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Agronomy, Volume 14, Issue 5

2024 May - 210 articles

Cover Story: This study explores an AI-driven deep CNN model for identifying Sericea Lespedeza (SL) among field weeds, developing a smartphone app for precise herbicide application, and promoting SL as beneficial nutraceutical forage, enhancing sustainable agriculture. View this paper
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Articles (210)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,801 Views
23 Pages

20 May 2024

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of nitrogen (three doses of N) and magnesium (two doses of Mg) fertilization on the yield and quality of fodder obtained from two old and extensive grass species Festulolium braunii cv. ‘Felopa&...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,809 Views
16 Pages

Clonal Transgenerational Effects of Parental Grazing Environment on Offspring Shade Avoidance

  • Jingjing Yin,
  • Weibo Ren,
  • Ellen L. Fry,
  • Ke Xu,
  • Kairi Qu,
  • Kairu Gao,
  • Hailong Bao and
  • Fenghui Guo

20 May 2024

Grassland plants that endure livestock grazing exhibit a dwarf phenotype, which can be transmitted to clonal offspring. Yet to date, it remains poorly understood whether such transgenerational dwarf effects alter the plants’ response to shade....

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,613 Views
18 Pages

Cross-Regional Crop Classification Based on Sentinel-2

  • Jie He,
  • Wenzhi Zeng,
  • Chang Ao,
  • Weimin Xing,
  • Thomas Gaiser and
  • Amit Kumar Srivastava

20 May 2024

Accurate crop classification is of vital importance for agricultural water management. Most researchers have achieved crop classification by model optimization in the same temporal and regional domain by adjusting the value of input features. This st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,465 Views
19 Pages

Organ Segmentation and Phenotypic Trait Extraction of Cotton Seedling Point Clouds Based on a 3D Lightweight Network

  • Jiacheng Shen,
  • Tan Wu,
  • Jiaxu Zhao,
  • Zhijing Wu,
  • Yanlin Huang,
  • Pan Gao and
  • Li Zhang

20 May 2024

Cotton is an important economic crop; therefore, enhancing cotton yield and cultivating superior varieties are key research priorities. The seedling stage, a critical phase in cotton production, significantly influences the subsequent growth and yiel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,881 Views
17 Pages

20 May 2024

The application of diffusive and reflective polyethylene (PE) films as greenhouse coverings in arid climates presents an opportunity to improve the microclimate of the greenhouse and achieve consistent light distribution within the crop canopy. Never...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,042 Views
14 Pages

19 May 2024

Due to the widespread use of intensive cropping patterns, the problem of continuous cropping obstacle, which is dominated by autotoxicity, has been becoming more and more prominent. Although many methods have been proposed to overcome the continuous...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,753 Views
16 Pages

Hydrogen Sulfide Increases Drought Tolerance by Modulating Carbon and Nitrogen Metabolism in Foxtail Millet Seedlings

  • Juan Zhao,
  • Shifang Zhang,
  • Xiaoxiao Yang,
  • Ke Feng,
  • Guo Wang,
  • Qifeng Shi,
  • Xinru Wang,
  • Xiangyang Yuan and
  • Jianhong Ren

19 May 2024

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S), a novel gas signaling molecule, has been shown to enhance plant resistance to various abiotic stresses. Here, we investigated the effect of sodium hydrosulfide (NaHS, a H2S donor) on the growth, photosynthetic parameters, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,925 Views
17 Pages

19 May 2024

Acidification of slurry is a promising approach for reducing ammonia emissions during the application procedure. Since only a few studies have been conducted focusing on ammonia emissions during the application of liquid organic fertilizers on the so...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,951 Views
17 Pages

Humic Acid Promotes the Growth of Switchgrass under Salt Stress by Improving Photosynthetic Function

  • Jiaxing Zhang,
  • Qiuxia Meng,
  • Zhiping Yang,
  • Qiang Zhang,
  • Min Yan,
  • Xiaochan Hou and
  • Xunzhong Zhang

19 May 2024

As a potential crop in saline-alkali land, the growth of switchgrass could also be threatened by salt stress. Promoting the growth of switchgrass under salt stress by humic acid has great significance in the utilization of saline-alkali land. In this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,123 Views
17 Pages

Mulching Practices Improve Soil Moisture and Enzyme Activity in Drylands, Increasing Potato Yield

  • Wenhuan Song,
  • Fanxiang Han,
  • Zhengyu Bao,
  • Yuwei Chai,
  • Linlin Wang,
  • Caixia Huang,
  • Hongbo Cheng and
  • Lei Chang

19 May 2024

Mulch is an important measure for improving agricultural productivity in many semiarid regions of the world. However, the impacts of various mulching materials on soil hydrothermal characteristics, enzyme activity, and potato yield in fields have not...

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Agronomy - ISSN 2073-4395