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Agriculture, Volume 12, Issue 6

2022 June - 156 articles

Cover Story: Oxyfluorfen has negative effects on environmental and human health. To reduce soil contamination and impacts on non-target organisms, biochar is introduced into soils to immobilize and sequestrate oxyfluorfen as a remediation practice. Three types of soils common in China were selected, and biochar (rice hull, BCR) was added to investigate the desorption and bioavailability of oxyfluorfen after aging BCR for 0, 1, 3, and 6 months. Four chemical extraction methods were used to predict oxyfluorfen bioavailability. Results indicated that BCR could be a practical method to remediate contaminated soil, and the 6h Tenax method could be a sensitive and feasible tool to assess the bioavailability of oxyfluorfen in soil. View this paper
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Articles (156)

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,109 Views
12 Pages

Finite Element Model Construction and Cutting Parameter Calibration of Wild Chrysanthemum Stem

  • Tao Wang,
  • Zhengdao Liu,
  • Xiaoli Yan,
  • Guopeng Mi and ,
  • Suyuan Liu,
  • Kezhou Chen,
  • Shilin Zhang,
  • Xun Wang,
  • Shuo Zhang and
  • Xiaopeng Wu
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

Due to a lack of an accurate model in finite element simulation of mechanized harvesting of wild chrysanthemum, the stem of wild chrysanthemum in the harvesting period is taken as the research object. ANSYS Workbench 19.0 software and LS-DYNA softwar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Agricultural Engineering Technologies and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,435 Views
17 Pages

Research on Comprehensive Operation and Maintenance Based on the Fault Diagnosis System of Combine Harvester

  • Weipeng Zhang,
  • Bo Zhao,
  • Liming Zhou,
  • Jizhong Wang and ,
  • Kang Niu,
  • Fengzhu Wang and
  • Ruixue Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

In view of the difficulty in diagnosing and discriminating fault conditions during the operation of combine harvesters, difficulty in real-time processing of health status, and low timeliness of fault processing, a comprehensive operation and mainten...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Robots and Automation Technology in Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
86 Citations
7,866 Views
13 Pages

Improving Wheat Yield Prediction Accuracy Using LSTM-RF Framework Based on UAV Thermal Infrared and Multispectral Imagery

  • Yulin Shen,
  • Benoît Mercatoris,
  • Zhen Cao,
  • Paul Kwan and ,
  • Leifeng Guo,
  • Hongxun Yao and
  • Qian Cheng
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Yield prediction is of great significance in agricultural production. Remote sensing technology based on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offers the capacity of non-intrusive crop yield prediction with low cost and high throughput. In this study, a wi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data-Driven Agricultural Innovations with Artificial Intelligence and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT))
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,216 Views
15 Pages

Effect of Fans’ Placement on the Indoor Thermal Environment of Typical Tunnel-Ventilated Multi-Floor Pig Buildings Using Numerical Simulation

  • Xiaoshuai Wang,
  • Mengbing Cao,
  • Feiyue Hu,
  • Qianying Yi and ,
  • Thomas Amon,
  • David Janke,
  • Tian Xie,
  • Guoqiang Zhang and
  • Kaiying Wang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

An increasing number of large pig farms are being built in multi-floor pig buildings (MFPBs) in China. Currently, the ventilation system of MFPB varies greatly and lacks common standards. This work aims to compare the ventilation performance of three...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Novel Approaches for Prediction, Detection, and Prevention of Animal Anomalies in Livestock Facilities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,736 Views
17 Pages

The Design and Test of the Chassis of a Triangular Crawler-Type Ratooning Rice Harvester

  • Weijian Liu,
  • Xiwen Luo,
  • Shan Zeng,
  • Li Zeng and
  • Zhiqiang Wen

Due to the high rolling rate of a regular crawler paddy harvester and the absence of mature first season harvester products of ratooning rice, combined with the planting mode and harvest requirements of ratooning rice, a triangular crawler ratooning...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
5,648 Views
15 Pages

Experimental Study on the Droplet Size and Charge-to-Mass Ratio of an Air-Assisted Electrostatic Nozzle

  • Shiqun Dai,
  • Jiayao Zhang,
  • Weidong Jia,
  • Mingxiong Ou and ,
  • Huitao Zhou,
  • Xiang Dong,
  • Hong Chen,
  • Ming Wang,
  • Yu Chen and
  • Shuai Yang
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

An air-assisted electrostatic nozzle uses a combination of air-assisted atomization and electrostatic spray technology. This article optimizes the existing air-assisted electrostatic nozzles in terms of structural design to obtain a higher charge-to-...

