• A novel mechanism to simulate intercropping and relay cropping using the DayCent model 

      Della Chiesa, Tomas; Del Grosso, Stephen; Hartman, Melannie; Parton, William; Echarte, Laura; Yahdjian, Laura; Piñeiro, Gervasio (Elsevier, 2022-01-03)
      Combining different crops in complex spatial and temporal arrangements can increase resource use efficiency and reduce negative environmental impacts in croplands. Simulation models are useful tools to explore new management ...
    • Changes in soil characteristics after six seasons of cereal–legume intercropping in the Southern Pampa 

      Oelbermann, Maren; Regehr, Alison; Echarte, Laura (Elsevier, 2015-04)
      The Argentine Pampa is one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world, but sole crop management practices have led to soil degradation and losses of soil organic matter. The objective of this study was to ...
    • Consumo y eficiencia en el uso de agua 

      Echarte, Laura; Otegui, María Elena (MAIZAR, Asociación Maíz y Sorgo Argentino, 2023)
      En este capítulo se abordarán los aspectos determinantes del consumo de agua y de la eficiencia en el uso de la misma, con especial atención a la influencia de prácticas de manejo en ambientes contrastantes en disponibilidad ...
    • Determinación del rendimiento de un híbrido de maíz antiguo y dos modernos en condiciones de agua contrastante en el suelo 

      Nagore, María Luján (Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, 2018-12)
      La baja disponibilidad de agua es una de las principales limitantes a la producción del cultivo de maíz (Zea Mays L.) en secano en el mundo. Se conoce que el rendimiento de maíz se incrementó en las últimas décadas así ...
    • Eco-physiological processes underlying maize water use efficiency response to plant density under contrasting water regimes 

      Hernandez, Mariano Daniel; Alfonso, Carla Susana; Cerrudo, Aníbal Alejandro; Cambareri, Matias; Della Maggiora, Aida; Barbieri, Pablo; Echarte, María Mercedes; Echarte, Laura (Elsevier, 2020-09)
      This study quantified maize (Zea mays L.) water use efficiency for grain yield (WUEg) in response to plant density under contrasting water regimes; and focused on relevant eco-physiologial processes underlying the responses ...
    • Estrategias de manejo agropecuario en escenarios de sequía 

      Lewczuk, Nuria; Echarte, Laura; Puricelli, Marino Marcelo; Urcola, Hernan Alejandro; Montoya, Marina Rosa; Faberi, Ariel; Panaggio, Nestor Hernan; Gianelli, Valeria Rosana; Alonso, María Ángeles; Divita, Ignacio Federico; Mondino, Eduardo Ariel; Thougnon Islas, Andrea Julieta; Tulli, María Celia; Sainz Rozas, Hernan Rene; Abbate, Pablo Eduardo; Cabral Farias, Carlos Alejandro; Echarte, Laura; Bonelli, Lucas Emmanuel; Edwards Molina, Juan Pablo; Recavarren, Paulo Mario; Leaden, Kevin Alejandro; Cicore, Pablo Leandro; Burges, Julio Cesar; Borracci, Sebastian Emilio; Cambareri, Gustavo Sebastián; Sallesses, Leonardo Fabian; Gyenge, Javier; Fernandez, María Elena; Agra, Marcelo Nicolás (Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Balcarce, INTA., 2022-10)
      Las condiciones hídricas actuales en los partidos que conforman la región sudeste de Buenos Aires (Balcarce, Benito Juárez, Gral. Pueyrredon, Gral. Alvarado, La Madrid, Laprida, Lobería, Necochea, Olavarría, Tandil) son ...
    • Gross nitrogen mineralization and immobilization in temperate maize-soybean intercrops 

      Regehr, Alison; Oelbermann, Maren; Videla, Cecilia; Echarte, Laura (Springer, 2015-06)
      Background and aims: Reliance on nitrogen (N) fertilizers to maintain crop productivity requires a thorough understanding of the transformation of this nutrient within the soil-plant system. Organic matter input from a ...
    • Influence of management practices on water-related grain yield determinants 

