Oilseed flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) is an important oil crop, and the SIMPLE model a very effective tool to simulate crop production. In this study, adapt for overall improvement of production yield, three promising cultivars North China—Longya Hybrid No. 1, Baxuan 3 Zhangya 2—were selected. Experiments were conducted in Dingxi, Wulanchabu, Datong Zhangjiakou Northern China from 2016 2020. Th...

The role of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) in adaptation of plants in extreme environments is not yet completely understood. For this study native bacteria were isolated from rhizospeheric arid soils and evaluated for both growth-promoting abilities and antagonistic potential against phytopathogenic fungi and nematodes. The phylogentic affiliation of these representative isolates w...

Passive restoration depending on native shrubs is an attractive approach for restoring desertified landscapes in semi-arid sandy regions. We sought to understand the relationships between spatial patterns of native shrubs and their survival ability in sandy environments. Furthermore, we applied our results to better understand whether passive restoration is feasible for desertified landscapes i...

Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) is an important elaboration of photosynthetic carbon fixation that allows chloroplast-containing cells to fix CO2 initially at night using phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) in the cytosol. This leads to the formation of C4 organic acids (usually malate), which are stored in the vacuole. Subsequent daytime decarboxylation of these organic acids behind clos...

We integrated recent research on cardinal temperatures for phenology and early leaf growth, spikelet formation, early morning flowering, transpirational cooling, and heat- and cold-induced sterility into an existing to crop growth model ORYZA2000. We compared for an arid environment observed potential yields with yields simulated with default ORYZA2000, with modified subversions of ORYZA2000 an...

Assessing water quality is crucial for improving global resource management, particularly in arid regions. This study aims to assess and monitor the status of groundwater based on hydrochemical parameters by using artificial intelligence (AI) approaches. The irrigation index (IWQI) predicted support vector machine (SVM) k-nearest neighbors (KNN) classifiers Matlab’s classification learner toolb...

Although regional climates throughout much of the world appear to have become more arid in late Cenozoic time, sedimentation rates, and therefore presumably erosion rates, have increased. For sustained erosion of elevated terrain, at least where glaciers are not the major erosive agent, rivers must incise. Therefore bed-load transport by rivers should be a rate-limiting process in erosion. Theo...