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Environmental Impact of Various Rice Cultivation Methods in Northeast China through Life Cycle Assessment

Agronomy
Rice, a crucial staple in China, is cultivated through various techniques, including seedling transplanting, dry direct seeding, and film mulching. Despite its significance, rice production is a considerable environmental burden.
Yu Wang, Wenqing He, Changrong Yan, Haihe Gao, Jixiao Cui, Qin Liu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Biodegradable Wireless Soil Urea Sensor Using Metamaterial Perfect Absorber for Distributed Deployment in Precision Agriculture

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
In this study, we propose a biodegradable wireless soil urea sensor for precision agriculture. The sensor's electromagnetic response varies depending on the urea concentration, allowing the measurement of relative soil urea concentrations by analyzing the time‐transient electromagnetic response.
Yu Tanaami, Ken Sakabe, Tetsuya Yarimizo, Yasutaka Murakami, Tetsuo Kan, Hiroaki Onoe   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nanoherbicides for Efficient, Safe, and Sustainable Weed Management: A Review

Nanomaterials
Weeds are a significant factor affecting crop yield and quality. Herbicides have made crucial contributions to ensuring stable and high grain production, but the low effective utilization rate and short duration of traditional formulations have led to ...
Fangyuan Chen, Pengkun Niu, Fei Gao, Zhanghua Zeng, Haixin Cui, Bo Cui   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

Divergent Responses of Productivity and Its Stability to Climate Extremes in Northern China’s Grasslands

Ecosystem Health and Sustainability
Climate forecasts predict that extreme climate events will become more frequent in the next decades, which will pose serious challenges to both the function and structure of grassland ecosystems.
Linming Huang, Fen Zhao, Guozheng Hu, Hasbagan Ganjurjav, Rihan Wu, Weilin Du, Qingzhu Gao   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Influence of film mulching on soil microbial community in a rainfed region of northeastern China

Scientific Reports, 2017
Information about the effect of plastic film mulching (PFM) on the soil microbial communities of rainfed regions remains scarce. In the present study, Illumina Hiseq sequencer was employed to compare the soil bacterial and fungal communities under three ...
Wenyi Dong, Pengfei Si, Enke Liu, Changrong Yan, Zhe Zhang, Yanqing Zhang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Urban agriculture matters for sustainable development

Cell Reports Sustainability
Urban agriculture can contribute to sustainable development. However, a holistic investigation is lacking to comprehend its positive and negative impacts on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Our systematic analysis of around 1,450 relevant publications on urban agriculture, screened from 76,000 records, fills this gap.
Pradhan, P., Subedi, D., Dahal, K., Hu, Y., Gurung, P., Pokharel, S., Kafle, S., Khatri, B., Basyal, S., Gurung, M., Joshi, A.   +10 more
openaire   +3 more sources

ERK‐Mediated Phosphorylation of YAP Defines a Noncanonical FGF Signaling Mechanism in Stem Cells

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
With a powerful combination of in vivo, ex vivo, and in vitro models, the authors highlight a novel FGF‐ERK signaling regulation of YAP at the S128 site in neural crest‐derived stem cells. This study opens exciting new directions in stem cell biology and craniofacial biology, paving the way for potential innovations in the treatment of craniofacial ...
Xiaolei Zhao, Shannon Erhardt, Li Tang, Xiaotong Chen, Stephen M Farmer, Zixiu Cheng, Wen Chen, Ella Ziyuan Lu, Kihan Sung, Chang‐Ru Tsai, Mingjie Zheng, Sheng Zhang, Yang Liu, Jianxin Wang, Min Li, James F Martin, Jun Wang   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Setting the table : advice to government on priority elements of sustainable diets

, 2012
English language version of 'Gosod y bwrdd : y Comisiwn Datblygu Cynaliadwy cyngor i’r Llywodraeth ar blaenoriathau deiet cynaliadwy'.Publisher ...
Sustainable Development Commission
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Pretreatment and composting technology of agricultural organic waste for sustainable agricultural development. [PDF]

Heliyon, 2023
Xu P, Shu L, Li Y, Zhou S, Zhang G, Wu Y, Yang Z.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source