2026 January-2 - 140 articles
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.)–soybean (Glycine max L.) intercropping produces a significant yield advantage over monocropping. However, a comprehensive synthesis is lacking to quantify yield benefits. This article provides a systematic review, a...
RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM), a new plant breeding technology, induces epigenetic modifications that can be inherited even after segregation of the responsible transgene. The transgene-free descendants (null segregants) are potentially exempt...
In the tropical Andes, rangeland degradation has become one of the main threats to the sustainability of livestock production in the face of climate change. In this context, optimizing the yield and nutritional quality of raw material for silage is e...
In Northeast China, increasing agricultural activities has led to severe soil compaction, reducing soil aeration and water infiltration capacity. Conservation tillage, through multiple approaches, alleviates this compaction while simultaneously enhan...
The transplanted cotton–wheat rotation enables dual cropping but alters root system architecture, typically suppressing taproot growth and promoting shallow lateral and fibrous roots, with unclear implications for irrigation response and water...
Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a strategic food crop for arid, hot regions such as the Arabian Peninsula, the Middle East, and North Africa. In these areas, production is limited by extreme environmental and agronomic conditions, leading to heavy de...
As a high-value fruit crop grown worldwide, apples require efficient harvesting solutions to maintain a stable supply. Intelligent harvesting robots represent a promising approach to address labour shortages. This study introduced a Cartesian robot i...
Industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) is a multipurpose crop with growing interest due to its environmental adaptability, low input requirements, and potential contribution to sustainable agricultural systems. This study evaluated the agronomic perfor...
The phaeozem in Northeast China is rich in soil organic carbon (SOC). However, the excessive and inefficient application of chemical fertilizers, particularly nitrogen fertilizers, has primarily led to a decrease in soil pH in this region. Currently,...
Selenium (Se) biofortification in rice presents a promising strategy to address Se deficiency in populations relying on rice as a staple food. This study evaluated the impact of foliar Se application on Se accumulation, its distribution in unpolished...
Biochar is known to enhance soil potassium (K) availability and promote plant K uptake; however, its influence on the transformation pathways of fertilizer potassium and the mechanisms regulating crop potassium accumulation remains insufficiently und...
Leaves, as the primary “source” organ for photosynthesis, directly influence plant yield. However, it remains unclear whether leaf removal affects Jerusalem artichoke yield by altering rhizosphere nutrient availability. This study evaluat...
Calcium (Ca) and selenium (Se) are garnering growing interest because of their capacity to boost crop yields and minimize cadmium (Cd) concentration within edible parts. However, whether Ca and Se can synergistically inhibit Cd accumulation in crops...
Field cultivation of medicinal earthworms is a distinctive agricultural practice in South China, characterized by large-scale rearing of the anecic earthworm species through substantial organic matter input. However, the effects of varying cultivatio...
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) form symbiotic interactions with most terrestrial plants, enhancing nutrient uptake and stress resilience. Organic amendments like biochar, compost, and manure are advocated to improve soil health and promote AMF sy...
Fertilization management is crucial mainly during the walnut training phase in order to obtain good plant formation, which is essential for guaranteeing future optimal yield. The aim of the present experiment was to evaluate the effect of different o...
Agricultural production residues are an easily accessible raw material for energy recovery in a circular economy. Therefore, the possibility of biogas production from herb processing waste, namely common thyme (Thymus vulgaris L.), peppermint (Mentha...
Seed germination performance and storability are fundamental components of seed quality and critical for successful crop establishment. However, information on the impact of different crop production systems on the quality and storability of seed mat...
Pre-emergence control is one of the critical steps in the agricultural production of direct-seeding rice. To investigate the mechanism of pre-emergence flame control, a flame control test bench and a flame control and sowing integrated operation mach...
Climate change has intensified drought events, compromising popcorn production, particularly in tropical regions. This study aimed to identify popcorn inbred lines with superior water-use efficiency and responsiveness, and to examine the relationship...
Southern blight, a disease caused by the soil-borne fungus Sclerotium rolfsii (S. rolfsii), is favored by the hot and humid conditions of the southeastern United States, posing a significant challenge to hemp production in Tennessee. Black plastic mu...
To address the bottlenecks of low water and fertilizer utilization efficiency and limited yield potential inherent in Henan Province’s traditional winter wheat cultivation model of “furrow irrigation + conventional row seeding”, thi...
Soil-borne pathogens significantly threaten crop production and global food security, while high-performance antipathogenic materials are scarce. In this study, green and efficient Ag/AgCl nanoparticles (Ag/AgCl-NPs) were developed using an aqueous e...
The aim of the experiment was to assess the effects of municipal sewage sludge, mushroom substrate, and hydrogel on the quality of energy grass species and their biomass yield. The experiment was conducted in the climatic conditions of central-easter...
This study aims to optimize the estimation of reference evapotranspiration (ETo) in data-scarce regions by integrating ERA5-Land reanalysis data with machine learning (ML) models. Daily meteorological data from 33 stations across Turkey’s diver...
