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Adjustments of flower opening time and duration in tropical rice (Oryza sativa ssp. indica) landraces in response to heat stress J. Agron. Crop Sci. (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Debal Deb, Ayan Paul, Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
Based on our primary database of the flower opening time (FOT) and flower exposure duration (FED) of 1114 rice (Oryza sativa ssp. indica) landraces, we examined the influences of growing season, sunrise time as well as day maximum and minimum temperatures on the anthesis behaviour of indica rice landraces of South and Southeast Asia, flowering in summer and winter in 3 consecutive years (2020–2022)
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Direct nitrous oxide emissions from a crop rotation of maize and mung bean after different long-term fertilizer applications in Thailand Field Crops Res. (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Patikorn Sriphirom, Amnat Chidthaisong, Kazuyuki Yagi, Wanida Nobuntou, Suphakarn Luanmanee, Nimaradee Boonapatcharoen, Wantanasak Suksong
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Multi-objective optimization of farmland water level and nitrogen fertilization management for winter wheat cultivation under waterlogging conditions based on TOPSIS-Entropy Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Pingru He, Shuang’en Yu, Jihui Ding, Tao Ma, Jin’gang Li, Yan Dai, Kaiwen Chen, Suhan Peng, Guangquan Zeng, Shuaishuai Guo
Aiming at the problems of reduced winter wheat yield and aggravation of nitrogen leaching pollution caused by the waterlogging in the Middle-Lower Yangtze Plain, China, a two-year field experiment with three farmland water levels (W40, W60, W80) and three nitrogen application rates (N150, N225, N300) as well as a non-waterlogged treatment (CK) was carried out, to investigate the coupling effects of
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Partitioning evapotranspiration of Camellia oleifera during the growing season based on the Penman-Monteith model combined with the micro-lysimeter and stable isotope methods Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Xiong Xia, Deyong Hu, Xin Liu, Lingli Yue, Bin Ma, Yongzhong Chen, Youjie Wu
Frequent seasonal droughts impact on crop growth and yield in the hilly areas of southern China. A good knowledge of its evapotranspiration partitioning of the main economic oil crop is particularly important to increase water productivity and improve water resource management. The isotope-based method was applied to partition ET in the hilly Forest of southern China. The isotopic composition of evapotranspiration
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Heat‐stress‐induced fertility loss in summer maize (Zea mays L.): Quantitative analysis of contributions from developmental and physiological damage to pollen J. Agron. Crop Sci. (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Huiqin Wang, Jing Sun, Hao Ren, Bin Zhao, Jiwang Zhang, Baizhao Ren, Peng Liu
In recent years, the frequency and intensity of exposure to heat stress have increased gradually, seriously hampering the production of maize. This paper presents a study designed to analyze how the development, physiology and dispersal of pollen from the heat‐resistant maize variety Zhengdan958 and the heat‐sensitive maize variety Xianyu335 are affected by exposure to heat stress during the tasselling
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Cultivar mixtures increase crop yields and temporal yield stability globally. A meta-analysis Agron. Sustain. Dev. (IF 7.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Tiantian Huang, Thomas F. Döring, Xiaoru Zhao, Jacob Weiner, Pengfei Dang, Maoxue Zhang, Miaomiao Zhang, Kadambot H. M. Siddique, Bernhard Schmid, Xiaoliang Qin
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Factors influencing the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices for rice cultivation in Southeast Asia: a review Agron. Sustain. Dev. (IF 7.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Sheng-Han-Erin Chang, Emmanuel O. Benjamin, Johannes Sauer
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Thresholds and prediction models to support the sustainable management of herbivorous insects in wheat. A review Agron. Sustain. Dev. (IF 7.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Daniel J. Leybourne, Kate E. Storer, Abigail Marshall, Nasamu Musa, Samuel Telling, Laurie Abel, Sacha White, Steve Ellis, Po Yang, Pete M. Berry
