2026 August-1 - 122 articles
Improper disposal of coffee-processing by-products can cause environmental pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and resource loss, whereas their reuse in coffee plantations may support sustainable production. This review systematically examines the m...
The Loess Plateau is a typical dryland agricultural region where water scarcity constrains crop production. Plastic film mulching is widely used to mitigate this limitation, but its long-term application has caused soil degradation and environmental...
Saudi Arabia’s Arabica coffee is produced almost entirely by smallholder farmers. Although the local production meets only a small share of national consumption, the sector has expanded substantially in recent years under national development i...
Investigating the dynamic interplay between population shrinkage and water resource carrying capacity holds critical implications for safeguarding national food security and ecological resilience. This study systematically examines the underlying mec...
Against the backdrop of increasing global food security pressures and tightening resource–environment constraints, enhancing grain production efficiency has become a focal international concern. Based on panel data from 16 cities in Shandong Pr...
Early and accurate plant disease detection is essential for reducing crop losses and supporting sustainable agricultural management. Although deep learning-based approaches have achieved strong performance in plant disease analysis, many existing mod...
Elucidating the multi-scale driving mechanisms of the spatiotemporal distribution of soil pH is critical for regional soil ecological regulation and the preservation of cultivated land fertility. However, systematic elucidation of the multi-scale dri...
Reliable perception of young apple fruits in natural orchards is a prerequisite for automated thinning and intelligent orchard management, yet remains difficult in real field conditions due to small fruit size, dense distribution, branch–leaf o...
Early-stage alfalfa navigation faces challenges like low plants, narrow rows, and weed interference, causing camera–LiDAR colored point clouds to suffer from sparsity, discontinuous boundaries, and varying illumination. Standard point-level sem...
The compensation a farmer requires to reduce fertilizer use reflects the behavioral factors behind the decision to participate. This study examines how they are associated with compensation expectations, and whether these associations differ across o...
In the realm of precision agriculture, agricultural UAV path planning is challenging because the UAV must avoid obstacles, follow uneven terrain, and satisfy multiple flight constraints simultaneously. Differential evolution (DE) has been widely adop...
Anthracnose of American ginseng is caused by Colletotrichum panacicola. In this study, Bacillus velezensis B313-6, isolated from the rhizosphere soil of American ginseng, was identified based on morphological, physiological, biochemical, 16S rRNA, an...
Panax ginseng is an economically important medicinal plant, and the biosynthetic regulatory network of ginsenosides, its core bioactive constituents, is extremely complex. Fasciclin-like arabinogalactan proteins (FLAs) are a class of glycoproteins wi...
High-temperature stress severely restricts plant growth and development by inducing oxidative damage and photosynthetic inhibition. Allene oxide synthase (AOS) is a key enzyme in jasmonic acid (JA) biosynthesis, yet its role in the high-temperature s...
Winter fallow fields are widely distributed in southern China, where legume–grass mixtures are considered a useful approach for improving land-use efficiency and forage productivity while maintaining agroecosystem functions. Previous studies on...
Anaerobic digestion (AD) plays a key role in the circular bioeconomy by converting organic waste into renewable energy and facilitating the sustainable utilisation of waste materials. Agricultural and agro-industrial by-products are increasingly reco...
To address inaccurate weed segmentation under crop overlap, occlusion, and complex field backgrounds, this study developed a combined method integrating DViT-YOLOv8-seg with confidence-guided SLIC voting. The dataset contained 1872 field images (800...
To address uneven temperature and relative humidity distributions, localized heat accumulation, and insufficient air velocity in an enclosed stacked-cage laying hen house, a three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of the laying hen...
Crops cultivated on trellis systems, such as kiwifruit, grapes, et al., create a partially structured workspace; this environment is highly suitable for Cartesian robotic harvesting. However, limited extension range of current Cartesian manipulators...
Uncaria rhynchophylla is an important medicinal plant widely used for treating neurological and cardiovascular diseases. However, current utilization primarily focuses on its hooked stems (Uncariae Ramulus cum Uncis), while its by-products remain und...
Climate change presents significant challenges for smallholder dairy farmers, especially in developing countries where production relies heavily on natural resources. This study examined factors linked to climate change adaptation among smallholder d...
Excessive use of chemical fertilizers degrades soil health and threatens sustainable crop production, which can be mitigated by partially substituting chemical fertilizers with Chinese milk vetch (Astragalus sinicus L., MV, as green manure). However,...
Accurate short-term agricultural commodity price forecasting is important for market monitoring, procurement planning, inventory management, and price–risk awareness. This study develops a data-driven forecasting framework, namely CMACS–A...
This paper systematically reviews the emerging field of smart urban agriculture, defined as the integration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) into food production practices within and around built-up urban areas. Although urban agr...
Adequate nutrition is essential for honey bee colony development and may influence pollination services provided to agricultural crops. In contrast, fungicides commonly used in agriculture have been associated with physiological and behavioral altera...
