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Long Wan, Yi Jian, Mei Zhang, Jing Tong, Ansa Rebi and JinXing Zhou
Due to the influence of the Asian southwest monsoon, seasonal drought is serious and water resources are scarce in the Yunnan province of Southwest China. More effective water-saving irrigation methods should be developed to solve the problem of water sc...
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Yuanyuan Xiang, Ruiyin Cheng, Mingyu Wang and Yimin Ding
The synchronicity of rain and heat in the summer of China?s monsoon region provides sufficient water and heat resources for maize growth. However, the intra-annual distribution of precipitation and the probability of extreme precipitation have been inevi...
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Kun Zhang, Chenyuan Zhai, Yonglong Li, Yan Li, Hui Qu and Yixin Shen
Although nitrogen application and cutting frequency (CF) are two important factors affecting forage productivity and quality, their effects on alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.), particularly in humid areas, remain less understood. Here, we investigated the fe...
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Taketo Eguchi and Masahiro Tasumi
This study investigated two popular satellite-derived vegetation indices (VIs), MODIS NDVI and EVI, as tools for monitoring crop growth at the Thapanzeik Dam irrigation district in Myanmar, where quality ground data are difficult to obtain. The time-seri...
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Liang Gong, Fei Huang, Wei Zhang, Yanming Li and Chengliang Liu
Photosynthesis is one of the key issues for vertical cultivation in plant factories, and efficient natural sunlight utilization requires predicting the light falling on each seedbed in a real-time manner. However, public weather services neither provide ...
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May Wu, Sarah McBride and Miae Ha
Reclaimed municipal wastewater is a crucial component in biofuel production, especially in regions experiencing increasing freshwater scarcity. However, accurately estimating the potential for fuel production is challenging because of the uneven distribu...
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Seok-Ho Han, Husna Mutahira and Hoon-Seok Jang
Ensuring food security has become of paramount importance due to the rising global population. In particular, the agriculture sector in South Korea faces several challenges such as an aging farming population and a decline in the labor force. These issue...
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Hyeonju Lee, Eunhee Lee, Yongcheol Kim, Soo-Hyoung Lee and Min-Ho Koo
During the cold dry season, a large amount of groundwater is pumped for water-curtain cultivation in agricultural fields mostly located near the four major rivers of South Korea. Several weirs, installed previously to secure sufficient water resources fr...
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Ana S. Queirós, Ana R. Circuncisão, Eduarda Pereira, Mónica Válega, Maria H. Abreu, Artur M. S. Silva and Susana M. Cardoso
Ulva macroalgae species are recognized to be an underexploited source of key nutrients, including proteins, fibers and minerals. The present work evaluated the nutritional value protein, ash, mineral composition, fat, fatty acid profile and dietary fiber...
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George Kargas, Paraskevi A. Londra and Kyriaki Sotirakoglou
Saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks) of soil, especially of the upper soil layer, is a basic parameter for modeling water infiltration and solute transport in the soil. In the present study, spatial and temporal variability of Ks in the upper soil layer...
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