2026 January-1 - 137 articles
Climate challenges, along with a projected global population increase of 2 billion by 2080, are intensifying pressures on agricultural systems, leading to biodiversity loss, land use constrains, soil fertility declining, and changes in water cycles,...
Rice blast, caused by Magnaporthe oryzae, is a devastating disease that jeopardizes global rice production and food security. Precision agriculture demands timely and accurate monitoring tools to enable targeted intervention. This study introduces a...
Accurate detection and counting of oat ears are essential for yield estimation but remain challenging in complex field environments due to occlusion, significant scale variation, and fluctuating lighting. The aim of this study is to develop a high-pr...
Oats (Avena sativa L.) are a staple grain and forage crop with substantial market demand. In China, they are the second most-imported forage grass, only after alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.). Enhancing the salt tolerance of oats to facilitate their cult...
Direct seeding of rice reduces labor intensity and cost, helping alleviate labor shortages in cold-region rice production. To investigate the effects of mechanical precision hill-direct seeding versus mechanical transplanting on yield and nutrient ac...
Groundwater resources are scarce in the cold and arid regions of north China. Moreover, regional water resource replenishment without external sources remains difficult. This water deficit has become a major factor restricting the sustainable develop...
Efficient nitrogen (N) management is critical for improving productivity and sustainability in intercropping systems, especially in semi-arid regions. Maize and peanut, the two dominant local crops, were selected to represent a typical cereal/legume...
This study employed a combined approach of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), numerical simulations, and wind tunnel tests to investigate droplet drift characteristics and develop prediction models in order to address the issues of low pesticide uti...
Net form net blotch disease, caused by Pyrenophora teres f. teres (Ptt), is one of the most destructive barley diseases, resulting in severe yield and grain quality losses worldwide. The increasing prevalence of fungicide-resistant Ptt strains, drive...
Distant hybridization between bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and wild Aegilops species is a valuable approach to take to broaden genetic diversity, but it is frequently impeded by reproductive barriers. This study evaluated crossability, pollen t...
Modern sequencing technologies have transformed the identification of medicinal plant species and varieties, overcoming the limitations of traditional approaches. To address the challenge of discriminating Toona sinensis varieties, we sequenced and c...
The selection of data smoothing methods is one of the key steps in extracting land surface phenology parameters from time-series remote sensing data. However, existing studies often use default parameters for denoising the time-series data, neglectin...
Invasive alien plants (IAPs) disrupt biodiversity, ecosystem functions, rural livelihoods, and human health/well-being. Hence, the negative impact of Cenchrus setaceus (syn. Pennisetum setaceum) as an invasive weed poses many concerns in terms of env...
Unmanned Aerial Spraying Systems (UASS) has rapidly advanced precision crop protection. However, the spray performance of UASSs is influenced by nozzle atomization, rotor-induced airflow, and external environmental conditions. These factors cause str...
Estimating the mass of Oudemansiella raphanipies quickly and accurately is indispensable in optimizing post-harvest packaging processes. Traditional methods typically involve manual grading followed by weighing with a balance, which is inefficient an...
Berry color is a critical determinant of grape quality and market value. While the genetic basis of skin color has been extensively studied, the regulatory network controlling flesh coloration remains largely uncharacterized. To systematically dissec...
Long-term continuous cropping is a prevalent agricultural practice aimed at maximizing land use efficiency and crop yields, yet it often leads to severe soil degradation, nutrient imbalance, and microbial community disruption. Effective soil remediat...
Legume green manure incorporation offers a potential pathway for sustainable cropping in arid irrigated areas. This study aimed to determine whether water and nitrogen inputs could be concurrently reduced without compromising maize productivity under...
To address the soil degradation and growth inhibition caused by long-term monoculture of the medicinal plant Chrysanthemum morifolium Ramat. (Hangju), we conducted a controlled experiment comparing a monoculture (control) with seven different intercr...
The European Union produces about 58 million tons of grain maize annually, and although Slovakia contributes only a small share, grain maize is an important crop occupying 10.6% of the country’s arable land. A two-year pot experiment was conduc...
Alfalfa cultivation is an effective way to achieve soil improvement while utilizing saline soils. Irrigation and drainage, as physical measures to leach salts, can effectively reduce the soil salt content, while application of organic fertilizer ferm...
Agrivoltaics (APV) offers a promising dual land-use solution for food and energy production, yet empirical data regarding its impact on leguminous crops in tropical monsoon climates remain limited. This study evaluated the microclimate, growth, and y...
The Gretchen Hagen 3 (GH3) gene family, a key component of the early auxin-responsive gene family, plays a pivotal role in regulating plant growth, development, and stress responses. However, to date, a comprehensive genome-wide analysis of the GH3 g...
Effects of forced aeration on sweet potato growth and yield by decreasing CO2 concentrations in the rooting zone were investigated. The following four experiments were conducted with forced aeration in the rooting zone of sweet potato: (1) with air c...
Agricultural systems in Mediterranean-type climates are increasingly threatened by drought, salinity, extreme temperatures, heavy metal contamination, and pathogen pressure, all of which undermine crop productivity and agroecosystem stability. In thi...
