funded by BBSRC (EAA7536XS04);Waitrose Agronomy Group as part of the Waitrose Collaborative Training Partnership。
Plastic pollution is global concern, affecting most aspects of global food production systems. Plasticulture, a practice used in agriculture to improve crop quality and quantity, among other factors, is a significant ...
A recent UN Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) analysis indicated a significant regression in the global SDG goal scores, particularly in SDG 2—Zero Hunger. The emissions of environmental pollution caused by meeting...
funded by State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Sources and Control of Air Pollution Complex(SCAPC202102);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(71904189).
Agricultural production by smallholders is crucial for ensuring food provision in China.However,smallholders face a series of challenges on their farms including high-to-excess resource inputs,low use efficiency,as we...
supported by the National Science Foundation(CNS-1739823,CBET-2047165 and CBET-2025826).
To represent the sustainability of nitrogen management in the Sustainable Development Goals indicator framework,this paper proposes a sustainable nitrogen management index(SNMI).This index combines the performance in ...
supported by an Early Career Researcher grant of the University of Melbourne,Australian Research Council Research Hub for Innovative Nitrogen Fertilisers and Inhibitors(IH200100023).
Nitrogen is an essential nutrient that supports life,but excess N in the humanenvironment system causes multiple adverse effects from the local to the global scale.Sustainable N management in agroecosystems,therefore,...
supported by the grant from National Natural Science Foundation of China (32001484);Research Program Fund, Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences。
Demand for sugar is projected to grow in China for the foreseeable future.However,sugarcane production is unlikely to increase due to increasing production cost and decreasing profit margin.The persisting sugarcane yi...
Since the Green Revolution cropping systems have been progressively homogenized and intensified with increasing rates of inputs such as fertilizers,pesticides and water.This has resulted in higher crop productivity bu...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32072676);the Program of Advanced Discipline Construction in Beijing (Agriculture Green Development)。
Since humans started practicing agriculture at the expense of natural forests,8000 years ago,they have affected atmospheric CO_(2) concentrations.Their impact on atmospheric CH_(4) started about 5000 years ago,as resu...
This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31727901 and 31901873).
The importance of food security,especially in combating the problem of acute hunger,has been underscored as a key component of sustainable development.Considering the major challenge of rapidly increasing demands for ...
The authors acknowledge support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31620103913);the“111 Project”from the Ministry of Education of China(BP0719026);the Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China(2019JCW-18).The authors are grateful to Professor R.A.McIntosh,Plant Breeding Institute,University of Sydney,Australia,for critical review of this manuscript.
Stripe (yellow) rust caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici occurs in almost allwheat-producing regions of the world. Severe countrywide epidemics in Chinahave caused substantial yield losses. Growing resistant...