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Oluwatobi Esther Ayiti, Ayansina Segun Ayangbenro and Olubukola Oluranti Babalola
Nitrifying bacteria and archaea are ubiquitous and can transform ammonia locked up in soil or manure into nitrate, a more soluble form of nitrogen. However, nitrifying bacteria and archaea inhabiting maize rhizosphere have not been fully explored. This s...
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Rongchao Shi, Ling Tong, Taisheng Du and Manoj K. Shukla
Research is imperative to predict seed vigor of hybrid maize production under water deficit in arid areas. Field experiments were conducted in 2018 and 2019 in arid areas of northwestern China to investigate the effects of different irrigation strategies...
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Carrie J. Butts-Wilmsmeyer, Juliann R. Seebauer, Lee Singleton and Frederick E. Below
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Xiaowei Wang, Xiaoyu Li, Yunsheng Lou, Songcai You and Haigen Zhao
The Northeast region of China and Huang Huai Hai (3H) region are vital maize production bases in northern China that are crucial for national food security. The absence of phenological data hinders a detailed assessment of the alignment between maize dev...
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Wanlu Zhang, Shiduo Niu, Jiaxin Yao, Yipeng Zhang, Xiao Li, Huixin Dong, Shuang Si, Hang Li, Xuelei Li, Jianhong Ren and Zhen Gao
Maize kernel growth is sensitive to heat stress, which is predicted to result in yield loss. However, the response of maize to short-term heat stress during different kernel-growth stages is still not clear. A 3-year field experiment, included two heat-s...
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Barbara Dobosz, Dariusz Gozdowski, Jerzy Koronczok, Jan ?ukovskis and Elzbieta Wójcik-Gront
The accurate evaluation of crop damage by wild animals is crucial for farmers when seeking compensation from insurance companies or other institutions. One of the game species that frequently cause crop damage in Europe is the wild boar, which often feed...
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Qian Cheng, Honggang Xu, Shuaipeng Fei, Zongpeng Li and Zhen Chen
The leaf area index (LAI), commonly used as an indicator of crop growth and physiological development, is mainly influenced by the degree of water and fertilizer stress. Accurate assessment of the LAI can help to understand the state of crop water and fe...
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Huan Zhao, Tingting Xie, Houjun Xiao and Ming Gao
Optimizing fertilization strategies is crucial for obtaining high crop yields and efficient N utilization. This study aimed to understand the potential increase in crop yield and the N utilization efficiency under biochar-based fertilizer (BF) in a maize...
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Temesgen Assefa Gelaw, Kavita Goswami and Neeti Sanan-Mishra
Plants have an inherent mechanism for perceiving drought stress and respond through a series of physiological, cellular and molecular changes for maintaining physiological water balance. It has been shown that nitrogen (N) and phosphate (P) can help to i...
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Ibrahim Wahab, Ola Hall and Magnus Jirström
The application of remote sensing methods to assess crop vigor and yields has had limited applications in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) due largely to limitations associated with satellite images. The increasing use of unmanned aerial vehicles in recent times...
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Meng Li, Ronghao Chu, Qian Yu, Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul Islam, Shuren Chou and Shuanghe Shen
This study evaluates the performance of structural, chlorophyll-based, and photochemical indices to detect maize water status and to assess production based on five years of field experiments (2013?2017) during the primary growth stages. We employed thre...
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Cassyo De Araujo Rufino, Jucilayne Fernandes-Vieira, Jesús Martín-Gil, José De Souza Abreu Júnior, Lizandro Ciciliano Tavares, Marciabela Fernandes-Correa and Pablo Martín-Ramos
Maize is an important food staple in many countries, and is useful in animal feed and many industrial applications. Its productivity is highly sensitive to drought stress, which may occur at any period during its growth cycle. The objective of this work ...
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Yingxin Zhang, Wenliang Wei, Wenlong Gao, Hao Cui, Xuelei Xu, Wen Jiang and Shutang Liu
The content of plant endogenous hormones could be influenced by fertilization, which play an important regulatory role in plant growth and yield formation. However, the effects of phosphate (P) application rates on the dynamical changes in the exogenous ...
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Lili Zhou, Chenwei Nie, Tao Su, Xiaobin Xu, Yang Song, Dameng Yin, Shuaibing Liu, Yadong Liu, Yi Bai, Xiao Jia and Xiuliang Jin
Maize is one of the main grain reserve crops, which directly affects the food security of the country. It is extremely important to evaluate the growth status of maize in a timely and accurate manner. Canopy Chlorophyll Density (CCD) is closely related t...
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Zhilu Sun and Teng Fu
The state of food security in the world, including that of Europe and Central Asia (ECA), was highlighted in 2020 by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, when the fact that the food security status of millions of people in ECA, particularly the most vu...
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Chao Gao and Xuewen Li
Droughts occur frequently during summer maize growth in the Huaihe River Basin, China. Identifying the critical precipitation thresholds that can lead to drought is conducive to drought monitoring and the creation of early warning systems. Based on meteo...
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Christoph Studer, Yuncai Hu and Urs Schmidhalter
Global climate change is likely to increase the risk of frequent drought. Maize, as the principal global cereal, is particularly impacted by drought. Nutrient supply may improve plant drought tolerance for better plant establishment during seedling growt...
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Liming Dong, Yuchao Lu, Guoqing Lei, Jiesheng Huang and Wenzhi Zeng
Intercropping radiation interception model is a promising tool for quantifying solar energy utilization in the intercropping system. However, few models have been proposed that can simulate intercropping radiation interception accurately and with simplic...
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Yifei Zhang, Yuxin Lu, Haiou Guan, Jiao Yang, Chunyu Zhang, Song Yu, Yingchao Li, Wei Guo and Lihe Yu
Background: Low-temperature stress significantly restricts maize germination, seedling growth and development, and yield formation. However, traditional methods of evaluating maize seedling quality are inefficient. This study established a method of grad...
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Lei Sun, Chongchong Yang, Jun Wang, Xiwen Cui, Xuesong Suo, Xiaofei Fan, Pengtao Ji, Liang Gao and Yuechen Zhang
Existing maize production is grappling with the hurdles of not applying nitrogen fertilizer accurately due to subpar detection accuracy and responsiveness. This situation presents a significant challenge, as it has the potential to impact the optimal yie...
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