Buddleja saligna Willd. is an evergreen tree native to South Africa. Historically, the tree has been used for the treatment of various diseases and has been scientifically found to have promising pharmacological effects. In the current study, the phe...
Abelmoschus manihot L. (A. manihot) has received more and more attention due to its potential edible and medicinal value. It shows higher yield and related fine agronomic traits suitable for disadvantaged areas and low-input planting. However, a syst...
Mulberry (Morus L.; Moraceae; Rosales) is an economically important tree with a long history in China and valued for its rich nutrient, flavor content, medicinal value and useful ecological functions. Morus species are widely distributed in Asia, Eur...
Many pests damage pea crops, which potentially leads to reduced quality and yield losses. Since pests occur at different phenological growth stages of pea crops, the prediction of growth stages, for example as BBCH stages, is beneficial. In this stud...
Accurate monitoring of crop aboveground biomass (AGB) using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing is important for field-scale crop management. Surveys covering multiple fields often require higher flight altitudes, which reduce image resoluti...
Accurate large-scale monitoring of crop phenology is essential for optimizing agricultural management. Remote sensing has been widely used for estimating crop phenological stages, yet time discrepancies often exist between remotely sensed phenologica...
Crop growth stages are integral components of plant phenology and are of significant ecological and agricultural importance. While the use of remote sensing methods for phenology identification in cropland ecosystems has been extensively explored in...
Walnut trees are grown worldwide for their edible fruits, which have high nutritional value. To address climate change, researchers have studied walnut phenology to create cultivars adapted to warmer climates. The objective of this study is to propos...
Fractional vegetation cover (FVC) is a key indicator of plant growth. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery has gained prominence for FVC monitoring due to its high resolution. However, most studies have focused on single phenological stages or speci...
Accurate identification of crop phenology timing is crucial for agriculture. While remote sensing tracks vegetation changes, linking these to ground-measured crop growth stages remains challenging. Existing methods offer broad overviews but fail to c...
Sugarcane is a high-impact crop used in the majority of global sugar production, with India being the second largest global producer. Understanding the timing and length of sugarcane growth stages is critical to improving the sustainability of sugarc...
Fruit of Cornelian cherry can be used fresh or processed, and cultivation practices are developing in this direction. Due to the rarity of its cultivation, Cornelian cherry is harvested from natural sites of occurrence. However, the fruit from natura...
Idesia polycarpa Maxim (Salicaceae) is an endemic woody oil tree native to China with multi-purpose economic and ecological applications, including seed oil production, timber utilization, landscape afforestation and biomass exploitation. To date, a...
Olive orchard soils are a source of microorganisms capable of inhibiting major olive pathogens. In this study, rhizobacteria were isolated and characterized based on plant growth-promoting traits, and soil 16 rRNA gene sequencing analysis was perform...
Tree peony is well-known for its ornamental value, medicine function, oil, and edible use. However, the difficulty in propagating tree peony impedes its cultivation and industrial advancement. Softwood cutting is an effective method to promote the pr...
The accurate, timely, and non-destructive estimation of maize total-above ground biomass (TAB) and theoretical biochemical methane potential (TBMP) under different phenological stages is a substantial part of agricultural remote sensing. The assimila...
Cardoon (Cynara cardunculus var. altilis) blades were collected at sixteen sampling dates (B1–B16) to study the influence of the phenological growth stage on the phenolic composition and biological properties. Twenty phenolic compounds were ide...
Remote sensing-based mapping of crop nitrogen (N) status is beneficial for precision N management over large geographic regions. Both leaf/canopy level nitrogen content and accumulation are valuable for crop nutrient diagnosis. However, previous stud...
The accurate identification of soybean growth stages is critical for optimizing agricultural interventions, where mistimed treatments can result in yield losses ranging from 2.5% to 40%. Existing deep learning approaches remain limited in scope, targ...
The monitoring of crop phenology informs decisions in environmental and agricultural management at both global and farm scales. Current methodologies for crop monitoring using remote sensing data track crop growth stages over time based on single, sc...
Performance of the APSIM (Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator) wheat model was assessed to simulate winter wheat phenology, biomass, grain yield, and nitrogen (N) uptake for its potential to optimize fertilizer applications for optimal crop gro...
Soilless cultivation is an important alternative to traditional agriculture and facilitates harvest by allowing for the precise control of plant nutrients to maximize the vegetable production of uniform fruits. Nutrient solution concentration is a cr...
Crop emergence is a critical stage for crop development modeling, crop condition monitoring, and biomass accumulation estimation. Green-up dates (or the start of the season) detected from remote sensing time series are related to, but generally lag,...
The chemical profile of the female inflorescence extracts from seven Cannabis sativa L. dioecious cultivars (Carmagnola, Fibranova, Eletta Campana, Antal, Tiborszallasi, Kompolti, and Tisza) was monitored at three harvesting stages (4, 14, and 30 Sep...
