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This study investigated the regulatory effects of Bacillus cereus S1 combined with cinnamaldehyde on microbial community dynamics, forage nutritional quality, and virulence-gene-associated molecular risks during the aerobic storage of alfalfa hay wit...

To address the challenge of synergistically mitigating multiple constraints—structure, nutrients, and microorganisms—in newly reclaimed farmland, and to comprehensively improve soil quality and crop productivity, a field experiment was co...

Powdery mildew, caused by Blumeria graminis, is a major foliar disease of winter wheat, and its development depends closely on weather and spore count. This exploratory study combines spore counts measured with a portable impactor-type spore trap wit...

Nitrogen application rate and topping are two key agronomic factors affecting tobacco leaf quality, but the synergistic regulatory mechanisms remain unclear. This study aimed to elucidate the physiological and molecular mechanisms by which nitrogen a...

Warm-season greenhouse crops such as tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) and paprika (Capsicum annuum L.) require nutrient supply strategies that respond dynamically to temperature, solar radiation, vapor pressure deficit (VPD), root zone water status,...

Accurate detection of Camellia oleifera fruits in natural orchards is essential for automated harvesting and yield-related phenotyping but is challenged by small fruit size, dense distribution, foliage occlusion, and fruit–leaf similarity. To a...

Water scarcity increasingly restricts conventional annual winter irrigation in cotton production systems of southern Xinjiang, yet the consequences of reducing winter irrigation frequency for soil properties, microbial communities, and crop establish...

Meloidogyne paranaensis is widespread in Brazil’s main coffee-growing regions, reducing productivity and potentially causing plant death. Defective black-green-sour (BGS) coffee beans are an abundant source of bioactive compounds capable of act...

Reliable segmentation of cherry tomato peduncles is difficult in greenhouse harvesting because peduncles are slender, occupy few pixels, resemble shoots and petioles, and are frequently occluded by clustered fruit. This study presents a peduncle-awar...

Sensor-based environmental monitoring provides the real-time measurements required to support quality-oriented management in greenhouse tomato production. Although sensing does not directly alter fruit physiology, sensor-derived information can guide...

Selenium biofortification of permanent grasslands represents a promising strategy for enhancing the nutritional quality of forage for livestock. This study evaluated the effectiveness of foliar selenium biofortification in multispecies grass–le...

Konjac (Amorphophallus muelleri) is widely cultivated in southwest China because of its high glucomannan content. Southern blight, caused by Athelia rolfsii (Ar), is one of the most devastating fungal diseases affecting konjac growth and development,...

Tuber initiation is the window through which climate pressure reaches potato yield. The tuberigen SELF-PRUNING 6A (StSP6A) is leaf-derived and phloem-mobile. Reviews of stress are organised by stress type, not by the step at which interruption occurs...

Fruit quality is jointly influenced by preharvest growing conditions, harvest status, and postharvest storage environments, whereas existing approaches generally focus on individual stages and therefore remain limited in simultaneously supporting cro...

In agricultural disease images, lesions often exhibit large-scale variations, irregular shapes, gradual boundary transitions, and high texture similarity to surrounding backgrounds. These characteristics make models prone to insufficient lesion-body...

To elucidate the leaf rust resistance and distribution of Lr genes in major wheat-producing regions of China, 48 common wheat cultivars newly registered at the national level between 2020 and 2022 were phenotyped via multi-race field resistance assay...

To improve berry quality and reduce cadmium (Cd) accumulation in berries, ‘Summer Black’ grapevines were intercropped with the Cd hyperaccumulator Solanum nigrum in Cd-contaminated soil; the effects of this intercropping system on berry q...

Distinct hydrological management under rice paddy field (RS) and corn upland field (CS) cultivation reshapes soil bacterial communities in agricultural ecosystems. Yet large-scale paired comparisons disentangling how these two land-use types jointly...

Cotton production under drip irrigation is common in arid and semi-arid Northwest China. Drip line placement determines the location of fertilizer application; therefore, evaluating the appropriate drip line layout and N application rate is essential...

Glutamate decarboxylase (GAD) catalyzes the formation of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and is a central enzyme of the plant GABA shunt. Six HvGAD genes were identified in the Morex V3 barley reference genome and characterized with respect to phylo...

Deep learning technologies have been increasingly applied to precision weed management, and You Only Look Once (YOLO) has become widely adopted owing to its real-time detection capability and high accuracy. This systematic review analyzes YOLO-based...

Intensive use of synthetic fungicides to control grapevine downy mildew raises interconnected concerns for human health, environmental safety, and food quality—a challenge that biological control agents (BCAs) are well positioned to address. Am...

‘Femminello Zagara Bianca’ is one of the most important lemon cultivars in Sicilian citriculture. This study evaluated how flowering period (early-season ‘Primofiore’ and late-season Verdello, obtained by forcing technique), r...

The journal retracts the article titled “Disruption of the TAS3/tasiARF Pathway Severely Impairs the Reproductive Competence of Arabidopsis thaliana” [...]

To address unclear particle ejection behavior and poor spreading uniformity in reciprocating sweeping spreaders for agricultural UAVs, this study analyzed particle motion and optimized the key structural parameters of the sweeping disc. The particle&...

