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Agriculture, Volume 15, Issue 19

October-1 2025 - 110 articles

Cover Story: Sustaining wheat yield potential is vital for global food security, yet pest management faces increasing challenges from climate change and evolving agronomic practices. Intensive fertilizer and pesticide use, along with continuous rice–wheat monoculture, have disrupted ecological balances, intensifying pest outbreaks in North India. The potato aphid, once limited to solanaceous crops, now infests wheat due to climatic shifts. Zero tillage and residue retention in wheat have created favorable conditions for pink stem borer carryover from rice and earlier armyworm infestations supported by larval survival within rice straw residues. This review highlights adaptive IPM strategies integrating ecological insight and improved agronomic practices to strengthen wheat agroecosystem resilience under changing environments. View this paper
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Articles (110)

  • Article
  • Open Access
515 Views
24 Pages

A Semi-Automatic and Visual Leaf Area Measurement System Integrating Hough Transform and Gaussian Level-Set Method

  • Linjuan Wang,
  • Chengyi Hao,
  • Xiaoying Zhang,
  • Wenfeng Guo,
  • Zhifang Bi,
  • Zhaoqing Lan,
  • Lili Zhang and
  • Yuanhuai Han

9 October 2025

Accurate leaf area measurement is essential for plant growth monitoring and ecological research; however, it is often challenged by perspective distortion and color inconsistencies resulting from variations in shooting conditions and plant status. To...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,627 Views
45 Pages

9 October 2025

Food industry generates substantial waste, raising economic and environmental concerns. Green Chemistry (GC) highlights the extraction of nutritional and bioactive compounds as a key strategy for waste valorization, driving interest in sustainable me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
533 Views
15 Pages

9 October 2025

As the development of electric tractors progresses, battery systems have become a key component, accounting for a significant portion of the vehicle’s total weight. With rollover accidents remaining a leading cause of fatal injuries in agricult...

  • Article
  • Open Access
412 Views
23 Pages

Stratified Nitrogen Application Enhances Subsoil Carbon Sequestration via Enzyme-Mediated Pathways in Straw-Incorporated Croplands of North China Plain

  • Bin Wang,
  • Yanqun Wang,
  • Jingyu Li,
  • Rui Hou,
  • Yulong Liu,
  • Xin Fu,
  • Jie Men,
  • Yingchun Li and
  • Zhengping Peng

9 October 2025

Nitrogen (N) fertilization critically regulates the storage and availability of soil carbon (C) and N pools. However, the internal mechanism through which stratified N application affects soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration and soil quality index...

  • Article
  • Open Access
619 Views
21 Pages

Effects of Different Operation Years of Photovoltaic Power Stations on Vegetation and Soil Characteristics in Temperate Deserts

  • Yaoxin Yu,
  • Tao Chen,
  • Shijun Ma,
  • Ya Tian,
  • Qing Li,
  • Zhaoshan Cai,
  • Lijun Zhao,
  • Xiaoni Liu,
  • Jianhua Xiao and
  • Yafei Shi

9 October 2025

The rapid expansion of photovoltaic installations in arid and semi-arid regions has altered regional water–heat regimes, triggering complex responses in vegetation recovery and soil processes. However, systematic assessments of ecological resto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
643 Views
10 Pages

Potential of Native Entomopathogenic Nematodes (Steinernematidae) as Biological Control Agents of Tetranychus urticae Koch

  • Dorota Tumialis,
  • Lidia Florczak,
  • Julia Dylewska,
  • Magdalena Jakubowska,
  • Jolanta Kowalska and
  • Anna Mazurkiewicz

9 October 2025

The two-spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae Koch) (Acari: Tetranychidae) is one of the most widespread and destructive phytophagous mite species, occurring across all climatic zones worldwide. Currently, the control of spider mites in crop prote...

  • Article
  • Open Access
681 Views
22 Pages

Lightweight Deep Learning for Real-Time Cotton Monitoring: UAV-Based Defoliation and Boll-Opening Rate Assessment

  • Minghui Xia,
  • Xuegeng Chen,
  • Xinliang Tian,
  • Haojun Wen,
  • Yan Zhao,
  • Hongxia Liu,
  • Wei Liu and
  • Yuchen Zheng

8 October 2025

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery provides an efficient approach for monitoring cotton defoliation and boll-opening rates. Deep learning, particularly convolutional neural networks (CNNs), has been widely applied in image processing and agricultu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
508 Views
28 Pages

Optimising Rice Straw Bale Quality Through Vibration-Assisted Compression

  • Fudong Xu,
  • Wenlong Xu,
  • Changsu Xu,
  • Jinwu Wang and
  • Han Tang

8 October 2025

This study focuses on enhancing the comprehensive utilisation of rice straw by proposing a vibration-assisted compression technology, with the aim of resolving inherent issues in traditional baling, such as uneven compression and low density. This st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
578 Views
24 Pages

Lightweight SCC-YOLO for Winter Jujube Detection and 3D Localization with Cross-Platform Deployment Evaluation

  • Meng Zhou,
  • Yaohua Hu,
  • Anxiang Huang,
  • Yiwen Chen,
  • Xing Tong,
  • Mengfei Liu and
  • Yunxiao Pan

8 October 2025

Harvesting winter jujubes is a key step in production, yet traditional manual approaches are labor-intensive and inefficient. To overcome these challenges, we propose SCC-YOLO, a lightweight method for winter jujube detection, 3D localization, and cr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
560 Views
15 Pages

The Effect of Native Strain-Based Biofertilizer with TiO2, ZnO, FexOx, and Ag NPs on Wheat Yield (Triticum durum Desf.)

  • Andrés Torres-Gómez,
  • Cesar R. Sarabia-Castillo,
  • René Juárez-Altamirano and
  • Fabián Fernández-Luqueño

8 October 2025

This study evaluated the effects of applying a biofertilizer, alone and in combination with nanoparticles (NPs), under controlled greenhouse conditions to improve soil quality and wheat performance (soil from the region of General Cepeda, Coahuila, M...

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