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Case study analysis of innovative producers toward sustainable integrated crop-livestock systems: trajectory, achievements, and thought process Agron. Sustain. Dev. (IF 7.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Fernanda Gomes Moojen, Julie Ryschawy, J. D. Wulfhorst, David W. Archer, Paulo César de Faccio Carvalho, John R. Hendrickson
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APSIM-based modeling approach to understand sorghum production environments in Mali Agron. Sustain. Dev. (IF 7.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Madina Diancoumba, Jana Kholová, Myriam Adam, Mahamoudou Famanta, Benoît Clerget, Pierre C. S. Traore, Eva Weltzien, Michel Vacksmann, Greg McLean, Graeme L. Hammer, Erik J. van Oosterom, Vincent Vadez
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Actual evapotranspiration and energy balance estimation from vineyards using micro-meteorological data and machine learning modeling Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Sigfredo Fuentes, Samuel Ortega-Farías, Marcos Carrasco-Benavides, Eden Tongson, Claudia Gonzalez Viejo
Actual evapotranspiration (ETa) can be commonly estimated using numerical models based on i) weather and plant-based parameters, ii) from remotely sensed data and energy balance algorithms, and lately, iii) through the development and implementation of machine learning (ML) modeling techniques. In this work, supervised ML models were developed from a vineyard located in Talca, Chile, (i) to estimate
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Variation and attribution of energy distribution for salinized sunflower farmland in arid area Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Weishu Wang, Yao Rong, Xiaoqin Dai, Chenglong Zhang, Chaozi Wang, Zailin Huo
Agricultural water resources consumption and soil salinity interact with the distribution of radiation energy in arid salinized farmland. Understanding the temporal changes in energy distribution is necessary to enhance water resource use efficiency. Based on two years of monitoring the energy fluxes in a salinized sunflower field, it was found that field energy fluxes were dependent on available energy
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Grain yield, water-land productivity and economic profit responses to row configuration in maize-soybean strip intercropping systems under drip fertigation in arid northwest China Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Hongtai Kou, Zhenqi Liao, Hui Zhang, Zhenlin Lai, Yiyao Liu, Hao Kong, Zhijun Li, Fucang Zhang, Junliang Fan
Intercropping has great potential for alleviating arable land competition, improving land output and promoting sustainable agricultural development. However, the applicability of maize-soybean strip intercropping under drip fertigation in arid northwest China remains unclear, especially under various row configurations. A two-season (2022 and 2023) field experiment was performed in the Hexi Region
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Optimization of maize irrigation strategy in Xinjiang, China by AquaCrop based on a four-year study Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Hongyan Zhu, Bingyan Zheng, Weibo Nie, Liangjun Fei, Yuyang Shan, Ge Li, Fei Liang
Global water scarcity has become a non-negligible problem that threatens the sustainable development of agriculture. In order to alleviate the contradiction between grain demand and water resource constraints, it is particularly important to explore appropriate irrigation strategy so as to synergistically increase grain yield and water use efficiency (WUE). The AquaCrop model were locally calibrated
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Wetting-warming climate increases ecosystem carbon use efficiency of Chinese arid and semi-arid ecosystem Agric. For. Meteorol. (IF 6.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Yihan Sun, Guang Zhao, Zhoutao Zheng, Yixuan Zhu, Juntao Zhu, Yangping Di, Jie Gao, Mengke Cai, Yangjian Zhang
Co-limited by environmental constraints, ecosystems in arid and semi-arid regions (ASARs) are extremely sensitive to climate change. A warmer and wetter climate trend has been observed extensively in ASARs of China, but whether and how the changing climate has influenced ecosystem carbon allocation and balance remains largely unclear. To bridge this knowledge gap, we conducted a comprehensive study
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Simulation of soil temperature under maize: An inter-comparison among 33 maize models Agric. For. Meteorol. (IF 6.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Bruce A. Kimball, Kelly R. Thorp, Kenneth J. Boote, Claudio Stockle, Andrew E. Suyker, Steven R. Evett, David K. Brauer, Gwen G. Coyle, Karen S. Copeland, Gary W. Marek, Paul D. Colaizzi, Marco Acutis, Sotirios Archontoulis, Faye Babacar, Zoltán Barcza, Bruno Basso, Patrick Bertuzzi, Massimiliano De Antoni Migliorati, Benjamin Dumont, Jean-Louis Durand, Nándor Fodor, Thomas Gaiser, Sebastian Gayler
