Mitigating CaCO3 crystal nucleation and growth through continuous ion displacement via alternating electric fields by Yiming Liu, Minhao Xiao, Xiaochuan Huang, Jane Park, Matthew E. Hoffman, Yuren Feng, Alicia Kyoungjin An, Qilin Li, Eric M. V. Hoek, David Jassby

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Effects of Seaweed Polysaccharide on the Growth and Physiological Health of Largemouth Bass, <i>Micropterus salmoides</i> by Dongyu Huang, Jiaze Gu, Hualiang Liang, Mingchun Ren, Chunyu Xue

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Improving the representation of major Indian crops in the Community Land Model version 5.0 (CLM5) using site-scale crop data by K. N. Reddy, S. Baidya Roy, S. S. Rabin, D. L. Lombardozzi, D. L. Lombardozzi, G. V. Varma, R. Biswas, D. C. Naik

“…This study used comprehensive wheat and rice novel crop data for India created by digitizing historical observations. …”
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Growth of olive saplings in different media containing artificial and natural super absorbents at two irrigation intervals by A. Mohammadi Torkashvand, H. Shahin, M. Mohammadi

“…A factorial experiment was conducted to evaluate the impact of super absorbents and organic wastes of rice, olive marc, vermicompost and farmyard manure on the soil water holding capacity and the growth of plant based on randomized complete block design with 13 treatments at two irrigation intervals 5 and 10 days. …”
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Modeling the Grain Import Trade: A Cointegration Analysis of China’s Panel Data by Feng Zhao, Pingping Sun, Jie Zhang

“…By applying cointegration analysis to trade statistics panel data of China’s wheat, corn, rice, and soybean production and imports from January 2016 to December 2019, this paper empirically tests for the existence of the great country effect in China’s grain import trade. …”
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Soil carbon-food synergy: sizable contributions of small-scale farmers by Toshichika Iizumi, Nanae Hosokawa, Rota Wagai

“…Key crops and regions in terms of small-scale farmers’ contributions include Sub-Saharan African maize and rice, Latin American and Caribbean soybean and maize, and South Asian rice and wheat. …”
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Integrating Metabolomics and Genomics to Uncover the Impact of Fermented Total Mixed Ration on Heifer Growth Performance Through Host-Dependent Metabolic Pathways by Zhenzhen Hu, Minyu Zuo, Shixuan Ding, Yifan Zhong, Mingyuan Xue, Huichao Zheng

“…They were randomly assigned into four groups of 18 to 21 cattle each and fed FTMR containing varying levels of rice straw (21% in LSF, 28% in MSF, 35% in HSF) or 31% sheath and leaves of <i>Zizania latifolia</i> (ZF) for a two-month period. …”
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Agricultural Innovation Characteristics and Their Utilisation: A Case of National Agricultural Research Organization by Barekye, Alex

“…In order to establish how the innovation characteristics and market attributes affect utilization of innovations, a total of 91 households involved in cassava, maize and rice production were interviewed in Kihiihi sub-county, one of the sub-counties in Kanungu district where the NARO innovations on cassava, maize and rice have been promoted. …”
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Straw return combined with water-saving irrigation increases microbial necromass accumulation by accelerating microbial growth-turnover in Mollisols of paddy fields by Peng Chen, Junzeng Xu, Kechun Wang, Zhongxue Zhang, Zhaoqiang Zhou, Yawei Li, Tiecheng Li, Tangzhe Nie, Qi Wei, Linxian Liao

“…., microbial growth, respiration, carbon use efficiency (CUE) and biomass turnover] of Mollisols responds to different management protocols, and to evaluate their carbon sequestration potential, we examined microbial anabolism, catabolism and necromass accumulation in Mollisols paddy fields under four treatments: (i) controlled irrigation + rice (Oryza sativa L.) straw removal (CI), (ii) flooded irrigation + rice straw removal (FI), (iii) controlled irrigation + rice straw return (CI-SR), and (iv) flooded irrigation + rice straw return (FI-SR). …”
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An Overview of Current and Prognostic Trends on Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications of Biobased Silica by Belete Tessema, Girma Gonfa, Sintayehu Mekuria Hailegiorgis, S. Venkatesa Prabhu

