455 papers
This study characterizes indigenous lactic acid bacteria from the traditional Maguindanao starter culture "Tapay" as robust, homofermentative *Pediococcus* species with significant antimicrobial properties, highlighting their potential as functional starter cultures to enhance the safety and optimization of regional fermented delicacies.
This study demonstrates that *Bacillus subtilis* PZ-1 effectively controls Chinese cabbage clubroot disease by simultaneously remodeling the soil microbiome to enhance beneficial microbial networks and reprogramming the rhizosphere metabolome to activate key defense pathways.
Using survey data from Northeast China's black soil region, this study reveals that while land transfer alone often fails to resolve factor misallocation due to relational contracting and selective labor out-migration, the integration of technology-intensive agricultural productive services can significantly mitigate efficiency losses and unlock substantial productivity gains, suggesting a policy shift from mere scale expansion to capacity-oriented modernization.
This study establishes preliminary Diagnosis and Recommendation Integrated System (DRIS) norms for rice cultivated in Egypt by analyzing nutrient ratios from high- and low-yielding populations, revealing that balanced nutrient interactions, particularly involving N, K, Fe, Zn, and Mn, are critical for maximizing grain yield.
This study demonstrates that the CGM-WGP framework, which integrates process-based crop growth models with genomic prediction, outperforms traditional genomic benchmarks in forecasting flowering time for broccoli and common bean across novel environments and untested genotype-environment combinations, offering a scalable solution for horticultural breeding without requiring prior identification of specific quantitative trait loci.
This study demonstrates that while increasing dietary cracked safflower in lactating fat-tailed Turki-Qashqaei ewes boosts milk fat yield and unsaturated fatty acid intake, it concurrently reduces nutrient digestibility and alters blood metabolites, indicating that ruminal biohydrogenation and post-absorptive constraints limit the linear efficiency of lipid utilization in this breed.
This study in central Peru's high Andes reveals that local soil heterogeneity, rather than altitude or forage species, primarily drives trace metal accumulation in cultivated forages, yet current exposure levels pose no significant non-carcinogenic risk to cattle, sheep, or alpacas.
This study demonstrates that magnesium-engineered biochar derived from rice husk and sawdust significantly enhances CO₂ adsorption and soil carbon sequestration while boosting groundnut yields in semi-arid Nigeria, offering a safe and scalable strategy for climate change mitigation and sustainable agriculture compared to aluminum-modified alternatives.
This study demonstrates that co-applying sludge with the plant *Heptapleurum arboricola* effectively restores soil structure by enhancing macroaggregate stability through increased organic binding agents while simultaneously mitigating heavy metal risks in rare earth mine tailings.
This study demonstrates that the efficacy of Bt maize against *Spodoptera frugiperda* is significantly influenced by the dynamic interaction of plant developmental stage, canopy position, larval instar, and population susceptibility, with reduced toxicity in older plants and against later instars potentially accelerating resistance evolution.