Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jun Hou, David Styles, Weifeng Zhang
Summary: Dairy farms located in villages in China are an important sector in milk production. The development of village-based mixed livestock-crop systems can improve feed self-sufficiency, nutrient recycling, and reduce chemical fertilizer requirements, leading to increased crop productivity and benefit-cost ratio.
SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Nabin Rawal, Keshab Raj Pande, Renuka Shrestha, Shree Prasad Vista
Summary: Nutrient use efficiency is crucial for increasing crop yield and quality while reducing fertilizer inputs and minimizing environmental damage. The study in Nepal showed that optimal amounts of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium significantly influenced wheat performance and nutrient efficiency. The study recommends specific nutrient levels for efficient nutrient management in wheat cultivation in the mid-hills of Nepal.
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Environmental Sciences
Ying Wang, Shuo Wang, Jingjing Sun, Hengren Dai, Beijun Zhang, Weidong Xiang, Zixin Hu, Pan Li, Jinshui Yang, Wen Zhang
Summary: The study demonstrates that irrigation with nanobubble water can significantly increase rice yield, reduce fertilizer usage, and enhance plant growth and nutrient uptake.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Mengxue Han, Jiasen Zhang, Lin Zhang, Zhaoguo Wang
Summary: Biochar is a commonly used soil amendment that has positive effects on improving soil quality, promoting resource efficiency of agricultural production, and reducing environmental pollution. The addition of biochar can significantly increase crop yield, water use efficiency, and nitrogen use efficiency. Key factors affecting the addition effect of biochar include soil organic carbon, soil total nitrogen, soil bulk density, biochar carbon content, and biochar carbon nitrogen ratio. Adding biochar with lower carbon content in soils with high bulk density and low nutrients can achieve a win-win situation in crop productivity and resource use efficiency.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2023)
Article
Soil Science
Shaohui Huang, Ping He, Liangliang Jia, Wencheng Ding, Sami Ullah, Rongrong Zhao, Jiajia Zhang, Xinpeng Xu, Mengchao Liu, Wei Zhou
Summary: This study demonstrated that long-term Nutrient Expert (NE) management in intensively cultivated summer maize-winter wheat rotation system in China led to similar grain yield compared to Farmer's Practice (FP), but with reduced nitrogen (N) application and increased N use efficiency, profitability, and decreased environmental cost. NE also resulted in less N accumulation in the soil profile compared to FP. Overall, NE proved to be a sustainable management approach with advantages in maintaining grain yield, improving N use efficiency, and profitability while reducing environmental cost.
SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Plant Sciences
Zhengjun Cui, Bin Yan, Yuhong Gao, Bing Wu, Yifan Wang, Yaping Xie, Peng Xu, Haidi Wang, Ming Wen, Yingze Wang, Xingkang Ma
Summary: This study investigated the effects of different crop rotation sequences on soil water storage, crop yield, water use, and water productivity. The results showed that crop rotation had significant impacts on soil water content, crop yield, and water use efficiency. Wheat-potato-oil flax or potato-wheat-oil flax rotation increased oil flax grain yields, while wheat-oil flax-potato-oil flax improved oil flax water use efficiency.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Agronomy
Vijay Kant Singh, Poonam Gautam, Gangadhar Nanda, Salwinder Singh Dhaliwal, Biswajit Pramanick, Shiv Singh Meena, Walaa F. Alsanie, Ahmed Gaber, Samy Sayed, Akbar Hossain
Summary: The field investigation in Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India, showed that the STCR approach significantly improved grain yield and production efficiency at target yields compared to the general recommended dose. This approach also resulted in higher NPK uptake and use efficiency, as well as better profitability.
Review
Genetics & Heredity
Lekshmy Sathee, B. Jagadhesan, Pratheek H. Pandesha, Dipankar Barman, Sandeep B. Adavi, Shivani Nagar, G. K. Krishna, Shailesh Tripathi, Shailendra K. Jha, Viswanathan Chinnusamy
Summary: This review discusses the development of RNA-guided genome editing technology (CRISPR-Cas9) and its potential applications in improving nutrient use efficiency and stress tolerance in plants. It outlines different targets for genome editing and strategies for enhancing nutrient uptake and stress signaling. The use of CRISPR/dCas9 system also allows for targeted overexpression of genes of interest and DNA methylation in plants.
