2024 September - 228 articles
Salt stress is a key environmental factor altering rice plant growth. Strigolactones (GR24) play a vital role in responding to various abiotic stresses and regulating plant growth. However, the regulatory mechanisms of SLs on rice seedlings under sal...
The mechanization of agricultural work has contributed significantly to the improvement of agricultural productivity and reduced production costs [...]
Fire, a prevalent land management tool in rotational shifting cultivation (RSC), has long been debated for its immediate disruption of surface soil, vegetation, and microbial communities. While low-intensity and short-duration slash-and-burn techniqu...
Conservation tillage is believed to promote soil aggregate stability, carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) sequestration, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. In this study, soil samples from an 18-year experiment including conventional tillage with...
The multi-degree-of-freedom characteristics of the planetary gear electronic continuously variable transmission (ECVT) configuration in series-parallel hybrid tractors impose more complex requirements for energy management strategies under variable l...
Sustainable crop production requires an innovative approach due to increasing soil salinisation and decreasing freshwater availability. One promising strategy is the domestication of naturally salt-tolerant plant species with commercial potential. Sa...
Real-time automatic detection of microcracks in eggs is crucial for ensuring egg quality and safety, yet rapid detection of micron-scale cracks remains challenging. This study introduces a real-time ConvNext-Based U-Net model with Feature Infusion (C...
Sheep farming is an important branch of the animal husbandry sector in Europe. In 2023, Romania’s sheep and goat herds ranked third in the European Union, with more than 10 million heads, contributing substantially to the production of meat, tr...
In the context of global rural decline, fostering endogenous momentum through rural transformation to increase farmers’ incomes is a challenge that nations worldwide must address. This study utilizes the 2022 “China Rural Micro-Economic D...
Lactic acid content is a crucial indicator for evaluating maize silage quality, and its accurate detection is essential for ensuring product quality. In this study, a quantitative prediction model for the change of lactic acid content during the seco...
The nitrogen (N) use efficiency (NUE) in the roots of seedlings is beneficial for increasing crop yield. Creating marker-assisted selection for wheat root traits can assist wheat breeders in choosing robust roots to maximize nutrient uptake. Explorin...
Cotton topping plays a crucial and indispensable role in controlling excessive growth and enhancing cotton production. This study aims to improve the operational efficiency and accuracy of cotton topping robots through a real-time and accurate cotton...
The academic field has limited studies on implementing nature-based solutions (NbSs) in Chinese agriculture, especially regarding households’ and farmers’ attitudes toward the acceptance of agricultural NbS technologies. Based on this, th...
Extreme rainfall can severely affect all vegetation types, significantly impacting crop yield and quality. This study aimed to assess the response and recovery of vegetation phenology to an extreme rainfall event (with total weekly rainfall exceeding...
For the prompt planting of subsequent crops, most of China’s corn harvest must occur before full maturity, with a grain moisture content above 25%. Harvesting moist corn presents challenges due to significant grain damage during threshing. We c...
The Phytoseiulus persimilis specialized in preying on Tetranychus species, with particularly strong predation capability against Tetranychus urticae. To investigate the morphology of female reproductive structures and effects of different gravid time...
This study addresses challenges related to imprecise edge segmentation and low center point accuracy, particularly when mushrooms are heavily occluded or deformed within dense clusters. A high-precision mushroom contour segmentation algorithm is prop...
In response to the challenges of low fertilizer utilization rates, excessive application amounts, and difficulties in precise targeted fertilization during the middle tillage and top-dressing period for corn, a targeted deep fertilization device is d...
During maize production and transportation, maize kernels frequently interact with mechanical components. To accurately simulate the interaction process between maize and mechanical components, it is essential to establish a reliable maize kernel mod...
Ascorbate oxidase (AAO) plays an important role in maintaining cellular redox homeostasis, thereby influencing plant growth, development, and responses to both biotic and abiotic stresses. However, there has been no systematic characterization of AAO...
In this study, a numerical model of a modified air-drying process of apple slices that considers the conjugate heat and mass transfer in the drying chamber is developed. Inside the apple slice sample, the continuum model is incorporated to describe t...
To fill the research gap in the mechanical and physical properties of different varieties of sweet potatoes at different points in the harvest period and to provide a theoretical basis for the design of key components of the sweet potato harvester, t...
The Camellia oleifera fruit harvester, a specialized agricultural device, is engineered for efficient operation within the densely planted C. oleifera groves of China’s undulating terrains. Its design features a notably small footprint to navig...
Nitrogen (N) fertilizer is essential for agricultural production as it is the main nutrient driving crop growth. However, in China, only one-third of applied N fertilizer is effectively absorbed by crops, while the rest leads to significant environme...
Climate change has rapidly increased incidences of frequent extreme abiotic stresses, such as heat, drought, salinity, and waterlogging. Each of these stressors negatively affects the cotton crop (Gossypium spp.) and results in significant yield decr...
