2024 April - 236 articles
A numerical simulation model of a natural ventilation greenhouse is helpful for improving the production and quality of greenhouse crops in tropical areas. Field experiments show that the mean coefficient of variation of indoor light intensity in fou...
Crop sequence and tillage can affect the yield of peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) and other crops. Research was conducted from 2006 through 2022 to determine the response of peanut to previous crop sequences including corn (Zea mays L.) and cotton (Goss...
Establishing lucerne field is an efficient way to protect natural steppes, alleviate conflicts between meadows and livestock, and promote the development of animal husbandry. However, problems such as extensive field management, valuing yield over qu...
The phytochrome-interacting factor (PIF) proteins are part of a subfamily of basic helix–loop–helix (bHLH) transcription factors that integrate with phytochromes (PHYs) and are known to play important roles in adaptive changes in plant ar...
The microclimate environment can be conveniently controlled with accuracy by plant incubators, in which the cuttings propagation method can efficiently enhance seedling production. To ensure air flow evenly throughout the incubator, the scientific de...
The content of protein and oil in soybeans is an important trait for evaluating quality and is regulated by genetic and environmental factors, lacking comprehensive identification under a variety of ecological conditions. Therefore, evaluating the st...
Soil carbon content and stability are primarily influenced by the stabilization of particulate organic matter (POM) and mineral-associated organic matter (MAOM). Despite extensive research on the stabilization processes of POM and MAOM carbon compone...
The scientific aim of this article is to elucidate the effects of various tillage practices on soil properties and crop yields; additionally, it seeks to highlight the significant potential of specific farming systems in enhancing soil organic carbon...
In rice cultivation and breeding, obtaining accurate information on the quantity and spatial distribution of rice plants is crucial. However, traditional field sampling methods can only provide rough estimates of the plant count and fail to capture p...
Low-density polyethylene (LDPE) mulching films have an important function in crop cultivation; at the end of their life, however, their removal and disposal become both an economic and environmental problem. One possible alternative to low-density po...
Conventional fertilizer management can destroy the structure of soil. Replacing chemical fertilizers with organic fertilizers can improve soil quality and nitrogen use efficiency. We aimed to study the effects of organic fertilizer substitutions for...
Starch extraction from tubers and roots has long been an essential process, playing a crucial role in diverse industries ranging from alimentary to pharmacology. This review explores the different methods employed in starch extraction, including trad...
The significance of environmental considerations has been highlighted by the substantial impact of plant pests on ecosystems. Addressing the urgent demand for sophisticated pest management solutions in arboreal environments, this study leverages adva...
Insect recognition, crucial for agriculture and ecology studies, benefits from advancements in RGB image-based deep learning, yet still confronts accuracy challenges. To address this gap, the HI30 dataset is introduced, comprising 2115 hyperspectral...
Climate change requires the introduction of alternative crops in certain temperate areas due to the warmer and drier growing seasons. Maize, one of the most important crops, is projected to become less tolerant of a drier climate. Therefore, it is ne...
Increasing the use of organic fertilizers is an effective measure to improve, increase soil fertility and maintain crop yields. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of different types of organic fertilizers on the early yield of gra...
One biostrategy to boost the sustainability of strawberry cultivation is the application of biostimulants to the growing substrate. Here, we investigated whether the use of biostimulants and their combinations affects the strawberry plants’ phy...
Alfalfa is one of the most widely cultivated perennial legume crops used as feedstock for animals. Efficiently estimating alfalfa yield and quality traits before harvesting is critical for the decision-making process regarding precision management ac...
Subsoiling tillage breaks up the shallow plow layer and thickened plow pan resulting from prolonged crop rotation, thus enhancing the soil tillage layer environment and fostering crop growth. However, these changes in tillage practices are not accomp...
A field study was conducted to assess the effect of tillage systems (TSs) and manure rates (MRs) on sunflower growth and yield at the University of Limpopo Experimental Farm (Syferkuil) which is on sandy loam soils and University of Venda Experimenta...
This study introduces a novel methodology for the dynamic extraction of information on cotton growth in terms of height utilizing the DJI Zenmuse L1 LiDAR sensor mounted onto a DJI Matrice 300 RTK Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), aimed at enhancing the...
Ear rot caused by the Fusarium species has led to a decline in maize yield and kernel quality worldwide. The changes in the population structure of pathogens and the widespread planting of susceptible maize varieties have exacerbated the occurrence a...
This study, employing the AquaCrop model, demonstrated notable efficacy in assessing and predicting crop yields for winter wheat, maize, winter rapeseed, and sugar beets in the Joint Experiment for Crop Assessment and Monitoring (JECAM) test area of...
The research conducted at the Shanxi Agricultural University’s Quinoa Experimental Model Base in Jinzhong, Shanxi Province, aimed to assess agronomic traits and their correlation with yield across 32 quinoa varieties. Three distinct yield categ...
Supply chain disruptions, a pandemic, and war in Ukraine have exposed faultlines in a globalised food system that depends on a few staple crops grown in a few exporting regions and transported to consumers around the world. In the UK, just three crop...
