{"id":876,"date":"2017-05-10T14:44:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T13:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/?p=876"},"modified":"2017-05-10T14:44:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T13:44:10","slug":"mixing-crop-varieties-for-a-sustainable-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2017\/05\/10\/mixing-crop-varieties-for-a-sustainable-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixing crop varieties for a sustainable agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><figure id=\"attachment_877\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-877\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-877 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/05\/barot-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/05\/barot-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/05\/barot-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/05\/barot-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/05\/barot.jpg 1084w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture copyright Barot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Modern high-input agriculture associated with a low crop genetic diversity is widely recognized as unsustainable. Farmers need rules to design variety mixtures and crop breeders need new methods to select varieties for mixtures. Scientists <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s13593-017-0418-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barot et al.<\/a> reviewed the beneficial effects of mixtures of varieties on ecosystems and recommend strategies derived from ecology to optimize variety mixtures.<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1007\/s13593-017-0418-x'   ><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern high-input agriculture associated with a low crop genetic diversity is widely recognized as unsustainable. Farmers need rules to design variety mixtures and crop breeders need new methods to select varieties for mixtures. Scientists Barot et al. reviewed the beneficial effects of mixtures of varieties on ecosystems and recommend strategies derived from ecology to optimize &#8230; <a title=\"Mixing crop varieties for a sustainable agriculture\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2017\/05\/10\/mixing-crop-varieties-for-a-sustainable-agriculture\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mixing crop varieties for a sustainable agriculture\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainable-production-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}