Cereals

Cereals

Substituting fertigation with swine liquid manure maintains tomato performance while enhancing dissolved nutrient pools
- Synthetic nitrogen (N) fertilization accounts for ~2.1% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Transitioning to a circular nutrient economy requires replacing synthetic inputs with recycled substrates....
Comparative Quality of Garden Strawberries (Fragaria × ananassa Duch. cv. Albion) Produced in Soil and Soilless Sustainable Urban Systems
- ABSTRACTIntroduction/MaterialsModern agriculture faces the challenge of balancing high crop yields with sustainable resource management and nutritional quality. Here, soil and soilless systems...
Characterizing How Community?Level Plant Functional Traits Impact Soil Microbial Diversity
- ABSTRACTIntroductionFunctional trait?based approaches have been suggested for designing functionally diverse plant communities to influence soil microbial community structure and diversity. However,...
Evaluating Biostimulant Products for Wheat Production in Weathered Soils and Dry Environments
- Evaluating biostimulant efficacy under optimal to challenging environments in wheatABSTRACTThe need to reduce reliance on synthetic fertilisers has intensified interest in biostimulants and organic...
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Can Increase Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Aerobically Grown Rice Under Water?Limited Conditions
- ABSTRACTRice is a vital staple crop for more than half of the global population, but water limitations threaten its production under flooded conditions. A transition to aerobic production of rice...
Laser?Enabled Biotechnology Platforms for Climate?Resilient Crop Production: Mechanistic Insights and Future Prospects
- ABSTRACTClimate change poses a major threat to global food security through extreme weather events, expanding pathogen ranges, and increased agrochemical dependency. This review highlights the...
Soil Microbiota and Rhizosphere Dynamics: Ecological Mechanisms Driving Crop Stress Adaptation in Climate?Smart Agriculture
- ABSTRACTClimate change?mediated abiotic stresses limit crop performance, and plant responses are increasingly recognized as emergent properties of the coupling between soil, plants, and microbiomes...
Understanding soil carbon storage mechanisms to support sustainable intensification of pasture-based livestock systems in Brazil
- Brazilian livestock production is predominantly based on pastures, characterized by extensive management and low forage productivity. To increase forage and livestock productivity while enhancing...
19. How does cattle grazing of corn residues affect soil health in the long term?.
10/07/2026 - Corn residue grazing is widely practiced in beef production systems in the western corn belt; however, most studies evaluating its impacts on soil health have been short term ( < 5?yr) and...
Glomus iranicum var. Tenuihypharum as a Biofertilizer Modulates Soil Microbial Community Composition and Enhances Soil Carbon Dynamics in Nectarine Cultivation
- ABSTRACTThe development of biofertilization strategies based on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) represents a promising approach to enhance crop productivity and soil health while reducing the...
Physiological Controls on Carbon Fluxes and Biomass Production in Miscanthus: Insights From a Process?Based Agroecosystem Model
- Miscanthus productivity is governed by interacting plant processes from phenology and canopy development to carbon assimilation. Data?constrained simulations reveal that photosynthetic protein...
Effects of lime and phosphorus application on soil properties and barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) yields in acidic soils of Sidama region, Ethiopia
- AbstractSoils provide vital services for agricultural productivity, carbon sequestration, biodiversity conservation, and environmental sustainability. However, soil acidity poses a major threat to...
Does fertilizer mixing enhance nutrient availability or poison plant-soil ecosystems?
- Fertilizer mixing the simultaneous or sequential co-application of two or more fertilizer types is a fundamental yet underexamined practice in global agriculture. While mixing strategies can unlock...
Microbial nutrient management approaches for sustainable rice (Oryza sativa L.) productivity and soil health under field conditions
- Green technologies exert a significant impact on agricultural systems, providing a promising pathway to enhance sustainable crop production, yield, and soil microbial activity, thereby strengthening...
Long?Term Cultivation of Perennial Energy Crops Enhance Ecosystem Multifunctionality on Marginal Red Soil Without Trade?Offs
- Switchgrass (SG) and Miscanthus (MS) boost ecosystem multifunctionality in marginal soils. Strong synergies, not trade?offs, exist among ecosystem services under SG and MS. MS surpasses SG in...
Henbit is an attainable cover crop
- Henbit is a short?season plant that grows through the winter. It seeds itself in the spring with seeds that stay dormant through the summer and germinate in the fall. Winter growth makes henbit a...
Resistance and Recovery of Crop Productivity From Contrasted Soil Fertility
13/06/2026 - AbstractThe balance between crop production and environmental sustainability depends on an adequate supply of soil nutrients, although changes in nutrient supply may initially have little effect on...
Compost as a sustainable tool for greenhouse horticultural productivity: benefits, limitations, and state of the art
- Greenhouse horticulture plays a vital role in modern agriculture, offering a controlled environment for the cultivation of high-value crops while mitigating the adverse effects of climate...