In August 2020, the unusual appearance of crown gall symptoms was observed on the tobacco plants (hybrid PVH2310) grown in fields in the Golubinci (Srem district, Serbia) locality. The causal agent isolated from galls located on tobacco roots formed...
Intercropping soybean in tea plantations is a sustainable cultivation system that can improve the growing environment of tea plants compared to monoculture tea. However, the effects of this system on the photosynthesis activity of tea seedlings have...
Water scarcity is one of the significant constraints on sustainable agricultural development in arid and semi-arid regions. The challenges faced in forage production are even more severe than those encountered with general crops. The industry still s...
The consistently low yield turnout of maize on farmers’ fields owing to drought and the nutritional challenges attributable to the consumption of white endosperm maize pose a major threat to food and nutritional security in Sub-Saharan Africa (...
The limited culinary utilizations of durum wheat (Triticum turgidum ssp. durum) are partly related to its very hard kernel texture, which is due to the softness genes Puroindoline a (Pina) and Puroindoline b (Pinb) on the Hardness (Ha) locus eliminat...
The 6-DOF Stewart parallel elevation platform serves as the platform for mounting the tea-picking robotic arm, significantly impacting the operational scope, velocity, and harvesting precision of the robotic arm. Utilizing the Stewart setup, a parall...
Wood pastures have been characteristic farming types in the Pannonian biogeographical region over the centuries. In the present work, we studied wood-pastures of typical geographical locations in the North Hungarian Mountain Range of Hungary characte...
Plant roots play crucial roles in their response to drought conditions. However, the molecular responses in soybean roots to drought stress remain unclear. We investigated the alterations in the protein expression in the roots of a drought-resistant...
Salinity is one of the main factors causing soil deterioration, making it unsuitable for agriculture. It is well documented that the application of halotolerant and halophilic plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPR: plant growth-promoting rhizobacteri...
The comprehensive evaluation of crop germplasm serves to scientifically and objectively assess the quality of different genetic accessions against certain standards. Here, we propose an optimized approach to enhance the result’s stability when...
Many studies have investigated how soil water availability in shallow soil affects forest transpiration, but how deep soil water status (below 1 m depth) alters tree water use remains poorly understood. To improve our understanding of how deep soil w...
Extreme events of climate change are increasing, such as droughts and heat waves, causing limitations on growth and yield in relevant food crops, as well as threatening global food security. Brassinosteroids (BRs) are natural or synthetic steroids wi...
In order to eliminate the limitations of traditional winter wheat yield prediction methods, the prediction models based on machine learning are used to improve the accuracy of winter wheat yield prediction. In this study, by collecting a large amount...
Molecular markers, including Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR), Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP), and Intron Length Polymorphism (ILP), are widely utilized in crop improvement and population genetics studies. However, these marker resources remain ins...
Currently, revealing soil management strategies that store the maximum atmospheric CO2 in the soil is a major issue. This is best explored by investigating long-term experiments, like the Skierniewice (Poland) field trial, established in 1921 on sand...
The rice spike, a crucial part of rice plants, plays a vital role in yield estimation, pest detection, and growth stage management in rice cultivation. When using drones to capture photos of rice fields, the high shooting angle and wide coverage area...
Plant secondary metabolites have great applications in the nutritional and cosmetic aspects of human health. Terpenes, and in particular bioactive diterpenoids, represent an important group of compounds found in Salvia species. Their production in pl...
Fourteen Russian potato cultivars (cvs.) grown for three years in the field plots of VIR (North-Western region of the Russian Federation) were evaluated annually for productivity and 12 biochemical parameters of tubers one month after harvesting and...
Active accumulated temperature (AAT) serves as a pivotal metric for assessing soybean adaptation across diverse climatic conditions, particularly in the northeastern regions of China. This study embarked on a genome-wide association analysis (GWAS) t...
The purpose of this research is to investigate the interactions among wheat varieties and microorganisms within rhizosphere and how conventional agriculture affects these dynamics during the growing season. Indeed, little is known about how commercia...
Nowadays, many image processing and machine learning (ML) methods are used in mango-quality classification systems. Existing algorithms perform independently to capture the relationships between features in the dataset. Nevertheless, each method has...
Meadows are the most important source of feed for extensive livestock farming in mountainous conditions, as well as providing many environmental services. The actual socioeconomic situation and climate change risk its conservation. That is why findin...
The sweet oranges [C. sinensis (L.) Osbeck] produced in India are mainly consumed fresh as a table fruit and in the form of freshly extracted juice. Currently, a fraction of the fruit is processed into products like orange juice, concentrates, pulp,...
Leaves are the main site of photosynthesis in plants, and leaf color plays a major role in crop quality, yield, resistance, as well as other aspects. Although the genes related to photosynthesis have been well characterized in plants in general, yell...
The need for sustainable development in the context of pesticide use has been recognized by the European Union. The “Farm to Fork Strategy” indicates a goal of 50% reduction in pesticide use by 2030. To address this challenge, we used the...
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