Agricultural Crops - Science topic

In agriculture, crop biomass is a vital indicator of the overall health of an ecosystem. Recent developments in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technologies have promoted the application of SAR remote sensing for agricultural monitoring. SAR imaging systems are unaffected by atmospheric conditions yet are sensitive to the structural properties of ve...

The application of artificial intelligence in the field of agricultural crop type recognition is of great significance. There are currently two methods for collecting crop information: remote sensing and volunteered geographic information (VGI). As one pixel in a remote sensed satellite image may correspond to multiple crop types due to its low res...

CONTEXT There is a growing consensus that agriculture, forestry, and livestock integration (agroforestry systems) could assist South Asia in combating food insecurity by expediting the transition towards sustainability. However, there is a dearth of a comprehensive synthesis of evidence demonstrating the actual relevance of this nexus to agroecolog...

Phenological studies do not lose their relevance and are carried out in very different aspects. They are important for monitoring the response of plants to climate changes, the selection of new cultivars of plants, the introduction of new non-traditional fruit crops, agricultural production, etc. According to the BBCH scale, the phenological phases...

The Thripidae family is a diverse group of insects with global distribution and significant economic importance as pests of agricultural crops. Accurate identification and classification of Thripidae species are critical for their effective management and control. To aid in this effort, DNA barcoding using the ITS gene region has proven to be an ef...

Invasive slugs cause damage to biodiversity as well as to horticultural and agricultural crops. To develop methods to mitigate problems with recently emerging invasive species, basic ecological knowledge about them in their new environment is crucial. We investigated the egg-laying substrate preference of Krynickillus melanocephalus in a laboratory...

Transcriptomic data can be used to predict environmentally impacted phenotypic traits. This type of prediction is particularly useful for monitoring difficult-to-measure phenotypic traits and has become increasingly popular for monitoring high-value agricultural crops and in precision medicine. Despite this increase in popularity, little research h...

In this study, the finite volume method was used to evaluate the thermal performance of a flat-plate solar collector used to dry agricultural crops. A 3D numerical model was created and used to predict the outlet air velocities and temperatures for three inlet air velocities. When compared with experimental measurements, the numerical predictions s...

Microbial-assisted biofortification has emerged as a sustainable approach to improve food security by enhancing the nutrient content as well as yield of agricultural crops. In the present study, we have examined the potential of siderophore-producing plant growth-promoting endophytic bacterial strain in improving nutrient content and vegetative gro...

The climate change scenario in the coming years is liable to have serious negative consequences on agricultural productivity. Increasing tropospheric ozone concentration is an important aspect of climate change, which, due to its oxidative nature, is injurious to the plants. Due to the multifarious nature and continuously increasing concentration o...

Although agricultural crops production systems in subtropical plateau regions currently pose high environmental risks, especially in developing countries, their environmental impacts and emission-reduction potentials remain unclear, and the development potential of such systems is likely huge. We conducted a case study in Yunnan Province, China, to...

Agrivoltaics, a system combining the production of agricultural crops and solar energy on the same land area, offers a potential solution to land use competition between different sectors. However, concerns have been raised regarding the impact of shade on plant growth under Agrivoltaic Systems (AVSs). Numerous studies have explored the effects of...

Organic agriculture is becoming an increasingly popular direction in modern agriculture. At the same time, some researchers and practitioners still have doubts about the ability of this technology to maintain the balance of nutrients in the soil. The article is a contribution to the study of the influence of long-term organic farming on agrochemica...

Climate change threatens global food and nutritional security through negative effects on crop growth and agricultural productivity. Many countries have adopted ambitious climate change mitigation and adaptation targets that will exacerbate the problem, as they require significant changes in current agri-food systems. In this review, we provide a r...

La necesidad de encontrar alternativas al empleo de agroquí-micos, específicamente insecticidas y fungicidas de origen químico, dirigidos al manejo de plagas y enfermedades en los diversos cultivos de la región, fue el objetivo principal para la implementación de los programas de Manejo Integrado de Plagas y del Manejo Integrado del Cultivo. Sin em...

Moistube irrigation is an efficient method that accurately irrigates and fertilizes agricultural crops. Investigation into the mechanisms of infiltration behaviors under an adjusted working head (WKH) benefits a timely and artificially regulating moisture condition within root zones, as adapted to evapotranspiration. This study explores the laws of...