In severely saline-alkali soils, surface salt accumulation caused by intense water evaporation results in elevated salinity, low organic matter content, and suppressed microbial activity, collectively impairing plant physiological metabolism and grow...
Although biochar and manure have been shown in many studies to influence abundant microbial communities, their differential effects on the rare and abundant microbial communities in soybean–corn intercropping systems remain poorly understood. U...
Carotenoids are a class of C40 isoprenoid-derived fat-soluble pigments that play vital roles in plant physiology and human health and serve as precursors for several biologically critical regulatory molecules. Carotenoid cleavage dioxygenases (CCDs)...
Soil erosion in alpine ecosystems threatens biodiversity, ecosystem services, and SDGs, yet its spatiotemporal dynamics and drivers remain unclear. Using multi-source remote sensing (1990–2022), deep learning, and Random Forest, we assessed soi...
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) is a vital crop for both grain production and forage, playing a critical role in ensuring global food security and sustainable livestock production. Drought stress represents one of the most severe abiotic constraints in...
The aim of the study was to investigate the early response of apple fruit infected with Penicillium expansum (P. expansum) to blue light-emitting diode (LED) light (BLL) irradiation. To focus our study on the interaction between apple fruit, the path...
The use of unconventional water sources, such as those from marine desalination plants, is challenging for agriculture due to boron concentrations exceeding 0.5 mg L−1, which can impact crop yield and quality. To ensure sustainability, it is cr...
Drip irrigation burial depth is a critical management factor for saline-alkali agriculture, yet its mechanisms of influencing crop productivity through soil–microbe–plant interactions remain poorly understood. To explore the regulatory ef...
The tomato leafminer, Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), is one of the most destructive pests of tomato crops worldwide. Its high reproductive potential and increasing resistance to conventional insecticides have made the development...
Optimizing planting density and mepiquat chloride (MC) is essential for simplified, machine-harvestable cotton production in the Yangtze River Basin. A two-year field experiment was conducted to explore the synergistic regulatory mechanisms of MC and...
Fusarium wilt (FW), caused by Fusarium oxysporum, poses a significant threat to mungbean (Vigna radiata L.), impacting its yield and quality. In this study, a recombinant inbred line (RIL) population was developed by crossing the highly resistant cul...
Genomic selection (GS) estimates the GEBV from genome-wide markers to reduce generation intervals and optimize germplasm selection, which is particularly advantageous for high-cost or late-expressed traits. While models like GBLUP are popular, they a...
Hazelnut (Corylus avellana L.) cultivation in Italy is facing constraints related to climate change, causing decreases in production as a consequence of summer droughts and late spring heatwaves. This two-year study (2024–2025, i.e., Y1 and Y2)...
Microalgal amendments can improve soil structure by regulating extracellular polymeric substances (EPSs). However, the mechanisms underlying this process in red soils (characterized by high clay content and susceptibility to acidification) under diff...
This study investigates the effects of nitrogen application and sprinkler irrigation on winter wheat growth, water use efficiency (WUE), and yield formation under dry-hot wind stress. The primary aim was to understand how nitrogen levels influence ca...
Melatonin is recognised as a multifunctional regulatory molecule that enhances plant tolerance to abiotic stresses, but its effectiveness is often strongly genotype-dependent. This study aimed to elucidate how exogenous melatonin (200 µM) modul...
Water scarcity and ecological degradation driven by the expansion of irrigated agriculture in arid regions urgently necessitate a rigorous assessment of the combined impacts of climate change and crop-structure adjustments on irrigation water require...
Salinity stress severely constrains plant growth and ecosystem functioning in arid and semi-arid regions, and plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) have been increasingly applied to enhance plant salt tolerance. Hoswever, it remains unclear whe...
Tillage after harvesting main crops can affect the growth of subsequent stubble cover crops (CCs). In order to better understand the factors influencing CC performance, the field study took place at two locations—the cooler, wetter Lukavec site...
Rotational tillage is considered a potential option to improve soil organic carbon (SOC) stock and mitigate climate change. However, the mechanisms underlying SOC sequestration under rotational tillage remain poorly understood due to insufficient dat...
Plant factories enable stable crop production, but face sustainability challenges due to intensive resource consumption. In particular, studies that quantitatively analyze nutrient use in plant cultivation and assess the environmental burdens remain...
A key challenge in precision agriculture is acquiring reliable spatial soil information under varying sampling densities, from sparse surveys to intensive monitoring. The individual predictive soil mapping (iPSM) method performs well in data-scarce c...
Returning biogas slurry to fields is an important approach for the resource utilization of organic waste. It enhances soil fertility and crop growth, but its long-term effects on soil ecosystems need evaluation. A meta-analysis approach was employed...
Dynamic network conditions in precision agriculture motivate a scalable, privacypreserving federated learning architecture that tightly integrates ground-based edge intelligence with a space-assisted hierarchical aggregation layer. In Phase 1, hetero...
Aphis gossypii (Glover) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) is a significant pest in cotton fields, and the use of both chemical insecticides and natural enemies is a crucial strategy for its management. Hippodamia variegata (Goeze) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), a...
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