2026 March-1 - 139 articles
This study investigated the relationship between Subsoil Geological Structure (SSGS) and the yield, berry composition, and wine attributes of Merlot grapevines in a mountainous region. The research found significant differences in vine physiology, yi...
There is a growing demand for sustainable crop strategies that reduce the use of agrochemicals while improving productivity. This study investigates distillation residues of Salvia rosmarinus to develop a novel biostimulant with enhanced antifungal a...
Cool-season (C3) forage grasses are a cornerstone of temperate grassland systems, where improving productivity, nutritive value, and stress resilience is essential for sustainable forage production. In this context, plant growth-promoting microorgani...
The brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stål), is an invasive pest that increasingly threatens apple production in Europe by causing fruit damage, yield losses, and quality deterioration under commercial orchard conditions. This stud...
Artificial intelligence (AI)-supported agricultural disease detection has become increasingly important for addressing global food security challenges. In this study, a hybrid meta-heuristic optimization-based feature selection approach is proposed f...
Soil aggregates and organic carbon are core elements in efforts to improve soil fertility, and this role is particularly pronounced in sandy soils of northwestern China. Based on a four-year consecutive field positioning experiment, this study invest...
This study addresses the challenges of coordinating spatio-temporal water allocation to optimize water productivity and reduce carbon emissions in water resource management, particularly the lack of high-resolution, integrated optimization frameworks...
Deep learning-based sheep face recognition technology significantly enhances the automation of individual sheep identification, providing critical technical support for smart livestock farming and precision agriculture. However, in real farming envir...
In reclaimed and poorly drained soils, combined salinity–waterlogging stress markedly inhibits the early vegetative growth of maize. In this study, maize seedlings at 12 days after sowing (DAS) were subjected to combined stress by immersing the...
The combination of ammonia and steam explosion pretreatment has shown significant potential to enhance protein yield during the solid-state fermentation (SSF) of rice straw. However, the complex interactions between physicochemical changes and fermen...
Position-Based Visual Servoing (PBVS) and Image-Based Visual Servoing (IBVS) struggle to balance end effector pose accuracy and robustness in apple picking. They are also prone to target loss and control singularities. A progressive Hybrid Automatic...
This paper presents the design of a high-efficiency apple harvesting robot based on a hybrid pneumatic-electric drive system, capable of operating around the clock. The robotic system comprises a mobile platform with two degrees of freedom (DOF) and...
China’s agricultural modernization hinges on integrating smallholder farmers into modern production systems, yet incomplete rural factor markets and endowment constraints hinder this transition. This study examines how capital, labor, and land...
To address the complex dynamic mechanisms and lack of static operation data in trench-digging for transverse planting of Salix psammophila sand barriers, a transverse trench-digging device was designed. Based on the discrete element method, the Hertz...
This study examined associations between two strip-cropping innovations, cereal–legume (Mbili-Mbili) and legume–legume (doubled-up legume, DUL), and intra-household decision-making, labor allocation, and control over production benefits a...
Accurate assessment of cotton emergence rates is essential for precision agriculture management, and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery provides a scalable means for field-level monitoring. However, cotton seedling detection from UAV images faces...
In the cold and cool region of northeastern China, low temperature and limited soil moisture retention constrain maize yield, and mulching is widely used to alleviate these limitations. To reduce the environmental risks associated with polyethylene (...
Weed control is crucial for safeguarding the yield and quality of fresh maize. To achieve comprehensive, low-damage removal of weeds in fresh maize fields, an intelligent mechanical weeding system was developed. Based on the spatial distribution of m...
Moisture content varies continuously during aerobic composting, which changes material flowability and can limit the use of a single set of discrete element method (DEM) parameters. To address this issue for a multi-component corn straw–pig man...
Cenchrus fungigraminus is a high-yielding forage material, but due to its relatively high lignin content and low carbohydrate content, its current feed utilization primarily relies on silage methods. However, current research on C. fungigraminus sila...
Plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) represent a sustainable alternative to synthetic inputs in horticultural systems; however, their bioprospecting is hindered by the absence of integrative, performance-oriented selection strategies. In this study...
The date palm Phoenix dactylifera L. is an essential desert food crop. A study was conducted for two years to determine Khalas palm variety yield response to different irrigation regimes. Bubbler system (BS) and enhanced subsurface stonewool drip sys...
Globally, diverse agricultural production strategies have been implemented to address the impacts of climate change, with sustainable farming models emerging as key approaches, particularly in regions affected by environmental degradation. Latin Amer...
Phosphogypsum (PG) has the potential to elevate phosphorus levels in compost; however, it may also retard the composting maturation process, and its underlying mechanism for phosphorus activation remains unclear. In this study, sawdust was mixed with...
Most 2D human pose estimation frameworks utilize static designs for multi-scale feature fusion, where information from various scales is integrated using fixed weights. A drawback of these approaches is that they often lead to localization biases in...
The present study highlights the genetic relationships among 52 grapevine varieties, including traditional and newly developed Romanian varieties and international reference cultivars, held in a small didactic ampelographic collection in Iaşi, R...