Mycotoxins can pose a threat to biogas production as they can contaminate the feedstock used in biogas production, such as agricultural crops and other organic materials. This research study evaluated the contents of deoxynivalenol (DON), zearalenone (ZEA), fumonisin (FUM), and aflatoxin (AFL) mycotoxins in maize silage prior to it being processed...

Todas las plantas que crecen asociadas a los cultivos son perjudiciales? En función de quien reciba la pregunta, la respuesta puede ser "depende". En los agroecosistemas existen dos grandes gru-pos de diversidad biológica: la biodiversi-dad planificada, que refiere a los cultivos y animales incluidos en el agroecosistema por el productor; y la biod...

Research is being conducted around the world to develop technologies for saving and efficient use of irrigation water in the irrigation of agricultural crops. In this regard, special attention is paid to the efficient use of irrigation water, improvement of irrigation techniques and technologies, introduction of modern methods of irrigation, reduct...

The growth and yield of important agricultural crops are severely diminished under heat stress, as well as being eminently affected by subtle changes in wind. Thus, the main objective of this study is to develop a geostatistical interpolator according to the spatial distribution of mean air temperature and wind speed in the state of Pernambuco. Ann...

One of the primary applications of satellite Land Surface Temperature (LST) observations lies in their utilization for modeling of actual evapotranspiration (ET) in agricultural crops, with the primary goals of monitoring and enhancing irrigation practices and improving crop water use productivity, as stipulated by Sustainable Development Goal (SDG...

The article examines the assessment of the state and problems of irrigation water use in the republic in the past and in the near future. A comparative analysis of the state of water resources use for the period of the last 30 years from 1989 to 2019 was carried out. According to the estimates, own water withdrawal for 5 years (2014 / 15-2018/19) s...

The use of water-saving irrigation technologies and technical means for irrigating agricultural crops and cotton is one of the leading in the world.”Given the global production of 119.3 million tons of cotton,”† requires the introduction of irrigation technologies that will reduce water consumption and waste in the irrigation of cotton.In this rega...

The problem of obtaining environmentally friendly products, which are free from unwanted compounds that are harmful for human health like residual nitrates is very actual. The solution to this problem should be started from the initial stage of crop cultivation: seed disinfection. For that goal the new organic origin preparation 'Complex-Co' was us...

For harvesting crops, one-phase and two-phase methods are most often used. When implementing the second one, mounted and trailed units are used. The latter is becoming less and less used due to the problems with movement stability in the horizontal plane because of the asymmetric layout. A stubble background, which is susceptible to solar and wind...

Agricultural crop insurance is an important component for mitigating farm risk, particularly given the potential for unexpected climatic events. Using a 2.8 million nationwide insurance claim dataset from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), this research study examines spatiotemporal variations of over 31,000 agricultural insurance...

Food resources are essential for the survival and growth of the population. Soil phytopathogenic nematodes cause great damage to agricultural crops, endangering food supplies and resources in general. Different methods have been used to control them. However, this issue still requires a more effective solution. Caenorhabditis elegans (CGC strain wi...

Nitrogen (N) balance, budget and surplus calculations as well as efficiency calculations differ regarding the parameters that they consider and hence also the results that they provide. In this study, we (1) reviewed literature and gathered, classified and evaluated different methods to assessing potential N losses to adjacent ecosystems and N use...

Plant stress generated by various climatic and anthropogenic activities has exacerbated the degradation of agricultural systems and productivity throughout the developmental era, and it is currently recognized as the world's most significant and possibly deadly danger impacting crop plant economic output. Nonetheless, phytohormones have been found...

Las especies forestales, son fuente de productos maderables y no maderables. Además de ser importante en la obtención de extractos botánicos, contienen en sus tejidos numerosos metabolitos secundarios a los que se les han reconocido por su diversidad y actividad bilógica. considerados como una alternativa contra hongos causantes de pudrición y degr...

This study was conducted in different villages of the district Saharanpur. The poplar tree (Populus deltoides) is used as the tree component and wheat crops are used as intercrops in an agrisilvicultural system. In this study, the different effects of poplar (Populus deltoides) on wheat crops were discussed. The parameters which are recorded were g...

