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Summer Annual Variety Trial [PDF]

, 2017
Warm season grasses, such as sudangrass, and millet can provide quality forage in the hot summer months, when the cool season grasses enter dormancy and decline in productivity. The addition of summer annuals into a rotation can provide a harvest of high-
Cummings, Erica, Darby, Heather, Gupta, Abha, Ziegler, Sara   +3 more
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Stable Imitation of Multigait and Bipedal Motions for Quadrupedal Robots Over Uneven Terrains

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
How are quadrupedal robots empowered to execute complex navigation tasks, including multigait and bipedal motions? Challenges in stability and real‐world adaptation persist, especially with uneven terrains and disturbances. This article presents an imitation learning framework that enhances adaptability and robustness by incorporating long short‐term ...
Erdong Xiao, Yinzhao Dong, Ji Ma, Peng Lu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

3D Printing of Soft Robotic Systems: Advances in Fabrication Strategies and Future Trends

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Collectively, this review systematically examines 3D‐printed soft robotics, encompassing material selections, function integration, and manufacturing methodologies. Meanwhile, fabrication strategies are analyzed in order of increasing complexity, highlighting persistent challenges with proposed solutions.
Changjiang Liu, Bin Cui, Xumin Huang, Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng, T. Thang Vo‐Doan, Ruirui Qiao   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Synthetic microbial community in pristine environment promotes the growth of the endangered plant Lilium tsingtauense

Microbiome
Background Habitat fragmentation and degradation have led to the critical endangerment of numerous wild plant species. Although significant achievements in the conservation of endangered wild plants in various regions worldwide, the interaction ...
Boda Liu, Xiang Li, Jinming Yang, Wanpei Lu, Guohao Tang, Yaru Shi, Jiaxing Li, Anning Ding, Hai Wang, Xuebin Song, Qingchao Liu, Xinqiang Jiang   +11 more
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Initial success of native grasses is contingent on multiple interactions among exotic grass competition, temporal priority, rainfall and site effects. [PDF]

, 2014
Ecological communities are increasingly being recognized as the products of contemporary drivers and historical legacies that are both biotic and abiotic.
Fick, Stephen, Vaughn, Kurt J, Young, Truman P, Zefferman, Emily P   +3 more
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FiN‐Kiri: Fabric‐Based Inflatable Kirigami Actuator for Multimodal Soft Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This study introduces a type of inflatable fabric‐based kirigami actuator capable of performing bending motion. The actuator is utilized as soft grippers, a crawling robot and a swimming robot. The crawling robot demonstrated extraordinary motion capabilities, such as moving forward, turning and navigating a narrow tunnel.
Yang Yu, Yupei Zhang, Yanqi Yin, Yehui Wu, Jinyao Zhang, Ruiyu Bai, Jiaqiang Yao, Kewei Su, Chenyi Yu, Zhicheng Tian, Naipeng Li, Zhuang Zhang, Bo Li   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Variations in Seed and Fruit Traits of the Rare and Endangered Chinese Plant Lilium tsingtauense Along Environmental Gradients

Ecology and Evolution
Lilium tsingtauense Gilg is a rare and endangered wild plant, but there is insufficient research on the environmental drivers of intraspecific variation in its seed and fruit traits.
Wanpei Lu, Anning Ding, Xiao Guo, Pulin Sun, Xinqiang Jiang, Jinming Yang, Hai Wang, Xuebin Song, Qingchao Liu   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Negative impacts of plant diversity loss on carbon sequestration exacerbate over time in grasslands

Environmental Research Letters, 2020
Positive relationships between plant species diversity and carbon attributes have been observed in grasslands, but synthesis studies of how plant diversity affects the carbon balance of grasslands and how the response ratio changes over time both remain ...
Chao Wang, Yujia Tang, Xiaona Li, Weiwei Zhang, Chunqiao Zhao, Cui Li   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Summer Annual Variety Trial [PDF]

, 2012
Warm season grasses are a high-yielding summer annual. They can provide quality forage in the hot summer months, when cool season grasses are not as productive. The addition of this crop into your rotation can allow you to harvest high-quality forage for
Burke, Conner, Cummings, Erica, Darby, Heather, Harwood, Hannah, Madden, Rosalie, Monahan, Susan   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Bioenergy Cropping Reduces the Spatiotemporal Scaling of Soil Bacterial Biodiversity

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Consistent with patterns observed in plant and animal communities, soil bacterial communities exhibit significant species–time–area and phylogenetic–time–area relationships independent of nested structure. Bioenergy cropping significantly reduces the spatiotemporal scaling rates, particularly in sandy loam soils.
Zhencheng Ye, Jialiang Kuang, Colin T. Bates, Arthur Escalas, Daliang Ning, Liyou Wu, Suo Liu, Sihang Deng, Jiesi Lei, Xiangwen Chen, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Malay Saha, Lauren Hale, Gangsheng Wang, Renmao Tian, Ying Fu, Yu Tang, Mary Firestone, Jizhong Zhou, Yunfeng Yang   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source