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The soil microbiome: An essential, but neglected, component of regenerative agroecosystems

iScience, 2023
Summary: Regenerative agriculture (RA) is gaining traction globally as an approach for meeting growing food demands while avoiding, or even remediating, the detrimental environmental consequences associated with conventional farming. Momentum is building
Syrie M. Hermans, Gavin Lear, Bradley S. Case, Hannah L. Buckley   +3 more
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Coupling of crop and livestock production can reduce the agricultural GHG emission from smallholder farms

iScience, 2023
Summary: Ensuring global food security and environmental sustainability is dependent upon the contribution of the world’s hundred million smallholder farms, but the contributions of smallholder farms to global agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions ...
Xiangbo Xu, Yan Xu, Jing Li, Yonglong Lu, Alan Jenkins, Robert C. Ferrier, Hong Li, Nils Chr Stenseth, Dag O. Hessen, Linxiu Zhang, Chang Li, Baojing Gu, Shuqin Jin, Mingxing Sun, Zhu Ouyang, Erik Mathijs   +15 more
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YOLOv8n-WSE-Pest: A Lightweight Deep Learning Model Based on YOLOv8n for Pest Identification in Tea Gardens

Applied Sciences
China’s Yunnan Province, known for its tea plantations, faces significant challenges in smart pest management due to its ecologically intricate environment.
Hongxu Li, Wenxia Yuan, Yuxin Xia, Zejun Wang, Junjie He, Qiaomei Wang, Shihao Zhang, Limei Li, Fang Yang, Baijuan Wang   +9 more
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Achieving sustainable goals in agroecosystems through the optimization of agricultural resources integrating the water-nitrogen-carbon nexus

iScience
Summary: This study investigates the synergistic utilization of straw, water, and nitrogen resources in agricultural ecosystems to optimize sustainable management practices.
Mo Li, Pingan Zhang, Aizheng Yang, Xiaofang Wang, Yan Sha, Qiang Fu   +5 more
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DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE ON THE PLATFORM OF INNOVATIVE BIOECONOMY

Фінансово-кредитна діяльність: проблеми теорії та практики
Ukraine's economy is in a state of crisis caused by the war. The agricultural sector in extreme conditions is trying to fulfill its function of ensuring the food security of the state, supporting its export potential despite limited resources and ...
Olga Vytvytska , Sergiy Volodin, Mykola Talavyria, Victor Tesliuk, Kateryna Doroshkevych, Dmitro Aleksandrov   +5 more
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Moss-dominated biocrust-based biodiversity enhances carbon sequestration via water interception and plant-soil-microbe interactions

iScience, 2023
Summary: We investigated a nature-based solution (NbS) via incorporating biocrust into alfalfa-maize intercropping system to test carbon sequestration in seriously eroded agricultural soils.
Wei Wang, Meng-Ying Li, Rui Zhou, Fei Mo, Bao-Zhong Wang, Li Zhu, Hong-Yan Tao, Ying Zhu, Wen-Li Wang, Ze-Ying Zhao, You-Cai Xiong   +10 more
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Tweet tweet tick: a quantitative content analysis of risk communication about ticks on Twitter

Frontiers in Communication
IntroductionThis study determined what information presented on Twitter (X) on tickborne diseases and their prevention and investigated the relationships between content information and engagement rate.
Cheng-Xian Yang, Lauri M. Baker, Lauri M. Baker, Ashley McLeod-Morin   +3 more
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An early warning system to predict and mitigate wheat rust diseases in Ethiopia

Environmental Research Letters, 2019
Wheat rust diseases pose one of the greatest threats to global food security, including subsistence farmers in Ethiopia. The fungal spores transmitting wheat rust are dispersed by wind and can remain infectious after dispersal over long distances.
Clare Allen-Sader, William Thurston, Marcel Meyer, Elias Nure, Netsanet Bacha, Yoseph Alemayehu, Richard O J H Stutt, Daniel Safka, Andrew P Craig, Eshetu Derso, Laura E Burgin, Sarah C Millington, Matthew C Hort, David P Hodson, Christopher A Gilligan   +14 more
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Toward a Holistic Agricultural Student Recruitment Model: A National Analysis of the Factors Affecting Students’ Decision to Pursue an Agricultural Related Degree

Journal of Research in Technical Careers, 2020
Currently, the agricultural industry struggles to fill positions with qualified agricultural workers. Therefore, it is critical to attract high caliber individuals to agricultural degree programs that are prepared to enter the workforce with the skills ...
Antoine J. Alston, Richie Roberts, Chastity W English   +2 more
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ABL kinase‐dependent phosphorylation of SH proteins promotes their direct interaction with CRK family SH2 domains

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
CT10 regulator of kinase (CRK) and CRK‐Like (CRKL) are signaling adaptors driving cell adhesion, motility, differentiation, and proliferation. SH2‐domain containing (SH) proteins are enriched in YXXP motifs which when phosphorylated create preferred binding sites for CRK family SH2 domains.
Phoebe M. Cousens, Brendan W. Chandler, Anna M. Schmoker, Jaye L. Weinert, Charlotte A. Kearns, Warren T. Yacawych, Amila Šemić, Alicia M. Ebert, Bryan A. Ballif   +8 more
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