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Responses of winter wheat yield and soil organic carbon to long-term (1990–2021) fertilization regimes under inter-annual weather variation in the Loess Plateau Eur. J. Agron. (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Panxin Zhang, Victor O. Sadras, Runze Zhang, Lin Liu, Xueyun Yang, Benhua Sun, Changlu Hu, Hu Xu, Shulan Zhang
Understanding the long-term responses of crop yield and soil organic carbon to fertilization is necessary to sustain food supply in a context of global change. The time-course of winter wheat yield and soil organic carbon were established in a 31-year long experiment with four fertilization regimes: unfertilized control; fertilized with mineral nitrogen and phosphorus, NP; fertilized with mineral N
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Declined benefit of earlier spring greening on summer growth in northern ecosystems under future scenarios Agric. For. Meteorol. (IF 6.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Zhi Huang, Lei Zhou, Duwei Zhong, Pai Liu, Yonggang Chi
Widespread spring warming and an earlier start of the growing season (SOS) compensated for spring vegetation productivity, simultaneously resulting in reduced retention of accessible nutrition and water resources in subsequent seasons. In this case, however, it is unknown whether the increased summer growth induced by earlier SOS will be sustained. Here, we analyzed the legacy effects of SOS on summer
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Wildfire impacts on the carbon budget of a managed Nordic boreal forest Agric. For. Meteorol. (IF 6.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Julia Kelly, Natascha Kljun, Zhanzhang Cai, Stefan H. Doerr, Claudio D'Onofrio, Thomas Holst, Irene Lehner, Anders Lindroth, Shangharsha Thapa, Patrik Vestin, Cristina Santín
Wildfire is one of the most important disturbances affecting boreal forests. Most previous research on boreal forest fires has occurred in North American forests which have different fire regimes, tree species and are less intensively managed than their Eurasian counterparts. Recent extreme fire years have highlighted the vulnerability of the Nordic boreal forest to climatic shifts that are increasing
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Accurate measurement of field size is essential for analysis of smallholder survey data Field Crops Res. (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Rica Joy Flor, Shen Yuan, Gonzalo Rizzo, Fahmuddin Agus, Anny Ruth P. Pame, Akhara Ouk, Rathmuny Then, Sokheng Keo, Virender Kumar, Patricio Grassini
Agronomic surveys play a vital role in identifying on-farm yield constraints and opportunities to increase productivity, input-use efficiency, and farmer profit. These surveys typically rely on farmer-reported data, where crop yield and applied inputs per hectare are estimated based on farmer-reported total harvested output and applied inputs per field and associated field size. At question is how
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Beyond assimilation of leaf area index: Leveraging additional spectral information using machine learning for site-specific soybean yield prediction Agric. For. Meteorol. (IF 6.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-21 Deborah V. Gaso, Dilli Paudel, Allard de Wit, Laila A. Puntel, Adugna Mullissa, Lammert Kooistra
Assimilating external observations of crop state in cropping system models is essential for making spatially explicit predictions of crop variables relevant in precision agriculture. Satellite-based leaf area index (LAI) estimates have been the most frequent variable used as a proxy of actual crop growth. However, additional information beyond LAI, like canopy N content, water content, and structure
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Effect of high frequency subsurface drip fertigation on plant growth and agronomic nitrogen use efficiency of red cabbage Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Ana Claudia Callau-Beyer, Martin Mungai Mburu, Caspar-Friedrich Weßler, Nasser Amer, Anne-Laure Corbel, Mareille Wittnebel, Jürgen Böttcher, Jörg Bachmann, Hartmut Stützel
High emissions of nitrogen to the environment are one of the major drawbacks of modern agriculture. Subsurface drip fertigation (SDF) is a technology to apply fertilizer in small amounts continuously and directly into the root zone with the potential of mitigating deep percolation losses when accurately managed. Our study was established to analyze possible benefits of SDF, i.e. nitrate losses reduction
