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Soil Nitrogen Dynamics and Transformation Under No-Tillage Perennial Rice Farming Systems

  • Xupeng Zeng,
  • Getachew Melaku,
  • Guangfu Huang,
  • Jing Zhang,
  • Shilai Zhang,
  • Yujiao Zhang and
  • Fengyi Hu

28 September 2025

Annual rice growing lands are mainly threatened by soil loss. High-yielding perennial rice cultivars with great socioeconomic values are developed to stabilize fragile rice farms. Nitrogen balance in perennial rice fields can be facilitated by its no...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,906 Views
16 Pages

Density-Dependent Fertilization of Nitrogen for Optimal Yield of Perennial Rice

  • Guangfu Huang,
  • Yujiao Zhang,
  • Shilai Zhang,
  • Jing Zhang,
  • Fengyi Hu and
  • Fengmin Li

18 July 2022

In the absence of tillage, perennial rice is an innovation and supplement to rice production. Proper N fertilizer application connected to planting density has been proposed as an effective way to improve rice yields. The tradeoff between crop N upta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,135 Views
18 Pages

Physiological Properties of Perennial Rice Regenerating Cultivation in Two Years with Four Harvests

  • Chunlin Guo,
  • Weiwei Lin,
  • Wujie Gao,
  • Chaojie Lan,
  • Hailong Xu,
  • Jingnan Zou,
  • Nyumah Fallah,
  • Wenfei Wang,
  • Wenfang Lin and
  • Wenxiong Lin
  • + 1 author

20 November 2023

Crop perennialization has garnered global attention recently due to its role in sustainable agriculture. However, there is still a lack of detailed information regarding perennial rice’s regenerative characteristics and physiological mechanisms...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,787 Views
17 Pages

Integrating Nitrogen, Water, and Other Management Practices to Improve Grain and Ratoon Forage Yields in Perennial Rice

  • Fuxian Xu,
  • Dingbing Wang,
  • Xingbing Zhou,
  • Lin Zhang,
  • Xiaoyi Guo,
  • Mao Liu,
  • Yongchuan Zhu,
  • Hong Xiong,
  • Changchun Guo and
  • Peng Jiang

10 November 2024

Perennial rice has recently garnered global attention due to its potential to save on seeds and labor costs and its high production efficiency. The “mid-season rice–ratoon forage” mode is a new planting system that has emerged in re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,977 Views
15 Pages

Sucrose Facilitates Rhizome Development of Perennial Rice (Oryza longistaminata)

  • Zhiquan Fan,
  • Guanwen Huang,
  • Yourong Fan and
  • Jiangyi Yang

2 November 2022

Compared with annual crops, perennial crops with longer growing seasons and deeper root systems can fix more sunlight energy, and have advantages in reducing soil erosion and saving water, fertilizer and pesticide inputs. Rice is one of the most impo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
10,541 Views
18 Pages

Performance, Economics and Potential Impact of Perennial Rice PR23 Relative to Annual Rice Cultivars at Multiple Locations in Yunnan Province of China

  • Guangfu Huang,
  • Shiwen Qin,
  • Shilai Zhang,
  • Xiaolin Cai,
  • Shukang Wu,
  • Jinrong Dao,
  • Jing Zhang,
  • Liyu Huang,
  • Dome Harnpichitvitaya and
  • Fengyi Hu
  • + 1 author

5 April 2018

Perennial grain crops hold the promise of stabilizing fragile lands, while contributing grain and grazing in mixed farming systems. Recently, perennial rice was reported to successfully survive, regrow, and yield across a diverse range of environment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
431 Views
19 Pages

Locating QTL Controlling the Yield-Related Traits in Perennial Chinese Rice “Shendao3#

  • Yuxin Yan,
  • Jiuyan Lu,
  • Meilin Wu,
  • Tingshen Peng,
  • Lin Tan,
  • Wenbin Nan,
  • Xiaojian Qin,
  • Ming Li,
  • Junyi Gong and
  • Yongshu Liang

27 November 2025

Shendao3# (SD3#) exhibits perennial characteristics. Identifying the QTLs underlying the yield-related traits in SD3# provides a theoretical basis for future perennial rice breeding. In this study, SD3# and an F2 population derived from a cross betwe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,314 Views
13 Pages

29 September 2019

Life histories and breeding systems strongly affect the genetic diversity of seed plants, but the genetic architectures that promote outcrossing in Oryza longistaminata, a perennial wild species in Africa, are not understood. We conducted a genetic a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,180 Views
13 Pages

