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The production of food for man and domestic animals and of fiber is the major concern of agriculture; the managed environment that makes agriculture possible is the agroecosystem. This paper focuses on four of the pillars on which the modern agroecosystem rests: quality of management, genetical diversification of crop cultivars, industrial technology supplementing uncertainties or inadequacies of biological activity, and interactions of plant roots and soil microflora. Some of these interactions provide a high level of crop stability against soil-borne diseases and nutrient deficiencies.
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Wilhelm, S. (1976). The Agroecosystem: A Simplified Plant Community. In: Apple, J.L., Smith, R.F. (eds) Integrated Pest Management. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7269-5_6
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