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Agriculture, Volume 15, Issue 21

November-1 2025 - 133 articles

Cover Story: Bacteriophage-based strategies hold great promise for improving post-harvest disease management. But bacterial resistance, regulatory hurdles, and commercial production complexities remain key barriers to large-scale adoption. Phage viability in storage and the field has increased thanks to developments in formulation technologies, such as encapsulation and stabilization. To fully realize the potential of bacteriophage applications, future efforts should focus on enhancing phage stability, optimizing their integration into post-harvest treatment systems, and addressing safety and regulatory concerns. The integration of various microbial biocontrol agents, including PGPR and exopolysaccharide-producing bacteria, supports the development of resilient agroecosystems and complements the use of bacteriophages in sustainable plant protection. View this paper
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Articles (133)

  • Article
  • Open Access
397 Views
11 Pages

How Much Area of a Pear Orchard Can One Honey Bee Colony Pollinate?

  • Xinying Qu,
  • Xinru Zhang,
  • Rongshen Wang,
  • Yuesen Wang,
  • Qingfang Cheng,
  • Yaxiong Xu,
  • Lingjun Xin,
  • Hanbing Lu and
  • Xiao Chen

5 November 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
361 Views
18 Pages

4 November 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
316 Views
26 Pages

Enhancing Peanut Crop Quality Under Arsenic Stress Through Agronomic Amendments

  • Soledad Martos,
  • Mengchen Ye,
  • Antonio Riofrío,
  • Roser Tolrà and
  • Eliana Bianucci

4 November 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
339 Views
29 Pages

Characterization of Citrus Orchard Soil Improved by Green Manure Using the Discrete Element Method

  • Chen Ma,
  • Liewang Cao,
  • Jian Zhang,
  • Gaozhen Liang,
  • Chengsong Li,
  • Chunlei Wang and
  • Lihong Wang

4 November 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
773 Views
26 Pages

Development of an Intelligent Inspection System Based on YOLOv7 for Real-Time Detection of Foreign Materials in Fresh-Cut Vegetables

  • Hary Kurniawan,
  • Muhammad Akbar Andi Arief,
  • Braja Manggala,
  • Hangi Kim,
  • Sangjun Lee,
  • Moon S. Kim,
  • Insuck Baek and
  • Byoung-Kwan Cho

4 November 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
665 Views
32 Pages

4 November 2025

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...

  • Review
  • Open Access
884 Views
23 Pages

4 November 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
372 Views
23 Pages

Research on Wheat Spike Phenotype Extraction Based on YOLOv11 and Image Processing

  • Xuanxuan Li,
  • Zhenghui Zhang,
  • Jiayu Wang,
  • Lining Liu and
  • Pingzeng Liu

4 November 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
466 Views
16 Pages

3 November 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
587 Views
22 Pages

Effect of Pollination Methods on Fruit Development in Greenhouse Watermelon: Physiological and Molecular Perspectives

  • Wenqin Wu,
  • Weihua Ma,
  • Lixin Li,
  • Jia Lei,
  • Huailei Song,
  • Haiying Zhi and
  • Jinshan Shen

3 November 2025

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...

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Agriculture - ISSN 2077-0472