Agriculture, Volume 16, Issue 10

Climate change and intensifying extreme weather events challenge plant adaptability, making the evaluation of adaptive potential imperative. This study aims to identify climatically stable habitats for Rhododendron dauricum, a nationally protected (C...

The amino acid composition of hazelnut seeds is a critical determinant of nutritional value and flavor. Understanding the biosynthesis mechanisms during seed development is essential for breeding functional varieties. In this study, we analyzed the s...

Cadmium (Cd) contamination in paddy soils threatens food security by accumulating in rice grains. This study aimed to elucidate Cd-accumulation mechanisms using major japonica cultivars from Liaoning Province, a key northern Chinese rice-producing re...

In southern China, Chinese milk vetch is used as green manure to substitute for inorganic nitrogen (N) fertilizers and improve soil fertility, but how different incorporation methods affect its decomposition and underlying microbial mechanisms is unc...

Climate change is intensifying the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, posing significant challenges to crop productivity and agroclimatic management in subtropical regions. However, quantitative insights into how different cropping sys...

Intensive pesticide application sustains global agriculture but poses poorly characterized risks to complex soil ecosystems. Here, we quantitatively evaluated pesticide residues and utilized high-resolution environmental DNA (eDNA) metagenomics to de...

Organic farming has gained increasing relevance worldwide due to its environmental benefits and its prominent role in sustainable food systems; however, the persistence of organic farms remains uneven across regions, particularly within the European...

This study investigates the impact of organic agriculture on farmers’ conservation behaviors, focusing on a sample of 816 households in the Chinese Crested Ibis habitats of Yang County, Shaanxi Province, China. Employing partial least squares s...

To improve grape target perception and picking-point positioning for intelligent harvesting robots, this study develops a vision-based method for orchard grape detection and harvesting-point localization. The method is intended to address missed dete...

Under grazing conditions, it is difficult for lactating Yili mares to meet their nutritional requirements and those of their suckling foals solely through the consumption of natural pasture. Furthermore, seasonal variations and rainfall significantly...

Soil surface roughness (SSR), referring to surface irregularities, is a key parameter for assessing soil condition and tillage outcomes. Characterizing roughness at fine scales—including clods and depressions—remains challenging for 2.5D...

Lentinula edodes (L. edodes) is a significant edible and medicinal mushroom with essential nutrient elements for its growth, including Fe²⁺, K⁺, and Mn²⁺. However, the molecular mechanisms by which these metal ions regulate the mycelial growth of L. ...

Weed–crop object detection in UAV field imagery faces several significant challenges, including a large proportion of small objects, dense occlusions, similar texture appearance, and strong background interference. These challenges often lead t...

Over the past two decades, extreme climate and weather events have become increasingly frequent in the United States, and the carbon–water cycle of corn ecosystems has shown high sensitivity to climate change. However, traditional simulation me...

Soils in cold seasonally frozen regions undergo repeated freeze–thaw (F–T) cycles, during which soil moisture content, pore structure, and permeability can change substantially. Previous studies have mainly focused on the mechanical behav...

Continuous potato cropping is usually associated with a reduction in tuber yield and deterioration in crop structure, resulting in a decrease in the proportion of marketable produce. The effect of crop rotation, cultivar selection, the range of chemi...

This study examines the associations of land temperature anomalies and energy-related CO₂ emissions per hectare with wheat and maize yields in Romania and Serbia during 1992–2023. Energy-related CO₂ emissions per hectare are used as a scale-adj...

Climate change is increasingly transforming agricultural systems globally, with its impacts borne disproportionately across regions owing to variations in adaptive capacity. This paper investigates how Climate Physical Risk (CPR) influences agricultu...

Accurate navigation line recognition in mature soybean fields presents significant challenges due to complex backgrounds. To address this issue, we developed an enhanced YOLOv10n-based model for robust visual navigation, and the assessment was conduc...

Dairy farms are complex environments where cattle, workers, and the farm environment interact, creating opportunities for infectious disease transmission across animal, human, and environmental interfaces. During the COVID-19 pandemic, little was kno...

This study addresses the challenge of detecting white grape bunches (Vitis vinifera L.) in high-density vineyard canopies, a critical task for precision viticulture and yield estimation. Traditional statistical and image-processing methods have strug...

Litter decomposition regulates the quantity and quality of plant-derived carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) inputs to soil and is closely associated with microbial community structure. However, how elevated ozone (O₃) and nitrogen (N) addition interactively...

In the field of smart plant protection, accurate early monitoring of winged aphids is critical, as it enables the interruption of viral disease transmission and reduces dependence on pesticides. In response to the core challenges of low efficiency in...

Under intensive farming systems, weaned piglets often face welfare challenges including food neophobia, reduced feed intake, and diarrhea. To address these issues, this study leverages the sow’s natural feeding behavior to guide piglets, enhanc...

Traditional methods for measuring rice yield are often labor-intensive, time-consuming, and difficult to implement at scale. Conversely, remote sensing-based yield prediction models typically exhibit limited applicability across diverse genetic mater...