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Impact of recurring irrigation with treated domestic wastewater on heavy metal accumulation in the soil Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Jonas G. Balengayabo, Gabriel R. Kassenga, Shaaban M. Mgana, Fredrick Salukele
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Connectivity of evapotranspiration processes in a Brazilian dryland reservoir using remote sensing Agric. For. Meteorol. (IF 6.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Italo Sampaio Rodrigues, Gláuber Pontes Rodrigues, Carlos Alexandre Gomes Costa, Christopher Hopkinson, José Carlos de Araújo
Understanding the combined open water reservoir evaporation and riparian vegetation transpiration (evapotranspiration) is important for water resource management in semiarid regions like the Brazilian Dryland region. Existing research has explored reductions in open water evaporation due to riparian vegetation transpiration, but evidence for this interdependence in this region is not well understood
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A novel smart fertigation system for irrigation with treated wastewater: Effects on nutrient recovery, crop and soil Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Giordano Odone, Giulio Demetrio Perulli, Giuseppe Mancuso, Stevo Lavrnić, Attilio Toscano
Both southern and northern regions of Italy are experiencing reduced precipitation and increased heat waves due to climate change, negatively affecting agricultural sector. Urban wastewater could be a solution to this problem, providing a constant source for irrigation and reducing synthetic fertilizer use. This research presents a two-year field study on using tertiary treated wastewater for processing
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Optimizing drip irrigation managements to improve alfalfa seed yield in semiarid region Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Zhicheng Jia, Chengming Ou, Shoujiang Sun, Ming Sun, Yihong Zhao, Changran Li, Shiqiang Zhao, Juan Wang, Shangang Jia, Peisheng Mao
Alfalfa, a crucial forage crop, encounters substantial challenges in seed production in semi-arid regions due to drought and soil salinization. To address this challenge, a five-year field experiment was conducted in northwestern China to evaluate the effects of subsurface drip irrigation (SSDI) at different drip line depths and with different irrigation time treatments on alfalfa seed yield, yield
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Effects of PLA/PBAT-based biodegradable film mulch on water and nitrogen dynamics in soil-potato system Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Chong Yang, Shouli Feng, Jingyin Yu, Xiaoyuan Tao, Xuhua Gao, Shengchun Xu
Replacement of polyethylene (PE) film mulch (PM) to biodegradable film mulch (BM) can significantly reduce plastic pollution and carbon footprint in agricultural production. However, the effects of BM on nitrogen dynamics in soil-plant system remain elusive. A field experiment with two cropping seasons was conducted to investigate the effects of biodegradable film on soil nitrogen mineralization, nitrate
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Multi-growth stage regulated deficit irrigation improves maize water productivity in an arid region of China Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Fengli Jiao, Risheng Ding, Taisheng Du, Jian Kang, Ling Tong, Jia Gao, Jie Shao
Improving crop water productivity (WP) in the face of drought conditions and optimizing water allocation for irrigated crops are critical steps toward mitigating the challenges associated with agricultural water use. To investigate the effects of regulated deficit irrigation (RDI) at different growth stages on maize yield and WP, a 4-year field experiment was conducted on spring maize under film drip
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Seasonal climate forecast-an important tool in managing the risk of extreme weather events in Australia's wheat industry Agric. For. Meteorol. (IF 6.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Qunying Luo, Li Wen, Tim Cowan, Dale Schilling
This study aims to investigate the benefits of using the Australian Community Climate and Earth-System Simulator-Seasonal Version 2 (ACCESS-S2), a state-of-the-art seasonal climate forecast (SCF) system, to improve contingent decision-making in the Australian wheat industry. Six locations in eastern Australia, three cultivars with varying maturities, and 17 times of sowing (TOS) were considered. Seasonal