(This article belongs to the Section Crop Protection, Diseases, Pests and Weeds)
  • Perspective
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,788 Views
11 Pages

Advanced Technologies in On-Site Detection of Genetically Modified Products

  • Jiale Li,
  • Jie Li,
  • Shenghao Lin,
  • Longjiao Zhu and ,
  • Xiangyang Li and
  • Wentao Xu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Transgenic technology is significantly impacting life today. However, with the advancement of genetically modified technologies and the success of genetically modified product commercialization, new challenges have arisen for associated detecting tec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Detection and Identification of Transgenic Organisms in Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
88 Citations
8,977 Views
17 Pages

GrapeNet: A Lightweight Convolutional Neural Network Model for Identification of Grape Leaf Diseases

  • Jianwu Lin,
  • Xiaoyulong Chen,
  • Renyong Pan,
  • Tengbao Cao and ,
  • Jitong Cai,
  • Yang Chen,
  • Xishun Peng,
  • Tomislav Cernava and
  • Xin Zhang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

Most convolutional neural network (CNN) models have various difficulties in identifying crop diseases owing to morphological and physiological changes in crop tissues, and cells. Furthermore, a single crop disease can show different symptoms. Usually...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Internet and Computers for Agriculture)
  • Review
  • Open Access
43 Citations
7,599 Views
24 Pages

Post-Anthesis Heat Influences Grain Yield, Physical and Nutritional Quality in Wheat: A Review

  • Edward Fernie,
  • Daniel K. Y. Tan,
  • Sonia Y. Liu,
  • Najeeb Ullah and
  • Ali Khoddami

Climate change threatens to impact wheat productivity, quality and global food security. Maintaining crop productivity under abiotic stresses such as high temperature is therefore imperative to managing the nutritional needs of a growing global popul...

(This article belongs to the Topic The Effect of Climate Change on Crops and Natural Ecosystems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,577 Views
14 Pages

Position Accuracy Assessment of a UAV-Mounted Sequoia+ Multispectral Camera Using a Robotic Total Station

  • Dimitrios S. Paraforos,
  • Galibjon M. Sharipov,
  • Andreas Heiß and
  • Hans W. Griepentrog

Remote sensing data in agriculture that are originating from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)-mounted multispectral cameras offer substantial information in assessing crop status, as well as in developing prescription maps for site-specific variable ra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Sensor Technology to Agri-Food Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
106 Citations
7,861 Views
16 Pages

The complex backgrounds of crop disease images and the small contrast between the disease area and the background can easily cause confusion, which seriously affects the robustness and accuracy of apple disease- identification models. To solve the ab...

(This article belongs to the Section Crop Protection, Diseases, Pests and Weeds)
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
7,579 Views
13 Pages

The optimization of soil sampling is very important in precision agriculture. The main aim of this study was to evaluate the relationships between selected spectral indices (NDWI—normalized difference water index and NDVI—normalized diffe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Precision Agriculture Adoption Strategies)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,097 Views
12 Pages

Friction and Wear Properties of Wheat Straw Powder Third Body on Steel-Steel Friction Pair

  • Chenglong Lian,
  • Wei Zhao,
  • Shumei Wang,
  • Peng Zhang and ,
  • Xiaoying Dong and
  • Yongfeng Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Third body plant fibers have an important influence on the friction and wear properties of metal friction pairs. In this study, wheat straw powder with different particle sizes was prepared, and a pin-on-disk friction tester was employed to evaluate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovations and Practices of Agricultural Green Mechanized Production Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,125 Views
21 Pages

