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Manuel López-Vicente and Gao-Lin Wu
This special issue includes six articles that cover a variety of issues about the topic of soil and water conservation in agricultural systems, including the following: a bibliometric analysis of soil and water conservation in the Loess Region of China; ...
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Margarita Garcia-Vila, Rodrigo Morillo-Velarde and Elias Fereres
Process-based crop models such as AquaCrop are useful for a variety of applications but must be accurately calibrated and validated. Sugar beet is an important crop that is grown in regions under water scarcity. The discrepancies and uncertainty in past ...
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Saher Ayyad, Islam S. Al Zayed, Van Tran Thi Ha and Lars Ribbe
Monitoring of crop water consumption, also known as actual evapotranspiration (ETa), is crucial for the prudent use of limited freshwater resources. Remote-sensing-based algorithms have become a popular approach for providing spatio-temporal information ...
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Shibiao Cai, Bangyu Zheng, Zhiyuan Zhao, Zhaoxia Zheng, Na Yang and Bingnian Zhai
Understanding the stoichiometry of extracellular enzymes in soil, particularly in relation to nutrient acquisition (e.g., carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus), provides valuable insights into microorganisms? resource requirements. This study investigates the me...
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Robert P. Larkin
The impacts of two different cover crop (CC) strategies, as well as compost, silicon (Si), and biocontrol (BC) soil amendments were evaluated on soil chemical and biological properties, crop development and yield, and disease and pest issues in organic v...
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Georgia-Maria Nteve, Stefanos Kostas, Alexios N. Polidoros, Panagiotis Madesis and Irini Nianiou-Obeidat
Olive (Olea europaea L.) is a crop of enormous economic and cultural importance. Over the years, the worldwide production of olive oil has been decreasing due to various biotic and abiotic factors. The current drop in olive oil production resulting from ...
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Jana Uthoff, Desiree Jakobs-Schönwandt, Karl-Josef Dietz and Anant Patel
Seed treatment is a powerful technique for adding beneficial ingredients to plants during the seed preparation process. Biopolymers as drying agents and delivery systems in seed treatments were investigated for their biocompatibility with blastospores of...
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Heju Huai, Qian Zhang, Zuolin Li, Lina Liang and Xiumei Tang
To reduce crop-related water consumption and enhance agricultural water resource efficiency in the Beijing?Tianjin?Hebei region, this study employed the AquaCrop model to simulate crop yield and irrigation water requirements and calculated the water scar...
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Rafal Górski, Robert Rosa, Alicja Niewiadomska, Agnieszka Wolna-Maruwka and Anna Plaza
In modern agriculture, more and more attention is being paid to the use of microorganisms that can increase crop productivity and quality even under adverse weather conditions. Due to the declining biodiversity of crops and the occurrence of soil erosion...
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Haixia Li, Yuanyuan Yin, Jing Zhou and Fuxing Li
Drought is a natural disaster with severe global agricultural and economic impacts. Accurate drought indices are needed for improved assessment and monitoring; however, most existing drought indices poorly represent agricultural drought due to complex in...
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