Water scarcity is a major constraint to upland rice production, and optimizing drought management to balance yield and quality is critical for sustainable agriculture. This study investigated the effects of three soil water potential (SWP) levels&mda...
Calonectria ilicicola (anamorph: Cylindrocladium parasiticum) is a globally important soil-borne fungal pathogen, causing Cylindrocladium black rot (CBR) in peanuts (Arachis hypogaea) and red crown rot (RCR) in soybeans (Glycine max), two legume crop...
Long-term human cultivation activities are the key factors of the vertical distribution and storage dynamics of soil organic carbon (SOC) in cropland. Based on a 45-year long-term field experiment, this study systematically compared SOC dynamics and...
While pursuing high yields, China’s maize industry is facing a series of complex challenges that not only affect production efficiency but also relate to the sustainable development of the industry. Maize varieties with different nitrogen use e...
The goal of this study was to elucidate the genetic and molecular regulatory mechanisms underlying agronomic traits in elite alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.). Through the analysis of 44 varieties and lines, we measured 19 yield-related traits and perform...
A magnetic deep eutectic solvent-based single-drop microextraction technique coupled with high-performance liquid chromatography (MDES-SDME-HPLC) was established for the determination of five triazine herbicides in environmental water samples. MDES,...
Washingtonia filifera is important for its ecological, economic, cultural, horticultural, ornamental, and medicinal potential. Elicitation of in vitro cultures presents a promising and efficient method for the large-scale production of valuable bioac...
The Citrus limon (L.) Burm. f. industry suffers significant losses due to fungal diseases. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of sodium benzoate (SB) and potassium sorbate (PS) on the incidence of fungal decay and fruit quality...
Fertilization regimes impact the carbon cycle processes in paddy soils. However, the effects of shifting fertilization regimes on the structure of microbial communities and functional genes involved in soil carbon (C)-cycling remain unclear. A long-t...
Agroecology is increasingly shaped by the convergence of traditional knowledge, farmers’ lived experiences, and scientific research, fostering a plural dialog that embraces the ecological and socio-political complexity of agricultural systems....
Air temperature is commonly used to represent plant thermal conditions, although temperatures within woody tissues and the soil–root zone can differ substantially under field conditions. This study characterized the thermal dynamics of xylem ti...
Cold stress impairs crop productivity through cascading inhibition of root growth, nitrogen (N) metabolism, and photosynthesis, yet the systematic linkages among these physiological disruptions remain poorly understood. It is crucial to elucidate the...
This research was conducted to investigate effects of biostimulants containing plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria and enriched biosurfactants, which were tested individually and in combination (biostimulant + enriched biosurfactant) on plant growth...
With the advancement of modern agriculture and increasing scarcity of water and fertilizer resources, determining optimal water and nitrogen (N) management strategies for intercropping systems is critical for ensuring system productivity and enhancin...
A sustainable approach to agricultural production and increasing interest in alternative wheat species have intensified research on simplified soil management systems under changing climatic conditions. A three-year field experiment (2018–2020)...
Soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration plays a vital role in sustaining soil productivity and mitigating climate change. Although biochar and charcoal-based fertilizers are known to enhance SOC sequestration, current understanding is predominantly d...
Climate change increasingly challenges viticulture, demanding innovative and sustainable strategies to preserve grapevine productivity and grape quality. MicroRNA-encoded peptides (miPEPs) have emerged as natural regulators of gene expression, provid...
To address the localization and mapping challenges for quadruped robots autonomously scouting under corn canopies, this paper proposes CK-SLAM, a SLAM algorithm integrating robot motion constraints and crop row features. The algorithm is implemented...
Low yields remain a primary obstacle to the expansion of organic farming in Europe. While legume-based mixed cropping enhances land-use efficiency, three-crop mixtures remain understudied compared to binary systems. We evaluated the vegetative and ge...
Accurate weed detection in crop fields remains a challenging task due to the diversity of weed species and their visual similarity to crops, especially under natural field conditions where lighting and occlusion vary. Traditional methods typically at...
Seedling count is a key indicator of wheat population during the seedling stage. Accurate seedling detection is therefore vital. Recently, deep learning techniques have been widely used to detect wheat seedlings and estimate seedling numbers from UAV...
Sometimes, crop breeding varieties demonstrate high resistance to target insects under laboratory conditions but exhibit significantly low resistance in the field. This research aimed to explain this phenomenon based on inter-species interactions amo...
Spring frost poses a major threat to grape-producing regions, severely reducing grape yield and quality. Grafting rootstocks is an effective strategy for enhancing scion resistance to spring frost and mitigating damage. In this study, the two wine gr...
For the numerical simulation of rainwater infiltration in forest slope, information on the water retention curve (WRC), which shows spatial variability due to the forest ecosystem and weathered granite in natural forest soils, is required. A scaling...
Chlorophyll and carotenoid biosynthesis are essential metabolic processes in horticultural plants, critically influencing the coloration and economic value of fruits and petals. However, the regulatory mechanisms that coordinate the accumulation of b...
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