Impact of Fiscal Expenditure on Farmers’ Livelihood Capital in the Ethnic Minority Mountainous Region of Sichuan, China

  • Shili Guo,
  • Beibei Wang,
  • Kui Zhou,
  • Hui Wang and ,
  • Qiuping Zeng and
  • Dingde Xu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Poverty alleviation is the first battle to realize the rural revitalization strategy in China, and research on the sustainable livelihood of rural households is of great significance to solving the problem of rural poverty. Based on the sustainable l...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ecological Restoration and Rural Economic Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,826 Views
9 Pages

The Joint Application of Phosphorus and Ammonium Enhances Soybean Root Growth and P Uptake

  • Ciro Antonio Rosolem,
  • Thiago Barbosa Batista,
  • Patrícia Pereira Dias,
  • Laudelino Vieira da Motta Neto and
  • Juliano Carlos Calonego

It has been shown that the joint application of phosphorus (P) and ammonium (N-NH+4) increases maize root proliferation and P acquisition by maize in alkaline soils, but this has not been shown in acidic soils for legumes. A greenhouse experiment was...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Soils)
  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
14,564 Views
16 Pages

The production of synthetic pesticides is energy intensive and can emit even more greenhouse gases (GHG) per kg than the production of synthetic fertilizers. However, this aspect is largely neglected when it comes to agriculture’s contribution...

(This article belongs to the Topic The Effect of Climate Change on Crops and Natural Ecosystems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,687 Views
11 Pages

Sex and Body Colour Affect the Variation in Internal Body Temperature of Oedaleus decorus asiaticus in Natural Habitats in Inner Mongolia, China

  • Yumeng Cheng,
  • Hongmei Li,
  • Lulu Liu,
  • Guangjun Wang and ,
  • Haojing Gu and
  • Belinda Luke
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Oedaleus decorus asiaticus is one of the most harmful locusts in agricultural and pastoral areas in China. Plagues of this grasshopper can aggravate grassland degradation and cause huge damage to the livestock industry. Fungal biopesticides are seen...

(This article belongs to the Section Crop Protection, Diseases, Pests and Weeds)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,812 Views
15 Pages

Effects of Nitrogen Fertilization on Physiological Response of Maize to Soil Salinity

  • Kaixuan Du,
  • Yanqun Zhang,
  • Shanshan Qin,
  • Lijuan Wang and ,
  • Baozhong Zhang and
  • Shuji Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Soil salinization is a global problem that causes huge losses in agricultural production. Salt can interfere with crop absorption and metabolism of nutrients and water, affect plant physiological responses and reduce plant biomass. Maize, a very impo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Water-Saving Irrigation Technology and Strategies for Crop Production)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,668 Views
21 Pages

Regarding the fact that smallholder farmers form the main part of agriculture, actively guiding smallholder farmers to continually adopt the farmland quality improvement practice in their agricultural production process is considered as the critical...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Agricultural Insurance, Risk Management and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,818 Views
19 Pages

Design of and Experiments with an Automatic Cuttage Device for an Arch Shed Pillar with Force Feedback

  • Kezhou Chen,
  • Xing Liu,
  • Shiteng Jin,
  • Longfei Li and ,
  • Xin He,
  • Tao Wang,
  • Guopeng Mi,
  • Yinggang Shi and
  • Wei Li
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

In order to realize the automatic cutting of arch shed pillars, an automatic cuttage device for an arch shed pillar with force feedback was designed in this study. First, the wind resistance of the arch shed was simulated and analyzed using ANSYS, an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Agricultural Engineering Technologies and Application)
  • Review
  • Open Access
90 Citations
14,147 Views
22 Pages

The use of essential oils in animal nutrition has attracted attention as a potential substitute for antibiotic growth promoters in the past twenty-five years. This paper will review the current scientific evidence on the usage of essential oils from...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New and Alternative Feeds, Additives, and Supplements)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,742 Views
10 Pages

Beneficial soil microorganisms influence nutrient recycling, soil fertility, plant growth, and productivity and reduce chemical fertilizer application. This study aimed to isolate bacteria from non-agricultural soils in the Al-Ahsa region and charact...

