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Datasets to Advance Agriculture

Guest Editor:
Samuel Brod: BMC Research Notes

Submission Status: Open   |   Submission Deadline: 31 August 2023


BMC Research Notes is calling for submisisons on articles relating to '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 seeks 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.

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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 is call for papers on research pertaining to '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 seeks 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 welcomes 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

· Commentary articles discussing Methods of synthesizing and applying these data across agriculture.


*Research Note articles will also be considered if submitted with an accompanying Data Note 


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  1. 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
    Content type: Research Note Published on:

  2. 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
    Content type: Research Note Published on:

  3. 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
    Content type: Data Note Published on:

  4. 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
    Content type: Data Note Published on:

  5. 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
    Content type: Research Note Published on:

  6. 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
    Content type: Research Note Published on:

Submission Guidelines

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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.