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Cross model validation for a diversified cropping system Eur. J. Agron. (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Ixchel M. Hernández-Ochoa, Thomas Gaiser, Kathrin Grahmann, Anna Engels, Kurt-Christian Kersebaum, Sabine J. Seidel, Frank Ewert
Crop diversification is gaining traction due to the positive benefits in the delivery of ecosystem services (ESS) and the promotion of biodiversity. Agroecosystem simulation models can contribute to the design of diversified cropping systems but require calibration and validation before they can be applied. However, data availability is still very limited, particularly for diversified cropping systems
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Adopting agronomic strategies to enhance the adaptation of global rice production to future climate change: a meta-analysis Agron. Sustain. Dev. (IF 7.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Saiya Li, Feng Wu, Qing Zhou, Yali Zhang
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APSIM’s origins and the forces shaping its first 30 years of evolution: A review and reflections Agron. Sustain. Dev. (IF 7.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Brian Anthony Keating
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Coupled soil moisture management and alginate oligosaccharide strategies enhance citrus orchard production, water and potassium use efficiency by improving the rhizosphere soil environment Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Zhiming Li, Songpo Duan, Xin Ouyang, Shijie Song, Diwen Chen, Xianting Fan, Hanqing Ding, Hong Shen
Optimizing soil water and fertilizer management can benefit crop production and soil environment. Alginate oligosaccharides (AOS) are natural biostimulants with fertilizer efficiency- and growth-promoting functions. However, there are few application strategies of AOS in citrus production, especially in combination with water and fertilizer regulations. In this paper, a two-year field trial was conducted
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How do farmers adapt to water scarcity? Evidence from field experiments Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 John Asprilla-Echeverria
This research is about how farmers adapt to water scarcity. Using experimental economics methods, field experiments were carried out in a region exposed to severe water scarcity in Colombia. Willingness of water users to cooperate in conforming to extraction caps, as a means of adapting to water availability declination was calculated. Two information treatment groups were implemented in order to assess
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Cotton lands induced cooling effect on land surface temperature in Xinjiang, China Agric. For. Meteorol. (IF 6.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Jie Dong, Zhouye Pang, Shangrong Lin, Xiuhong Zhang, Zhenglan Xie, Peiyang Ren, Xiao Zhang, Wenping Yuan
In recent years, there has been a dramatic expansion of the cotton planting area in northwest China, largely relying on agricultural irrigation. Irrigation, by altering biophysical factors, affects the energy budget and generates feedback to the local climate. However, the spatial and seasonal patterns of the cooling effects caused by cotton irrigation have been rarely investigated in detail. In this
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Photoperiod associated late flowering reaction norm: Dissecting loci and genomic-enviromic associated prediction in maize Field Crops Res. (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Alper Adak, Seth C. Murray, José I. Varela, Valentina Infante, Jennifer Wilker, Claudia Irene Calderón, Nithya Subramanian, Natalia de Leon, Jianming Yu, Matthew A. Stull, Marcel Brun, Joshua Hill, Charles D. Johnson, Oscar Riera-Lizarazu, William L. Rooney, Hongbin Zhang
Tropical maize lines are known to have extended flowering times when grown in northern temperate environments, a response largely due to the prolonged day length. This adaptation challenge is referred to as Photoperiod Associated Late Flowering (PALF) and poses a significant barrier to using tropical maize genetics in temperate agricultural settings. This study aims to (i) investigate the genomic and
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Enhancing cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) productivity and quality with magnetized ionized water and Bacillus subtilis intervention under film-mulched drip irrigation in saline soil in Xinjiang Field Crops Res. (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Zhanbo Jiang, Quanjiu Wang, Songrui Ning, Xiaoqin Hu, Zhaoxin Song