17 October 2022

Navua sedge is a difficult-to-control perennial sedge in north Australian farming systems, including fallow fields, pastures, and along roadsides and fencelines. A set of pot trials were conducted to evaluate the performance of different herbicides w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,681 Views
16 Pages

15 April 2021

This study was carried out to understand how land use patterns influence surface water quality in Tien Giang Province using remote sensing and statistical approaches. Surface water quality data were collected at 34 locations with the frequency of fou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
806 Views
15 Pages

The Effects of Different Crop Rotations on the Quality of Saline Soils in the Yinbei Plain

  • Jinmin Wu,
  • Bangyan Zhang,
  • Meiling Lin,
  • Rui Bu,
  • Xiaolong Bai,
  • Xiaoli Zhang,
  • Panting Liu and
  • Bin Wang

5 September 2025

Rice cultivation has the ability to ameliorate saline soils, but this monoculture pattern can lead to negative plant–soil feedback. In a previous study, we investigated the effects of long-term rice cultivation on saline soil chemistry, salt io...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,085 Views
12 Pages

Regenerative Agronomic Approaches: Technological, Biochemical and Rheological Characterization of Four Perennial Wheat Lines Grown in Italy

  • Elena Galassi,
  • Chiara Natale,
  • Francesca Nocente,
  • Federica Taddei,
  • Giovanna Visioli,
  • Salvatore Ceccarelli,
  • Gianni Galaverna and
  • Laura Gazza

11 April 2025

Cereals are the basis of the human diet, and among them, after rice and corn, wheat is the most cultivated in the world. Drought, conflicts, and high prices affect food security in many countries. The CHANGE-UP project funded by the PRIMA program aim...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,064 Views
15 Pages

Facultative Annual Life Cycles in Seagrasses

  • Marieke M. van Katwijk and
  • Brigitta I. van Tussenbroek

16 May 2023

Plant species usually have either annual or perennial life cycles, but facultative annual species have annual or perennial populations depending on their environment. In terrestrial angiosperms, facultative annual species are rare, with wild rice bei...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,976 Views
10 Pages

Oxadiargyl, which binds to the protoporphyrinogen oxidase IX to exhibit herbicide activity, is mainly used in the prevention of certain perennial broadleaved and grass weeds during the preemergence of rice in paddy fields. However, oxadiargyl affects...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
10,354 Views
10 Pages

Molecular Regulation of Flowering Time in Grasses

  • Fiorella D. B. Nuñez and
  • Toshihiko Yamada

20 February 2017

Flowering time is a key target trait for extending the vegetative phase to increase biomass in bioenergy crops such as perennial C4 grasses. Molecular genetic studies allow the identification of genes involved in the control of flowering in different...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,527 Views
11 Pages

Can Hydromulch Reduce the Emergence of Perennial Weeds?

  • Maria Teresa Mas,
  • Gabriel Pardo,
  • Jorge Pueyo,
  • Antoni M. C. Verdú and
  • Alicia Cirujeda

23 February 2021

Herbicide weed control is difficult in the first years of perennial crop establishment or in minor crops, and plastic sheet mulches can leave persistent residues. Liquid spray-on mulch (hydromulch) might be a solution in these cases. To test three hy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,619 Views
9 Pages

4 August 2020

Yellow nutsedge (C. esculentus) is a perennial geophyte and invasive weed which is very difficult to control in rice and other irrigated row crops. Acetolactate synthase (ALS) inhibitors are the most commonly used herbicides to control sedges in rice...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,677 Views
13 Pages

Ectopic Expression of Os-miR408 Improves Thermo-Tolerance of Perennial Ryegrass

  • Geli Taier,
  • Nan Hang,
  • Tianran Shi,
  • Yanrong Liu,
  • Wenxin Ye,
  • Wanjun Zhang and
  • Kehua Wang

26 September 2021

With global warming, high temperature stress has become a main threat to the growth of cool-season turfgrasses, including perennial ryegrass. As one of the conserved plant microRNA families, miR408s are known to play roles in various abiotic stresses...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,309 Views
12 Pages

22 October 2020

In West Sumatra, Indonesia, a high-yield perennial rice cropping method called SALIBU was recently reported, in which the most unique feature is double cutting (DC) at harvest and after harvest. The objective of this study was to verify the ratooning...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,202 Views
16 Pages

19 April 2023

This article presents perennial grasses, without whose presence it is impossible to imagine the natural environment as well as agriculture, recreation, sport, and satisfactory aesthetics of the environment. Grasses have by far the widest distribution...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,572 Views
19 Pages

Microbial Biocontrol Agents Engineer Plant Biometrics and Host Response Against Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae in Rice

  • Popy Bora,
  • Sanjay Kumar Chetia,
  • Anwesha Sharma,
  • Shenaz Sultana Ahmed,
  • Pranamika Sharma,
  • Ashok Bhattacharyya,
  • Rupam Borgohain,
  • Mrinal Saikia,
  • Parinda Barua and
  • Arunima Bharali
  • + 10 authors

Plant-beneficial microbes are a perennial ally in an agroecosystems, providing multiple benefits to crop plants. The present study explored the potential of two microbial biocontrol agents (MBCAs), viz., Trichoderma asperellum and Pseudomonas fluores...

