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Bridging barriers and solutions for better climate?adapted agriculture in low? and middle?income countries

- The graphical abstract of Ekanayaka et al. 2025 depicting the challenges and solutions for advancing towards a better climate adapted agriculture in Low?to?mid income countries.AbstractConflict...

A Novel Image-Based Method for Measuring Spray Pattern Distribution in a Mechanical Patternator

11/11/2025 - The uniform distribution of pesticides via spraying is of crucial importance in achieving effective and environmentally sustainable crop protection. Conventional assessment techniques such as...

Biochar for Soil Fertility and Climate Mitigation: Review on Feedstocks, Pyrolysis Conditions, Functional Properties, and Applications with Emerging AI Integration

11/11/2025 - Soil degradation, declining fertility, and rising greenhouse gas emissions highlight the urgent need for sustainable soil management strategies. Among them, biochar has gained recognition as a...

Deep Learning Improves Planting Year Estimation of Macadamia Orchards in Australia

11/11/2025 - Deep learning reduced macadamia planting year error at a national scale, achieving a pixel-level Mean Absolute Error (MAE) of 1.2 years and outperforming a vegetation index threshold baseline (MAE...

Territorial Disparities, Structural Imbalances and Economic Implications in the Potato Crop System in Romania

11/11/2025 - At the European level, potato cultivation is highly polarized. In Western Europe (Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark), yields are high, agricultural technology is advanced, and...

Effect of Irrigation with Saline Water on Germination, Physiology, Growth, and Yield of Durum Wheat Varieties on Silty Clay Soil

14/11/2025 - Freshwater scarcity in arid regions forces farmers to use saline water, reducing durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. subsp. durum) productivity, particularly during early growth stages. This study...

Initial Validation of NPK Fertilizer Rates and Plant Spacing for Morkhor 60, a New Soybean Variety, in Sandy Soils: Enhancing Yield and Economic Returns

13/11/2025 - Soybeans (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) are a vital global crop; however, Thailand currently imports 99% of its domestic requirement, highlighting the critical need for enhanced domestic production....

Advances and Future Trends in Electrified Agricultural Machinery for Sustainable Agriculture

14/11/2025 - The global transition toward sustainable and intelligent farming has positioned Electrified Agricultural Machinery (EAM) as a central focus in modern equipment development. By integrating advanced...

From Molecules to Fields: Mapping the Thematic Evolution of Intelligent Crop Breeding via BERTopic Text Mining

16/11/2025 - The convergence of agricultural biotechnology and artificial intelligence is reshaping modern crop improvement. Despite a surge of studies integrating artificial intelligence and biotechnology, the...

Cotton Yield Map Prediction Using Sentinel-2 Satellite Imagery in the Brazilian Cerrado Production System

16/11/2025 - Yield maps from combine harvesters are essential in precision agriculture for capturing within-field variability and guiding variable-rate input management. However, in large-scale systems such as...

AgriFusion: Multiscale RGB&ndash;NIR Fusion for Semantic Segmentation in Airborne Agricultural Imagery

15/11/2025 - The rapid development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and deep learning has accelerated the application of semantic segmentation in precision agriculture (SSPA). A key driver of this progress lies...

High-Resolution Crop Mapping and Suitability Assessment in China's Three Northeastern Provinces (2000&ndash;2023): Implications for Optimizing Crop Layout

10/11/2025 - The three northeastern provinces of China are the country's most important grain-producing region, particularly for maize, soybean, and rice, and form its largest commercial grain base. Over the past...

Effects of Long-Term Straw Return and Tillage Practices on Soil Physicochemical Traits and Yield of Waxy Maize

10/11/2025 - In the waxy maize production of Zhejiang Province, China, conventional straw management often causes planting difficulties and nutrient competition. Although no-till with straw retention is known to...

Influence of Nitrogen Addition on the Physicochemical Properties and Microbial Diversity of Spring Wheat Soil in the Loess Plateau

10/11/2025 - Excessive nitrogen addition in farmland on the Loess Plateau reduces soil quality and endangers the atmospheric environment. We designed an experiment to investigate the effects of different nitrogen...

Soil Physiochemical Property Variations and Microbial Community Response Patterns Under Continuous Cropping of Tree Peony

12/11/2025 - Continuous cropping can often deteriorate soil quality and reduce crop yield. Soil properties and microbial communities usually play a vital role in maintaining rhizosphere micro-ecosystem...

LSES1, Encoding a Member of the Casein Kinase 1 Family, Is Involved in the Regulation of Leaf Senescence in Rice

12/11/2025 - The normal metabolism of transient starch in leaves plays a vital role in determining photosynthesis and final crop yield. However, the molecular mechanisms linking abnormal transient starch...

Review and Assessment of Crop-Related Digital Tools for Agroecology

12/11/2025 - The use of digital tools in agroecological crop production can help mitigate current farming challenges such as labour shortage and climate change. The aim of this study was to map digital tools used...

Stability of Lack of Fitness Cost Associated with G143A Mutation in Pyricularia oryzae Triticum

12/11/2025 - Wheat blast, caused by Pyricularia oryzae Triticum lineage (PoTl), is one of the most destructive and significant fungal diseases affecting wheat crops. The stability of the G143A mutation in the...

Estimating Winter Wheat Leaf Water Content by Combining UAV Spectral and Texture Features with Stacking Ensemble Learning

13/11/2025 - Leaf water content (LWC) is a vital physiological indicator reflecting crop water status, crucial for precision irrigation and water management. Traditional monitoring methods are labor-intensive and...

Effects of Light on Adventitious Rooting In Vitro

11/11/2025 - Vegetative propagation through stem cuttings and in vitro microcuttings enables large-scale multiplication of superior genotypes in various crop species. This approach is widely used both to...

Agroecological Soil Management of an Organic Apple Orchard: Impact of Flowering Living Mulches on Soil Nutrients and Bacterial Activity Indices

13/11/2025 - The introduction of living mulches into an orchard can be considered an agroecological practice that can provide several ecosystem services related to integrated crop protection, also in relation to...

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