(This article belongs to the Section Crop Protection, Diseases, Pests and Weeds)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,512 Views
10 Pages

Mutual interactions between the agricultural commodities futures market and the spot market are some of the most important relationships that can be observed between the financial market and the real economy. The process of the flow of price impulses...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Agricultural Food Marketing, Economics and Policies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,940 Views
15 Pages

Nutrient Utilization and Double Cropping Rice Yield Response to Dense Planting with a Decreased Nitrogen Rate in Two Different Ecological Regions of South China

  • Kang Luo,
  • Yongjun Zeng,
  • Ziming Wu,
  • Lin Guo and ,
  • Xiaobing Xie,
  • Qinghua Shi and
  • Xiaohua Pan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

An increased planting density and decreased nitrogen (N) rate combination may obtain a stable yield and enhance N utilization. However, the effects of an increased planting density and decreased N rate combination on the yield and nutrient utilizatio...

(This article belongs to the Section Crop Production)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,187 Views
20 Pages

Simulation Parameter Calibration and Experimental Study of a Discrete Element Model of Cotton Precision Seed Metering

  • Shenghe Bai,
  • Yanwei Yuan,
  • Kang Niu,
  • Liming Zhou and ,
  • Bo Zhao,
  • Liguo Wei,
  • Lijing Liu,
  • Shi Xiong,
  • Zenglu Shi and
  • Gaoyong Xing
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

To improve the accuracy of the parameters used in the discrete element simulation test, this study calibrated the simulation parameters of cotton seeds by combining a physical test and simulation test. Based on the intrinsic parameters used for the p...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,009 Views
21 Pages

In this study, we aimed to establish a multi-residue analytical method for the simultaneous detection of chemical contaminants in eggs. Using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), we developed an analytical method that can separa...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Product Quality and Safety)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,124 Views
15 Pages

The objective of the present paper was to discuss the design of farrowing pens and present the first production results of the “SowComfort farrowing pen” (SOWCOMF). The biggest difference between this pen and the traditional pen (TRAD) pr...

(This article belongs to the Section Farm Animal Production)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,532 Views
15 Pages

Structural Design and Simulation of Pneumatic Conveying Line for a Paddy Side-Deep Fertilisation System

  • Qingzhen Zhu,
  • Hengyuan Zhang,
  • Zhihao Zhu,
  • Yuanyuan Gao and
  • Liping Chen

To improve the consistency of sectional gas velocities in different rows in the pneumatic conveying line for a paddy side-deep fertilisation system, a new airflow equaliser was designed based on the mechanism of gas flow in ventilation engineering. S...

(This article belongs to the Topic Emerging Agricultural Engineering Sciences, Technologies, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,819 Views
23 Pages

Farm Management Information Systems (FMIS) assists farmers in managing their farms more effectively and efficiently. However, the use of FMIS to support crop cultivation is, at the present time, relatively expensive for smallholder farmers. Due to so...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Internet and Computers for Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,873 Views
16 Pages

Humic and Acetic Acids Have the Potential to Enhance Deterioration of Select Plastic Soil-Biodegradable Mulches in a Mediterranean Climate

  • Brenda Madrid,
  • Huan Zhang,
  • Carol A. Miles,
  • Michael Kraft and ,
  • Deirdre Griffin-LaHue and
  • Lisa Wasko DeVetter
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The perceived variability of plastic soil-biodegradable mulch (BDM) degradation has generated concerns about its functionality and sustainability, especially in climates and regions where biodegradation may be limited. This study evaluated the effect...

(This article belongs to the Topic Emerging Agricultural Engineering Sciences, Technologies, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
11,726 Views
19 Pages

Could Surplus Food in Blind Box Form Increase Consumers’ Purchase Intention?

