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Organic Farming Provides Reliable Environmental Benefits but Increases Variability in Crop Yields: A Global Meta-Analysis

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2019
To promote food security and sustainability, ecologically intensive farming systems should reliably produce adequate yields of high-quality food, enhance the environment, be profitable, and promote social wellbeing.
Olivia M. Smith, Abigail L. Cohen, Cassandra J. Rieser, Alexandra G. Davis, Joseph M. Taylor, Adekunle W. Adesanya, Matthew S. Jones, Matthew S. Jones, Amanda R. Meier, Amanda R. Meier, John P. Reganold, Robert J. Orpet, Robert J. Orpet, Tobin D. Northfield, Tobin D. Northfield, Tobin D. Northfield, David W. Crowder   +16 more
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Pig Farming in Alternative Systems: Strengths and Challenges in Terms of Animal Welfare, Biosecurity, Animal Health and Pork Safety

Agriculture, 2020
In pig production, the widespread conventional indoor system with a slatted floor currently dominates. However, this production system is becoming less socially acceptable.
Maxime Delsart, Françoise Pol, Barbara Dufour, Nicolas Rose, Christelle Fablet   +4 more
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Canterbury farming: production, processing and farming systems

Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association, 2010
Canterbury is of great significance to New Zealand's agricultural production, with approximately 20% of its farmland. The Region is the largest in New Zealand (by Regional Council boundaries), with 3 m ha of agricultural and exotic forestry land.
R.A. Dynes, V.T. Burggraaf, C.G. Goulter, D.E. Dalley   +3 more
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Recent Advances in Laser‐Induced Graphene‐Based Gas Sensors: From Sensing Mechanisms to Biomedical Applications

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Laser‐induced graphene (LIG) provides a scalable, laser‐direct‐written route to porous graphene architecture with tunable chemistry and defect density. Through heterojunction engineering, catalytic functionalization, and intrinsic self‐heating, LIG achieves highly sensitive and selective detection of NOX, NH3, H2, and humidity, supporting next ...
Md Abu Sayeed Biswas, Ankan Dutta, Shuvendu Das, Abu Musa Abdullah, Wanqing Zhang, Fatema Tuz Zohra, Huanyu Cheng   +6 more
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Soil microbial community response to different farm managements in Santa Clara, Cuba

Biotecnología Vegetal, 2016
Seven farms (two state, two cooperatives, and three private farms) were selected for assessing effects of farm management on the microbial biomass and the structure of the microbial community, as well as, the responses to seasonality on these two bio ...
Yanetsy Ruiz-González, Edith Aguila-Alcantara, Osvaldo Fernández-Martínez, David Buchan, Bram Moeskops, Marijke D’Haese, Stefaan De Neve   +6 more
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Adult Sex Ratio as a Demographic Feedback Linking Mating Systems, Parental Care, and Evolution

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Breeding systems are some of the most diverse social behavior, and our team is investigation the evolutionary causes of this diversity. This review summarises our research carried out at the University of Bath. We argue that demographic components of wild populations, especially the adult sex ratio, plays a key role driving breeding system variation ...
Tamás Székely, Oscar G. Miranda
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Human‐Centered Innovation: Precision Nutrition and the Future of Food

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nutritional science is moving beyond one‐size‐fits‐all recommendations toward more precise and personalized approaches, yet its implementation pathway remains unclear. This paper proposes a human‐centered precision nutrition framework that highlights the central roles of artificial intelligence (AI), food innovation, and human agency.
Shanshan Zhang, Yonggan Sun, Jiaqi Jiang, Shaoping Nie   +3 more
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Resistant Peanut Genotype Reprograms Rhizosphere Metabolism to Enhance Bacterial Wilt Suppression

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The resistant peanut genotype selectively recruits beneficial bacteria, which coincides with the activation of salicylic acid (SA)‐dependent systemic acquired resistance (SAR) against Ralstonia solanacearum. Keystone rhizosphere metabolites are positively correlated with both beneficial microbiome assembly and SAR gene expression.
Rui Ren, Xiaogang Li, Hao Li, Zenghui Cao, Mengtian Hou, Chunlei Zhao, Nan Lou, Sasa Hu, Yanzhe Li, Qian Ma, Yaoyao Li, Yi Fan, Kunkun Zhao, Kai Zhao, Ding Qiu, Fangping Gong, Zhongfeng Li, Haitao Liu, Xingli Ma, Xingxiang Wang, Dongmei Yin   +20 more
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A Disaggregation Strategy for Nanopesticide Fabrication: Investigating the Impact of Nanosizing on Pesticide Biointeractions

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
To explore the impact of nanosizing on pesticide biointeractions, a 7‐nm (average) emamectin benzoate nanopesticide without nanocarriers or surfactants is fabricated via HOAc‐mediated disaggregation. Nanosizing enhances bioactivity against Megalurothrips usitatus and Meloidogyne enterolobii and improves plant penetration.
Jiaqi Wei, Jianxin Feng, Huiting Zhu, Kunzhong Lin, Chenhan Liu, Lin Li, Zhuoyan Xiao, Daihao Huang, Rong Liu, Huipeng Pan, Lingda Zeng, Hanhong Xu   +11 more
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The Spatiotemporal Genetic Architecture of Seed Vigor in Upland Cotton

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Leveraging the semi‐automated SeedRanger platform, we profiled the germination kinetics of 356 cotton accessions at a 30‐min interval. This high‐throughput phenomic approach delineated a temporal genetic network comprising 541 stage‐specific loci. Crucially, functional validation identified FLA2 as a pivotal, auxin‐modulated regulator that orchestrates
Luyao Wang, Jie Dai, Ting Zhao, Shengjun Zhao, Hongyu Wu, Jiaying Pan, Yupeng Hao, Ke Nie, Li Yu, Yumeng Zhu, Xiangyi Zhao, Kai Huang, Mengke Zhang, Yongyan Zhao, Yaping Jiang, Siyuan Wang, Yiling Pan, Yubing Chen, Yilai Lin, Wanghong Shi, Yayuan Deng, Jin Han, Jie Li, Xuan Long, Junbin Wang, Zhiyuan Zhang, Zegang Han, Zhanfeng Si, Lei Ju, Jun Li, Tianzhen Zhang, Ji Zhou, Xueying Guan   +32 more
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