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📢 New Special Issue: Open for Submission Title: Modernizing #Horticultural #Crop Improvement for Enhanced #Yields and #Quality Light, temperature, water, fertilizer, climate, soil, variety, cultivation techniques, and management methods all affect the yield and quality of horticultural crops. Improving the yield and quality of horticultural crops is needed to meet people's demand for high-quality and diverse horticultural products. The utilization of fertilizers, pesticides, hormones, and agricultural films not only satisfies horticultural production, but also becomes increasingly environmentally unfriendly. At the same time, the use of modern biotechnology such as tissue culture, genetically modified organisms, and gene knockout in horticultural crops is becoming increasingly evident. However, ensuring the safe utilization of biotechnology in horticultural crops is a long-term and worthy hot topic of biological research. How to balance safety, efficiency, sustainability, yield, and quality of horticultural crops requires in-depth research from various aspects. This Special Issue will focus on the utilization of new technologies, methods, models, and germplasm resources for safe, efficient, and sustainable improvement of horticultural crop yield and quality. 🎓 Guest Editors: Dr. Guofei Tan and Prof. Dr. Lifei Chen ⏰ Submission Deadline: 15 September 2024 👉more information: https://lnkd.in/gmjM3nyH #academic #publishing #MDPI #horticulture #science

https://lnkd.in/gvKF5ixz Excited to share our latest research on predicting microbial inoculant success using macroecological models! 🌱 In agriculture, microbial inoculants are game-changers, but their success depends on persistence in new environments. We’ve adapted a macroecological propagule pressure model to predict microbial establishment, focusing on Pseudomonas simiae in a monocot system. Our findings show that repeated applications (propagule number) may significantly enhance establishment success, even when increasing concentration (propagule size) doesn’t. Check out the full paper for insights on sustainable microbial inoculant use in agriculture! 🌾 #MicrobialEcology #Sustainability #AgTech

How can we feed the world sustainably? By growing two or more crops in the same field at the same time. This intercropping technique can increase crop yields, improve soil health, and reduce the need for synthetic fertilisers.   Despite these benefits, intercropping occupies only two percent of Europe's arable land. We are on a mission to change this by using a two-pronged approach: 1. Research fields: Collecting data from seven research fields across Europe to understand the effects of legume-cereal intercropping on soil health and crop quality 2. On-farm living labs: Collaborating with farmers to test intercropping in a real-world setting and work together on solutions to overcome potential barriers.   We are currently collecting and analysing samples from our research field trials. Soil properties, plant quality and the microbes living in the soil – find out more about the samples our scientists are taking and the questions they are trying to answer. Watch our newest video directly from our Danish research field.   Join us on this journey toward sustainable farming! To learn more about the LEGUMINOSE project, visit https://www.leguminose.eu/.   We are excited to be working together in an enthusiastic and international consortium: Università degli Studi di Firenze, CSIC, Leibniz Universität Hannover, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Technische Universität Wien, ESCI - European Science Communication Institute, Unión de Pequeños Agricultores y Ganaderos (UPA), Department of Agroecology - Aarhus University, Cia Agricoltori Italiani Toscana, Soil Association, University of Reading, Deutsche Saatveredelung AG, FARM EUROPE, Agritec Plant Research s.r.o., Government College University, Faisalabad, Instytut Agrofizyki PAN / Institute of Agrophysics, PAS, IFAU ApS   #SustainableAgriculture #intercropping #HorizonEurope

How can we combat soil salinity that causes over $27 billion in losses each year? The University of Arizona - College of Agriculture, Life & Environmental Sciences tech is here to change that by enhancing crop resilience to salt and restoring land productivity. 🌱 Check out this #TechTuesday invention at the link below. #UArizona #Arabidopsis #ArabidopsisThaliana #SaltTolerance #Agriculture #Horticulture #PlantBiology

🌱 Exploring Mycorrhizae in Agriculture: A New Editorial Publication Excited to share our latest editorial article on the pivotal role of mycorrhizal fungi in sustainable agriculture! 🌾 These symbiotic fungi enhance nutrient uptake, improve stress tolerance, and boost plant growth, offering ecofriendly solutions to agricultural challenges like salinity and drought. The research topic published in Frontier in Plant Science featured outstanding publications. Dive into the Research Topic to explore how these fungi can transform agricultural landscapes for a sustainable future! 📚 https://lnkd.in/enE-4_qJ

