Technologies for Achieving High-Yield Maize of High Nutritional Quality
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Production".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 October 2025 | Viewed by 125
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Interests: plant nutrition; intercropping; rotation; micronutrient; biofortification; high yielding and high efficiency; agroecology; sustainable agriculture; agricultural green development
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Interests: crop yield; nutrient uptake and regulation; fertilizer use efficiency; stress physiology
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Dear Colleagues,
Achieving high-yield maize and high nutritional quality is critical to ensuring global food security in quantity and quality. There are lots of practical technologies to improve maize yields. However, most of these technologies lack nutritional quality analysis. For example, each year, the breeders, agronomists, or farmers will announce new record-breaking yields of different maize cultivars, as it seems the yield level is climbing annually; however, the explanations and nutritional qualities behind these new records are less studied and summarized. As far as we know, the yield record of maize has already broken through 39.6 t/ha in the United States of America and 25.0 t/ha in China. Therefore, the technologies for achieving high-yield maize, especially corresponding nutritional quality changes, should be thoroughly summarized.
This Special Issue focuses on the effects of a single technology and the combined/integrated systematic technologies for achieving high-yield maize, and simultaneously, changes in nutritional qualities should be presented. Research exploring new technologies involving the integration of agricultural machinery and agronomy to boost agricultural modernization and “green” technologies for improving yield and nutritional qualities and protecting the environment is particularly welcome. Original research articles and reviews are accepted.
Prof. Dr. Haiyong Xia
Prof. Dr. Baizhao Ren
Dr. Shanchao Yue
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- soil tillage
- sowing quality
- planting density
- drip irrigation
- fertilization management
- micronutrient
- integration of water and fertilizer
- plant growth regulator
- biostimulant
- drones
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