Exceptionally, this space is now dedicated to a tribute to Prof. Dr. Danilo Florentino Pereira (in memoriam), who passed away on 30 May 2026, during the organization period for the Special Issue “Application of Antimicrobial Peptides and Natura...
The natural disasters caused by climate change are increasingly threatening the livelihood sustainability of rural households. How to enhance the adaptability of farmers has become a major issue that urgently needs to be addressed in rural developmen...
Coffee leaf diseases impair photosynthesis, thereby degrading the chemical composition and flavor quality of coffee beans. However, these resulting quality defects are often not visible from the appearance of green beans alone, compelling e-commerce...
Understanding how the spatiotemporal variability of precipitation affects ecosystem respiration (RE) is central to carbon–climate feedback in climate-smart agriculture, yet remains unresolved for the alpine agricultural region of the southern Q...
Continuous monoculture alters rhizosphere soil conditions and microbial community structure, but the integrated soil biochemical, microbial, and metabolomic responses of pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) rhizosphere soils remain insufficiently characterize...
Caffeic acid O-methyltransferase (COMT) serves as a crucial rate-limiting enzyme within the melatonin biosynthesis pathway and is involved in various primary and secondary metabolic processes, significantly contributing to plant growth, development,...
Developing context-specific drought regionalization is crucial for targeted risk management, as drought evolves as a cascading hazard driven by complex land–atmosphere interactions rather than isolated climatic anomalies. However, conventional...
Soil types vary considerably and sowing dates are generally delayed for wheat production in the Yangtze–Huaihe River Basin. To identify the differential yield responses to increased basic seedling density in late-sown wheat under different soil...
Organic manure application is considered an effective strategy for enhancing soil fertility and increasing carbon sequestration in saline-sodic soil. The contribution of manure-derived soil organic carbon (SOC) under long-term application remains unc...
Lycium barbarum L. is a characteristic agricultural crop in Ningxia. Powdery mildew is a serious fungal disease affecting Lycium barbarum. Resistance analysis of Lycium barbarum varieties is rarely reported, and comparative information on field resis...
Diameter at breast height (DBH) is a crucial indicator for obtaining tree phenotypes in orchard management, plantation monitoring, and agroforestry systems. LiDAR technology has high measurement accuracy, but it is costly and difficult to deploy flex...
Kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus L.) is a warm-season fiber crop with high biomass potential, but breeding is limited by susceptibility to root-knot nematodes and ploidy barriers that hinder hybridization with resistant tetraploid relatives such as H. acet...
MicroRNAs play crucial roles in plant growth, development, and disease resistance. Transcriptome screening previously identified three late blight-responsive miRNAs (sly-miR172a, sly-miR156e, and sly-miR395a) in tomato whose biological functions rema...
Biofertilizers are often presented as a more ecological alternative that allows for the utilization of agricultural residues and reduces dependence on chemical fertilizers. This study uses the life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology to analyze the en...
Silk-processing technologies play a critical role in supporting rural livelihoods and bio-based production systems across the Global South. However, many prevailing technological trajectories remain poorly aligned with the operational realities of sm...
Rotary tillage–seeding combined operations require stable power take-off (PTO) speed during rotary tillage and accurate tracking of the prescribed travel speed for seeding. Existing energy management strategies for hybrid electric tractors main...
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, UAV remote sensing, and agricultural Internet of Things technologies, crop growth monitoring is evolving from manual inspection and single-source analysis toward intelligent decision-making based...
Greenhouse strawberry production has rapidly increased around the world, since greenhouse production allows for protection from adverse weather events and optimized climate control. During the winter months, supplemental electric lighting is essentia...
National dairy sustainability monitoring requires indicators that are scientifically defensible, policy-relevant, and feasible to construct from recurrent agricultural surveys. The aim of this study was to construct, interpret, and evaluate a nationa...
Mixed crop–livestock systems remain central to sustainable intensification because they reconnect feed, biomass, soil cover, livestock productivity, and household livelihoods. However, forage integration benefits are neither automatic nor unifo...
Sex-related differences in lipid metabolism and oxidative stress are recognized as important modulators of cardiovascular physiology, but they are still insufficiently explored in large animal models. This study examined the influence of sex and gona...
This study characterized lipid accumulation in force-fed mule duck foie gras (fatty liver) and evaluated its association with hepatic physiological status. Thirty-six healthy male mule ducks (67 ± 2 days of age) were randomly assigned to a con...
This study evaluates the environmental sustainability of conventional and organic rice production systems in Nakorn Nayok province, Thailand, focusing on the Khao Dawk Mali 105 variety. Limited studies have evaluated comparative production systems, a...
The production of olive oil inherently involves the handling of various oily fluids which, depending on the stage of the process, may contain impurities capable of affecting the physicochemical and sensory properties of the final product. Considering...
The placement of lactating sows in farrowing crates restricts movement and may limit the expression of species-specific behaviour. This study investigated physiological and behavioural responses of sows in loose-housed farrowing systems with temporar...
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