Alfalfa is an important agricultural crop and the most important forage crop in Iran, playing a crucial role in providing feed for livestock. Hephomycetous fungi are considered as part of the factors associated with the leaf spot disease of alfalfa. In this study, according to the importance of alfalfa cultivation in West Azerbaijan province, in No...

Crop digital twin is redefining traditional farming practices, offering unprecedented opportunities for real-time monitoring, predictive and simulation analysis, and optimization. This research embarks on an exploration of the synergy between precision agriculture, crop modeling, and regression algorithms to create a digital twin for augmenting far...

Insect pest concerns have traditionally plagued agriculture. As subsistence farming produced little and generally had a large insect population. Therefore, agriculture has to be enhanced due to the dramatically increased human population during the previous century. This was accomplished through the application of new agricultural technology, inclu...

Este trabalho apresenta uma análise da adequação do grau de eficiência na exploração (GEE) da soja, principal cultura agrícola de larga escala no Brasil, diante dos níveis produtivos atuais. Os dados são da Produção Agrícola Municipal (PAM), do IBGE, e das instruções normativas do Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária (Incra). Introdu...

Automatic pest detection from agricultural crops is a challenging agricultural application. It has been observed that many farmers lose crop yields mainly due to pests that spread rapidly. An intelligent pest recognition system (IPRS) is an innovative application that assists farmers in increasing agricultural productivity by accurately detecting p...

Lantana camara, a terrestrial plant species, exhibits invasive characteristics and poses a significant threat to neighbouring agricultural crops as it tends to outcompete and displace them, thereby causing negative consequences. The objective of the study aimed to generate a value-added and environmentally safe product through the bioconversion of...

Moringa is an important agricultural crop. It is one of the most fastest growing crops in the world. Too many advantages are there in this plant, hence it is known as miracle plant.

The article presents results of the impact of machine-tractor unit (MTU) undercarriages during soil cultivation and cultivation of agricultural crops. With movement of row-crop units across the field, MTU propellers repeatedly compact the soil. This negatively affects production of seedlings, the growth and development of plants, as well as yield o...

This comprehensive review paper, titled "Revolutionizing Agriculture: A Comprehensive Review of Nanotechnology Applications," explores the transformative role of nanotechnology in modern agriculture. In a world grappling with food security and environmental challenges, nanotechnology offers innovative solutions that significantly impact the agricul...

Fish is the second most valuable agricultural crop in Bangladesh, plays a crucial role in the livelihoods and employment of millions of people (Das et al., 2018). Fish accounted for around 17% of all proteins consumed globally in 2017 (FAO, 2020). Asia dominated world aquaculture production in the last two decades with an 89% share (FAO, 2020). Aq...

Trata-se de um manual de orientação para implementação de sistemas agroflorestais por comunidades ribeirinhas que alie benefícios econômicos e de segurança alimentar para famílias, como como alimentação da ictiofauna do Trecho de Vazão Reduzida da Volta Grande do Xingu. A ictiofauna é um agrupamento dos peixes que vivem em determinado ambiente ou r...

Rice (Oryzae sativa cv. dongjin) is a cornerstone of global food security; however, Burkholderia glumae BGR1, which is responsible for bacterial panicle blight (BPB), threatens its productive output, with dire consequences for rice and other crops. BPB is primarily caused by toxoflavin, a potent phytotoxin that disrupts plant growth at various deve...

Pest insects and microbial pathogens threaten agricultural crop productivity and global forest biomes, and insect-microbe interactions can increase the severity of plant decline. Whilst bacterial chemicals have been shown to influence insect behaviour, the impact of insect-derived chemistries on phytopathogens is barely understood. Here, we investi...

RapidEye и техни продукти по различни класификационни методи. В изследването са използвани класификационните алгоритми: Метод на опорните вектори (SVM), Метод на случайна гора на решенията (RF) и Метод на максималното правдоподобие (MXL). Тези методи са приложени върху сателитни многоканални изображения заснети от сателитите RapidEye, за тестови ра...

