2026 June-1 - 99 articles
Glycine soja, the ancestor of cultivated soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.], is an important genetic resource for soybean improvement and a National Grade II Key Protected Wild Annual Plant in China. Understanding its intra- and interspecific interacti...
Seed pelleting improves seed handling and precision sowing, but its performance depends strongly on the physicochemical properties of filler materials. This study evaluated the effects of talc-based mineral filler combinations on pellet characteristi...
Attainable yields represent the yields that can be achieved under production conditions and are used to determine the exploitable yield gap. However, these yields are constrained by multiple factors, including soil properties that vary across differe...
Fusarium verticillioides is a maize pathogenic fungus that produces the mycotoxin fumonisin B1 (FB1) and causes significant losses in grain quality and yield. In addition, the insect Sitophilus zeamais damages the grains and contributes to the disper...
Environmental contamination by potentially toxic elements (PTEs) originating from industrial activities represents a major global challenge, necessitating the development of sustainable remediation strategies. While remediation of legacy (post-indust...
Modeling the unsaturated soil hydraulic conductivity function (SHCF) is essential for understanding water movement in unsaturated zones and supporting effective agricultural and environmental management. Accurate estimation of SHCF parameters, partic...
Diamondback moth (DBM, Plutella xylostella) outbreaks are shaped by delayed meteorological conditions, yet most forecasting models compress weather into a few monthly summaries and provide limited ecological interpretation. We propose MeteoSCOPE, an...
The tomato leaf miner (Tuta absoluta) is recognized as a highly destructive pest affecting members of the Solanaceae family, particularly tomato crops, where infestations may cause total crop loss. Its rapid spread and increasing resistance to chemic...
Under the combined influence of climate change and long-term mowing pressure, natural mowing grasslands in the Altai Mountain meadow region of Xinjiang have undergone degradation, primarily manifested as a decline in the proportion of high-quality fo...
Agrivoltaics is an important pathway for promoting the coordinated development of clean energy production and agricultural utilization. However, the structural characteristics of flexible agrivoltaic (AV) systems may significantly alter field light a...
Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and severity of drought events in Europe, necessitating the identification of more water-efficient cropping systems. This study compared the evapotranspiration dynamics, water-use efficiency, and y...
Silicon (Si) amendment can enhance plant resistance to biotic stress, yet its role in tri-trophic interactions under multiple herbivore attack remains unclear. This study examined how Si influences herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) and the fo...
The deployment of insect-resistant rice cultivars is a sustainable strategy for pest control, while the adaptation of pest insects to resistance limits the efficiency of resistant rice varieties. The cytochrome P450 gene CYP4C61 was previously identi...
Plant quality is strongly influenced by environmental conditions, including the presence of micronutrients and potentially toxic elements in the soil. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of soil-applied fluorine on the content of exogenous (essen...
Accurate vineyard yield estimation is essential for harvest planning, resource allocation, and economic decision-making, particularly under conditions of high spatial variability. Traditional sampling-based methods are labor-intensive, destructive, a...
Aluminum (Al) toxicity is an important factor limiting crop production in acidic soils; however, systematic evaluation of Al tolerance and its physiological basis in celery (Apium graveolens L.) remains limited. In this study, 400 μmol·L&mi...
This study presents the findings of on-farm trials conducted in Hungary between 2023 and 2025, evaluating the efficacy of inundative Trichogramma releases against the European corn borer (ECB) and the cotton bollworm (CBW). The research assessed thre...
Flowering period management is a critical component of orchard production, significantly influencing the accuracy and timeliness of agricultural decisions such as flower and fruit thinning, yield stabilization, improvement in fruit commodity value, a...
Grassland restoration through grazing exclusion is a key strategy for enhancing soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration, yet the dynamic contributions of plant- versus microbial-derived carbon (C) remain incompletely understood. We hypothesized that...
Improving the efficiency of milling oat (Avena sativa L.) production is becoming increasingly important under rising input costs and variable climatic conditions. However, oat agronomy research remains underfunded, leading to knowledge gaps in optimi...
Cold stress is a major environmental constraint limiting the growth, physiological performance, and productivity of African marigold (Tagetes erecta L.) under open-field conditions. This study evaluated the comparative effectiveness of salicylic acid...
Water conservation and grain yield improvement are primary objectives for sustainable agricultural development in arid and semi-arid regions. Variety selection, planting density, and irrigation management represent crucial agronomic practices that re...
American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius L.) is an important medicinal crop, but its improvement in China is limited by variety degeneration and a shortage of elite cultivars. In this study, phenotypic traits and simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers wer...
This study analyzed precipitation and air temperature in the Zhambyl, Almaty, Zhetysu, Abay, and East Kazakhstan regions of Kazakhstan using data from the national meteorological network of the RSE Kazhydromet. The purpose of the study was to reveal...
Vineyards are affected by pathogens globally. Some of the most damaging pathogens are Uncinula necator, Plasmopara viticola, and thrips, which affect the plant entirely and threaten the health and productivity of vineyards. To control the emergence a...
