2026 May-1 - 97 articles
Microalgae-based wastewater treatment can support sustainable crop production. This study evaluated whether ethanol supplementation improves swine wastewater (SW) treatment by Dictyosphaerium sp. and enhances algal biofertilizer production. Across th...
Lilium, a traditional plant with dual medicinal and ornamental values, is restricted in its industrial development by the low natural propagation rate of bulbs and dependence on imported high-quality germplasm. To address this bottleneck, this study...
This study investigates the potential for early yield prediction in nine winter wheat (Triticum aestivum) varieties using multispectral data acquired at different growth stages. The data were collected using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped...
Cadmium (Cd) contamination in rice paddies poses serious threats to food safety. This study investigated the effects of bamboo biochar, a microbial agent, and their combination on Cd accumulation, soil properties, and rhizosphere microbial communitie...
Water scarcity is a critical constraint to sustainable agricultural production in arid and semi-arid regions. This study evaluated the effectiveness of subirrigation controlled drainage (SCD) systems in improving water use efficiency, soil conditions...
The bois noir (BN) disease of grapevines is widespread in German winegrowing regions. It is associated with ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma solani’, which affects not only grapevines but also other wild and cultivated plants. This pathogen has a...
Sugarcane is the leading feedstock for bioethanol in Brazil and worldwide, but its continuous cultivation can degrade soil through nutrient depletion and compaction. Integrating green manures such as Crotalaria and pigeon pea into rotations offers a...
A comprehensive evaluation of phenotypic diversity, genetic structure, and marker–trait associations was conducted in a pea (Pisum sativum L.) collection of 184 accessions, using multi-environment field trials and genome-wide SNP data. Agronomi...
Winter cover crops (WCCs) are effective at reducing N losses from temperate agroecosystems. Although extensive research on WCCs has demonstrated numerous benefits, overall adoption rates in the Midwest U.S. remain low. We evaluated an alternative to...
Accurate tomato ripeness detection is crucial for automated harvesting; however, complex greenhouse environments—characterized by dynamic light interference, foliage occlusion, and dense fruit overlapping—severely hinder detection perform...
To elucidate the mechanisms by which the rhizosphere microbial community influences cold tolerance in maize, this study employed the metagenomic technology to systematically analyze the community composition, functional characteristics, and their ass...
In sub-Saharan Africa, intensive pesticide use in irrigated agriculture is threatening the quality of soil, water bodies and ecosystem services, yet integrated risk assessments remain limited. This study evaluated the environmental implications and r...
Leaves of Persea americana Mill. are a potential source of bioactive compounds; however, current knowledge is limited by the lack of studies that simultaneously evaluate multiple cultivars and leaf developmental stages under comparable field conditio...
Low-light (LL) stress is a major abiotic limiting factor in protected cherry tomato production, adversely affecting vegetative growth, inducing oxidative damage, and disrupting fruit sugar metabolism. To clarify the regulatory role of exogenous absci...
Summer cover crops can improve soil fertility and contribute to nitrogen (N) supply in temperate cropping systems, yet the effects of mixture composition and sowing timing remain insufficiently documented. This study evaluated biomass production and...
Rice chalkiness is a key constraint in breeding high-quality rice, and unbalanced sucrose transport and starch metabolism are its primary causes. To clarify the molecular mechanism by which OsSUT2 regulates rice grain chalkiness formation, the rice c...
Background: Cotton straw returning (CSR) is widely implemented in Xinjiang to achieve in situ residue utilization and ameliorate saline–alkali soils. However, its long-term efficacy in improving soil fertility without inducing secondary saliniz...
The use of microbial consortia has emerged as a promising strategy to improve crop performance under abiotic stress, although their effectiveness under field conditions remains variable. Here, we evaluated whether plant growth-promoting (PGP) bacteri...
This study aimed to develop an anther culture protocol for triticale (×Triticosecale Wittmack) and generate a doubled haploid (DH) population combining awnlessness and stripe rust resistance. A wheat anther culture protocol was evaluated on nin...
This study aims to evaluate the potential of Global Navigation Satellite System Interferometric Reflectometry (GNSS-IR) based on signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) analysis for monitoring crop structure and moisture. Data were collected using a GNSS antenna...
Although RNA cytosine-5 methylation (m5C) is an important post-transcriptional regulatory mechanism, its contribution to plant antiviral immunity remains unclear. In this study, we identified Thiamine thiazole synthase 2 (TaTHI2) as a host mRNA targe...
The wheat–soybean double-cropping system enables the continuous production of preceding and succeeding crops within the same growing season, providing an important approach for improving arable land-use efficiency, increasing output per unit ar...
Due to both continued global population growth and an accelerating aging trend in the rural labor force, agricultural production is facing unprecedented challenges [...]
Straw and no-tillage management, as important practices in conservation agriculture, have the potential to improve soil structure. However, their effects on the aggregate stability of soil and on active organic carbon pools in paddy fields are unclea...
Hydrochar has emerged as a promising carbonaceous amendment to enhance soil quality, yet its short-term effects on soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) dynamics and microbial functioning remain poorly understood. Here, a 77-day greenhouse pot experiment...