Almost all forms of agricultural land suffers from one or the complex abiotic stresses that substantially reduce agricultural productivity. Globally about 51-82% crop yield is lost annually due to various abiotic stresses, which further amplify manifold with climate change effects. Salinity, drought, heat and waterlogging are the major stressors af...

Indian Ocean monsoon is a periodic seasonal wind which blows from sea to land in a particular season and completely reverse back with the change of atmospheric condition in the next season due to differential heating and cooling of the land and its surrounding waterbodies (Alan and Thurman,1983). Trade wind is used to get the direction of ship for...

Cucurbits are economically important crops that are widely cultivated in many parts of the world, including the southern US. In recent years, higher temperatures have favored the rapid build-up of whiteflies in the fall-grown cucurbits in this region. As a result, whitefly-transmitted viruses (WTVs) have severely impacted the marketable yield of cu...

By developing a revolutionary method for modifying the genomes of living things, genome editing (GE) has completely changed the biological sciences. Recent years have seen the development of several technologies that make altering complex genomes possible. For agricultural crop production to be sustained and contribute to global food security, a fa...

The liquid Bio fertilizers are suspensions having agriculturally useful microorganisms, which fix atmospheric nitrogen and solubilize insoluble phosphates and make it available for the plants. The use of this Bio fertilizer is environment friendly and gives uniform results for most of the agricultural crops and directly reduces the use of chemical...

Resumo Após a aplicação do herbicida glifosato para controle de plantas daninhas em cultivo agrícola, constata-se que a deriva do produto pode estimular crescimento e/ou rendimento produtivo em plantas não-alvo, localizadas nas adjacências do tratamento, caracterizando efeito hormese. Entretanto, os efeitos horméticos por glifosato podem ser difere...

This study was made based on the body's requirements matching, because during this banya land cultivation cases that do not fit resulting in crop failures or even crop failure. The data used agricultural plant data consisting of rice, corn, soybeans and wheat. The right decision related to tersebuat is one of the determining factors in improving th...

Game-theoretic behavioral and epidemiological models suggest that it is impossible to eradicate a disease through voluntary control actions when individuals behave according to their own interests. The simple reason is that free-riding behavior, which is best for self-interest, leads to a control coverage on the group level that is insufficient to...

Arsenic (As) contamination is a major problem affecting soil and groundwater in India, harming agricultural crops and human health. Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) have emerged as promising agents for reducing As toxicity in plants. This study aimed to isolate and characterize As-tolerant PGPR from rice field soils with varying As level...

Agroforestry is a form of land use carried out by the community, namely a combination pattern of agricultural crops, plantations and forestry. Currently, agroforestry management practices have been widely implemented and provide many benefits both economically, ecologically and culturally. Waai Country, which is located in the Salahutu sub-district...

Insect pollinators provide a natural ecosystem service to more than 80% of known flowering plants, many of which are part of our diet. However, their importance in Africa and an agriculture-dependent country like Rwanda has yet to receive attention. This encumbers policy formulation and investments in insect pollinators as a strategic agronomic inp...

Temporal crop diversification could reduce pesticide use by increasing the proportion of crops with low pesticide use (dilution effects) or enhancing the regulation of pests, weeds and diseases (regulation effects). Here, we use the French National DEPHY Network to compare pesticide use between 16 main crops (dilution effect) and to assess whether...

This publication comprises some results from Dragon-5 project "ID.57160: Monitoring Water Productivity In Crop Production Areas From Food Security Perspectives". Accurately measuring the amount of water (e.g., evapotranspiration-ET) and energy (e.g., of latent and sensible heat) that are exchanged at the Earth's surface is crucial for various appli...

A região metropolitana de São Paulo apresenta cerca de 21 milhões de habitantes, para o abastecimento de água desta população são utilizados oito sistemas produtores de água, entre eles o Sistema Produtor Alto Tietê, responsável por 15% do abastecimento e composto por cinco reservatórios. A atividade agrícola é a base econômica na região do reserva...

Simple Summary In order to sense the numerous chemical signals from their surroundings, insects have developed complex olfactory systems and olfactory mechanisms involving a wide range of chemosensory genes. Olfaction therefore plays an integral role in directing and regulating all insect behaviors and activities. Termites possess significant ecolo...

