3D printing applications in smart farming and food processing

Smart Agricultural Technology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 9, P. 100553 - 100553

Published: Aug. 28, 2024

Language: Английский

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Towards Climate-Smart Agriculture: Strategies for Sustainable Agricultural Production, Food Security, and Greenhouse Gas Reduction

Agronomy, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(3), P. 565 - 565

Published: Feb. 25, 2025

Without transformative adaptation strategies, the impact of climate change is projected to reduce global crop yields and increase food insecurity, while rising greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions further exacerbate crisis. While agriculture a major contributor through unsustainable practices, it also offers significant opportunities mitigate these adoption sustainable practices. This review examines climate-smart (CSA) as key strategy for enhancing productivity, building resilience, reducing GHG emissions, emphasizing need strategic interventions accelerate its large-scale implementation improved security. The analysis revealed that nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) has in developed countries, NUE remains at 55.47%, precision nutrient management integrated soil fertility strategies enhance productivity minimize environmental impacts. With 40% world’s agricultural land already degraded, sustainability alone insufficient, necessitating shift toward regenerative practices restore degraded water by improving health, biodiversity, increasing carbon sequestration, thus ensuring long-term resilience. CSA including agriculture, biochar application, agroforestry, improve security, emissions. However, result variability highlights site-specific optimize benefits. Integrating multiple enhances health more effectively than implementing single practice alone. Widespread faces socio-economic technological barriers, requiring supportive policies, financial incentives, capacity-building initiatives. By adopting technologies, can transition sustainability, securing systems addressing challenges.

Language: Английский

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The Rising of Flexible Organic Electrochemical Transistors in Sensors and Intelligent Circuits

ACS Nano, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 20, 2025

Flexible electronic devices in biomedicine, environmental monitoring, and brain-like computing have garnered significant attention. Among these, organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) been spotlighted flexible sensors neuromorphic circuits for their low power consumption, high signal amplification, excellent biocompatibility, chemical stability, stretchability, flexibility. However, OECTs will also face some challenges on the way to commercialized applications, including need improved long-term enhanced performance of N-type materials, integration with existing technologies, cost-effective manufacturing processes. This review presents device physics detail, evaluation various properties introduction different configurations aforementioned OECTs. Subsequently, components this roles are explained depth, main ways design fabricate summarized. Following this, we summarize analyze principles applications electrophysiological sensing, biosensing, sensor arrays. In addition, concepts OECT-based digital presented. Finally, paper summarizes opportunities electronics.

Language: Английский

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Nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer use efficiency improves alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) production and performance in alkaline desert soil

Frontiers in Plant Science, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 16

Published: Feb. 18, 2025

The deficiency of nitrogen and phosphorus is a primary constraint on the normal growth alfalfa (Medicago Sativa L.) in alkaline desert soils northern Xinjiang. Optimizing combination fertilizers can maximally significantly enhance farmers' economic returns while concurrently mitigate soil environmental pollution. For this purpose, field experiment based randomized complete block design was conducted over two consecutive years (2019 2020) Shihezi, Xinjiang province, China. WL366HQ variety evaluated with four levels each urea monoammonium phosphate. effects fertilizer treatments were assessed yield, traits, nutritional quality, use efficiency, benefit. Application (N), (P), their interaction (P< 0.05) affected cumulative dry matter (DM) yield. In general, compared to no-fertilization treatment, application N P resulted increased plant height, stem thickness, crude protein, ether extract alfalfa, neutral detergent fiber (NDF) acid (ADF) exhibited decreasing trend. Additionally, reduced corresponding it non-corresponding efficiency. During two-year experimental period, treatment involving at 286.3 kg·ha-1 combined phosphate 192 achieved highest evaluation scores for production performance, total net profit, resulting profit increase 44.18% no-fertilizer treatment. These findings lay groundwork nuanced fertilization strategies future cultivation.