  • Article
  • Open Access
386 Views
14 Pages

LpMAX2 Is a Strigolactone/Karrikin Signaling Component in Perennial Ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.)

  • Haiyang Yu,
  • Fang Qiu,
  • Yuehua Wang,
  • Ruifeng Yao,
  • Meng Zhang and
  • Li Chen

Perennial ryegrass is a widely cultivated cool-season forage and turf grass species whose growth and development are limited by drought and high temperature. MAX2 is an F-box leucine-rich repeat (LRR) protein, which serves as a central component of s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,367 Views
12 Pages

A Cytoplasmic Receptor-like Kinase Contributes to Salinity Tolerance

  • Nir Sade,
  • Fei Weng,
  • Hiromi Tajima,
  • Yarden Zeron,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Maria del Mar Rubio Wilhelmi,
  • George Day,
  • Zvi Peleg and
  • Eduardo Blumwald

17 October 2020

Receptor-like cytoplasmic kinases (RLCKs) are receptor kinases that lack extracellular ligand-binding domains and have emerged as a major class of signaling proteins that regulate plant cellular activities in response to biotic/abiotic stresses and e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,821 Views
16 Pages

Continuous Practice of Conservation Agriculture for 3–5 Years in Intensive Rice-Based Cropping Patterns Reduces Soil Weed Seedbank

  • Mohammad Mobarak Hossain,
  • Mahfuza Begum,
  • Abul Hashem,
  • Md. Moshiur Rahman,
  • Md. Enamul Haque and
  • Richard W. Bell

17 September 2021

When farmers first shift from conventional tillage (CT) to conservation agriculture (CA) practices, the control of weeds may be more difficult, due to the absence of tillage. However, continuous CA, over several years, may alter the weed seedbank. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,285 Views
19 Pages

Strip Tillage and Crop Residue Retention Decrease the Size but Increase the Diversity of the Weed Seed Bank under Intensive Rice-Based Crop Rotations in Bangladesh

  • Mohammad Mobarak Hossain,
  • Mahfuza Begum,
  • Abul Hashem,
  • Md. Moshiur Rahman,
  • Sharif Ahmed,
  • Montaser M. Hassan,
  • Talha Javed,
  • Rubab Shabbir,
  • Adel Hadifa and
  • Richard W. Bell
  • + 1 author

7 June 2021

Cropping under conservation agriculture (CA) has become increasingly attractive among farmers in recent years. However, weed control may be more difficult during the transition to CA from conventional establishment methods due to the reduction in til...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,137 Views
26 Pages

13 May 2025

Land use and land cover (LULC) in coastal areas is critical in shaping the ecological systems, regional economy, and livelihood of indigenous communities. This study analyzes LULC changes (LULCC) in Soc Trang Province, Vietnam Mekong Delta, from 2010...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,891 Views
17 Pages

26 July 2024

Stachys affinis Bunge, known as Chinese artichoke, is a perennial plant originating from China, which has uprising scientific interest due to its complex and beneficial content. Chinese artichoke is rich in bioactive compounds useful for human h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,500 Views
15 Pages

Molecular and Morphological Divergence of Australian Wild Rice

  • Dinh Thi Lam,
  • Katsuyuki Ichitani,
  • Robert J. Henry and
  • Ryuji Ishikawa

10 February 2020

Two types of perennial wild rice, Australian Oryza rufipogon and a new taxon Jpn2 have been observed in Australia in addition to the annual species Oryza meridionalis. Jpn2 is distinct owing to its larger spikelet size but shares O. meridionalis-like...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,487 Views
16 Pages

Construction and As-Built Performance of a Miscanthus Straw Bale House

  • Judith M. Thornton,
  • Bee Rowan,
  • Michal Mos and
  • Iain S. Donnison

28 August 2025

Houses constructed using straw bales have typically been built from wheat, rice, or barley straw, depending on local availability. Miscanthus is a perennial biomass crop with a high lignocellulose content that is grown on agriculturally marginal land...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,823 Views
16 Pages