The intra-specific coefficients are used in a scientific method that goes beyond creating a biodiversity index to provide a numerical evaluation of various biodiversity scenarios. The ODE 45 is an efficient computational method that is used to obtain this quantification. According to our observations, biodiversity typically increases when the intra...

One type of insurance known as parametric insurance has an agreement for predetermined events made at the beginning of the contract between the insurer (insurance firm) and the insured (farmer). When the causative event occurs, the provision applies that insurer must pay insured with some amount of money (damage compensation). Ozaki has formulated...

Rapid population growth has caused severe food insecurity and environmental problems. For increasing food productions, synthetic chemicals have been in used. This has enhanced agricultural output, with unfavorable effects on the environment and biodiversity. Microorganisms in soil have been affected, and the effects of climate change have been detr...

Earth is blessed with large numbers of plant species which is approximately 30,000-50,000. This diverse group of plants contains a range of unique organic compounds like steroid, saponin, alkaloids, flavonoids, glycosides, phenols and terpenoids etc which are having antimicrobial properties. These antimicrobial properties of plant extracts like All...

Over 80% of agricultural crops rely on insect pollination. Thus, pollinator biodiversity is critical for augmented plant yield and quality. Blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) are acknowledged pollinators of several crops. However, there are many open questions regarding their importance in pollination ecology. For instance, there has not been a co...

The complexity of environmental conditions encountered by plants in the field, or in nature, is gradually increasing due to anthropogenic activities that promote global warming, climate change, and increased levels of pollutants. While in the past it seemed sufficient to study how plants acclimate to one or even two different stresses affecting the...

The agricultural sector is annually included in the top three after the manufacturing sector and wholesale and retail trade sectors as Indonesia’s largest contributor to gross domestic product (GDP). The average contribution of the agricultural sector to the country’s income is around 11–13% of total GDP. The GRDP of the agricultural sector (AgriGR...

Vegetable crops of the Brassicaceae family have the ability to include the necessary trace element selenium (Se) in the composition of organic compounds such as selenoproteins, in addition, they have important properties for human health based on the content of selenium. In our work, we investigated the effect of non-root processing of vegetating r...

The current study focuses on land suitability for agricultural crops and native plants in Northwest Jordan for sustainability, and improving the use of current land resources, and the identification of new land that may be prepared in the future. This study relied on a set of environmental variables to determine the suitability of the land for agri...

The excessive use of synthetic chemicals in agriculture demands sustainable alternatives to combat crop-affecting microorganisms. Plant-derived secondary metabolites have garnered attention as promising candidates with antimicrobial properties. This study investigates the antimicrobial potential of tobacco plants, specifically non-commercial access...

Simple Summary From the perspective of a field research team comprising members of the local community around a rain forest in western Kenya, we describe the relationship between local people and their local primates. The local community tends to have little knowledge about the natural history of the monkeys living nearby, and a negative attitude t...

The mixture of pesticides is employed to obtain other mechanisms of action on target organisms. The herbicides atrazine and glyphosate are used worldwide to control weeds in agricultural crops, and their indiscriminate use results in their constant presence in the environment. In this sense, this study aimed to evaluate the cytotoxic potential, the...

The use of bioinputs has been intensified in conventional and organic systems. In Brazil, the National Bioinputs Program was instituted to enhance their production and use in crops, and the Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa) launched the Bioinsumos (bioinputs) application, containing the bioproducts registered by the Brazilian Mi...

The northern root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne hapla) causes extensive damage to agricultural crops globally. In addition, M. hapla populations with no known genetic or morphological differences exhibit parasitic variability (PV) or reproductive potential based on soil type. However, why M. hapla populations from mineral soil with degraded soil healt...

Maize (Zea mays L.) is one of the main agricultural crops grown worldwide under very diverse climate and soil conditions. For maize cultivation in a conventional tillage system, autumn plowing is a mandatory condition. Minimum soil tillage or no tillage has been applied in recent years, both in research and in production, for reasons relating to so...

Although the Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni, Fleischer, 1818) was a widespread species in Bulgaria, there are no detailed surveys on its biology and ecology like the ones implemented in countries still harbouring abundant populations, such as Spain, Italy, Greece, etc. After 2014 when "Green Balkans", as a breeder, launched the reinforcement of the...