spanish journal of agricultural research

spanish journal of agricultural research

SPANISH JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH
EDITORIAL BOARD
Chief Scientific Editors
PLANT SCIENCE. Fernando Ponz Ascaso. INIA, Madrid (Spain). [email protected]
ANIMAL SCIENCE. Antonio Lopez Sebastian. INIA, Madrid (Spain). [email protected]
ECONOMICS, ENGINEERING AND ENVIRONMENT. Carmen de Blas Beorlegui. INIA, Madrid (Spain). [email protected]
Managing Editors
Victoria Baonza Merino. INIA, Madrid (Spain). [email protected]
Carmen de Blas Beorlegui. INIA, Madrid (Spain). [email protected]
Technical Editor
Gemma Perez Rivera. INIA, Madrid (Spain). [email protected]
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
SECTION EDITOR: Fernando Vidal (UMH, Orihuela, Alicante,
Spain). [email protected]
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Jesus Barreiro (European Commission,
Brussels, Belgium). Julio Berbel (UCO, Cordoba, Spain).
Margarita Brugarolas (UMH, Orihuela, Alicante, Spain).
Carlos Romero (UPM, Madrid, Spain). Baldomero Segura
(UPV, Valencia, Spain).
AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING
SECTION EDITOR: Francisco Rovira (UPV, Valencia, Spain).
[email protected]
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Carlos J. Alvarez (USC, Santiago de
Compostela, La Coruña, Spain). Fatima Baptista (Univ Evora,
ICAAM, Evora, Portugal). Elisa Gorbe (Wageningen Univ,
Wageningen, Netherlands). Jose M. Peña-Barragan (CSIC,
Cordoba, Spain). M. Carmen Rocamora (UMH, Orihuela,
Alicante, Spain). Victor Sanchez-Giron (UPM, Madrid, Spain).
AGRICULTURAL ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY
S ECTION EDITOR : Robert Save (IRTA, Caldes de Montbui,
Barcelona, Spain). [email protected]
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Alvaro Alonso-Fernandez (UAH, Alcala
de Henares, Madrid, Spain). Carmen Biel (IRTA, Caldes de
Montbui, Barcelona, Spain). Josep M. Espelta (CREAFUAB, Barcelona, Spain). M. Rosa Mosquera (USC, Lugo,
Spain). Sebastian Sanchez-Fotun (UCM, Madrid, Spain).
M. Brigida Fernandez de Simon (INIA, Madrid, Spain).
ANIMAL BREEDING, GENETICS
AND REPRODUCTION
SECTION EDITOR: Luis Varona (UNIZAR, Zaragoza, Spain).
[email protected]
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Isabel Cervantes (UCM, Madrid, Spain).
Jose M. Folch (CRAG, UAB, Barcelona, Spain). Eva Moce
(IVIA, Valencia, Spain). Julian Santiago-Moreno (INIA,
Madrid, Spain).
ANIMAL HEALTH AND WELFARE
SECTION EDITOR: Lorenzo Gonzalez (AHVLA-Lasswade,
Penicuik, Scotland, UK). [email protected]
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Jose M. Blasco (SIA, Zaragoza, Spain).
Mercedes Gomez (UCM, Madrid, Spain). Ramon A. Juste
(NEIKER, Derio, Vizcaya, Spain). Colin McInnes (Moredun
Research Institute, Scotland, UK).
ANIMAL PRODUCTION
S ECTION EDITOR : Clemente Lopez-Bote (UCM, Madrid,
Spain). [email protected]
A SSOCIATE EDITORS : M. Dolores Carro (UPM, Madrid,
Spain). Argimiro Daza (UPM, Madrid, Spain). Fuensanta
Hernandez-Ruiperez (UM, Murcia, Spain). Gonzalo Hervas
(IGM-CSIC-ULE, Leon, Spain). M. Angeles Latorre
(UNIZAR, Zaragoza, Spain). Rosa M. Nieto (EEZ, CSIC,
Granada, Spain). J. Francisco Perez-Hernandez (UAB,
Barcelona, Spain). Alfredo Teixeira (Inst Politec Bragança,
Bragança, Portugal).
PLANT BREEDING, GENETICS
AND GENETIC RESOURCES
SECTION EDITOR: Marcelino Perez de la Vega (ULE, Leon,
Spain). [email protected]
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Jose M. Carrillo (UPM, Madrid, Spain).