  • Chun Yang,
  • Xuqi Chen,
  • Jie Sun,
  • Wei Wei and ,
  • Wei Miao and
  • Chao Gu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Surplus foods are fresh raw material of food that has not been processed, and a large number of surplus foods are discarded and wasted every day. As a new business model, a surplus food blind box can attract consumers to purchase to reduce food waste...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Agricultural Food Marketing, Economics and Policies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,691 Views
16 Pages

Rice is one of the important staple foods for human beings. Germ integrity is an important indicator of rice processing accuracy. Traditional detection methods are time-consuming and highly subjective. In this paper, an EfficientNet–B3–DA...

(This article belongs to the Topic Emerging Agricultural Engineering Sciences, Technologies, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,770 Views
21 Pages

Evaluation of Soil-Cutting and Plant-Crushing Performance of Rotary Blades with Double-Eccentric Circular-Edge Curve for Harvesting Cyperus esculentus

  • Hao Zhu,
  • Xiaoning He,
  • Shuqi Shang,
  • Zhuang Zhao and ,
  • Haiqing Wang,
  • Ying Tan,
  • Chengpeng Li and
  • Dongwei Wang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Severe plant entanglement and high power consumption are the main problems of the up-cut rotary blade during Cyperus esculentus harvesting. Optimization of the rotary blade edge can enhance the soil-cutting and plant-crushing performance. In this stu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Agricultural Engineering Technologies and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,235 Views
12 Pages

Design and Experiment of Full-Tray Grafting Device for Grafted Melon Seedling Production

  • Xiaohu Fu,
  • Jiahao Shi,
  • Yuan Huang,
  • Enzhao Zhu and ,
  • Zhilong Bie and
  • Weiguo Lin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

At present, the existing vegetable grafting machines are cutting and grafting operations for a single plant or row. They need to manually or automatically grab the seedlings, and their grafting efficiency is not significantly higher than that of manu...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,578 Views
12 Pages

China has implemented strict policies for protecting cultivated land, and the Chinese government has focused on the non-grain production (NGP) of cultivated land. This study aimed to analyze the spatial evolution law of grain-producing cultivated lan...

(This article belongs to the Topic Sustainable Development and Food Insecurity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,324 Views
13 Pages

Nutrient management has increasingly become important in producing quality medicinal plant materials. Vitex negundo is an important perennial medicinal plant widely distributed in tropical Asia and Africa. This study aimed to examine the effects of n...

(This article belongs to the Topic Sustainable Development of Natural bioactive compounds/Products in Animal Resource and Agriculture Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,433 Views
21 Pages

In recent years, pasture production changed from conventional tilled single pastures to minimum tilled mixed pastures in the Tsitsikamma region, South Africa. However, storage of soil organic matter (SOM) under minimum tilled mixed pastures is not ye...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Soil Carbon and Nitrogen in Agricultural Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,979 Views
17 Pages

Adopting environmentally friendly behavior has become more than a claim. Green human resource management seems to be the solution where innovation will be a strategic lever to lead the company, with green practices, to the possession of a decisive co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimization of Resource Use for Productivity, Efficiency, and Sustainability in Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,334 Views
22 Pages

Exploring the relationship between child rearing burden and farmers’ adoption of climate adaptation technologies can be used to improve farmers’ adoption of these technologies, thus reducing the impact of climate change on agricultural pr...

(This article belongs to the Topic Water and Soil Management in Adaptation to Climate Change)
  • Article
  • Open Access
159 Citations
8,405 Views
18 Pages

In order to enable the picking robot to detect and locate apples quickly and accurately in the orchard natural environment, we propose an apple object detection method based on Shufflenetv2-YOLOX. This method takes YOLOX-Tiny as the baseline and uses...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Robots and Autonomous Machines for Agriculture Production)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,142 Views
10 Pages

Agronomic Performance of Soybean with Bradyrhizobium Inoculation in Double-Cropped Farming

  • Fazliddin Namozov,
  • Sokhib Islamov,
  • Maruf Atabaev,
  • Kholik Allanov and ,
  • Aziz Karimov,
  • Botir Khaitov and
  • Kee Woong Park
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Land degradation is a serious problem in arid regions, including in Central Asian countries. Soybean symbiosis with rhizobia microbes has an essential role in improving crop productivity and sustaining soil fertility in an arid environment. An experi...