Soil salinity stress and limited nutrient availability significantly impede crop production. Addressing these challenges, the activation of irrigation water and soil enhancement strategies have proven increasingly effective in improving crop production in saline soils. In particular, magnetized ionized water technology has been shown to augment the leaching of soil salinity, while has been applied
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How does increasing planting density affect nitrogen use efficiency of maize: A global meta-analysis Field Crops Res. (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Hui Shao, Xuebing Wu, Haihang Chi, Fengbo Zhu, Junhui Liu, Jiahui Duan, Wenjun Shi, Yi Xu, Guohua Mi
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How future changes in irrigation water supply and demand affect water security in a Mediterranean catchment Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 J.P.C. Eekhout, I. Delsman, J.E.M. Baartman, M. van Eupen, C. van Haren, S. Contreras, J. Martínez-López, J. de Vente
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Efficient absorption of green light by the canopy of a monoculture coniferous forest Agric. For. Meteorol. (IF 6.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Huixing Kang, Jiayin Han, Xihan Mu, Jin Chen, Leiming Zhang, Yanhong Tang
Leaves absorb red and blue light more efficiently than green light. Within a spatially heterogeneous canopy, both the sieve effect and the detour effect contribute to an increase in the absorption of green light relative to that of red and blue light. Such an increase in the relative absorption of green light tends to be intensified with increasing canopy depth. Consequently, the absorption of green
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Irrigation scheduling in sand-layered farmland: Evaluation of water and salinity dynamics in the soil by SALTMED-1D model under mulched maize production in Hetao Irrigation District, China Eur. J. Agron. (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Zhuangzhuang Feng, Qingfeng Miao, Haibin Shi, Xianyue Li, Jianwen Yan, José Manuel Gonçalves, Liping Dai, Weiying Feng
Issues of water scarcity and uneven spatiotemporal distribution are becoming increasingly prominent in arid and semi-arid regions. As the largest single head system irrigation district in Asia, the Hetao Irrigation District in Inner Mongolia has a widespread distribution of farmland with sand layers along the Yellow River. However, timely and appropriate irrigation reliability rate is low; hence, assessing
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Assessment for aerodynamic and canopy resistances in simulating latent heat flux of Venlo-type greenhouse tomato Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Ping Yi, Hao Liu, Shengxing Liu, Yang Han, Xianbo Zhang, Guang Yang, Chunting Wang, Abdoul Kader, Xiaoman Qiang, Jinglei Wang
An accurate and dynamic evaluation of the latent heat flux () of greenhouse crops is imperative for advancing precision irrigation. Previous studies used the Penman-Monteith model to evaluate and treated the canopy as a holistic leaf, overlooking the discrepancies in structure and microclimate across canopy vertical sections. This study divided the canopy into a shaded and a sunlit layer in line with
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Spatio-temporal evaluation of drought adaptation in wheat revealed NDVI and MTSI as powerful tools for selecting tolerant genotypes Field Crops Res. (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 S. Srinatha Reddy, G Mahendra Singh, Uttam Kumar, Pradeep Bhati, Manish Vishwakarma, Sudhir Navathe, K.J. Yashavanthakumar, Vinod K. Mishra, Sandeep Sharma, Arun K. Joshi
Water is one of the major limiting factors for wheat production. Mult-environmental evaluation is necessary to identify stable drought tolerant wheat genotypes. To identify stable drought tolerant wheat genotypes and reliable phenotypic and/or spectral markers for drought tolerance. One hundred ninety-six diverse wheat genotypes were evaluated at three different locations in India for two years (E1
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TSP-yolo-based deep learning method for monitoring cabbage seedling emergence Eur. J. Agron. (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Xin Chen, Teng Liu, Kang Han, Xiaojun Jin, Jinxu Wang, Xiaotong Kong, Jialin Yu
