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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
483 Views
16 Pages

8 October 2025

The BRI1-EMS suppressor/Brassinazole-resistant (BES/BZR) transcription factors (TFs) act as regulators of the Brassinosteroid (BR) signaling pathway and play key roles in modulating plant growth, development, and abiotic stress tolerance. However, th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,030 Views
21 Pages

Monitoring of Farmland Abandonment Based on Google Earth Engine and Interpretable Machine Learning

  • Yameng Jiang,
  • Yefeng Jiang,
  • Xi Guo,
  • Zichun Guo,
  • Yingcong Ye,
  • Ji Huang and
  • Jia Liu

8 October 2025

In recent years, China’s hilly and mountainous areas have faced widespread farmland abandonment. However, research on farmland abandonment and its driving mechanisms in hilly and mountainous regions is limited. This study proposes a transferabl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
755 Views
22 Pages

A Farm-Scale Water Balance Assessment of Various Rice Irrigation Strategies Using a Bucket-Model Approach in Spain

  • Sílvia Cufí,
  • Gerard Arbat,
  • Jaume Pinsach,
  • Blanca Cuadrado-Alarcón,
  • Arianna Facchi,
  • Josep M. Villar,
  • Farida Dechmi and
  • Francisco Ramírez de Cartagena

7 October 2025

Making effective decisions about scaling up on-farm irrigation practices to the district level requires a comprehensive assessment of irrigation management at the farm level. In this context, a bucket-type water mass balance model was developed, cali...

  • Article
  • Open Access
652 Views
21 Pages

7 October 2025

The quality of seed pieces is crucial for potato planting. Each seed piece should contain viable potato eyes and maintain a uniform size for mechanized planting. However, existing intelligent methods are limited by a single view, making it difficult...

  • Article
  • Open Access
594 Views
21 Pages

SPMF-YOLO-Tracker: A Method for Quantifying Individual Activity Levels and Assessing Health in Newborn Piglets

  • Jingge Wei,
  • Yurong Tang,
  • Jinxin Chen,
  • Kelin Wang,
  • Peng Li,
  • Mingxia Shen and
  • Longshen Liu

7 October 2025

This study proposes a behavioral monitoring framework for newborn piglets based on SPMF-YOLO object detection and ByteTrack multi-object tracking, which enables precise quantification of early postnatal activity levels and health assessment. The meth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
521 Views
13 Pages

Quantification and Optimization of Straight-Line Attitude Control for Orchard Weeding Robots Using Adaptive Pure Pursuit

  • Weidong Jia,
  • Zhenlei Zhang,
  • Xiang Dong,
  • Mingxiong Ou,
  • Ronghua Gao,
  • Yunfei Wang,
  • Qizhi Yang and
  • Xiaowen Wang

7 October 2025

In automated orchard operations, the straight-line locomotion stability of ground-based weeding robots is critical for ensuring path coverage efficiency and operational reliability. To address the response lag and high-frequency oscillations often ob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
568 Views
17 Pages

Nitrogen and Potassium Fertilization Modulate Dalbulus maidis (HEMIPTERA: CICADELLIDAE) Abundance and Corn Stunt Disease Severity

  • Ademar Novais Istchuk,
  • Matheus Henrique Schwertner,
  • Matheus Luis Ferrari,
  • Luiz Henrique Marques and
  • Vanda Pietrowski

7 October 2025

Corn stunt complex, transmitted by the corn leafhopper (Dalbulus maidis), poses significant yield risks to corn production. This study evaluated the effects of two corn hybrids and top-dressed nitrogen (N) and potassium (K) fertilization on D. maidis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
736 Views
19 Pages

6 October 2025

Organic manure and grass mulching are widely recognized as modifiers of soil microbial communities and nutrient dynamics; however, the combined effects of these practices on nitrogen fractionation and microbial functionality in orchard ecosystems rem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
550 Views
22 Pages

Corn-Domesticated Bacteria Synergy Removes Pyrene and Enhances Crop Biomass: A Sustainable Farmland Remediation Strategy

  • Lu Gao,
  • Charles Obinwanne Okoye,
  • Feiyue Lou,
  • Bonaventure Chidi Ezenwanne,
  • Yanfang Wu,
  • Xunfeng Chen,
  • Yongli Wang,
  • Xia Li and
  • Jianxiong Jiang

6 October 2025

High-molecular-weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), such as pyrene, are persistent environmental pollutants that threaten soil health and agricultural productivity due to their resistance to degradation. This study evaluated the efficacy o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
603 Views
16 Pages

High Proportion of Blue Light Contributes to Product Quality and Resistance to Phytophthora Infestans in Tomato Seedlings

  • Chengyao Jiang,
  • Yue Ma,
  • Kexin Zhang,
  • Yu Song,
  • Zixi Liu,
  • Mengyao Li,
  • Yangxia Zheng,
  • Sang Ge,
  • Tonghua Pan and
  • Junhua Xie
  • + 1 author

6 October 2025

Plant seedlings are sensitive to cultivation environment factors and highly susceptible to pathogenic infections under adverse conditions such as inappropriate light environment. In this study, five kinds of LED lighting sources with different red (R...

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