Faba bean adaptation to autumn sowing under European climates

Flores, Fernando; Nadal, Salvador; Solís, Ignacio; Winkler, J.; Sass, O.; Stoddard, Frederick L.; Link, Wolfgang; Raffiot, Blandine; Muel, Frederick; Rubiales, Diego

doi:10.1007/s13593-012-0082-0

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“…For a risk-averse farmer, high-yield variability (Jensen et al 2010;Hauggaard-Nielsen et al 2008;Ayaz et al 2004;Wright 2008;Sass 2009;Flores et al 2012) and the resulting high variability of returns with legumes (Table 1) discourage cultivation. This is supported by a survey of farmers in Belgium, Germany, Spain and Switzerland where yield instability was mentioned as a major constraint to grain legume production (von Richthofen et al 2006).…”

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Grain legume decline and potential recovery in European agriculture: a review

Zander

Amjath-Babu

Preißel

et al. 2016

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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Sustainable development of agriculture is at the core of agricultural policy debates in Europe. There is a consensus that diversification of cropping would support sustainable development. However, a reduction in legume cultivation has been observed in the EU during the last decades. This decline has induced, in turn, a deficit of proteins and a reduction of ecosystem services provided by legumes. Therefore, we analysed the mechanisms that shape agricultural systems to identify leverage points for reviving European legume production. Specifically, we reviewed the factors that affect the market and non-market value of legumes and the relevant agricultural policies. We characterized the decline in legume cropping as an outcome of the dominance of economic forces that favour specialization of production systems over diversification. We found that the value of market outputs of legumes per unit area is relatively low and volatile, with a 25-78 % variation in pea gross margins, which reduces market competitiveness. We observed that the value of systeminternal outputs of legumes such as the nitrogen fixed, of 130 to 153 kg N ha; crop protection services that reduce agrochemical costs, by 20-25 % in cereals; and yield enhancements of subsequent crops, of 0.2 to 1.6 t ha −1 in cereals, are often underestimated. In addition, markets fail to translate external effects of legumes such as biodiversity enhancement, reduction in emissions, of up to 50 % in N 2 O, and soil improvements into economic benefits. Current policies support legumes through selected mechanisms such as ecological focus areas, agri-environmental programmes and sparse coupled support measures. Domestic cultivation of legumes could be supported through trade policies such as import restrictions on genetically modified soybean or new mechanisms to appreciate non-market outputs including payments for ecosystem services and carbon markets. In addition, development of new value chains, niche markets, scaling-up of plant breeding efforts and dissemination of information is required.

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Section: Volatility Of Grain Yields and Revenuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Grain legume decline and potential recovery in European agriculture: a review

Zander

Amjath-Babu

Preißel

et al. 2016

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

166

157

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“…Nevertheless, useful genetic resources with good drought tolerance have been identified (Khan et al, 2007). Enhancing winter-hardiness of faba bean will mitigate the cold damage and ensure crop productivity (Arbaoui et al, 2008;Link et al, 2010;Hu et al, 2011;Flores et al, 2012). Other abiotic stresses, like heat tolerance and water logging, also require attention.…”

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Legume Crops Phylogeny and Genetic Diversity for Science and Breeding

Smýkal

Coyne

Ambrose

et al. 2014

Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences

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“…Cultivated faba bean is mainly used as human food in developing countries and as animal feed for pigs, horses, poultry, and pigeons in industrialized countries (Rubiales, 2010;Flores et al, 2012). Faba bean is a very promising crop thanks to its protein value, high stem strength compared to other legumes and its adaptation to a range of temperate growing conditions (Strydhorst et al, 2008;Jensen et al, 2010).…”

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Agronomic performance of naked oat (Avena nuda L.) and faba bean intercropping

Klimek-Kopyra

Kulig

Oleksy

et al. 2015

Chilean J. Agric. Res.

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The most common cereals for faba bean (Vicia faba L.) used in intercrops is conventional oat (Avena sativa L.) An alternative to oat may be naked oat (Avena nuda L.), whose oil content and quality is double. Here, intercropping of naked oat with two different faba bean cultivars (determinate-high tannin and indeterminate-low tannin) was compared with sole crops of each species in 2006-2008. The treatments were: sole naked oat at 500 kernels m 2 , indeterminate sole faba bean at 50 seeds m 2 , determinate sole faba bean at 70 seeds m 2 , and an additive series of 25%, 50%, and 75% of faba bean seeding rate mixed with the naked oat seeding rate. Our results demonstrated that intercropping increased the Land Equivalent Ratio by +3% to +9% over sole cropping. Raising the faba bean seeding rate in a mixture from 25% to 75% reduced oat grain yield from 630 (determinate cultivar) to 760 kg ha -1 (indeterminate cultivar) but increased faba bean grain yield from 760 kg ha -1 . Higher yield and leaf area index (LAI) and photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) values show that the indeterminate cultivar of faba bean is more suitable in mixture with naked oat. The high value of competition index (CR > 1) indicates domination and aggressiveness of faba bean towards naked oat. Regardless of cultivar type, mixture of faba bean with naked oat is less productive than pure sowing.

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Faba bean adaptation to autumn sowing under European climates

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Cited by 55 publications

References 17 publications

Grain legume decline and potential recovery in European agriculture: a review

Grain legume decline and potential recovery in European agriculture: a review

Legume Crops Phylogeny and Genetic Diversity for Science and Breeding

Agronomic performance of naked oat (Avena nuda L.) and faba bean intercropping

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