Oilseed production in the Canadian Prairies is highly sensitive to interacting climatic, soil, and landscape constraints, which has important implications for long-term agricultural sustainability under climate change. Canola and flax are economicall...
Agriculture contributes 23% of global carbon emissions, with crop cultivation now exceeding livestock as China’s primary emission source, yet how cropping structure evolution drives regional differentiation remains insufficiently quantified. Th...
To meet consumer demand for high-quality fruit and replace traditional subjective assessment methods, there is a growing interest in objective, quantitative, and non-destructive testing techniques within the agricultural and food industries. This stu...
This study aims to systematically compare the key nutritional and flavor characteristics of three distinct onion materials: the novel taste-type cultivar ‘Baiyu’, the pink-skinned cultivar ‘Qinhongbao’, and the conventional ye...
Biological control (biocontrol), the use of living organisms to suppress pest populations, has become a cornerstone of sustainable agriculture and a core component of integrated pest management (IPM), offering a vital alternative to over-reliance on...
To address the problems of high labor intensity, high production cost, low efficiency, and unevenness in the manual seed dressing process of cut potatoes, as well as the poor quality and easy damage caused by the poor adaptability of existing seed dr...
Aiming at the problems of inter-row straw congestion, soil accumulation, and consequent uneven seeding depth during high-speed sowing with narrow row spacing under the summer maize no-tillage sowing mode in the Huang-Huai-Hai region, this study propo...
Slaughter performance is a critical economic trait that varies across breeds, yet the rumen metabolic mechanisms driving these phenotypic differences remain unclear. The study involved 30 healthy 12-month-old beef cattle, with 10 animals from each of...
To address re-siltation from the secondary deposition of grass residues and the challenge of collecting residues after the slope mowing of farmland irrigation canals, as well as the precise maintenance requirements of “controlling grass without...
The Ralstonia solanacearum species complex (RSSC) is a globally significant plant pathogenic bacterium. Given the lack of effective chemical controls, phage therapy has emerged as a promising biocontrol alternative. While combining phages with antibi...
Hosta ‘So Sweet’, a shade-tolerant Asparagaceae species, displays remarkable high-light tolerance in open-field full-sun cultivation without photoinhibition symptoms. To clarify its growing-season photosynthetic dynamics and adaptive stra...
The widespread occurrence of emerging mycotoxins (EMs) produced by Fusarium, Aspergillus, and Penicillium species has raised increasing concerns regarding food and feed safety. Mitigation strategies currently applied to control regulated mycotoxins i...
Water scarcity, poor soil, and low water and fertilizer utilization are major challenges on agricultural production in the tableland region of China’s Loess Plateau. Optimizing tillage patterns and improving soil nutrient status can improve cro...
Regional production-consumption imbalances and deficient multimodal connectivity in grain circulation systems have rendered traditional segmented transport inefficient, loss-intensive, and costly, constraining overall supply chain performance. In Chi...
Greenhouse melon harvesting is challenged by leaf occlusion and dense clustering, which often lead to unsafe harvesting attempts in conventional detection-only systems. To prioritize operational safety, this study proposes the Risk-Gated Harvestabili...
Precise spatiotemporal monitoring of soil moisture is fundamental to the efficient regulation and sustainable utilization of agricultural water resources in arid and semi-arid irrigation districts. This study focuses on the Yichang Irrigation Distric...
Agricultural soil Cd (Cd) pollution threatens global food safety. Based on a meta-analysis of 55 global studies involving 464 maize cultivars, this research systematically elucidates the potential of maize for safe production and remediation in cadmi...
Aeroponic cultivation can enhance resource-use efficiency, yet field-scale evidence for closed-loop water recycling remains limited. This study assessed a multi-tier aeroponic system for Pak choi, Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis, integrated with a rec...
Agri-food supply chains (AFSCs) lose approximately 1.3 billion tons of food annually, posing a major challenge to environmental sustainability. Logistics deficiencies are widely recognized as key drivers of postharvest losses. However, most studies e...
In the post-antibiotic era, postbiotics and phytogenic additives such as essential oils compounds combination (PBEO) has emerged as a sustainable alternative to enhance poultry productivity. This study investigated the synergistic effects of this nov...
UAV-based rice direct seeding offers high operational efficiency and reduced labor demand, yet seed distribution uniformity remains a major limitation for centrifugal spreading devices. This study aims to design and optimize a novel centrifugal drone...
Silage additives formulated with lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are commonly applied to enhance fermentation efficiency and aerobic stability. However, comparative evaluations across different forage species are still scarce. This in vitro experiment ass...
The advent of smart farms, enabled by information and communication technologies (ICT) and the Internet of Things (IoT), has improved productivity and sustainable agriculture. However, the large-scale implementation of smart farms is currently hamper...
Efficient vibration based walnut harvesting relies on the accurate determination of clamping-points on tree trunks. Properly selected clamping points can significantly enhance vibration transmission efficiency while minimizing mechanical damage to tr...
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