Dr. Mihály Zalai - MATE Research
Overview
His research interests include current topics such as the indirect effects of environmental and management variables on weed infestation in arable crops, biological and agronomic options for weed control based on natural enemies, and the relationship between climate change and crop rotation systems, the impact of cultivated and semi-natural habitats surrounding fields on weed and pest communities in cultivated fields, and was among the first to address the potential for domestic adaptation of spray drones and to focus on the development of conditions for agro-digitisation to promote the adoption of drone technology.
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Publications
Weed biology
Dorner, Z., Kovács, E. B., Iványi, D., & Zalai, M. (2024). How the Management and Environmental Conditions Affect the Weed Vegetation in Canary Grass (Phalaris canariensis L.) Fields. Agronomy, 14(6), 1169. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy14061169
Kovács, E. B., Dorner, Z., Csík, D., & Zalai, M. (2023). Effect of Environmental, Soil and Management Factors on Weed Flora of Field Pea in South-East Hungary. Agronomy, 13(7), 1864. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy13071864
Digital plant protection and farming
Sári-Barnácz, F. E., Zalai, M., Milics, G., Tóthné Kun, M., Mészáros, J., Árvai, M., & Kiss, J. (2024). Monitoring Helicoverpa armigera Damage with PRISMA Hyperspectral Imagery: First Experience in Maize and Comparison with Sentinel-2 Imagery. Remote Sensing, 16(17), 3235. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16173235
Nagy, J., Zalai, M., Illés, Á., & Monoki, S. (2024). The Impact of Crop Year and Crop Density on the Production of Sunflower in Site-Specific Precision Farming in Hungary. Agriculture, 14(9), 1515. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14091515
Non chemical weed management
Bohan, D. A., Schmucki, R., Abay, A. T., Termansen, M., Bane, M., Charalabidis, A., ... & Pocock, M. J. (2021). Designing farmer-acceptable rotations that assure ecosystem service provision in the face of climate change. In Advances in ecological research (Vol. 65, pp. 169-244). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2021.01.002
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