(This article belongs to the Section Crop Production)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,656 Views
18 Pages

Affected by the temporal and spatial changes of natural resources, human activities, and social economic system policies, there are many uncertainties in the development, utilization, and management process of irrigation district agricultural water r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Water-Saving Irrigation Technology and Strategies for Crop Production)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,198 Views
22 Pages

Grape Quality Zoning and Selective Harvesting in Small Vineyards—To Adopt or Not to Adopt

  • Ivana Rendulić Jelušić,
  • Branka Šakić Bobić,
  • Zoran Grgić,
  • Saša Žiković and ,
  • Mirela Osrečak,
  • Ivana Puhelek,
  • Marina Anić and
  • Marko Karoglan
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

The practical application of grape quality zoning and selective harvesting in small vineyards (<1 ha) has not yet gained much importance worldwide. However, winegrowers with small vineyards are looking for ways to improve wine quality and maximise...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Precision Agriculture Adoption Strategies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,903 Views
15 Pages

Economic and Environmental Assessment of Olive Agroforestry Practices in Northern Greece

  • Emmanouil Tziolas,
  • Stefanos Ispikoudis,
  • Konstantinos Mantzanas,
  • Dimitrios Koutsoulis and
  • Anastasia Pantera

Preservation and promotion of agroforestry systems entails the ideology for more ecosystem services, additional biodiversity benefits and climate change mitigation. Furthermore, farmland and forest landscapes and the consequent benefits to the enviro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Agroforestry Planning)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,256 Views
13 Pages

The agricultural sector in the European Union is largely characterized by a declining number of farms and an increasing size of surviving farms. The land is concentrating under the usage of fewer large agricultural producers. Meanwhile, a broad distr...

(This article belongs to the Topic Sustainable Development and Food Insecurity)
  • Review
  • Open Access
54 Citations
10,068 Views
12 Pages

Rapeseed Meal and Its Application in Pig Diet: A Review

  • Hao Cheng,
  • Xiang Liu,
  • Qingrui Xiao,
  • Fan Zhang and ,
  • Nian Liu,
  • Lizi Tang,
  • Jing Wang,
  • Xiaokang Ma,
  • Bie Tan and
  • Xianren Jiang
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

Rapeseed is the second largest plant protein resource in the world with an ideal profile of essential amino acids. Rapeseed meal (RSM) is one of the by-products of rapeseed oil extraction. Due to the anti-nutritional components (glucosinolates and fi...

(This article belongs to the Section Farm Animal Production)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,572 Views
13 Pages

To decrease the transfer of cadmium (Cd) to the food chain, it is essential to select wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) germplasm that accumulates the least amount of Cd and to develop management practices that promote a reduction in Cd uptake. This requi...

(This article belongs to the Section Crop Production)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,700 Views
23 Pages

Long-Term Fertilization Alters Mycorrhizal Colonization Strategy in the Roots of Agrostis capillaris

  • Larisa Corcoz,
  • Florin Păcurar,
  • Victoria Pop-Moldovan,
  • Ioana Vaida and ,
  • Anca Pleșa,
  • Vlad Stoian and
  • Roxana Vidican
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Long-term fertilization targets mycorrhizal fungi adapted to symbiotic exchange of nutrients, thus restricting their colonization potential and re-orienting the colonization strategies. The MycoPatt tool has a high applicability in quantifying the sy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Research of Rhizosphere Microbial Activity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,751 Views
10 Pages

Doubled haploid (DH) technology based on in vivo haploid induction has gradually become the key technology in modern maize breeding. The ability of maternal germplasm to be induced into haploids, inducibility, varies among genotypes. To dissect the g...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Genetic Mechanism and Quality Detection of High Vigor Crop Seeds)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,144 Views
22 Pages

Water is the primary limiting factor in dryland crop production, therefore emerging approaches for preserving rainwater to be more accessible to plants, for extended periods of time, can significantly improve agricultural system efficiency. Furrow di...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Use and Management of Agricultural Irrigation Systems and Technologies)

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