2025 November-1 - 133 articles
Soybeans are of strategic importance to China, yet the country’s heavy reliance on imports leaves it highly exposed to policy and market disruptions. Existing studies have largely focused on the initial 2018 tariff episode, while the evolving i...
Multiplier onion (Allium cepa L. var. aggregatum) is an important bulbous vegetable widely utilized for culinary, condimental, and medicinal purposes. However, limited research on its genetic diversity and phenotypic variation has hindered the develo...
Coal-derived soil amendments have been shown to improve soil physicochemical properties and promote plant growth; however, their effects on rhizosphere microbial communities remain insufficiently understood. In this study, a comprehensive assessment...
Rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary) is one of the most cultivated Lamiaceae species because of its medicinal, aromatic and ornamental properties. In the late summer of 2023, symptoms of desiccation were observed in a rosemary field located in southern...
Understanding how organic amendments affect microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) and necromass C (MNC) is crucial for understanding soil organic C (SOC) formation and accrual in paddy fields, but the underlying mechanisms remain largely unclear. In...
This study aimed to characterize behavioral differences between true estrus (TE) and false estrus (FE) in cows using neck-mounted six-axis inertial measurement unit sensors to reduce false positives in automated detection systems. A retrospective ana...
To address the issue of existing automatic irrigation systems’ excessive reliance on electrical power and communication networks, a one-inlet, four-outlet Hydraulically Actuated Irrigation Control Valve (HAICV) was designed that operates based...
The European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH) network represents the EU’s first program for accelerating digital technology adoption by SMEs and public organizations. However, academic literature on EDIHs remains fragmented with notable sectoral i...
Automatic Section Control (ASC) promises to minimize spray overlap areas. The idea is to (i) switch off spray nozzles on areas that have already been sprayed, and (ii) to dynamically adjust nozzle flow rates along the boom bar that holds the spray no...
Plant pathogenic fungi pose a persistent global threat to food security, causing severe yield losses in staple crops and increasing dependence on chemical fungicides. However, the ecological and toxicological drawbacks of synthetic fungicides have in...
Pear trees, though self-pollinating, are self-incompatible and depend on insect pollination—primarily by honey bees. The optimal density of honey bee colonies per unit area in pear orchards remains uncertain, hindering scientific pollination ma...
Exploring the differentiated fallow compensation (FC) standards in different regions is of great significance for formulating and improving the mechanism of fallow compensation and ensuring the sustainability of policies. The groundwater overexploita...
Arsenic (As) contamination poses a major challenge to sustainable crop production, particularly in legumes such as peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.), where it disrupts growth, nodulation, and redox homeostasis. This study evaluated the potential of circul...
Accurate determination of soil and contact parameters is crucial for tillage machinery design; however, the interactions among soil, tools, and roots in citrus orchards covered with green manure remain insufficiently defined. This study, therefore, c...
Ensuring food safety in fresh-cut vegetables is essential due to the frequent presence of foreign material (FM) that threatens consumer health and product quality. This study presents a real-time FM detection system developed using the YOLO object de...
Considering the current prediction from the Food and Agriculture Organization, food production needs an increase of over 70 percent by 2050, and the agriculture sector requires a boost that is also obtained by integrating novelty technologies and met...
Weed management is always a challenge in crop production, exacerbated by the issue of herbicide resistance. Excessive herbicide application not only leads to the development of herbicide resistance weeds but also causes environmental problems. In pre...
With the aim of tuning the complexity of traditional image processing parameters, the automated extraction of spike phenotypes based on the fusion of YOLOv11 and image processing was proposed, with winter wheat in Lingcheng District, Dezhou City, Sha...
This study investigates meteorological factors’ effects on summer maize growth, agronomic traits and yield in northeastern Sichuan, China, under different sowing dates. A five-gradient sowing date experiment was conducted with three varieties f...
Different pollination methods can affect the development and quality of watermelon fruit. The physiological changes in the early development of watermelon after using different pollination methods are unclear. In this study, we focused on the effects...
Rice ranks among the most significant staple crops worldwide. Precise and dynamic monitoring of specific leaf area (SLA) provides essential information for evaluating rice growth and yield. While previous remote sensing studies on SLA estimation have...
In recent decades, the urban population of Ecuador has grown, increasing the need for wastewater sanitation in cities. Wastewater treatment in this country generates sewage sludge (SS), which is mainly deposited on land near wastewater treatment plan...
The pollination of kiwiberry flowers is closely related to fruit growth, development, and yield. Rapid and precise identification of flowers under natural field conditions plays a key role in enhancing pollination efficiency and improving overall fru...
This study compared serum immunological parameters, cytokines, intestinal permeability, fecal microbiota, and short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) between healthy and diarrheic suckling calves. Serum and facecal samples were analyzed using ELISA kits, 16S...
Livestock farm biosecurity is crucial for animal health and economic sustainability, however uneven adoption/implementation across diverse livestock species and production systems persists. To improve uptake of biosecurity, it is necessary to identif...
