New Laser System Tracks Winter Wheat Fluorescence Dynamics
A new active fluorescence system called Canopy-LIF uses pulsed laser excitation to continuously monitor relative changes in winter wheat canopy ...
Tag: soil water content
Solar Panels Alter Desert Soil Microbial Networks Across Depth Profiles
A soil profile study at a desert solar facility reveals that photovoltaic panels alter bacterial community structure and network stability ...
Deep Learning Models Deliver Accurate Irrigation Prescriptions Across Extended Forecast Horizons
Agricultural engineers demonstrated that recurrent neural networks paired with temporal data aggregation accurately forecast multi-hour irrigation prescriptions while filtering high-frequency ...
Strip tillage splits a field into two soil worlds, study finds
A two-year field study in Northeast China's black soil region shows that strip tillage produces warm, loose, highly porous seed ...
Desert biocrusts make ephemeral plants more vulnerable to extreme drought
A two-year field experiment in Central Asia's Gurbantunggut Desert found that biological soil crusts reduce ephemeral plant productivity and heighten ...
Sand-Mixing and Fertilizer Strategy Boosts Foxtail Millet on Saline-Alkali Soil
Researchers found that mixing 10 percent river sand into surface soil combined with moderate fertilizer application optimizes water infiltration, salt ...
Cheap Soil Sensors Get a Salinity-Proof Mathematical Makeover
Researchers in Guangdong Province, China, have developed a cubic response surface calibration that cuts gypsum block soil moisture errors by ...
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 ...
Sunflower Stems Hide a Secret Water Reservoir, New Isotope Probe Reveals
By continuously probing the isotopic composition of water inside living sunflower stems and pairing it with high-resolution soil water profiling, ...
Cutting Pre-Sowing Irrigation to 90–120 mm Saves Water and Salt-Stressed Sunflower Yields
A two-year field trial in China's Tumochuan Plain shows that reducing pre-sowing irrigation from 150 to 90–120 millimeters controls soil ...
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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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