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Can augmented reality technology become the “unified operation interface” for smart farming?
Higher Education PressAs the global population continues to grow, climate change intensifies, and agricultural resources become increasingly scarce, traditional agricultural production models are facing unprecedented challenges. It is predicted that by 2050, global food production will need to increase by 70% to meet demand. Against this backdrop, “Agriculture 4.0” has gradually emerged, with embedded technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and robotics widely applied in precision agriculture to improve production efficiency and sustainability.
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- Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering
How bellows design solves the problem of uneven seed distribution in pneumatic seeding systems?
Higher Education PressIn the field of modern agricultural machinery, pneumatic conveying seed-discharge systems have been widely adopted due to their compact size, high seed-discharge efficiency, and strong adaptability, which are particularly aligned with the current development trend of high-speed mechanized operations.
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- Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering
Fish farming least harmful in northern Norway
Norwegian University of Science and Technology- Journal
- Aquaculture Environment Interactions
How to break the dilemma of agricultural non-point source pollution?
Higher Education PressWith global population growth and rising food demand, agriculture ensures food supply while bringing severe environmental problems. Among these, agricultural non-point source pollution (ANPSP) has become one of the major factors affecting water health and ecological security.
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- Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering
The secrets of dynamic changes in residual film and microplastics in cotton fields
Higher Education PressIn the vast cotton fields of Xinjiang, plastic film covering technology has been a weapon for increasing yield—it conserves water, raises temperatures, and improves water utilization efficiency, significantly boosting cotton production in arid regions.
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- Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering
How plastic film mulching and microplastics affect soil nitrogen cycling?
Higher Education PressAs a crucial agricultural yield-increasing technique in arid and semi-arid regions, plastic film mulching (PFM) has significantly enhanced crop yield and quality by increasing soil temperature, reducing water evaporation, and optimizing nutrient cycling. However, with the increasingly prominent issue of farmland microplastic pollution caused by residual plastic films, this "white revolution" is now facing severe challenges to sustainable development.
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- Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering
Comparing four heat-inducible promoters in stably transformed sugarcane regarding spatial and temporal control of transgene expression reveals candidates to drive stem-preferred background/objective transgene expression
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and EnvironmentInducible promoters provide remarkable utility when sustained transgene expression compromises plant development or agronomic performance. In this study, four different plant heat shock protein (HSP) promoters were characterized in the vegetative tissues of stably transformed sugarcane to evaluate their efficacy and spatial expression profiles when directing the expression of a uidA reporter gene. This study produced new quantitative knowledge on the temporal and spatial expression of HSP promoters in sugarcane, expanding the promoter toolbox for crop biotechnology to support gene function studies and biotechnology applications, including precision gene editing and complex metabolic engineering.
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- Frontiers in Plant Science
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- U.S. Department of Energy
Europe takes a bold step toward systems-based chemical risk assessment
Aarhus University- Journal
- Environmental Science & Technology