Wool traits such as fiber diameter, fiber length, and greasy fleece yield are economically significant characteristics in sheep breeding programs. Traditional genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified relevant genomic regions but often f...
The nutritional potential of Opuntia forage is limited by its low crude protein (CP) content. Urea supplementation enhances low-quality forages, but its application in Opuntia silage and its influence on ruminal degradability are limited. This study...
Soil moisture simulations in semi-arid inland river basins remain highly uncertain due to complex land–atmosphere interactions and multiple parameterization schemes in land surface models. This study evaluated the ability of the Noah-Multiparam...
Rural revitalization relies on both industrial upgrading and cultural reinvigoration. Tea-culture–tourism integration has been regarded as a potentially effective route for advancing rural revitalization, yet its interactive relationship and dy...
Accurate and reliable detection of rice diseases and pests is crucial for ensuring food security. However, traditional deep learning methods often suffer from high rates of missed and false detections when dealing with complex field environments, esp...
Innovation is central to the Zero Hunger agenda, yet its distributional links to agricultural performance and policy in Eastern Europe remain unclear. This study investigates whether national innovation performance, proxied by the Global Innovation I...
Carbon emissions from dairy farms have significantly hindered the advancement of sustainable agriculture, and improving carbon efficiency is a key pathway to mitigate these emissions. As a critical technological innovation, smart farming technology e...
This study examined the effects of dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma and copper oxide nanoparticles (CuO NPs) on rice seed quality, seedling growth, and fungal inhibition. Sanpatong 1 rice seeds were treated with DBD plasma at three exposure...
Nitrogen fertilization is essential for balancing maize yield, grain composition, and environmental sustainability. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between nitrogen (N) supply, grain quality traits, and yield potential using UAV-based N...
Cotton leaf mites are pests that cause irreparable damage to cotton and pose a severe threat to the cotton yield, and the application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to monitor the incidence of cotton leaf mites across a vast region is important f...
Regenerative agriculture (RA) is an alternative approach in combating climate change adaptation; however, its effective implementation at scale depends on the development and adoption of standardized metrics. The methodology of this systematic review...
This research evaluated the influence of lactic acid bacteria and cellulase, individually or in combination, on the quality of mixed amaranth and sweet potato vine silages. The experiment included four groups: control group with no additives addition...
The low fertility of plinthosols is a major constraint on agricultural production, largely due to the presence of plinthite, which restricts the availability of water and nutrients. This study aimed to simulate the growth and yield of grain maize on...
This study collected 427 cultivated topsoil samples from the Mohe watershed in Tangcheng County, eastern China. By integrating positive matrix factorization (PMF) for quantitative source apportionment with self-organizing maps (SOMs) for spatial clus...
Understanding how agricultural conservation practices influence soil and rhizosphere microbiomes is critical for advancing sustainable crop production and soil health. While Panicum virgatum L. (switchgrass) is widely used in conservation agriculture...
Machine learning-based digital soil mapping often struggles with spatial heterogeneity and long-range dependencies. To address these limitations, this study proposes Multi-Attention Convolutional Neural Networks (MACNN). This deep learning algorithm...
Increasing the yield per unit area is crucial for achieving stable growth in China’s cotton production. Based on the transcendental logarithmic production function model and using panel data from eight major cotton-producing provinces in China...
Tea Anthracnose (TA), caused by fungi of the genus Colletotrichum, is one of the major threats to global tea production. UAV remote sensing has been explored for non-destructive and high-efficiency monitoring of diseases in tea plantations. However,...
Plant surface electrical signals are key representations for non-destructive monitoring of changes in cell membrane potential, enabling real-time reflection of physiological responses and regulatory processes under external stimuli. However, the low-...
Quantitative estimation of rapeseed yield is important for precision crop management and sustainable agricultural development. Traditional manual measurements are inefficient and destructive, making them unsuitable for large-scale applications. This...
The development of grapevine varieties combining powdery mildew (Erysiphe necator) resistance with acceptable wine quality represents an important goal for sustainable viticulture. This study evaluated the oenological potential of five advanced breed...
Wheat powdery mildew poses a serious threat to crop growth and yield, highlighting the critical need for accurate detection to ensure food security and maintain agricultural productivity. This study explores the integration of polarization remote sen...
Improving the well-being of rural residents remains a major policy challenge in developing countries. Previous studies have largely neglected the role of village leadership in influencing residents’ well-being. This study addresses this gap by...
Context: For decades, maize monoculture practices dominated Northeast China, causing significant damage to the local soil and ecological environment. Crop rotation has, in recent years, been promoted as an environmentally friendly and sustainable tec...
Strawberry picking relies primarily on manual labor, making it the most labor-intensive stage in strawberry cultivation. Harvesting robots have become essential for strawberry production, and fruit ripeness detection models are critical for picking o...
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