (G2F) Initiative. The Maize GxE project aims to understand genotype by environment (GxE) interactions and use the informa...

    Authors: Dayane Cristina Lima, Alejandro Castro Aviles, Ryan Timothy Alpers, Alden Perkins, Dylan L Schoemaker, Martin Costa, Kathryn J. Michel, Shawn Kaeppler, David Ertl, Maria Cinta Romay, Joseph L. Gage, James Holland, Timothy Beissinger, Martin Bohn, Edward Buckler, Jode Edwards…
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2023 16:219
    Content type: Data Note Published on:

  5. Animal movement is an important factor in the transmission of infectious diseases among livestock. A better understanding of animal movement characteristics provides a more reliable estimation of disease sprea...

    Authors: Yoshinori Murato, Yoko Hayama, Sonoko Kondo, Kotaro Sawai, Emi Yamaguchi and Takehisa Yamamoto
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2023 16:153
    Content type: Data Note Published on:

  6. The Genomes to Fields (G2F) 2022 Maize Genotype by Environment (GxE) Prediction Competition aimed to develop models for predicting grain yield for the 2022 Maize GxE project field trials, leveraging the datase...

    Authors: Dayane Cristina Lima, Jacob D. Washburn, José Ignacio Varela, Qiuyue Chen, Joseph L. Gage, Maria Cinta Romay, James Holland, David Ertl, Marco Lopez-Cruz, Fernando M. Aguate, Gustavo de los Campos, Shawn Kaeppler, Timothy Beissinger, Martin Bohn, Edward Buckler, Jode Edwards…
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2023 16:148
    Content type: Data Note Published on:

  7. The tarnished plant bug (TPB), Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois) (Hemiptera: Miridae), is a pest damaging many cultivated crops in North America. Although partial transcriptome data are available for this pe...

    Authors: O. P. Perera, Surya Saha, James Glover, Katherine A. Parys, K. Clint Allen, Snejana Grozeva, Ryan Kurtz, Gadi V. P. Reddy, J. Spencer Johnston, Mark Daly and Thomas Swale
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2023 16:125
    Content type: Research Note Published on:

  8. Sidalcea is a genus of flowering plants restricted to the west coast of North America, commonly known as checkermallows. Remarkably, of the ~ 30 recognized species, 16 are of conservation concern (vulnerable, imp...

    Authors: Diana M. Percy, Sæmundur Sveinsson, Andrew Ponomarev, Ji Yong Yang and Quentin C.B. Cronk
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2023 16:87
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  9. Two main fungal leaf spot diseases occur in peanut, namely early leaf spot (ELS) and late leaf spot (LLS), these cause a yearly average of $44 million losses. Limited genetic information, 3534 bp of sequencing...

    Authors: Renee S. Arias, John T. Dobbs, Jane E. Stewart, Emily G. Cantonwine, Valerie A. Orner, Victor S. Sobolev, Marshall C. Lamb and Alicia N. Massa
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2023 16:58
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  10. Tomatoes are the most widely consumed fruit vegetable and are relatively easy to cultivate. However, an increase in temperature causes some plants to respond with a decrease in fruit production. So, it is nece...

    Authors: Wahyu Muhammad Yuha Lubis, M Adrian, Nurul Jadid, Ani Widiastuti, Hiroshi Ezura, Syariful Mubarok, Dhika Prita Hapsari, Roedhy Poerwanto and Deden Derajat Matra
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2023 16:40
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  11. Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) is a cereal crop that is tolerant to a high temperature, a drought and a nutrient-poor condition. Characterizing pearl millet proteins can help to improve productivity of pearl m...

    Authors: Yingwei Qu, Ambika Dudhate, Harshraj Subhash Shinde, Tetsuo Takano and Daisuke Tsugama
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2023 16:38
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  12. Falcataria moluccana, known locally as Sengon, is a fast-growing legume tree that is commonly planted in community forests of Java Island, Indonesia. However, the plantations face attacks of Boktor stem borer (Xy...

    Authors: Vilda Puji Dini Anita, Deden Derajat Matra and Ulfah Juniarti Siregar
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2023 16:31
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  13. Peppers, bell and chile, are a culturally and economically important worldwide. Domesticated Capsicum spp. are distributed globally and represent a complex of valuable genetic resources.

    Authors: Jack McCoy, Natalia Martínez-Ainsworth, Vivian Bernau, Hannah Scheppler, Grant Hedblom, Achuyt Adhikari, Anna McCormick, Michael Kantar, Leah McHale, Lev Jardón-Barbolla, Kristin L. Mercer and David Baumler
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2023 16:20
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This Collection welcomes submission of Research Articles. Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have read our submission guidelines. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Datasets to Advance Agriculture" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.