Real-time monitoring of seedling emergence is vital for vegetable crop management and yield estimation. Traditionally, crop seedling emergence monitoring relies on low-efficient and time-consuming manual counting. To address this issue, this research proposed an efficient, fast, and real-time cabbage seedling counting method (combining the improved YOLOv8n, tracking algorithm, and image processing)
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Field and simulation studies on yield, water and nitrogen dynamics and use efficiency in rice-wheat crops in sequence Field Crops Res. (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 T. Jyolsna, B.B. Vashisht, Manish Yadav, Ramandeep Kaur, S.K. Jalota
The dominant rice-wheat cropping system in the Indo-Gangetic plain faces challenges of water depletion and nitrogen pollution of groundwater as well as declining productivity caused by over irrigation and nitrogen fertilization by the farmers. To appreciate the apt use of irrigation water and nitrogen fertilizer in rice and wheat crops it is essential to explore the water and nitrogen balances as well
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The concepts and quantification of yield gap using boundary lines. A review Field Crops Res. (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 C. Miti, A.E. Milne, K.E. Giller, R.M. Lark
The potential yield of crops is not usually realised on farms creating yield gaps. Methods are needed to diagnose yield gaps and to select interventions. One method is the boundary line model in which the upper bound of a plot of yield against a potentially limiting factor is viewed as the most efficient response to that factor and anything below it has a yield gap caused by inefficiency of other factors
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Hydrogels for agronomical application: from soil characteristics to crop growth: a review Agron. Sustain. Dev. (IF 7.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Ilaria Piccoli, Carlo Camarotto, Andrea Squartini, Matteo Longo, Silvia Gross, Michele Maggini, Miguel Lorenzo Cabrera, Francesco Morari
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Skill of rice yields forecasting over Mainland Southeast Asia using the ECMWF SEAS5 ensemble prediction system and the WOFOST crop model Agric. For. Meteorol. (IF 6.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Ubolya Wanthanaporn, Iwan Supit, Winai Chaowiwat, Ronald W.A. Hutjes
This study evaluates the potential use of European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF) ensemble prediction system-5 (SEAS5) to force the WOrld FOod Studies crop model (WOFOST) for predicting rice production in Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA). The assessment covers a 30-year period (1985–2014) by comparing yield using the SEAS5 weather data with benchmark yield simulation based on reference
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Evapotranspiration, carbon dynamics and water use efficiency in a drip-irrigated olive orchard in arid coastal western South America Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Richard Tito, Rudi Cruz, Alex Nina, Fabian Limonchi, Beisit L. Puma-Vilca, Norma Salinas, Eric G. Cosio
The primary climatic characteristic of olive cultivation in Peru is the coastal desert environment with moderate temperatures, minimal precipitation, and high atmospheric water content during the winter season. This report presents a comprehensive study on water and carbon fluxes in a drip-irrigated olive orchard in Pisco Province, Peru, addressing the current lack of information on olive physiology
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Yield response and water productivity of soybean (Glycine max L.) to deficit irrigation and sowing time in south-eastern Australia Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Ketema Zeleke, Claas Nendel
The aim of this study was to investigate irrigation strategies and sowing dates that would maximise soybean yield and water productivity. It is based on field experiments conducted during two seasons and simulation modelling. Irrigation treatments were 33%, 66%, 66% plus 100% during pod development and pod-fill stages, and 100% of crop evapotranspiration (ET). In the first season experiment, cvs. Bidgee
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Reducing bias on soil surface CO2 flux emission measurements: Case study on a mature oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) plantation on tropical peatland in Southeast Asia Agric. For. Meteorol. (IF 6.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Mohd Hadi Akbar Basri, Jon McCalmont, Lip Khoon Kho, Iain P. Hartley, Yit Arn Teh, Elisa Rumpang, Caroline Signori-Müller, Tim Hill