To address soil degradation and pest accumulation in facility agriculture, this study developed an in situ soil-turning plow for deep soil inversion under spatially constrained greenhouse conditions. A reference plow surface was obtained by reverse e...

The Beijiang River Basin is an important ecological security protection area and water source supply area in Guangdong Province. This study assesses the spatiotemporal distribution characteristics of watershed water quality based on on-site monitorin...

Digital transformation and transparency in the seed supply chain are cornerstones of national food security and sustainable agricultural development. Existing agricultural traceability systems suffer from elevated storage overhead and performance deg...

To address the strong reliance on manual operations and the low efficiency of egg shape index (ESI) phenotyping in layer breeding, this study proposed an ESI measurement method based on an improved YOLOv12n-seg model. Ghost Bottleneck modules were in...

This study aims to quantify the response of sunflower root water uptake to stratified soil water and salinity stress. Based on field observations, the root water uptake function in the existing model was improved by developing a new equation for the...

Against the backdrop of intelligent and precision agriculture, mechanized harvesting of pulses is crucial for improving productivity and addressing the challenges posed by the changing agricultural workforce structure. However, the biological charact...

Plant viral diseases threaten the tomato agricultural industry. A smart decentralized diagnostic network was realized across the main Sicilian tomato-producing provinces for real-time detection/monitoring of Begomovirus solanumdelhiense (tomato leaf...

Ridge tillage (RC) has been proposed as a water-saving irrigation technique to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from paddy fields. To evaluate its effectiveness under cold-region climatic conditions, a two-year field experiment (2023–202...

Soil moisture monitoring is critical to agricultural production and water resource management, yet existing sensors often exhibit limitations in accuracy, cost-effectiveness, and long-term stability. This study aimed to develop a high-performance cap...

Acidified soils in greenhouse vegetable systems constrain crop production and soil ecological functions. This study investigated the effects of different amendment treatments on soil ecological factors in acidified soils under greenhouse spinach cult...

This study evaluated functional and proteomic changes in ram sperm during 48 h of liquid storage at 5 °C, comparing samples collected at two breeding-season stages (July and November). Semen from six Assaf rams was diluted in INRA 96^® and sto...

Fruit detection in orchard environments is often challenged by illumination variation, leaf occlusion, cluttered backgrounds, and dense distributions of small targets, which limit the robustness of visible-light detectors in practical applications. T...

As a major source of investment in Africa, the rapid growth of China’s Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Africa has exerted a profound influence on regional development and food security. Based on multinational panel data of African countries...

Agricultural green development (AGD) is usually evaluated by its average productivity and environmental effects, but its value may be more visible when crop production is exposed to severe growing-season climate stress. This study examines whether AG...

Nitrogen (N) is an essential macronutrient for plant growth. NIN–like protein (NLP) transcription factors play important roles in nitrate signaling and response in plants. However, a comprehensive analysis of the NLP gene family in sorghum is s...

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is a key source of bioactive compounds and essential minerals, but it also contains clinically relevant allergens. Despite growing concern about the effects of climate change on crop quality, the impact of heat stress...

To address the dual challenges of discriminating weeds from rice seedlings for precision weed management operations, such as targeted spraying and robotic weeding, in complex paddy-field scenes and deploying high-precision models on resource-limited...

In the context of sustainable agriculture and the need to reduce mineral nitrogen inputs, intercropping cereals with legumes is increasingly considered a promising strategy to enhance nutrient use efficiency and improve feed quality. However, the eff...

Agricultural total factor productivity (ATFP) serves as the core driver and a critical benchmark for high-quality agricultural development. Utilizing panel data from 31 Chinese provinces (2012–2023), this study examines the impact, mechanisms,...

Pu-erh tea residue (Ptr), an insoluble byproduct generated during the industrial production of ready-to-drink Pu-erh beverages, is often discarded as waste despite its substantial nutritional potential. To enhance its feed value, this study developed...

With the rapid expansion of avocado cultivation in southern Italy, growers have had to deal with the emergence of new diseases often caused by invasive and polyphagous pathogens responsible for leaf spot, branch cankers, dieback and fruit and root ro...

Object detection (OD) technology, which identifies and classifies objects in images and videos, has been widely adopted across various fields. However, implementing OD faces challenges, including image preprocessing, labeling, model development, and...

Farmland particulate pollution seriously affects regional atmospheric quality, and exploring efficient field dust control strategies is an urgent need for agricultural ecological protection. This study employed a wind tunnel and online dust monitorin...

This study focuses on developing a lightweight litchi maturity detection model for complex orchard environments. Maturity detection in orchards remains challenging due to variable illumination, dense fruit clustering, and subtle visual differences am...

Tomato leaf diseases seriously affect tomato production, and early image-based screening is important for assisted diagnosis under greenhouse or semi-controlled cultivation conditions. Traditional manual inspection methods are often inefficient and h...