Polyaspartic acid (PASP) is widely used in agriculture owing to its role in promoting crop growth and nutrient absorption, and its effects are correlated with its molecular weight. In this study, a field soil column experiment using a 15N tracer was...
Bacillus cereus group strains are prolific producers of diverse bacteriocins with significant application potentials; however, their industrial utilization is often hampered by short production cycles and low yields. Using the leaderless bacteriocin...
With the rising need for sustainable agricultural practices, nano-fertilizers have emerged as an innovative alternative to traditional fertilizers. These advanced fertilizers enhance nutrient use efficiency, promote crop growth, and minimize environm...
Enhanced-efficiency nitrogen fertilizer (EENF) is a recommend nitrogen fertilizer for rice production because of its advantage on improving nitrogen use efficiency. However, its efficacy on CH4, the dominant greenhouse gas, emission from rice fields...
Enhancing saline water productivity in arid regions is essential for sustainable agriculture. Adding biochar can improve the quantity and quality of tomato yield under higher levels of salinity and lower levels of irrigation. The experiment aimed to...
Sulfur (S) is an essential nutrient for plant growth, influencing not only crop yields but also the composition and function of soil microbial communities. However, the differential effects of S fertilization on abundant and rare taxa in agricultural...
The deficiency of micronutrients and low organic matter (OM) status of soils are major hurdles in the optimum crop yield achievements. Humic substances can play an imperative role in the micronutrient bioavailability and improved crop yield by amelio...
Heilongjiang Province is a significant region for grain production and serves as a crucial commodity grain production base in China. In recent years, due to the threat of declining cropland quality and quantity, coupled with the increasingly prominen...
Biochar, a green way to deal with burning and burying biomass, has attracted more attention in recent years. To fill the gap of the effects of different biochar on crop yield in Northern China, the first field experiment was conducted in farmland loc...
The application of physical processing technologies in fermentation is an effective way to improve the quality of substrates. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the feasibility of enhancing the polypeptides of rapeseed meal (RSM) by a low-inten...
Applications of metal oxide nanoparticles in the agriculture sector are being extensively included as the materials are considered superior. In the present work, zinc oxide nanoparticle (ZnO NPs), with a developing fertilizer, is applied in the forti...
Tomato is considered among the most important horticulture crops in both temperate and tropical regions, and two of the major biotic stresses include Fusarium oxysporun f.sp. lycopersici (Fol) and Verticillium dahliae (Vd). The effect of soil incorpo...
Nitrogen (N) losses are prevalent under South East Asia’s due to high N fertilizer inputs, but low N fertilizer use efficiency. This leaves a large quantity of reactive N at risk of loss to the environment. Biochar has been found to reduce N losses a...
The agroforestry system, which integrates the strategic intercropping of trees and grasses, is profoundly shaped by complex ecological interactions that dynamically reshape microclimatic environments and significantly impact the growth of understory...
Quantum yield illustrates the efficiency that a fluorophore converts the excitation light into fluorescence emission. The quantum yield of carbon quantum dots (CQDs) can be altered via precursors, fabrication conditions, chemical doping, and surface...
Saccharum spontaneum serves as an essential genetic resource for sugarcane improvement. Traditional breeding methods, characterized by slow selection and limited germplasm exploitation, often lead to suboptimal progeny performance. In this study, we...
Artificial domestication and improvement of the majority of crops began approximately 10,000 years ago, in different parts of the world, to achieve high productivity, good quality, and widespread adaptability. It was initiated from a phenotype-based...
Nanochitin whisker (NC) with a cationic nature could enhance plant photosynthesis, grain yield, and quality of wheat, but have not been systematically studied. This study was designed to investigate the stimulatory effects of NC on dry matter (DM) an...
Long-term intensive cultivation has caused soil fertility decline and structural degradation in the Songnen Plain, thereby constraining maize root development and yield formation. As a fundamental conservation tillage practice, straw return enhances...
Accurate information on both the current stock and future growth and yield of forest resources is critical for sustainable forest management. We demonstrate a novel approach to utilizing airborne laser scanning (ALS)-derived forest stand attributes t...
Cropland suitability calculations quantify natural suitability according to abiotic conditions, thus making them crucial for sustainable land management. However, since ground-truth yield data are extremely scarce, there is a need to improve knowledg...
Yield is one of the primary concerns for any farmer since it is a key to economic prosperity. Yield productivity zones—that is to say, areas with the same yield level within fields over the long-term—are a form of derived (predicted) data...
Fungal chlamydospores are asexual spores formed by fungi under adverse conditions and could be used in biological pretreatment for biogas projects fed by lignocellulosic substrates. In this study, Trichoderma viride (Tv) chlamydospores were used as t...
We determine the influence of substitutional defects on perovskite quantum dots through experimental and theoretical investigations. Substitutional defects were introduced by trivalent dopants (In, Sb, and Bi) in CsPbBr3 by ligand-assisted reprecipit...
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) form symbiotic relationships with most crops. They function as promising sustainable agricultural amendments by synergizing with biochar to enhance plant nutrient uptake. However, the effects of AMF and biochar inte...