FRONTIERS IN GENETICS
(2022)
Article
Soil Science
Xiaoyuan Liu, Jingsong Yang, Jianyu Tao, Rongjiang Yao
Summary: This study investigated the effects of combining N fertilizer and fulvic acid on NUE and nutrient supply in a moderate-salinized soil. The results showed that the combined application can improve NUE and enhance wheat yield, plant N and P uptake, and nutrient use efficiency. Additionally, the study demonstrated that within a certain range of fertilizer application rates, the addition of fulvic acid can help reduce N leaching losses and increase the sustainability of agricultural development in salt-affected soils.
APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Plant Sciences
Franklin Magnum de Oliveira Silva, Rafaela Gageti Bulgarelli, Umarah Mubeen, Camila Caldana, Sara Adrian L. Andrade, Paulo Mazzafera
Summary: Phosphorus is a vital nutrient for plant growth, but its availability in soils is generally low. This study explored the growth and physiological responses of 24 plant species to low phosphorus availability in the soil. It revealed differences in efficiency and responsiveness among eucalypt species. Under low phosphorus conditions, the content of primary metabolites varied among species, and phosphorylated metabolites showed changes in turnover. Reduced phosphorus availability increased the photosynthetic phosphorus-use efficiency in eucalypt species. Eucalyptus acmenoides exhibited lipid remodeling to cope with phosphorus shortage. These findings provide insights into genotypic efficiency and biochemical markers for breeding programs in eucalypt species under low soil phosphorus availability.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Agronomy
Peng Jiang, Xingbing Zhou, Lin Zhang, Mao Liu, Hong Xiong, Xiaoyi Guo, Yongchuan Zhu, Juntao Luo, Lin Chen, Jie Liu, Fuxian Xu
Summary: The rice yield is influenced by climatic factors and soil fertility in its growing location, making it difficult to distinguish the individual effects of these two factors because they are often not independent. This study aimed to examine the effect of climatic factors on grain yield without the confounding factor of soil fertility in two subtropical environments. Field and pot experiments were conducted in two locations in Sichuan Province, China, and the results showed that rice yield was higher in one location compared to the other. The differences in yield were mainly attributed to variations in climatic factors, such as temperatures and solar radiation.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sandeep Sharma, Gagandeep Kaur, Pritpal Singh, Saud Alamri, Ritesh Kumar, Manzer H. H. Siddiqui
Summary: The development of robust nutrient management strategies is crucial for improving crop productivity, profitability, and nutrient use efficiency. Managing nitrogen and potassium application rates is critically important in wheat-based production systems to maximize profitable production with minimal negative environmental impacts. This study investigates the effects of different fertilizer-N and fertilizer-K application rates on wheat productivity, nutrient use efficiency, and profitability. The results show that moderate nitrogen application significantly increases wheat productivity and nutrient uptake efficiency, while the interaction effect between nitrogen and potassium application is not significant.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Keyu Ren, Minggang Xu, Rong Li, Lei Zheng, Shaogui Liu, Stefan Reis, Huiying Wang, Changai Lu, Wenju Zhang, Hui Gao, Yinghua Duan, Baojing Gu
Summary: By optimizing nitrogen fertilizer application rates, smallholders in China can increase crop yields, improve nitrogen fertilizer use efficiency, and reduce nitrogen pollution in agriculture without changing their operational practices. However, improving management practices and making investments are necessary to produce more grain with less pollution.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Hella Ellen Ahrends, Stefan Siebert, Ehsan Eyshi Rezaei, Sabine Julia Seidel, Hubert Hueging, Frank Ewert, Thomas Doering, Victor Rueda-Ayala, Werner Eugster, Thomas Gaiser
Summary: The study emphasizes the importance of long-term nutrient supply for crop yield stability, with a higher stability observed in crops receiving complete nutrient supply. Potatoes had the lowest stability, while winter rye had the highest. The omission of nitrogen and potassium negatively impacted yield stability, and changes in stability were observed for sugar beet and winter wheat during the observation period.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Agronomy
Liang Chen, Hao Xie, Guiliang Wang, Limin Yuan, Xiaoqin Qian, Weilu Wang, Yunji Xu, Weiyang Zhang, Hao Zhang, Lijun Liu, Zhiqin Wang, Junfei Gu, Jianchang Yang
Summary: The study showed that multiple crop management practices, such as increasing crop density, optimizing the amount and ratio of nitrogen application, and using alternate wetting irrigation, significantly improved soil structure and root activity, enhancing nutrient uptake and reducing nitrogen residue. These practices led to reduced nitrogen fertilizer input, increased fertilizer nitrogen recovery efficiency, and decreased nitrogen losses to the environment.
