In intensive integrated crop-livestock farming systems, the surplus of N at the farm scale may be large and reflects on the N balance at the field scale. A study was conducted to assess the N fertilizer efficiency in four private farms in intensively cropped areas of NW Italy, and to monitor the effects of agricultural practices on the mineral N concentration of the soil solution, sampled every...

Continuous cropping and soilborne diseases affect soil properties microbial diversity structure, which are the main factors posing obstacles to continuous of ginseng. This study explored response physicochemical properties, enzyme activity, community ginseng rhizosphere disease (root rot ginseng). We used woodland without planting as a control these changes. The results showed that significantl...

Despite recent progress, computational visual aesthetic is still challenging. Image cropping, which refers to the removal of unwanted scene areas, is an important step to improve the aesthetic quality of an image. However, it is challenging to evaluate whether cropping leads to aesthetically pleasing results because the assessment is typically subjective. In this paper, we propose a novel casca...

Soybean is the major food and oil crop in world. However, soybean continuous cropping can significantly reduce yield. In this study, effects of Rhizophagus intraradices on growth composition microbial communities roots under different regimes were investigated at maturity. The results showed that mycorrhizal colonization rate was affected by R. cropping. highest inoculated plants 1 year Inocula...

Time series data on cropping pattern at disaggregated level were analysed and its implications on geospatial drought assessment were demonstrated. An index of Cropping Pattern Dissimilarity (CP-DI) between a pair of years, developed in this study, proved that the cropping pattern of a year has a higher degree of similarity with that of recent past years only and tends to be dissimilar with long...

BACKGROUND Harnessing beneficial microbes presents a promising strategy to optimize plant growth and agricultural sustainability. Little is known to which extent and how specifically soil and plant microbiomes can be manipulated through different cropping practices. Here, we investigated soil and wheat root microbial communities in a cropping system experiment consisting of conventional and org...