Salt in the Water, Hunger in the Fields: Rice Hits a Yield Cliff at Just 1.4 Parts Per Thousand
A controlled greenhouse study of Vietnamese rice finds that irrigation water salinity of only about 1.4 parts per thousand triggers ...
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Underground Scans Reveal How Wheat Roots Outsmart Drought
Researchers used time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography with machine learning calibration to quantify, for the first time at field scale, how ...
Biochar and Silicon Team Up to Shield Triticale from Lead-Tainted Soil
A factorial pot experiment shows that sheep manure biochar paired with a moderate silicon dose dramatically boosts triticale growth and ...
Nano Urea Boosts Weed-Killing Herbicide in Direct-Seeded Rice, Two-Year Trial Finds
A two-year Indian field trial shows that cyhalofop plus penoxsulam delivers near-complete weed control in direct-seeded rice, while foliar nano ...
Burying Straw Twice a Year Supercharges Maize Yields in Problematic Black Soil
A sixteen-year Chinese field experiment shows that returning both wheat and maize straw to lime concretion black soil each year ...
Organic Fertilizer Plus Foliar Biostimulant Lifts Saline-Soil Maize Yields by Up to 30%
A two-year field trial in saline farmland found that combining mid-range organic fertilizer with a 500-fold foliar biostimulant cut root-zone ...
Gut Bacteria for Plants: Endophytic Microbes Shield Rice from Salt Stress
Thai researchers found that salt-tolerant endophytic bacteria, especially the SHPP24 and SKPK29 isolates, significantly improved rice physiology, growth, and grain ...
Fine-Tuned Drip Fertigation Recipe Boosts Winter Wheat Yields While Healing the Soil
A three-year field study in the North China Plain identifies optimal irrigation and nitrogen ranges that simultaneously raise grain yield, ...
Selenium Spray Could Turn Sorghum Into a Hidden Nutrition Powerhouse
A Brazilian field study shows that foliar sodium selenate reliably enriches sorghum grain with selenium, while novel selenium compounds and ...
The Hidden Fungi That Out-Colonize Wheat’s Famous Symbionts
A landmark field study finds that dark septate endophytes colonize winter wheat roots more extensively than arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi across ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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