FIELD CROPS RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Plant Sciences
Berengere Decouard, Marlene Bailly, Martine Rigault, Anne Marmagne, Mustapha Arkoun, Fabienne Soulay, Jose Caius, Christine Paysant-Le Roux, Said Louahlia, Cedric Jacquard, Qassim Esmaeel, Fabien Chardon, Celine Masclaux-Daubresse, Alia Dellagi
Summary: Due to its genetic diversity and resilience, barley is valuable for agroecological transition and reducing nitrogen fertilizer inputs. Studying the diversity of a North African barley collection under limited or ample nitrogen supply, as well as physiological traits, provides important insights into its response to nitrogen limitation during early developmental stages.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Plant Sciences
Anne Marmagne, Celine Masclaux-Daubresse, Fabien Chardon
Summary: This study analyzed the impact of environmental stresses on nitrogen fluxes within plants during seed filling and provided a schematic representation of the major factors that regulate the balance between nitrogen remobilization and nitrogen uptake under stress and control conditions.
JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
(2022)
Correction
Plant Sciences
Montserrat Capellades, Nuria S. Coll, Merce Figueras, Ana Gutierrez, alvaro Luis Jimenez-Jimenez, Anurag Kashyap, Anna Laromaine, Jorge Rencoret, Olga Serra, Sumithra Srinivasan, Marc Valls, Weiqi Zhang
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Takaki Maekawa, Hamid Kashkar, Nuria S. Coll
Summary: Host organisms use genetically encoded cell death programs in response to pathogen challenge, but pathogens have strategies to subvert host cell death. The differences between plants and animals shape different defense mechanisms, but there are shared components in the host-pathogen interaction machinery. These components have direct effects on endomembrane, influencing the immunogenicity of dying cells.
CELL DEATH AND DIFFERENTIATION
(2023)
Editorial Material
Plant Sciences
Agnieszka Sirko, Cecilia Gotor, Anna Wawrzynska
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2022)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Luisa M. Sandalio, Aurelio M. Collado-Arenal, Maria C. Romero-Puertas
Summary: Plant peroxisomes are dynamic organelles participating in a variety of metabolic processes and cell responses to the environment. This review focuses on the interactions and effects of reactive species such as ROS, RNS, CRS, and SRS in peroxisomes, as well as their role in regulating the redox/ROS homeostasis and plasticity of peroxisomes. The review also highlights the important role of H2O2-dependent peroxisomal retrograde signaling and discusses the specific peroxisomal footprint.
FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
(2023)
Editorial Material
Plant Sciences
Fanourios Mountourakis, Ioannis H. Hatzianestis, Stella Stavridou, Peter Bozhkov, Panagiotis N. Moschou
Summary: Biomolecules can exist in different forms, including biomolecular condensates, which are mesoscale assemblies formed through phase separation. Phase separation concentrates or sequesters specific molecules, affecting their abundance and other features in the phases and consequently influencing biochemical reactions. Recent research has implicated biomolecular condensates in the regulation of biochemical reactions in plants.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Corentin Dourmap, Anne Marmagne, Sandrine Lebreton, Gilles Clement, Anne Guivarc'h, Arnould Savoure, Celine Masclaux-Daubresse
Summary: This study investigated the phenotypes of Arabidopsis plants with mutations in the p5cdh gene and found that these mutants had lower seed yield and produced lighter seeds, indicating defects in stem-to-seed resource allocation. Furthermore, under high nitrate supply, the defects in carbon, nitrogen, and biomass allocation to seeds in p5cdh mutants were significantly amplified. Interestingly, these defects were not observed in the prodh1 prodh2 double-mutant. This study highlights the essential role of P5CDH in the carbon and nitrogen remobilization for seed development in Arabidopsis.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
(2023)
Review
Agronomy
Alexandra J. Burgess, Celine Masclaux-Daubresse, Guenter Strittmatter, Andreas P. M. Weber, Samuel Harry Taylor, Jeremy Harbinson, Xinyou Yin, Stephen Long, Matthew J. Paul, Peter Westhoff, Francesco Loreto, Aldo Ceriotti, Vandasue L. R. Saltenis, Mathias Pribil, Philippe Nacry, Lars B. Scharff, Poul Erik Jensen, Bertrand Muller, Jean-Pierre Cohan, John Foulkes, Peter Rogowsky, Philippe Debaeke, Christian Meyer, Hilde Nelissen, Dirk Inze, Rene Klein Lankhorst, Martin A. J. Parry, Erik H. Murchie, Alexandra Baekelandt
Summary: The growing population and increased standard of living globally lead to a higher demand for plant-derived products. Plant-based research will play a crucial role in ensuring food security and expanding the bio-based economy. Crop productivity depends on various factors, including resources, management, and intrinsic yield potential. This review focuses on the determinants of intrinsic yield potential to maximize plant potential in food and energy production. Many complex traits and processes can be targeted to increase crop yield, at the cellular, organ, and canopy level.