This study investigated the response of a bacterial community’s structure and function in the rhizosphere soil of C3 and C4 plants under bis(2,4,6-tribromophenoxy) ethane (BTBPE) exposure. The bacterial community composition was determined usin...
Exploring the coordination of agricultural water resources (W), cultivated land (L), and the ecoenvironment (E) system is crucial for sustainable agriculture in the North China Plain (NCP). However, the synergistic effects of this composite system re...
Aiming at the current peanut pickup combine harvester seedling vines crushing mechanism operation qualified seedling length rate is low, the impurity rate is high, and the seedling vines crushing mechanism is optimized design. On the basis of the mat...
The size of peanut pods and seeds, which directly affects yield and quality, also has significant implications for mechanized production and market efficiency. Identifying relevant loci and mining candidate genes is crucial for cultivating high-yield...
The separation of walnut kernels and shells has long been regarded as a bottleneck, limiting processing efficiency, product quality, and industry advancement. In response to the challenges of improving separation accuracy and the inadequacy of existi...
Some natural rubber farmers mistakenly equate the ecological functions of rubber plantations with those of primary forests. This cognitive bias can hinder pesticide reduction efforts. Meanwhile, natural rubber farmers gain security through price insu...
This study aims to explore the effects of biochar ageing on its surface properties and the bioavailability of heavy metals in soil. The biochar was subjected to chemical oxidation/dry–wet cycles (CDWs), chemical oxidation/freeze–thaw cycl...
Türkiye is one of the first regions where olives were domesticated, and olives reflect the country’s millennia-old agricultural and cultural heritage. Moreover, Türkiye is one of the leading nations in olive and olive oil production i...
Today’s agriculture faces numerous challenges due to climate change, a growing population and the need to increase food productivity [...]
China’s agricultural green development exhibits spatial imbalances. To promote the coordinated green development of agriculture across various regions, this paper explores the evolution of spatial association networks and driving factors of agr...
Cultivated soybean is an important legume crop that is generally sensitive to flooding stress, including submergence and waterlogging treatments. Wild soybeans, the ancestor of cultivated soybeans, have been potential genetic resources for resistance...
More than 40% of the total oil palm area in Indonesia is owned and managed by smallholders. For large plantations, guidelines are available on so-called ‘best management practices’, which should give superior yields at acceptable costs wh...
Aiming at the problems of poor passability of a tracked chassis due to small plots, complicated road conditions and steep slopes during mechanized potato harvesting in hilly and mountainous areas. To design a potato combine harvester and take the tra...
Amidst escalating global populations and dwindling arable lands, enhancing agricultural productivity and sustainability is imperative. Addressing the inefficiencies of traditional agriculture, which struggles to meet the demands of large-scale produc...
With the development of agriculture, the complexity and dynamism of orchard environments pose challenges to the perception and positioning of inter-row environments for agricultural vehicles. This paper proposes a method for extracting navigation lin...
Acute shortage of water resources and high unproductive water losses are the key problems of irrigated agriculture in arid regions. One of the possible solutions is to optimize soil water retention using natural and synthetic polymer water absorbers....
The reclamation of post-mining land for agricultural purposes has continued to be a big challenge. Our study concerns the use of soil microfauna (nematodes) and mesofauna (mites and springtails) as indicators of soil quality after 6 years of agricult...
In urban forest management, individual street tree segmentation is a fundamental method to obtain tree phenotypes, which is especially critical. Most existing tree image segmentation models have been evaluated on smaller datasets and lack experimenta...
Wild mushrooms are popular for their taste and nutritional value; however, non-experts often struggle to distinguish between toxic and non-toxic species when foraging in the wild, potentially leading to poisoning incidents. To address this issue, thi...
The accumulation of cadmium (Cd) in agricultural soils presents a significant threat to crop safety, emphasizing the critical necessity for effective monitoring and management of soil Cd levels. Despite technological advancements, accurately monitori...
Compared to traditional manual methods for assessing the cotton verticillium wilt (CVW) hazard level, utilizing deep learning models for foliage segmentation can significantly improve the evaluation accuracy. However, instance segmentation methods fo...
To investigate effective techniques for estimating rice production in hilly and mountainous areas, in this study, we collected yield data at the field level, agro-meteorological data, and Sentinel-2/MSI remote sensing data in Chongqing, China, betwee...
Most studies about the effects of N addition on soil microbial biomass evaluate soil microbial and physicochemical characteristics using single-test methods, and these studies have not been integrated and analyzed to comprehensively assess the impact...
The existence of dead broilers in flat broiler houses poses significant challenges to large-scale and welfare-oriented broiler breeding. To ensure the timely identification and removal of dead broilers, a mobile device based on visual technology for...
Improving seed germination and seedling development can potentially increase crop yield and improve quality in direct-seeded rice. This study aimed to detect loci or genes associated with rice seed germination. We reported the phenotypic analysis of...
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