A Land-Use Change Model to Support Land-Use Planning in the Mekong Delta (MEKOLUC)

  • Quang Chi Truong,
  • Thao Hong Nguyen,
  • Kenichi Tatsumi,
  • Vu Thanh Pham and
  • Van Pham Dang Tri

15 February 2022

Agricultural land-use changes pose challenges for land managers in terms of ensuring the implementation of local land-use plans. This paper aims to build a land-use change model named MEKOLUC (Mekong Delta land-use change) for simulating land-use cha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,552 Views
15 Pages

Effect of Water Deficit on Growth and Photoassimilate Partitioning in Leersia hexandra and Luziola peruviana

  • Renan Souza Silva,
  • Ananda Scherner,
  • Cristiane Jovelina Da-Silva,
  • Edinalvo Rabaioli Camargo,
  • Roque Mauricio Palacios-Zuñiga,
  • Fabio Schreiber,
  • Luciano do Amarante,
  • José Maria Barbat Parfitt and
  • Luis Antonio de Avila

Minimum tillage in rice production is increasing in southern Brazil, reaching 60% of the total planted area. Compared to conventional tillage, in this system there is an increase in the occurrence of perennial weeds, such as Luziola peruviana and Lee...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,166 Views
32 Pages

Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a potent greenhouse gas, and agriculture represents more than fifty percent of total anthropogenic emissions. The production of N2O in soil is biogenic through nitrification, denitrification, chemonitrification, nitrifier denit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,004 Views
20 Pages

Assessment of Relationship between Climate Change, Drought, and Land Use and Land Cover Changes in a Semi-Mountainous Area of the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

  • Tran Van Ty,
  • Kim Lavane,
  • Phan Chi Nguyen,
  • Nigel K. Downes,
  • Nguyen Dinh Giang Nam,
  • Huynh Vuong Thu Minh and
  • Pankaj Kumar

30 November 2022

Agriculture in the Global South is innately susceptible to climatic variability and change. In many arid and semi-mountainous regions of the developing world, drought is regularly cited as a significant threat to agricultural systems. The objective o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
4,671 Views
10 Pages

27 December 2019

Bacopa caroliniana (BC) is a perennial creeping herb and popular aquarium plant. This plant is easily cultivated; consequently, it has the potential to be a raw material which is readily available for mass production if it contains useful bioactive s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,343 Views
10 Pages

Unexpected Low DNA Methylation in Transposable Elements at the 5′-CCGG Sites in Three Fruit Tree Cultivars

  • Yingjie Yu,
  • Meixin Wang,
  • Xiaofu Zhou,
  • Huishi Du,
  • Bao Liu,
  • Lili Jiang and
  • Yongming Wang

31 May 2022

DNA methylation of three cultivars, each of the fruit tree species pear, plum and apple, was analyzed by the methylation-sensitive amplified polymorphism (MSAP) marker. All three fruit tree cultivars were found to contain apparently lower levels of m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,200 Views
21 Pages

Wild and Cultivated Species of Rice Have Distinctive Proteomic Responses to Drought

  • Sara Hamzelou,
  • Karthik Shantharam Kamath,
  • Farhad Masoomi-Aladizgeh,
  • Matthew M. Johnsen,
  • Brian J. Atwell and
  • Paul A. Haynes

19 August 2020

Drought often compromises yield in non-irrigated crops such as rainfed rice, imperiling the communities that depend upon it as a primary food source. In this study, two cultivated species (Oryza sativa cv. Nipponbare and Oryza glaberrima cv. CG14) an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,801 Views
11 Pages

First Case of Multiple Resistance to EPSPS and PSI in Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn. Collected in Rice and Herbicide-Resistant Crops in Colombia

  • Guido Plaza,
  • Verónica Hoyos,
  • José G. Vázquez-García,
  • Ricardo Alcántara-de la Cruz and
  • Rafael De Prado

6 January 2021

Eleusine indica is a highly competitive and difficult-to-control plant in annual and perennial crops. In Colombia, broad-spectrum herbicides, such as paraquat and glyphosate, have begun to present poor levels of control for this weed. The multiple re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,804 Views
17 Pages

11 June 2021

We analyzed the agricultural land-use changes in the coastal areas of Tien Hai district, Thai Binh province, in 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2020, using Landsat 5 and Landsat 8 data. We used the object-oriented classification method with the maximum likelih...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,752 Views
16 Pages

Assessment of Allelopathic Activity of Arachis pintoi Krapov. & W.C. Greg as a Potential Source of Natural Herbicide for Paddy Rice