M. Jose Diez-Niclos (UPV, Valencia, Spain). Elisabetta
Frascaroli (Univ Bologna, Bologna, Italy). Ernesto Igartua
(CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain). Nicolas Jouve (UAH, Alcala de
Henares, Madrid, Spain). Luis Navarro (IVIA, Valencia,
Spain). Eduardo Rosa (Univ Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro,
Vila Real, Portugal). Raul de la Rosa (IFAPA, Cordoba,
Spain). M. Isabel Vales (Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, USA).
PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
SECTION EDITOR: Pedro J.Aphalo (Univ of Helsinki, Helsinki,
Finland). [email protected]
A SSOCIATE EDITORS : Luis O. Morales (Aalto Univ, Aalto,
Finland). M. Cecilia Rousseaux (CONICET, Anillaco, La
Rioja, Argentina). Riitta Tegelberg (Univ Eastern Finland,
Joensuu, Finland).
PLANT PRODUCTION
S ECTION EDITOR : Federico Sau (ETSIA, UPM, Madrid,
Spain). [email protected]
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: M. Luisa Gallardo (UAL, Almeria,
Spain). Helena Gomez-Macpherson (IAS, CSIC, Cordoba,
Spain). Jaume Lloveras (ETSEA-UdL, Lleida, Spain). JoseAlberto Oliveira (UNIOVI, Mieres, Asturias, Spain).
Santiago Pereira (USC, Lugo, Spain). Rafael Socias i
Company (CITA, Zaragoza, Spain).
PLANT PROTECTION
SECTION EDITOR: Blanca B. Landa (CSIC, Cordoba, Spain).
[email protected]
A SSOCIATE EDITORS : Jose Dorado (ICA-CSIC, Madrid,
Spain). Aurora Fraile (UPM, Madrid, Spain). Leonardo de
la Fuente (Auburn Univ, Auburn, USA). Inmaculada Larena
(INIA, Madrid, Spain). Vicente Marco-Mancebon (UNIRIOJA,
Logroño, Spain). Juan A. Navas (IAS-CSIC, Cordoba, Spain).
Enrique Quesada (UCO, Cordoba, Spain).
SOIL SCIENCE
S ECTION EDITOR : Jose Torrent (UCO, Cordoba, Spain).
[email protected]
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Fernando Gil-Sotres (USC, Santiago de
Compostela, La Coruña, Spain). Juan V. Giraldez (UCO,
Cordoba, Sain). Chiquinquira Hontoria (UPM, Madrid,
Spain). Tom Vanwalleghem (UCO, Cordoba, Spain).
WATER MANAGEMENT
SECTION EDITOR: Alejandro Perez-Pastor (UPCT, Cartagena,
Murcia, Spain). [email protected]
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Diego Intrigliolo (IVIA, Valencia, Spain).
Luis Juana-Sirgado (ETSIA, UPM, Madrid, Spain). Victoriano
Martinez-Alvarez (UPCT, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain). Amos
Naor (Golan Res Inst, Qazrin, Israel). Giuseppe Provenzano
(Univ Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy). Rodney B.
Thompson (UAL, Almeria, Spain).
Journal Editorial Office
Servicio de Publicaciones-INIA. Autopista A-6, km 7.5. E-mail: [email protected]. Phone: +34 91 347 39 45.
Fax: +34 91 357 22 93
AIM AND SCOPE
The Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research (SJAR) accepts research articles, reviews and short
communications of content related
to agriculture. Research articles and
short communications must report
original work not previously published in any language, nor under
consideration for publication elsewhere.
SJAR is an international peerreviewed journal. The main aim of
SJAR is to publish papers that report
research findings on the following
topics: agricultural economics; agricultural engineering; agricultural
environment and ecology; animal
breeding, genetics and reproduction;
animal health and welfare; animal
production; plant breeding, genetics
and genetic resources; plant physiology; plant production (f ield and
horticultural crops); plant protection; soil science; and water management.
SJAR is indexed in Science Citation Index and Scopus. Additionally,
in Agricola, Agris, Biosis, CAB
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(Agriculture/Agronomy), Dialnet,
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Technology Abstracts), Georef,
Global Health, ICyT, Pascal. It is
also included in the following automated directories: Jake, Latindex
Catalogue, Redalyc, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory.
SJAR is published quarterly
(March, June, September and December) by the Instituto Nacional de
Investigación y Tecnología Agraria
y Alimentaria [Spanish National
Institute for Agricultural and Food
Research and Technology] (INIA),
Autopista A-6, km 7.5, Madrid,
Spain.
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Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research, June 2014, Vol. 12(2)
Formerly known as “Investigación Agraria” the SJAR merged in 2003 from two series: “Producción
y Protección Vegetales” and “Producción y Sanidad Animales” founded in 1985, the predecessor of
which was “Anales del Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agronómicas”, first published in 1952