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Evaluating the Impact of Nano-Silica and Silica Hydrogel Amendments on Soil Water Retention and Crop Yield in Rice and Clover Under Variable Irrigation Conditions

05/03/2025 - The use of water-efficient soil amendments has gained increasing importance in agriculture, particularly in regions facing water scarcity. So, this study evaluates the impact of silica and...

GeaGrow: a mobile tool for soil nutrient prediction and fertilizer optimization using artificial neural networks

- IntroductionMost farmers in Nigeria lack knowledge of their farmland’s nutrient content, often relying on intuition for crop cultivation. Even when aware, they struggle to interpret soil...

Effects of Sensor Speed and Height on Proximal Canopy Reflectance Data Variation for Rice Vegetation Monitoring

28/02/2025 - Sensing distance and speed have crucial effects on the data of active and passive sensors, providing valuable information relevant to crop growth monitoring and environmental conditions. The...

How Does Rice Cope with High-Temperature Stress During Its Growth and Development, Especially at the Grain-Filling Stage?

28/02/2025 - The trend of global warming is becoming increasingly evident, with frequent extreme high-temperature events posing a severe challenge to food security. Rice (Oryza sativa L.), the...

A Physicochemical and Biological Composite Environment for the Humification of Crop Straw in Compost

24/02/2025 - To examine the humification characteristics of crop residues, three types of crop residues&mdash;wheat, maize, and rice&mdash;were selected for experimentation. The latter two were...

Multi-Mycotoxin Contamination of Aquaculture Feed: A Global Survey

01/03/2025 - Plant-based materials are increasingly being used as ingredients of aquaculture feed. These materials are prone to mycotoxin contamination, as mycotoxigenic fungi infest crop plants in the field and...

RDRM-YOLO: A High-Accuracy and Lightweight Rice Disease Detection Model for Complex Field Environments Based on Improved YOLOv5

23/02/2025 - Rice leaf diseases critically threaten global rice production by reducing crop yield and quality. Efficient disease detection in complex field environments remains a persistent challenge for...

A Variable-Threshold Segmentation Method for Rice Row Detection Considering Robot Travelling Prior Information

15/02/2025 - Accurate rice row detection is critical for autonomous agricultural machinery navigation in complex paddy environments. Existing methods struggle with terrain unevenness, water reflections, and weed...

HGATGS: Hypergraph Attention Network for Crop Genomic Selection

15/02/2025 - Many important plants&rsquo; agronomic traits, such as crop yield, stress tolerance, and other traits, are controlled by multiple genes and exhibit complex inheritance patterns. Traditional...

Physiological and Transcriptome Analysis Provide Insights into the Effects of Low and High Selenium on Methionine and Starch Metabolism in Rice Seedlings

13/02/2025 - Selenium (Se) is an essential micronutrient for the human body and is closely linked to health. Rice (Oryza sativa L.), as a major staple food globally, is the primary source of Se intake for humans....

Study on the Automatic Selection of Sensitive Hyperspectral Bands for Rice Nitrogen Retrieval Based on a Maximum Inscribed Rectangle

05/02/2025 - Most existing studies on the optimal bandwidth selection for plant nitrogen are based on the sensitive band center, and determine the optimal bands by manually adjusting the bandwidth, step by step....

Enhancing phosphorus availability and dynamics in acidic soils through Rice straw biochar application: a sustainable alternative to chemical fertilizers

- Phosphorus is a vital nutrient for crop growth, but its bioavailability is often limited in acidic soils, which are prevalent in many agricultural regions, including South China. These soils are...