FOOD AND ENERGY SECURITY
(2023)
Editorial Material
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Emilio Gutierrez-Beltran, Lucia Strader, Peter Bozhkov
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Jorge Solis-Miranda, Monika Chodasiewicz, Aleksandra Skirycz, Alisdair R. Fernie, Panagiotis N. Moschou, Peter Bozhkov, Emilio Gutierrez-Beltran
Summary: This review discusses the mechanism, regulation, composition, and properties of stress-related biomolecular condensates in plants. These membraneless organelle-like structures can concentrate molecules through liquid-liquid phase separation, and their assembly is tightly regulated by developmental and environmental cues. Although our understanding of the molecular mechanisms and components of these biomolecular condensates in plants is still limited, recent studies suggest their importance in plant acclimation to stress conditions. This review focuses on stress granules and processing bodies as the most well-characterized biomolecular condensates, describing their mechanism, regulation, and properties, as well as suggesting methods for studying their composition and function.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Simon Stael, Igor Sabljic, Dominique Audenaert, Thilde Andersson, Liana Tsiatsiani, Robert P. Kumpf, Andreu Vidal-Albalat, Cecilia Lindgren, Dominique Vercammen, Silke Jacques, Long Nguyen, Maria Njo, Alvaro D. Fernandez-Fernandez, Tine Beunens, Evy Timmerman, Kris Gevaert, Marc Van Montagu, Jerry Stahlberg, Peter V. Bozhkov, Anna Linusson, Tom Beeckman, Frank Van Breusegem
Summary: This study determined the crystal structure of AtMCA-IIf and identified inhibitors that can block root development. These findings provide insights into the mechanism of metacaspases and their relationship with diseases. The inhibitors and crystal structure can be further used to study metacaspases in other species.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2023)
Article
Microbiology
Jose Salguero-Linares, Nuria S. Coll
Summary: Eukaryotes have sophisticated innate immune systems to recognize non-self and restrict pathogen proliferation. Both plants and animals activate cell death at the site of pathogen ingress, triggering immune responses and limiting pathogen growth. Immunogenic cell death in both plants and animals involves activation of NLR immune receptors, disruption of membrane integrity, and release of signaling molecules from dying cells.
Article
Plant Sciences
Anurag Kashyap, Alvaro Jimenez-Jimenez, Merce Figueras, Olga Serra, Marc Valls, Nuria S. Coll
Summary: Suberin, a wall polymer, plays various roles in plant development and stress responses. It is deposited between the plasma membrane and the primary cell wall in specialized tissues. The deposition of suberin is preceded by cell wall lignification, and the role of ferulates in coupling both polymers is not fully understood. A study using the promoter of tomato suberin feruloyl transferase (FHT/ASFT) and GUS fusion demonstrated that ferulate deposition coincides with FHT promoter activation, providing a means to identify early suberizing cells rich in ferulic acid. This finding can be used as a marker for early suberization events and potentially aid in varietal improvement programs.
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Pernilla H. Elander, Sanjana Holla, Igor Sabljic, Emilio Gutierrez-Beltran, Patrick Willems, Peter V. Bozhkov, Elena A. Minina
Summary: Autophagy is a cellular pathway that degrades cellular components to help cells cope with stress. The transcriptional upregulation of ATG5 and ATG7 in plants positively affects important agronomic traits, but these proteins may have roles beyond autophagy.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2023)
