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Xiaomin Pang, Meihui Chen, Pengyao Miao, Weiting Cheng, Zewei Zhou, Ying Zhang, Qi Zhang, Jianghua Ye, Xiaoli Jia and Haibin Wang
This study explores the interaction between pear fruit quality and the soil environment over four different planting years (5, 20, 30, and 40 years), focusing on the fruit?s chemical properties, rhizosphere soil properties, microbial communities, and bot...
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María Castaño-Díaz, Marcos Barrio-Anta, Elías Afif-Khouri and Asunción Cámara-Obregón
A willow short rotation coppice (SRC) trial was conducted on former mining land in northern Spain over a period of five years, with the purpose of evaluating the effects on yield of two planting densities (9876 and 14,815 cuttings ha-1), three treatments...
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Yueyue Xu, Yingxin Wang, Xiangcheng Ma, Tie Cai and Zhikuan Jia
Knowledge of the characteristics of N2O emissions and the influential mechanism is of great significance to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in semi-arid areas. In the present study, a three-year water-control study was conducted; three simulated rainfa...
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Haiying Tang, Yao Huang, Jiaxin Yuan, Muhammad Umair Hassan, Ning Liu and Binjuan Yang
In response to the limitations of traditional double rice cropping models, this study constructed five typical rice planting models in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, namely ?Chinese milk vetch-early rice-late rice (CK/CRR), Chinese milk vetch?e...
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Feilong Jie, Liangjun Fei, Shan Li, Kun Hao, Lihua Liu and Youliang Peng
To establish the uncertain influence that the joint distribution of precipitation and reference evapotranspiration has on net irrigation water requirement, a Copula function?Monte Carlo method (CFMC) was proposed to calculate the probability of irrigatio...
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Yuqiang Li, Yinping Chen, Xuyang Wang, Yayi Niu and Jie Lian
Caragana microphylla, a native perennial leguminous shrub, is widely used for desertification control in China?s Horqin Sandy Land. We investigated the effects of afforestation using C. microphylla in areas with fixed and active dunes on so...
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Juan A. Oliet, Rosa Planelles, Francisco Artero, Juan M. Domingo- Santos
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The restoration of dry lands in the Mediterranean is a challenging task because harsh abiotic conditions hamper the counteraction of feed-back degradation processes. Active restoration through planting must be performed to deter this process. In this stu...
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Xue Wang, Jiantao Zhang, Jie Zhang, Hecang Zang, Feng Hu, Tongmei Gao, Ming Huang, Youjun Li and Guoqiang Li
Sesame is one of the important oil seed crops grown for the high-quality oil. Its growth, development, and yield are significantly affected by the changing climate conditions. Evaluating the sesame climatic suitability is crucial to optimize sesame culti...
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Yanjie Fang, Xucheng Zhang, Lingling Li, Zechariah Effah and Mir Muhammad Nizamani
Although plastic film mulching is commonly utilized to enhance crop water use efficiency (WUE) in semi-arid areas, the combined effect of plastic film mulching and fertilizer application on Tartary buckwheat yield is still unknown. To address this gap, a...
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Keren Brooks, Mark Reiter, Bo Zhang and Joshua Mott
As United States farmers adapt soybean (Glycine max) production methods from oilseed to vegetable (edamame), key management practices will need to be considered. The key objective of this study was to determine the optimal nitrogen (N) rate and N applica...
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Enrico Maria Lodolini, Alberto de Iudicibus, Pompea Gabriella Lucchese, Giuseppina Las Casas, Biagio Torrisi, Elisabetta Nicolosi, Alessio Giuffrida and Filippo Ferlito
In a young super-high-density (SHD) olive orchard located in Aidone (EN), in the Sicily Region, Italy, the architectural features of five olive cultivars were studied, specifically Arbequina, Arbosana, Oliana®, Giulia®, and FS-17®. Surveys were conducted...
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Ireneusz Sosna and Ewa Fudali
The key problem in the cultivation of densely planted dwarf orchards is the removal of weeds?trees? competitors for habitat resources. There is an urgent need to look for ecological methods of weed control as an alternative to herbicides that are harmful...
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Carlos G. Ochoa, Federico Villarreal-Guerrero, Jesús A. Prieto-Amparán, Hector R. Garduño, Feng Huang and Carlos Ortega-Ochoa
For this study, conducted in a semiarid (318 mm) rangeland setting in the Chihuahuan Desert region in northern Mexico, we evaluated the seasonal and interannual variability of precipitation, vegetation, and groundwater relations. Between 2012 and 2014, a...
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Hyun Jo, Sovetgul Asekova, Mohammad Amin Bayat, Liakat Ali, Jong Tae Song, Yu-Shin Ha, Dong-Hyuck Hong and Jeong-Dong Lee
Renewable energy generation has attracted growing interest globally. The agro-photovoltaic (APV) system is a new alternative to conventional photovoltaic power plants, which can simultaneously generate renewable energy and increase agricultural productiv...
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Atique-ur-Rehman, Rafi Qamar, Muhammad Mohsin Altaf, Mona S. Alwahibi, Rashid Al-Yahyai and Mubshar Hussain
Fodder yield and quality must be improved for sustainable livestock production. A lack of or low application of phosphorus (P) and potassium (P) are among the leading constraints of lower fodder yield and quality of sorghum [most cultivated fodder crop d...
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Chunyang Wang, Huan Zhang, Xifang Wu, Wei Yang, Yanjun Shen, Bibo Lu and Jianlong Wang
Accurate and rapid access to crop distribution information is a significant requirement for the development of modern agriculture. Improving the efficiency of remote sensing monitoring of winter wheat planting area information, a new method of automatica...
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Daijing Zhang, Xinru Hao, Zhiyao Fan, Xiao Hu, Jianhui Ma, Yuxin Guo and Lin Wu
Winter wheat and summer maize rotation is the main cropping pattern in the North China Plain (NCP). There are still problems with farmers? production modes, including shallow tillage layers, single application of chemical fertilizer causing plow bottom l...
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Mohammad Ashari Dwiputra, Adib Mustofa, Budhi Agung Prasetyo
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Mangrove forests are one of the coastal ecosystems that are under pressure due to antrophogenic activities, including land conversions to fishponds or aquaculture. On the other hand, the needs for seafood products from these aquaculture activities tend t...
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Mohammad Ashari Dwiputra, Adib Mustofa, Budhi Agung Prasetyo
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Mangrove forests are one of the coastal ecosystems that are under pressure due to antrophogenic activities, including land conversions to fishponds or aquaculture. On the other hand, the needs for seafood products from these aquaculture activities tend t...
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Kenton Sena, Carmen Agouridis, Jarrod Miller and Chris Barton
Surface mining for coal (or other mineral resources) is a major driver of land-use change around the world and especially in the Appalachian region of the United States. Intentional and well-informed reclamation of surface-mined land is critical for the ...
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