Saline–alkali stress significantly affects crop growth and yield, yet research on faba beans across vegetative and reproductive stages remains limited. We used a 124 mM mixed saline–alkali solution (pH 9.25) to test germination tolerance...

Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is an important oilseed crop whose diversity provides opportunities to identify germplasm combining high yield, physiological performance, and desirable oil quality. This study evaluated the morphophysiological, productiv...

Soil moisture plays a critical role in soil organic carbon (SOC) storage and stabilisation and carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions amid climatic variability and in different agroecosystems. However, the mechanisms that regulate organic matter decompositio...

Under complex field conditions, multi-class rice disease and pest-induced damage detection remains challenging. These challenges include substantial variations in target scale, densely distributed small targets, and blurred boundaries. To overcome th...

The extensive application of plastic films in agriculture has served as a cornerstone of modern agronomy, significantly enhancing crop yields, moisture conservation, and water use efficiency [...]

Maize (Zea mays L.) is a globally important crop, but its sensitivity to cold stress leads to substantial yield losses in temperate zones, where low temperatures, particularly below 10 °C, critically constrain cultivation in high-altitude and hig...

Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is a widely cultivated perennial forage legume, yet its productivity is severely constrained by soil salinization. Calcium-dependent protein kinases (CDPKs) play critical roles in plant salt-stress signaling; however, sys...

Fruit peel color is a key quality trait of pomegranate that influences consumer preference and market value. However, the pigmentation patterns and underlying molecular mechanisms in red- and green-skinned cultivars remain incompletely understood. Th...

Mineral nutrition is evaluated through nutrient supply, deficiency, tissue concentration, and yield response. These indicators help establish sufficiency but do not fully describe the metabolic costs or spatial and temporal constraints involved in co...

The integrated assessment of the emerging weed community and the soil seed bank is essential for understanding the persistence and reinfestation potential of weeds in agricultural systems. This study aimed to evaluate the phytosociological structure...

Single-copy genes are important components of plant genomes, but their evolutionary origins and biological functions in polyploid crops remain poorly understood. The objective of this study was to clarify the evolutionary origins of single-copy genes...

Breeding of cucumber for protected cultivation requires improvement of multiple complex horticultural traits, but studies combining multi-trait association mapping with genomic prediction in the same breeding panel remain limited. We evaluated 208 cu...

Soybean–maize strip intercropping is a representative sustainable cereal–legume production system, but dense canopy closure, interspecific leaf occlusion, and heterogeneous field backgrounds hinder timely and accurate disease scouting. Ra...

Stem rot, caused by Agroathelia rolfsii (syn. Sclerotium rolfsii), is a major soilborne disease of peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.). We evaluated wild-derived germplasm for field resistance and identified associated genomic regions. Twenty-eight genotype...

Precision weeding in cotton fields requires joint plant detection and growth-point localization despite canopy overlap and limited embedded computing resources. We propose ADQ-PACR, a one-stage framework that combines quality-aware localization with...

Groundwater overexploited areas of the North China Plain (NCP) have long faced the challenge of balancing agricultural water use and food security. Although seasonal fallowing can reduce water consumption, it also leads to underutilization of land an...

Direct-seeded rice offers advantages in labor efficiency and mechanized production, but differences between early- and late-season growing conditions may influence genotype performance and trait selection priorities in double-cropping systems. In thi...

Cadmium (Cd) pollution of paddy soils poses a serious threat to food safety and human health. Calcium- and magnesium-aluminum layered double hydroxides (CaAl-/MgAl-LDHs) have recently been deployed to remediate Cd-contaminated soils; nevertheless, th...

Long-term continuous cropping of Panax notoginseng (Sanqi) in the understory agroforestry systems of southwest China disrupts soil biogeochemical cycles and triggers microbial nutrient limitation. Nonetheless, it remains unclear how rotation with com...

Agricultural parcel geometry represents an important but relatively underexplored component of spatial heterogeneity in precision agriculture. This study investigated the spatial organization of 375 lavender parcels in Burdur Province, Türkiye,...

Soil salinization severely threatens global agricultural productivity. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and straw incorporation are promising biological amendments for salt-affected soils, but their interactive effects on crop growth and soil biolo...

Climate change and water scarcity pose threats to smallholder chilli pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) production, necessitating affordable and resource-efficient cultivation systems. This study assessed the effects of an Organic Medium-Enclosed Trough (OM...

Water deficit at flowering is a major constraint to rice production. Foliar selenium (Se) application is an agronomic biofortification strategy that can enhance plant tolerance to abiotic stress while enriching grains with Se, yet its nutritional ben...

Pharmaceutical contamination of irrigation water is an increasing concern for food safety, especially in hydroponic systems where dissolved contaminants remain highly bioavailable. This study evaluated low-dose ciprofloxacin (CIP; 0, 1, 5, and 10 &mi...

Ill-timed harvest-aid spraying can reduce cotton yield and fiber quality. However, determining optimal spraying times is challenging when air temperature fluctuates strongly. Here, we analyzed whether cultivar type and planting pattern alleviate the...