Radiation transform models such as PROSAIL are widely used for crop canopy reflectance simulation and biophysical parameter inversion. The PROSAIL model basically assumes that the canopy is turbid homogenous media with a bare soil background. However...
The application of biostimulants appears to be an environmentally friendly, innovative, and sustainable agronomical tool to mitigate the negative effects induced by adverse climatology in traditional grape-growing regions such as La Rioja (Spain). Ho...
Phenology prediction is critical for optimizing the timing of rice crop management operations such as fertilization and irrigation, particularly in the face of increasing climate variability. This study aimed to estimate three key developmental stage...
Common bean is typically cultivated in the Mediterranean basin, an area where water scarcity could limit yield. This species has a broad range of food uses (seed or pod) and very diverse growth patterns (indeterminate or determinate), which hinders a...
Michelia maudiae ‘Rubicunda’ (M. maudiae ‘Rubicunda’) is one of the most popular ornamental plants. However, relatively little is known regarding its floral development. Here, the variations of the mineral, endogenous hormone,...
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The response of plant vegetative reproduction and compensatory growth to herbivory has been widely discussed in biological and ecological research. Most previous research has supported the idea that both vegetative reproduction and compensatory growt...
Climate change induces cotton phenological changes, but the impact of these changes on yield and the regulatory role of altitude in the phenology–yield relationship remains unclear. Major Chinese cotton-growing regions (e.g., Xinjiang) are in a...
Phenological periods can affect the growth of forage, the single food source for grazing animals, and its nutrition and the stage of growth of the animals can affect the rumen microbiota. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of phenologi...
Accurate and timely knowledge of crop phenology assists in planning and/or triggering appropriate farming activities. The multiple Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) technique shows great potential in crop phenology retrieval for its char...
Crop monitoring is critical for sustaining agriculture, preserving natural resources, and dealing with the effects of population growth and climate change. The Sentinel missions, Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2, provide open imagery at a high spatial and t...
Crop height is a key indicator of plant development and growth dynamics, offering valuable insights for temporal crop monitoring. However, modeling its variation across phenological stages remains challenging due to canopy structural changes. This st...
Phenology provides important information for wheat growth management and the estimation of wheat yield and quality. The relative threshold method has been widely used to retrieve phenological metrics from remotely sensed data owing to its simplicity....
Maize is the world’s largest food crop and plays a critical role in global food security. Accurate phenology information is essential for improving yield estimation and enabling timely field management. Yet, much of the research has concentrate...
In agricultural production, it is fundamental to characterize the phenological stage of plants to ensure a good evaluation of the development, growth and health of crops. Phenological characterization allows for the early detection of nutritional def...
Sapindus mukorossi is a native tree in southern China that has multiple useful functions, including high landscaping, ecological, esthetic, and economic values. More importantly, its fruits are being rapidly developed as raw materials for bioenergy a...
Assessment of crop nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) is important in agricultural research. Various approaches exist to analyze NUE. A recently proposed NUE concept is further developed and a calculation tool for practical use presented. A critical compo...
Crop phenology is an important attribute of crops, not only reflecting the growth and development of crops, but also affecting crop yield. By observing the phenological stages, agricultural production losses can be reduced and corresponding systems a...
The response of tree growth to environmental (climatic) changes has largely been analyzed through ring width–climate relationships, yet such analyses often lack the dynamic process of radial growth in response to environmental changes. Therefor...
The determination of key phenological growth stages of banana plantations, such as flower emergence and plant establishment, is difficult due to the asynchronous growth habit of banana plants. Identifying phenological events assists growers in determ...
In northeastern Mexico, forage shortages during the cold season limit the availability of high-quality forage for ruminant production systems, as the growth of warm-season C4 forages declines significantly. Forage oats are widely grown to address thi...
The aim of this study was to characterize the vegetative growth development of hop plants grown in the subtropics under a two-crop-a-year system with artificial supplementation lighting. The development of ‘Mapuche’ and ‘Spalter&rsq...
Precise simulation of crop growth is crucial to yield estimation, agricultural field management, and climate change. Although assimilation of crop model and remote sensing data has been applied in crop growth simulation, few studies have considered o...
Mapping rubber plantations in a large area is still challenging in high-cloud-cover and complex-vegetation landscapes. Existing studies were often confined to the discrimination of rubber trees from natural forests and rarely concerned other tropical...
Freely available satellite data at Google Earth Engine (GEE) cloud platform enables vegetation phenology analysis across different scales very efficiently. We evaluated seasonal and annual phenology of the old-growth Hyrcanian forests (HF) of norther...
The advent of precision agriculture has highlighted the necessity for the careful determination of crop phenology at increasingly smaller scales. Although remote sensing technology is extensively employed for the monitoring of crop growth, the acquis...
The ability to accurately and systematically monitor avocado crop phenology offers significant benefits for the optimization of farm management activities, improvement of crop productivity, yield estimation, and evaluation crops’ resilience to...
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