      Echarte, Laura; Alfonso, Carla; Gonzalez, Víctor Hugo; Hernández, Mariano; Lewczuk, Nuria; Nagore, María Luján; Echarte, María Mercedes (Oxford University Press, 2023-07-25)
      Adequate management of N supply, plant density, row spacing, and/or soil cover has proved useful to increase grain yields and/or grain yield stability across years of rainfed crops. We reviewed the impact of these management ...
    • Kernel number response to plant density in tropical, temperate, and tropical × temperate maize hybrids 

      Cerrudo, Diego; Hernández, Mariano; Tollenaar, Matthijs; Vega, Claudia Rosa Cecilia; Echarte, Laura (Crop Science Society of America, 2020-02-07)
      Kernel set response to plant density was examined in terms of physiological processes underlying kernel set in temperate (Te), tropical (Tr), and temperate × tropical (TeTr) maize (Zea mays L.) hybrids. Four field experiments ...
    • Maize leaf rolling and its response to drying soil and evaporative demand 

      Echarte, Laura; Sinclair, Thomas; Jafarikouhini, Nahid (Wiley, 2023-05-31)
      Leaf rolling is an adaptive mechanism associated with water deficiencies; however, the physiological processes and environmental factors contributing to leaf rolling are not fully understood. The objective of this study ...
    • Maize transpiration efficiency increases with N supply or higher plant densities 

      Hernandez, Mariano Daniel; Alfonso, Cecilia; Echarte, María Mercedes; Cerrudo, Aníbal Alejandro; Echarte, Laura (Elsevier, 2021-03-08)
      Most of the studies addressing the influence of management practices on seasonal crop water use efficiency (i.e., the ratio between shoot biomass and evapotranspiration in a seasonal scale, WUE(B, ET, s)) have focused on ...
    • Soil carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide emissions during the growing season from temperate maize‐soybean intercrops 

      Dyer, Lisa; Oelbermann, Maren; Echarte, Laura (Wiley, 2012-06)
      The Argentine Pampa is one of the major global regions for the production of maize (Zea mays L.) and soybean (Glycine max L. [Merr.]), but intense management practices have led to soil degradation and amplified greenhouse‐gas ...
    • Sorghum biomass yield and allocation as affected by the combination of photoperiod sensitivity, sweet-stalk and brown midrib traits 

      Erbetta, Elisa; Echarte, Laura; Sanz Smachetti, María Eugenia; Gabbanelli, Nadia; Echarte, María Mercedes (Elsevier, 2024-01)
      Context or problem: Traits like photoperiod sensitivity, sweet-stalk and brown midrib (bmr) have been introgressed to increase the biomass yield and quality of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) towards bioenergy yield ...
    • Stover biogas potential of corn crops grown under contrasting water availability and nitrogen supply 

      Erbetta, Elisa; Echarte, Laura; Rodríguez Elizagaray, Consuelo; Depetris, Gustavo; Gabbanelli, Nadia; Echarte, María Mercedes (Elsevier, 2020-12-31)
      Corn stover is a biogas feedstock capable of enhancing agriculture bioenergy potential. Although the influence of growing conditions on biogas yield of corn stover has been reported, the joint effects of water and nitrogen ...
    • Water productivity in soybean following a cover crop in a humid environment 

      Alfonso, Carla Susana; Barbieri, Pablo; Hernandez, Mariano Daniel; Lewczuk, Nuria; Martinez, Juan Pablo; Echarte, María Mercedes; Echarte, Laura (Elsevier, 2020-02-05)
      We evaluated the influence of the termination dates of a winter cover crop on (i) soil water availability during soybean (Glycine max L. (Merr)) growing season, (ii) soybean evapotranspiration (ET) and iii) water productivity ...
    • Yield potential and yield stability of Argentine maize hybrids over 45 years of breeding 

      Di Matteo, Javier. A; Ferreyra, J.M.; Cerrudo, Aníbal Alejandro; Echarte, Laura; Andrade, Fernando Hector (Elsevier, 2016-10)
      Maize (Zea Mays L.) grain yield have increased during the last decades and there is an ample range of rates of grain yield increments reported in the literature. Maize hybrids comparison at their optimum plant density might ...