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Agronomy, Volume 15, Issue 8

August 2025 - 261 articles

Cover Story: Phacelia tanacetifolia Benth. is an annual plant of growing economic and ecological significance. Initially valued as an ornamental and melliferous species, it is now recognized as a valuable forage crop and one of the leading catch crops. It produces rapid biomass, has low soil requirements, and shows strong resistance to drought and frost. It can be sown in monoculture or mixtures, supporting sustainable farming. Phacelia enhances biodiversity and ecosystem services such as CO2 sequestration, nutrient absorbtion, and soil protection. It is an important food source for pollinators. Recent studies highlight its potential for biogas production. Its role in agronomic systems and environmental protection is expected to further increase. View this paper
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Articles (261)

  • Article
  • Open Access
789 Views
16 Pages

20 August 2025

Soil nutrients and stoichiometric ratios are significant parameters for Eragrostis minor Host sustainability in a recent climate change scenario. However, their characteristics in Northwestern China are still unclear, particularly at Gansu belt, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
831 Views
23 Pages

Integrating Both Driving and Response Environmental Variables to Enhance Soil Salinity Inversion

  • Qizhuo Zhou,
  • Yong Zhang,
  • Zheng Liu,
  • Danyang Wang,
  • Hongyan Chen and
  • Peng Liu

19 August 2025

The rapid and accurate assessment of regional soil salinity is crucial for effective salinization management. This study proposes an enhanced remote sensing inversion method by integrating both driving and response environmental variables to address...

  • Article
  • Open Access
831 Views
15 Pages

Morphological and Molecular Characterization and Life Cycle of Meloidogyne graminicola Infecting Allium cepa

  • Qiankun Li,
  • Yanmei Yang,
  • Fuxiang Liu,
  • Yunxia Li,
  • Hanyang Yao,
  • Deliang Peng and
  • Xianqi Hu

19 August 2025

To identify the root-knot nematodes (RKNs) infecting onions in Yuanmou County, Yunnan Province, morphological and molecular biological techniques were used. Observation of their life cycle and pathogenicity was conducted through artificial inoculatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
898 Views
18 Pages

Transcriptomics and Metabolomics Analyses Reveal How Rhizobacteria Acinetobacter calcoaceticus Enhance the Growth and Stress Tolerance in Lespedeza davurica

  • Yinping Liang,
  • Lin Jiang,
  • Yining Zhang,
  • Zhanchao Guo,
  • Linjuan Han,
  • Peng Gao,
  • Xiaoyan Zhao and
  • Xiang Zhao

19 August 2025

Background: Lespedeza davurica is an important perennial leguminous shrub endemic to China’s Loess Plateau, and it plays a crucial role in ecosystem restoration and soil erosion control. However, phosphorus deficiency and environmental stresses...

  • Article
  • Open Access
663 Views
15 Pages

Planting Diversification Enhances Phosphorus Availability and Reshapes Fungal Community Structure in the Maize Rhizosphere

  • Yannan Li,
  • Yuming Zhang,
  • Xiaoxin Li,
  • Hongjun Li,
  • Wenxu Dong,
  • Shuping Qin,
  • Xiuping Liu,
  • Lijuan Zhang,
  • Chunsheng Hu and
  • Hongbo He
  • + 2 authors

19 August 2025

Intercropping with green manures is an effective practice for increasing agricultural production and reducing environmental issues. However, the effects of green manure type and intercropping patten on soil nutrient availability and microbial communi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
809 Views
21 Pages

Development of Maize Canopy Architecture Indicators Through UAV Multi-Source Data

  • Shaolong Zhu,
  • Dongwei Han,
  • Weijun Zhang,
  • Tianle Yang,
  • Zhaosheng Yao,
  • Tao Liu and
  • Chengming Sun

19 August 2025

Rapid and accurate identification of maize architecture characteristics is important for understanding both yield potential and crop breeding experiments. Most canopy architecture indicators cannot fully reflect the vertical leaf distribution in fiel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
948 Views
21 Pages

TeaBudNet: A Lightweight Framework for Robust Small Tea Bud Detection in Outdoor Environments via Weight-FPN and Adaptive Pruning

  • Yi Li,
  • Zhiyan Zhang,
  • Jie Zhang,
  • Jingsha Shi,
  • Xiaoyang Zhu,
  • Bingyu Chen,
  • Yi Lan,
  • Yanling Jiang,
  • Wanyi Cai and
  • Xianming Tan
  • + 8 authors

19 August 2025

The accurate detection of tea buds in outdoor environments is crucial for the intelligent management of modern tea plantations. However, this task remains challenging due to the small size of tea buds and the limited computational capabilities of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,115 Views
23 Pages

RDL-YOLO: A Method for the Detection of Leaf Pests and Diseases in Cotton Based on YOLOv11

  • Xingchao Zhang,
  • Li Li,
  • Zhihua Bian,
  • Chenxu Dai,
  • Zhanlin Ji and
  • Jinyun Liu

19 August 2025

Accurate identification of cotton leaf pests and diseases is essential for sustainable cultivation but is challenged by complex backgrounds, diverse pest morphologies, and varied symptoms, where existing deep learning models often show insufficient r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
940 Views
20 Pages

Ball-Milling-Assisted Fe3O4 Loadings of Rice Straw Biochar for Enhanced Tetracycline Adsorption in Aquatic Systems

  • Yuxin Liu,
  • Haizhang Yu,
  • Yuchen Xing,
  • Qi Zhao,
  • Rukeya Ashan,
  • Bo Feng,
  • Bo Tao,
  • Qianyi Shangguan,
  • Yucheng Liu and
  • Haiyan Zhang
  • + 1 author

19 August 2025

Antibiotic contaminants such as tetracycline (TC) from agricultural production have become widely distributed and persistently accumulated in aquatic environments (rivers, lakes, and oceans), posing severe threats to ecological security and human hea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
714 Views
18 Pages

19 August 2025

Under intensified global climate change and anthropogenic pressures, alpine ecosystems confront unprecedented stress. The degradation of alpine meadows has caused significant declines in productivity and in the abundance of high-quality forage specie...

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Agronomy - ISSN 2073-4395