The goal of this work was to determine the effect of soil freeze–thaw processes on the formation of water-stable aggregates (WSA) and plant available water (PAW) in soils of different textures, depending on the intensity of tillage: conventiona...
The evolution of herbicide resistance can increase, decrease, or have no effect on the growth rate, competitive ability, and fitness of field-selected populations. The growth response of an ACCase-resistant (R) johnsongrass [Sorghum halepense (L.) Pe...
Sugarcane stores sucrose in a living culm for extended periods, yet the respiratory cost of maintaining this storage tissue remains poorly quantified. We quantified growth and maintenance respiration along the culm (internodes 1 to 12) in three genot...
Black rice is rich in anthocyanins with potential antioxidant benefits, but their specific role in storage stability remains unclear due to confounding genetic backgrounds in previous studies. In this study, we used CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing...
The aim of the study was to determine, under field conditions, the effects of O3, H2O2, and fungicide protection on potato late blight severity, SPAD values, tuber yield, and mineral composition, and additionally to assess whether the number of ozone...
To clarify the genetic background and biological characteristics of grape germplasm resources and provide theoretical support for germplasm innovation and new-variety breeding, we conducted systematic morphological identification and SSR molecular-ma...
Weed infestation poses a significant threat to bok choy (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis) cultivation, reducing crop yield and quality through resource competition and pest facilitation. Traditional weed detection methods face two major bottlenecks: o...
Severe heavy metal contamination affects the karst landscapes of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, which are highly polluted and complex. However, integrated assessments of heavy metal sources, distribution, ecological risks, and speciation in...
Wild relatives of cultivated legumes represent valuable genetic resources for crop improvement, ecosystem resilience, and sustainable agriculture. This study presents a comparative ecological and metagenomic assessment of three biogeographically dist...
Organic fertilizer substitution is increasingly used to reduce chemical nitrogen input in rice production, but the agronomic effects may vary with fertilizer source. This study compared chemical fertilizer alone with seven organic substitution treatm...
Cover crops in woody crops as a sustainable land management alternative to conventional tillage induce changes in soil properties that improve ecosystem functioning. Soil is highly dynamic, and disturbances in environmental conditions affect soil mic...
In this study, we evaluated the use of five different ML algorithms (CatBoost, XGBoost, random forest, gradient boosting, and support vector regression [SVR]) to estimate daily ET0 based only on four independent variables: 2 m air temperature, vapor...
The present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of biodegradable mulches and microbial biostimulants (BMs) on processing tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) cv. Pietra rossa. A black Mater-Bi®-based film (MB), a black paper film (Np), a light...
Against the backdrop of increasing global food demand, chemical pesticides remain a key means of controlling biotic stress in modern agricultural plant protection systems [...]
Long-term continuous cropping often leads to soil-borne pathogen enrichment, and reducing pathogen abundance in continuously cropped soils is an important control measure. In this study, three rotation crops—carrot (C), garlic (G), and bok choy...
On the North China Plain, the winter wheat season is poorly synchronized with precipitation, making the traditional winter wheat–summer maize system heavily dependent on supplemental irrigation and associated carbon inputs. Based on a split-plo...
Weeds represent a major constraint in the cultivation of medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs), causing significant reductions in yield, biomass, and essential oil quality while increasing labor and production costs. Effective weed management is parti...
To enhance the energy efficiency and environmental sustainability of solar greenhouses, precise microclimate control is essential. Composite thermal blankets critically influence heating demand and carbon footprint, yet conventional heat transfer mod...
The development of China’s National Modern Agricultural Industrial Parks (NMAIPs) has provided valuable knowledge to guide regional agricultural structural adjustment. To systematically analyze and scale up the successful practices of crop&ndas...
Background: Optimized nitrogen (N) application and planting density can enhance sweet potato yield. However, the agronomic mechanisms underlying their effects on photosynthetic efficiency and carbohydrate metabolism in sweet potato remain unclear. Me...
Asian countries, which account for more than 60% of global rice consumption, are expanding the adoption of precision agriculture technology using image sensors to increase the profitability of rice production. This requires the development of technol...
This study confirmed that cultivation technologies, cultivar, and meteorological conditions significantly influenced the contents of ascorbic acid, total polyphenols, and phenolic acids in sweet potato roots. Ascorbic acid content ranged from 27.22 t...
Accurate high-throughput fruit detection is the core prerequisite for precision citrus management. Existing models face a critical trade-off between accuracy for small fruits and computational efficiency, restricting large-scale industry transformati...
Thallium (Tl) and cadmium (Cd) are highly toxic heavy metals that frequently co-occur in sulfide ores, posing a serious food safety risk through accumulation in rice. Although calcium-based (Ca-based) amendments have been widely applied to remediate...
Agricultural waste streams represent an underutilized source of bioactive compounds with potential to enhance crop resilience under climate stress. We previously showed that volatile compounds (VCs) emitted from waste shiitake fungi beds (WSFBs) prom...
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