Language: Английский

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From weather data to water fluxes simulation in Mediterranean greenhouses through a combined climate and hydrological modelling approach

Agricultural Water Management, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 311, P. 109386 - 109386

Published: March 2, 2025

Language: Английский

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Glucose selective textile OECT based on Molecularly Imprinted Nanoparticles functionalized channel for in vivo plants monitoring

Sensors and Actuators B Chemical, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 137640 - 137640

Published: March 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Changes in Soil Microbiome Composition and Tomato Plant’s Physiological Response to Water Deficit and Excess

Agronomy, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(4), P. 915 - 915

Published: April 8, 2025

Water stress is a major limiting factor in agriculture, particularly the Mediterranean region, where climate change exacerbates drought conditions. Soil microbiome composition plays crucial role plant resilience to environmental stressors, water scarcity and excess. This study examines impact of different irrigation regimes (optimal, severe deficit, excess) on tomato soil physiology context. Metataxonomic profiling revealed significant shifts microbial community structure: Proteobacteria dominated under optimal (WO), Acidobacteria deficit (WD), Actinobacteria both excess (WE). Functional analysis indicated irrigation-induced alterations metabolic pathways, influencing nutrient cycling. respiration varied, peaking WE condition. Plant physiological responses, including gas exchange Proline content, were significantly affected by stress. An inverse correlation was observed between diversity chlorophyll suggesting link responses composition. underscores for first time intricate relationship availability dynamics, emphasizing importance microbiome-driven resilience, thus showing this be key agricultural sustainability changing climatic

Language: Английский

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Crop physiology, the technology and the production gap

Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 36(3), P. 567 - 582

Published: June 11, 2024

Language: Английский

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Kiwi 4.0: In Vivo Real-Time Monitoring to Improve Water Use Efficiency in Yellow Flesh Actinidia chinensis

Biosensors, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(5), P. 226 - 226

Published: May 3, 2024

This manuscript reports the application of sensors for water use efficiency with a focus on an in vivo OECT biosensor. In two distinct experimental trials, sensor bioristor was applied yellow kiwi plants to monitor, real-time and continuously, changes composition concentration plant sap open field during growth development. The response physiological data, together other fruit monitoring were acquired combined both giving complete picture biosphere conditions. A high correlation observed between index (ΔIgs), canopy cover expressed as fraction intercepted PAR (fi_PAR), soil content (SWC). addition, confirmed be good proxy occurrence drought plants; fact, period stress identified within month July. novelty measurements their ability detect advance defoliation, thereby reducing yield quality losses. plant-based irrigation protocol can achieved tailored based real needs, increasing sustainability preserving high-quality standards.

Language: Английский

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Field Plant Monitoring from Macro to Micro Scale: Feasibility and Validation of Combined Field Monitoring Approaches from Remote to in Vivo to Cope with Drought Stress in Tomato

Plants, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 12(22), P. 3851 - 3851

Published: Nov. 14, 2023

Monitoring plant growth and development during cultivation to optimize resource use efficiency is crucial achieve an increased sustainability of agriculture systems ensure food security. In this study, we compared field monitoring approaches from the macro micro scale with aim developing novel in vivo tools for phenotyping advancing drought stress detection at level. To end, tested different methodologies tomato under water regimes: (i) micro-scale (inserted stem) real-time organic electrochemical transistor (OECT)-based sensor, namely a bioristor, that enables continuous plant; (ii) medium-scale (<1 m canopy) through red–green–blue (RGB) low-cost imaging; (iii) macro-scale multispectral thermal using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). High correlations between proximal remote sensing were found chlorophyll-related indices, although specific time points (NDVI NDRE GGA SPAD). The ion concentration allocation monitored by index R bioristor defense response highly correlated indices (Crop Water Stress Index (CSWI), relative content (RWC), vapor pressure deficit (VPD)). A high negative correlation was observed CWSI and, turn, RWC. Although measurements well vegetation provide information about crop’s status moment. Meanwhile, continuously monitors movements development, making tool promising device monitoring.

Language: Английский

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