In order to address the problems of manual dependence, low replenishment efficiency, and insufficient operational continuity in unmanned field operations of large sprayers, an autonomous docking device for an unmanned replenishment vehicle was design...
Biological nitrogen fixation is an important support for sustainable agricultural development. The symbiotic nitrogen fixation system between legumes and rhizobia is the core of biological nitrogen fixation in nature. As a crucial signaling molecule,...
Parent material is a fundamental determinant of soil pedogenesis, yet its specific role in regulating the molecular composition and vertical evolution of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in paddy soils remains poorly understood. The primary objective o...
Organo-mineral complexes are intimately involved in protecting the stability of soil organic carbon (SOC), as they are influenced by environmental factors such as pH and redox conditions, as well as by the implementation of appropriate management pra...
Weed control is crucial for optimizing corn yield. In recent years, advances in computer vision and deep learning have created new opportunities for precision agriculture. However, annotating weed datasets is typically time-consuming, labor-intensive...
Bacteriophages infecting phytopathogenic bacteria represent promising alternatives for plant disease control; however, some groups, such as filamentous bacteriophages, remain comparatively underexplored. In this study, we present a comprehensive char...
Drought frequently constrains tea production in low-slope hilly regions, where inefficient irrigation scheduling often leads to substantial water losses. This study optimized drip irrigation management for tea plantations by quantifying soil wetting...
Climate change is a major hazard to the agricultural systems of the world, as it is changing the temperature regimes, precipitation patterns, and soil dynamics, which are weakening crop production and the stability of ecosystems. The proposed researc...
The crop system of soybean–maize succession has been adopted widely in the Neotropics. It inadvertently provides continuous food resources (green bridges) to stink bugs (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), favoring outbreaks. Thus, stink bugs need to be...
To address the low monitoring accuracy of traditional methods caused by the complex composition and severe signal overlapping of threshed materials during soybean threshing, this study proposes a high-precision impact signal classification system bas...
Phosphorus (P) deficiency is a major constraint on crop productivity, and rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) is particularly sensitive to low phosphorus (LP) stress, yet the role of salicylic acid (SA) in alleviating LP stress in this crop remains poorly u...
‘Fengtang’ plum is increasingly cultivated in southern China under mountain cultivation conditions, which involve lower temperatures, higher irradiance, and thinner soils. These conditions may uniquely shape the rhizosphere microbiome and...
In Inner Mongolia, a major potato-producing region of China, suboptimal potassium (K) fertilization often compromises tuber quality and affects yield. A two-year field study (2022–2023) evaluated the effects of different K application rates and...
Tobacco cultivation leads to nicotine accumulation in soil, but how nicotine affects soil nitrification and ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms remains poorly understood. This study conducted a microcosm incubation using soil collected from a 10-year to...
The carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua L.) is a typical tree of the arid Mediterranean, and its cultivation contributes to the sustainability of local agroecosystems. In recent years, the economic and environmental importance of the carob tree has grown d...
The rice stem borer (RSB), Chilo suppressalis, is one of the most destructive rice pests in China and chlorantraniliprole has been extensively used for its control over the past decade. However, the continuous and intensive application of chlorantran...
Rational regulation of nitrogen input represents a crucial approach for simultaneously boosting cereal productivity and enhancing the efficiency of agricultural input use. Nevertheless, the intrinsic mechanisms of how nitrogen application regimes in...
Mechanical transplanting often causes root damage to rice seedlings, but its yield impacts in double-cropping systems remain unclear. A two-year field experiment was conducted in early- and late-season rice under three root damage treatments: no dama...
In Northeast China’s black soil region, we examined how different straw return strategies—no return (CK), direct straw incorporation (SD), and biochar application (BC)—interact with three nitrogen levels (N0, N60, N100) to affect so...
Protected cultivation, as a core model of modern agriculture, holds a crucial strategic position in alleviating the shortage of arable land resources and increasing farmers’ income. However, due to the closed environment of protected cultivatio...
Precise, non-destructive detection of fruit maturity is a cornerstone of modern precision agriculture, directly impacting harvest scheduling and post-harvest quality control. In the case of strawberries (Fragaria × ananassa), in-field automated...
Fertilizer management plays a critical role in regulating both yield and aroma quality in fragrant rice. However, the combined effects of functional fertilizers on these traits across different varieties and ecological conditions remain poorly unders...
Nitrogen application rate (N rate) is a key factor affecting maize yield, but the physiological mechanisms by which it improves yield through the coordination of the source-sink relationship remain unclear. In this study, field experiments were condu...
Soil-based ecosystem services (SESs) are various benefits provided by soils to society or the environment, and their assessment supports sustainable agricultural soil management aimed at preventing further soil degradation. Individual SES evaluation...
Soil compaction is a widespread yet insufficiently monitored form of agricultural land degradation, affecting approximately 25% of global soils and nearly 33% of European subsoils, with consequential reductions in soil physical functionality, crop pe...
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