“…Another form of silica, silica gel, is produced from the selected resources of biomass, such as palm tree, wheat straw, maize leaves, teff straw, sugarcane bagasse, rice husk, rice straw, sugarcane leaf, oat husk, bamboo leaf, and corn cob. …”
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Effects of Bacillus subtilis and Leuconostoc mesenteroides on the Quality Characteristics of Potato Garaetteok by Hyeji Lim, Sujin Oh, Misook Kim

“…The control product (CON) was made using only rice flours. The pH of garaetteok was significantly lower in the BS and LM groups compared to CON and NF. …”
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A Comparative Kinetic Study of Acidic Hydrolysis of Wastes Cellulose from Agricultural Derived Biomass by Ajani AO, SE Agarry, OO Agbede

“…The kinetics of acid hydrolysis of cellulose isolated from banana skin, cowpea shells, maize stalks and rice husk (agricultural waste) were studied at temperature ranging between 70 – 100oC in a stirred conical flask which served as a batch reactor. …”
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Production of Emulsion Paint Using Locally Available Materials. by Turyarugayo, Emmanuel

“…The study therefore recommended that small-scale entrepreneurs and local people should begin producing emulsion paints from water, lime, clay, milk, rice flour, and lampblack since the materials are readily available in our environment, cheap, and friendly to our environment.…”
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Effect of soluble dietary fiber extracted from Lentinula edodes (Berk.) Pegler on lipid metabolism and liver protection in mice on high-fat diet by Kangxiao Guo, Kangxiao Guo, Jing Liu, Zihan Yao, Zhoujin Tan, Tao Yang

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Valorization of vermicompost with bacterial fermented chicken feather hydrolysate for the yield improvement of tomato plant: A novel organic combination by Ishita Biswas, Debasis Mitra, Ansuman Senapati, Debanjan Mitra, Sourav Chattaraj, Murshed Ali, Goutam Basak, Periyasamy Panneerselvam, Pradeep K. Das Mohapatra

“…The CFPH showed the potential to promote remarkably the germination % of tomato (84.13), rice (87.24), onion (84.13), chilli (84.13), chickpea (73.24) seeds ; field experiment significantly increased plant growth and yield compared with control. …”
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L’intensification des pratiques agricoles et la mobilisation des ressources naturelles dans La Pampa du Sud du Brésil by Jeannine Corbonnois, François Laurent, Vincent Andreu-Boussut, François Messner, Verdum Roberto, Rosa Medeiros Vieira, Makhtar Sogue

“…Southern Brazil, which has a good natural potential due to its sub-tropical climate and its favorable topography, is mainly dedicated to breeding and cultivating soybean, rice and corn. Like others in Brazil, this region is involved in the production of agricultural products for domestic and international markets. …”
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Integrated Feature Selection of ARIMA with Computational Intelligence Approaches for Food Crop Price Prediction by Yuehjen E. Shao, Jun-Ting Dai

“…Because of global climate change, lack of arable land, and rapid population growth, the supplies of three major food crops (i.e., rice, wheat, and corn) have been gradually decreasing worldwide. …”
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COMPARATIVE EFFECTS OF NITROGEN-BASED AND NON-NITROGEN-BASED SUBSTRATES ON THE PROXIMATE CONTENTS OF Pleurotus SPECIES by C. A. Anukwuorji, N. V. Omumu, N. C. Ikegbunam

“…The substrates used include saw dust, dried banana leaves, rice bran and cowpea husk. Mushroom yield was determined by dividing the total weight of the fruiting bodies from all the flushes by the dry weight of the substrate. …”
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Coalescence formation of muonic atoms at RHIC by Xiaofeng Wang, Frank Geurts, Zebo Tang, Kefeng Xin, Zhangbu Xu, Yifei Zhang, Long Zhou

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Research Progress on the Extraction and Identification of Key Components of Grain Odorants and Their Applications in Grain Storage by LI Hui, HONG Xiwen, WANG Zhengyan, WANG Yanyan

“…In addition, we summarize the characteristic odorants in rice and wheat including 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (2-AP), whose formation mechanism in rice has been tentatively confirmed. …”
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