  • Phan Trung Thang,
  • Nguyen Van Vien,
  • La Hoang Anh,
  • Tran Dang Xuan,
  • Vu Xuan Duong,
  • Nguyen Thanh Nhung,
  • Khuat Huu Trung,
  • Nguyen Thanh Quan,
  • Cam Chau Nguyen and
  • Tran Thi Thu Ha
  • + 2 authors

17 July 2023

Pinto peanut (Arachis pintoi Krapov. & W.C. Greg.) is an herbaceous perennial plant which belongs to the Leguminosae family. This plant is well known for its use as a cover crop, but little information is available on the allelopathic potential o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,350 Views
18 Pages

13 February 2025

The extract of Paspalum thunbergii, a native perennial herb in Korea belonging to the rice family, was investigated for its anti-inflammatory activity and the underlying mechanisms driving its effects. Fifteen chemical components of the P. thunbergii...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,146 Views
9 Pages

Effect of Rhizome Fragment Length and Burial Depth on the Emergence of a Tropical Invasive Weed Cyperus aromaticus (Navua Sedge)

  • Aakansha Chadha,
  • Singarayer K. Florentine,
  • Kunjithapatham Dhileepan and
  • Christopher Turville

1 December 2022

Cyperus aromaticus (Navua sedge) is a problematic perennial weed in pastures and crops including sugarcane, banana, rice, and fruits and vegetables in tropical climates. It reproduces both via rhizomes and seeds. As a regenerative and storage organ,...

  • Project Report
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,661 Views
7 Pages

Carbon Sources for Anaerobic Soil Disinfestation in Southern California Strawberry

  • Oleg Daugovish,
  • Maripaula Valdes-Berriz,
  • Joji Muramoto,
  • Carol Shennan,
  • Margherita Zavatta and
  • Peter Henry

19 June 2023

Anaerobic soil disinfestation (ASD) has been adopted in over 900 ha in California strawberry production as an alternative to chemical fumigation. Rice bran, the predominant carbon source for ASD, has become increasingly expensive. In 2021–22 an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,015 Views
19 Pages

15 April 2015

Increasing dependence on groundwater requires a detailed determination of the different outputs and inputs of a basin for better water management. Determination of spatial and temporal actual evapotranspiration (ETa), in this regard, is of vital impo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,207 Views
22 Pages

Gibberellins (GAs) are the key regulators controlling plant growth, wood production and the stress responses in perennial woody plants. The role of GA in regulating the above-mentioned processes in Eucalyptus remain largely unclear. There is still a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,945 Views
20 Pages

Rubber-Based Agroforestry Systems Associated with Food Crops: A Solution for Sustainable Rubber and Food Production?

  • Andi Nur Cahyo,
  • Ying Dong,
  • Taryono,
  • Yudhistira Nugraha,
  • Junaidi,
  • Sahuri,
  • Eric Penot,
  • Aris Hairmansis,
  • Yekti Asih Purwestri and
  • Pascal Montoro
  • + 8 authors

Agroforestry is often seen as a sustainable land-use system for agricultural production providing ecosystem services. Intercropping with food crops leads to equal or higher productivity than monoculture and results in food production for industry and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,414 Views
17 Pages

Enhancing Plant Stress Tolerance: The Role of LcWRKY40 Gene in Drought and Alkaline Salt Resistance in Tobacco and Yeast

  • Jianan Guo,
  • Yipeng Zhao,
  • Huihui Cheng,
  • Ruiqiang Yu,
  • Baoxiang Gu,
  • Qiuhui Wang,
  • Jitao Zhang,
  • Shenglin Li and
  • Qingjie Guan

21 September 2024

Leymus chinensis, a halophytic perennial grass belonging to the Poaceae family, thrives in saline-alkali grasslands and harbors a rich repository of resistance-related genetic resources. This study focused on deciphering the stress-responsive mechani...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,999 Views
16 Pages

29 November 2024

Acorus calamus, a perennial emergent herb, is highly valued for its ornamental appeal, water purification ability, and medicinal properties. However, there is a significant contradiction between the rapidly increasing demand for A. calamus and the di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,856 Views
18 Pages

Ectopic Expression of PvHMA2.1 Enhances Cadmium Tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana

  • Hui Zang,
  • Junyi He,
  • Qi Zhang,
  • Xue Li,
  • Tingting Wang,
  • Xiaojing Bi and
  • Yunwei Zhang

10 February 2023

Cadmium (Cd) in soil inhibits plant growth and development and even harms human health through food chain transmission. Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.), a perennial C4 biofuel crop, is considered an ideal plant for phytoremediation due to its high...