16th June 📅 #InternationalBiotechnologyDay  🌱🧬 Biotechnology applied to agriculture is a tool that uses living organisms or substances obtained from those organisms to create or modify a product for practical purposes. It is seen as a complement to conventional agriculture, with advantages such as: improvements in crop yields, soil analysis, adaptation of crops to difficult environments, expansion of arable land and improvement of productivity and pest resistance...  Given the growing demand in food consumption, biotechnology has become a key player in agriculture 🌍🍽️ That's why today, #InternationalBiotechnologyDay we want to remember the relevance of its applications in crops and soil health 🌱🧑🔬 #biotechnology #innovation #plant #science #crops #soil #soilhealth #agriculture #alltech #alltechcropscience #SoilHealthExperts

Generally speaking, in our sector of agricultural inputs, people sell products. Customers purchase a thing, for what it is. However, that entails the problem that we rely on customers to know and understand why they should or shouldn’t buy a product. With basic commodities and chemicals, there is no issue -everybody knows what they can and cannot expect from a fertilizer or pesticide-, but with biologicals such as biostimulants, there is a big gap..this can lead to frustration, overpromises, economic losses, distrust, etc. Biostimulants are solutions to problems. Customers buy a biostimulant, for what it does. Historically, what a product does has been demonstrated empirically, with lab and field trials under different hypothesis and conditions, that show a particular benefit. But now, this is not enough anymore… fortunately the market is evolving and becoming more sophisticated, and demands to know not only what a product does, but also why. The mechanism of action. This is key to generate the necessary trust to choose a particular solution amongst an ever growing set of options available in the market. I am thrilled to share just one example of the many efforts that AlgaEnergy is investing in this area, working with the best scientists we can find in each area of expertise. The degree of understanding of the MoA and academic excellence reflected in this paper, recently published in a very prestiged Journal, amazes me and is something I personally have not seen in the market up to now. We are happy to contribute to shape the market of biologicals while we leverage the immense potential of microalgae, combining the best technologies and forefront knowledge -from AlgaEnergy and from our network of collaborators-. Congratulations Fran Romero Campero and rest of the team for this milestone!! https://lnkd.in/dG2UqJU2

🙌🏻 A new milestone in plant science and sustainable agriculture has been reached. Our collaboration with the distinguished researchers at the IBVF has culminated in a groundbreaking paper that's now featured in the prestigious Science of Food and Agriculture journal.   📜 This comprehensive paper, which leverages our proprietary technology, marks a pivotal moment in our understanding of plant responses and embodies the relentless dedication we’ve invested into exploring unknown scientific territories.   Through transcriptomic techniques, the study provides foundational insights into the positive effects of our innovative microalgal extract on crops and it represents a significant step toward fully grasping the improvements in crop yield and resistance.   🌱 By analyzing the impact on both model plants like Arabidopsis and agriculturally significant crops such as tomatoes, we’ve made strides in bridging the gap between scientific research and practical applications— a progress that promises new ways to bolster agriculture today and for future generations.   We are filled with immense pride to see how the dynamic force of collaborative science propel the agri-food sector forward.  #Innovation #Microalgae #Agriculture #Wiley #IBVF #Research #R&I Fran Romero Campero

Unlocking the Secrets of Nitrosocosmicus for Sustainable Agriculture In a groundbreaking study published in the journal 'mBio', researchers have peeled back the layers on a group of microorganisms that play a crucial role in the nitrogen cycle—specifically, the ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) of the Nitrosocosmicus cl https://lnkd.in/ec3VJtS2

Unlocking the Secrets of Nitrosocosmicus for Sustainable Agriculture In a groundbreaking study published in the journal 'mBio', researchers have peeled back the layers on a group of microorganisms that play a crucial role in the nitrogen cycle—specifically, the ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) of the Nitrosocosmicus cl https://lnkd.in/ec3VJtS2