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Surface-layer turbulence associated with a fast spreading grass fire Agric. For. Meteorol. (IF 6.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Shiyuan Zhong, Melissa Gonzalez-Fuentes, Craig B. Clements, Xindi Bian, Warren E. Heilman, Joseph J. Charney, Mario M. Valero, Adam K. Kochanski, Michael T. Kiefer
A wildland fire experiment was conducted on a 40-ha tall grass prairie in Texas to study fire-atmosphere interactions. The experiment coincided with a Red Flag Warning, signifying specific weather conditions associated with an elevated risk of wildfire ignition and rapid spread. This provided a rare opportunity to observe wildland fire behavior and its impact on atmospheric flows under conditions deliberately
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Micrometeorological estimation of wet canopy evaporation from a cloud forest in central Taiwan Agric. For. Meteorol. (IF 6.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Taro Nakai, Yen-Jen Lai
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Revealing fine-scale variability in boreal forest temperatures using a mechanistic microclimate model Agric. For. Meteorol. (IF 6.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Joonas Kolstela, Tuomas Aakala, Ilya Maclean, Pekka Niittynen, Julia Kemppinen, Miska Luoto, Tuuli Rissanen, Vilna Tyystjärvi, Hilppa Gregow, Olli Vapalahti, Juha Aalto
Fine-scale temperatures are important drivers of ecosystem functions and biodiversity in boreal forests. However, accounting for large thermal variability has been difficult due to the coarse spatiotemporal resolution of climate data that is commonly applied in studies of biodiversity and forest health. Here, we use a mechanistic microclimate model and geospatial environmental and weather data to reveal
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Supporting decision-making in agricultural water management under data scarcity using global datasets – chances, limits and potential improvements Agric. Water Manag. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Benjamin Kayatz, Gabriele Baroni, Jon Hillier, Stefan Lüdtke, Dirk Freese, Martin Wattenbach
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Biophysical control of daytime and nighttime soil respiration during growing and non-growing seasons in a temperate deciduous forest Agric. For. Meteorol. (IF 6.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Yajing Han, Gangsheng Wang, Daifeng Xiang, Shuhao Zhou, Lihua Xiong
Accurate prediction of soil respiration (Rs) under climate change requires a comprehensive understanding of the dominant factors. However, the combined effects of multiple biophysical factors on long-term Rs remain uncertain due to the paucity of direct observations. Here, we developed a new method termed PLSR-lag, which integrates time lags and nonlinearity between variables into the Projection to
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Smaller conifers are more resilient to drought Agric. For. Meteorol. (IF 6.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 J. Julio Camarero, Manuel Pizarro, David S. Gernandt, Antonio Gazol
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Fates and controlling factors of nitrogen fertilizers in relation to grain yield after the application season in wheat cropping systems: A meta-analysis of 15N field trials Field Crops Res. (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Shuang Lei, Mengzhen Zhao, Hui Zhu, Mengjie Xia, Zhujun Chen, Jianbin Zhou
Understanding the fate and controlling factors of nitrogen (N) fertilizer after the application season of N fertilizer added in a cropping system is key for improving crop yield and N use efficiency (NUE) and reducing its loss. However, it remains unclear about the fates and controlling factors of N fertilizers after the application season in wheat cropping systems in relation to grain yield. The aim
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Long-term evaluation of pasture production, seasonality, and variability: An application of the DairyMod pasture model for three tropical species Eur. J. Agron. (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 J.M.P. Jayasinghe, Keith G. Pembleton, Daniel J. Donaghy, Thiagarajah Ramilan, David G. Barber
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Challenges and opportunities for increasing the use of low-risk plant protection products in sustainable production. A review Agron. Sustain. Dev. (IF 7.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Åsa Lankinen, Johanna Witzell, Kristin Aleklett, Sara Furenhed, Kristina Karlsson Green, Meike Latz, Erland Liljeroth, Rebecca Larsson, Klara Löfkvist, Johan Meijer, Audrius Menkis, Velemir Ninkovic, Åke Olson, Laura Grenville-Briggs