While highland barley on the Tibetan Plateau is adversely affected by water stress during its growth period, precipitation enhancement could potentially mitigate this issue. Accurate assessment of the benefits obtained through precipitation enhanceme...
The research aimed to assess the contribution of fertilizer, density, and row spacing in integrated cultivation measures and identify their regulation mechanism on canopy architecture and factors in biomass accumulation in spring maize. Zhengdan 958...
In this study, we evaluated Polimaize lines, named Polimaize, through the integration of alleles from the Native Blue Corn (NBC-JIQ), a local Mexican maize variety indigenous to the northeast region of Michoacán, Mexico, into elite maize lines...
Ultrahigh dose rate (UHDR) radiotherapy, also known as FLASH radiotherapy (FLASH-RT), has shown potential for increasing tumor control while sparing normal tissue. In parallel, gold nanoparticles (GNPs) have been extensively explored as radiosensitiz...
A rapid and accurate determination of large-scale winter wheat yield is significant for food security and policy formulation. In this study, meteorological data and enhanced vegetation index (EVI) were used to estimate the winter wheat yield in Henan...
Humic acids (HAs) incorporated into urea fertilizers are highly effective at increasing yield and decreasing fertilizer-derived nitrogen (N) loss from soil, but reports of the optimal proportion in fertilizers remain widely inconsistent. In this stud...
Grain moisture influences grain number formation during the critical period as well as determining the final grain weight during the grain-filling period in maize (Zea mays L.). To clarify the relationships between grain number, grain weight, and gra...
To achieve sustainable agriculture development in arid regions, it is imperative to improve the soil quality of arid sandy soils. This study explored the effects of the combined application of organic–inorganic fertilizers with soil conditioner...
Cucumber, a widely cultivated vegetable, is mostly grown under greenhouse conditions. In recent years, the overuse of inorganic fertilizers for higher yield attainment adversely has affected human health and the environment. Therefore, a greenhouse e...
Improper management of anaerobic pig sludge poses significant environmental and health risks. Converting this waste into biochar to enhance methane production during anaerobic digestion (AD) presents an environmentally sound and circular solution, es...
The downy mildew disease of cucurbits is considered the most economically damaging disease of Cucurbitaceae worldwide. The causal agent, Pseudoperonospora cubensis (Berkeley & Curtis), may cause complete crop losses of cucurbits. Few commercial c...
Direct ink writing (DIW) of low-yield-stress UV-curable silicone rubber faces challenges in maintaining dimensional accuracy due to post-extrusion swelling and viscoelastic deformation. This study proposes an ultraviolet-follow curing (UFC) method to...
Global climate change accentuates the seasonal and interannual irregularity of temperature and precipitation of the Mediterranean climate. The consequences of this variability on wheat production are felt on its development cycle and productivity, ma...
Poor seed germination is a crucial yield-limiting factor when winter wheat is sown under low temperature. The objective of this study was to evaluate the role of ascorbic acid (AsA) in the extenuation of the harmful effects of low temperature at earl...
Straw returning, a core practice in conservation tillage, promotes sustainable intensification; however, it faces challenges such as inefficient decomposition, nutrient competition, and pathogen accumulation. To address these limitations, this study...
The findings on the strategies employed by endophytic microbes have provided salient information to the researchers on the need to maximally explore them as bio-input in agricultural biotechnology. Biotic and abiotic factors are known to influence mi...
Conversion of poultry litter into fertilizer presents an environmentally friendly way for its disposal. The amendment of stabilizing sorption materials (e.g., biochar) to broiler chicken rearing seems promising, as it protects produced litter from nu...
The partial substitution of chemical fertilizer with organic fertilizer has been regarded as an effective strategy for enhancing crop yield and soil quality. Nevertheless, its effects on soil properties and microbes remain contentious. In this study,...
Seed priming, traditionally viewed as a method for enhancing crop resilience to abiotic stress, has evolved into a multifaceted agronomic strategy. This review synthesizes the current findings demonstrating that priming influences plant development,...
High-energy (>20 keV) X-ray photon detection at high quantum yield, high spatial resolution, and short response time has long been an important area of study in physics. Scintillation is a prevalent method but limited in various ways. Directly det...
The deficiency of nitrogen (N) in soil restricts agricultural productivity and its overdosage pollutes the atmosphere. Nitrogen is a vital component of protein, chlorophyll and various physiological processes. When it is applied at a recommended dose...
Climate variability limits resources, and the growing demand for high-yielding, high-quality crops is increasingly challenging global agricultural production [...]
Salinity, resulting from climate change and excessive mineral fertilization, burdens farmers and negatively impacts soil and water ecosystems in the Northeastern Nile Delta. Organic and biological approaches are crucial for addressing these issues. T...
Over the past two decades, and particularly since 2018, Central Europe has experienced several droughts with strong impacts on ecosystems and food production. It is expected that under accelerating climate change, droughts and resulting vegetation an...
Maize (Zea mays L.) is an important staple, as well as cash crop, in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, its production is severely constrained by low soil nitrogen (low N). Fifty-four early-maturing hybrids developed during three breeding periods, (2...
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