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Nitrogen Responsiveness of Maize Hybrids Under Dryland Conditions

27/06/2025 - Nitrogen (N) plays a decisive role in the growth and yield of crops. Hence, a high maize grain yield depends upon substantial N inputs. In the present study, morphological traits and yield...

Organic Farming to Improve Soil Quality and the Functional Structure of Soil Microbial Communities

27/06/2025 - Organic agriculture is widely regarded as an important approach to reducing biodiversity loss and promoting sustainable agricultural development compared to conventional agriculture. Notably, organic...

A Full Chain of Applying Struvite Recovered from Biogas Slurry to Promote Vegetable Growth

25/06/2025 - The expansion of the livestock industry has led to an increase in biogas slurry discharge, which contains high levels of nitrogen (N) and phosphorous (P). Struvite precipitation is an effective...

Reducing Cation Leaching and Improving Greenhouse Cucumber's Nutritional Yield Through Optimized Organic&ndash;Inorganic Fertilization

23/06/2025 - Excessive nutrient inputs from manure and synthetic fertilizers have caused great challenges for sustainable vegetable production. There is limited information about the nutritional yields and...

The Effects of the Application of Organic Manure in Combination with Nitrogen Fertilizer on the Physicochemical Properties of Waxy Maize Starch

23/06/2025 - The application of organic manure is a crucial agronomic practice for enhancing crop quality. This study aimed to elucidate the effects of organic manure and nitrogen fertilizers on the...

Fine Mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) with Resistance to Common Scab in Diploid Potato and Development of Effective Molecular Markers

24/06/2025 - Potato common scab is one of the major diseases posing a threat to potato production on a global scale. No chemical agents have been found to effectively control the occurrence of this disease, and...

Transcriptomic Analysis on Developing Seed Uncovers Candidate Genes Associated with Seed Storage Protein in Soybean

24/06/2025 - Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] is a globally significant crop that provides essential meal protein and vegetable oil for human consumption. The protein content in soybean seeds is a critical factor...

Crop Water Requirement Estimated with Data-Driven Models Improves the Reliability of CROPWAT 8.0 and the Water Footprint of Processing Tomato Grown in a Hot-Arid Environment

24/06/2025 - The determination of the actual crop water requirement (CWR) today represents an important prerogative for combating climate change. A three-year trial was conducted to ad-dress the need to provide...

Foliar Application of Silicon: An Innovative and Effective Strategy for Enhancing Tomato Yield in Hydroponic Systems

26/06/2025 - Hydroponic cultivation offers a promising solution to water scarcity by using less water than traditional soil-based agriculture. Although the integration of silicon (Si) in hydroponic systems is...

Automatic Potato Crop Beetle Recognition Method Based on Multiscale Asymmetric Convolution Blocks

26/06/2025 - Five beetle species can occur in potato fields simultaneously, including one quarantine pest (the Colorado potato beetle (CPB)), one phytophagous pest (the 28-spotted potato ladybird beetle), and...

RGB and Point Cloud-Based Intelligent Grading of Pepper Plug Seedlings

27/06/2025 - As an emerging vegetable cultivation technology, plug seedling cultivation significantly improves seedling production efficiency and reduces costs through standardization. Grading and transplanting,...

The Causative Agent of Soft Rot in Plants, the Phytopathogenic Bacterium Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. carotovorum: A Brief Description and an Overview of Methods to Control It

28/06/2025 - This review presents information obtained over the past 10 years on the methods to control the widespread worldwide phytopathogen Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. carotovorum (Pcc). This bacterium...

Maize Seed Variety Classification Based on Hyperspectral Imaging and a CNN-LSTM Learning Framework

29/06/2025 - Maize seed variety classification has become essential in agriculture, driven by advancements in non-destructive sensing and machine learning techniques. This study introduced an efficient method for...

SWMD-YOLO: A Lightweight Model for Tomato Detection in Greenhouse Environments

29/06/2025 - The accurate detection of occluded tomatoes in complex greenhouse environments remains challenging due to the limited feature representation ability and high computational costs of existing models....

Impact of Alternative Feed Ingredients and Feeding Strategies on Growth, Muscle Morphology, and Fillet Quality of Genetically Selected Gilthead Seabream (Sparus aurata) in a Long-Term Feeding Trial

28/06/2025 - Aquaculture advancement depends on alternative raw materials to reduce reliance on fishmeal (FM) and fish oil (FO) from extractive fisheries. Strategies like restricted feeding reduce costs and...

The Antioxidant and Skin-Brightening Effects of a Novel Caffeic Acid Derivative, Caffeic Acid-3,4-Dihydroxyphenylpropanolester

29/06/2025 - Caffeic acid (CA) is a naturally occurring polyphenol antioxidant found in coffee, tea, fruits, and vegetables, known for its strong antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-aging properties....

Agro-Food and Lignocellulosic Urban Wastes as Sugar-Rich Substrates for Multi-Product Oil-Based Biorefineries

27/06/2025 - The effective use of biowaste resources becomes crucial for the development of bioprocessing alternatives to current oil- and chemical-based value chains. Targeting the development of multi-product...

Identification of PpTHE1, a cell wall integrity sensor regulating the increased duration of harvest window in slow?melting flesh peach, through the assembly of a chromosome?level reference genome of Prunus persica

- SummarySlow?melting flesh (SMF) in peaches offers many advantages, including easy transportation, maintaining flavour after ripening, an extended harvest window, and reduced losses caused by fruit...

A telomere?to?telomere gap?free assembly integrating multi?omics uncovers the genetic mechanism of fruit quality and important agronomic trait associations in pomegranate

- SummaryPomegranate is an important perennial fruit tree distributed worldwide. Reference genomes with gaps and limit gene identification controlling important agronomic traits hinder its functional...

The IQ67?domain protein IQD1 regulates fruit shape through complex multiprotein interactions in pepper (Capsicum annuum L.)

- SummaryNatural genetic variation can be used to improve important crop agronomic traits, and understanding the genetic basis of natural variation in fruit shape can help breeders develop pepper...

Maternal haploid induction in maize via mutation of Gamete Expression protein 1

- SummaryDoubled haploid (DH) technology, based on haploid induction (HI), is a crucial tool in enhancing crop?breeding efficiency and has been successfully applied in various plant species. While many...

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