Comparative Transcriptomic Analysis of Root Cadmium Responses in Two Chinese Rice Cultivars Yuzhenxiang and Xiangwanxian 12 by Shangdu Zhang, Zhenliang Luo, Xiang Wu, Bangzhi Shi, Huidan Jiang, Leliang Zhou, Lianyang Bai

“…It has been reported that there is a higher or lower grain Cd accumulation in the rice cultivars Yuzhenxiang (YZX) or Xiangwanxian 12 (XWX), respectively. …”
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Monitoring Interannual Variability in Spatial Distribution of Plastic-Mulched Farmland in Black Soil Areas Using Google Earth Engine by Jingfa Zhong, Dongmei Ji, Lei Chang, Yuefen Li

“…However, improper use can harm farmland ecosystems and threaten food security, especially in black soil regions, which are primary grain-producing areas. Timely and accurate monitoring of spatial and temporal changes in plastic-mulched farmland (PMF) is crucial for controlling mulch pollution and promoting sustainable development. …”
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Soil fertility and nutrient uptake of rice influenced by plant growth promoting microbes, seaweed extract and humic acid fortified in situ rice residue compost by Prabhu Vijayakumar, Singaravel Ramaiyan, Ramakichenin Alias Balagandhi Balasubramanian

“…Combined application of fortified rice residue compost with 75% NPK resulted in significantly higher rice yields (grain 6.03 t ha-1 and straw 8.57 t ha-1) and nutrient uptake. …”
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Multiplex Network Embedding Model with High-Order Node Dependence by Nianwen Ning, Qiuyue Li, Kai Zhao, Bin Wu

“…Through these two phases, we can achieve the disentangled representation of node attributes, which can be treated as fined-grained semantic dependence on the topology of each layer. …”
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Soil Properties, Crop Yield, and Economic Return in Response to Lime Application on Acidic Nitisols of Southern Highlands of Ethiopia by Getahun Haile, Habtamu Berihun, Helina Abera, Getachew Agegnehu, Mulugeta Lemenih

“…Combined over the two years, 5.45 t·ha−1 lime application yielded the highest barley total biomass of 19,199 kg·ha−1 and a grain yield of 4,328 kg·ha−1, which are 46% and 30% higher than those of the control, respectively. …”
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Learning deep forest for face anti-spoofing: An alternative to the neural network against adversarial attacks by Rizhao Cai, Liepiao Zhang, Changsheng Chen, Yongjian Hu, Alex Kot

“…Our approach introduces a multi-scale texture representation based on local binary patterns (LBP) as the model input, replacing the grained-scanning mechanism (GSM) used in the traditional deep forest model. …”
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Principal approaches and achievements in studying race composition of wheat stem rust by A. S. Rsaliyev, Sh. S. Rsaliyev

“…Wheat stem rust races dominant in major grain-growing countries of the globe and their typical peculiarities are described. …”
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Demonstrating the Qualitative Differences between Semantic Aphasia and Semantic Dementia: A Novel Exploration of Nonverbal Semantic Processing by Krist A. Noonan, Peter Garrard, Elizabeth Jefferies, Sheeba Eshan, Matthew A. Lambon Ralph

“…In contrast, SD patients performed poorly because their degraded knowledge did not allow the fine-grained distinctions required to complete the task.…”
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Localization of the quantitative trait loci related to lodging resistance in spring bread wheat (<i>Triticum aestivum</i> L.) by I. N. Leonova, E. V. Ageeva

“…The yield and grain quality of spring and winter wheat significantly depends on varieties’ resistance to lodging, the genetic basis of this trait being quantitative and controlled by a large number of loci. …”
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Study on the microstructural evolution mechanism of the angular contact ball bearing rings during the quenching and tempering process by Ruijie Gu, Yi Tong, Qiang Wang, Liaoyuan Chen, Ziyang Shang

“…The results showed that the microstructure of the inner and outer ring after heat treatment process was cryptocrystalline martensite, and the average sizes of spherical carbides precipitated at grain boundaries were 0.39 μm and 0.38 μm, and corresponding hardnesses were increased to be 62.5 HRC and 62.7 HRC. …”
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Molecular markers in the genetic analysis of crossability of bread wheat with rye by I. V. Porotnikov, O. Yu. Antonova, O. P. Mitrofanova

“….), the varieties of which are widely used for the grain production, is difficultly crossable with related species of Triticeae Dum. …”
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Investigate on surface/subsurface damage mechanisms and manufacturability of ultra-smooth surface in ultra-precision ductile grinding of sapphire optics by Sheng Wang, Qinghe Zhang, Qingliang Zhao, Ming Zhou

“…Secondly, the evolution characteristics of surface roughness, surface morphology and surface damage with the reduction of grain size of grinding wheel were studied. Thirdly, the subsurface damage mechanisms and microscopic characteristics in ultra-precision grinding of sapphire were researched, and the evolution processes and removal mechanisms of surface/subsurface damage were revealed. …”
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Laser surface melting and heat treatment of Tomilloy nickel-based superalloy as gas turbine transition part after service by Bahareh Mohammadi, Homam Naffakh-Moosavy, Hamed Fatemi

“…In the microstructure of the heat-treated samples, it was observed that the dendrites are disappeared and the sub-grain boundaries are no longer exist. The precipitates were distributed throughout the fusion zone and the structure became homogeneous. …”
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Characterization and Identification of Coal and Carbonaceous Shale Using Visible and Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy by En Yang, Shirong Ge, Shibo Wang

“…The effect of carbon concentration on reflectance curve was simulated by the mixed powder of ultralow ash bituminite and clay in 0.5 mm grain size under various mixing ratios. It was found that absorption valleys near 1400 nm, 1900 nm, and 2200 nm of the mixed powder become not obvious when the bituminite content is more than 30%. …”
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Correlation between Acoustic Feature and Sensory Crispness of Different Puffed Food Based on Energy Release Analysis by Chengkai ZHU, Xinnan HU, Zhili JI, Wangyang SHEN, Xiwu JIA

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Evolution of plastic deformation during multi-pass ECAP of an AA6060 aluminum alloy – An experimental flow line analysis by Nadja Berndt, Nadja A. Reiser, Martin F.-X. Wagner

“…As plastic flow is largely influenced by a material's processing history, especially in terms of grain size, texture and pre-deformation, the evolution of local material flow during multiple passes of ECAP is of significant interest. …”
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The results of the ecological study of different ecotypes of spring barley varieties in the dry conditions of the Volgograd Province by G. V. Kozubovskaya, V. I. Balakshina

“…With sufficient moisture supply (56.3 mm) at the booting stage and moderate air temperature (the sum of active temperatures of 711°C) during the maturing stage, the grain yield was maximal and reached 7.08.0 tons/ha for individual varieties. …”
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Effects of Concentration of Pore Solution on Stability of Ion-Absorbed Rare Earth Ore Aggregate by Jie Wang, Guanshi Wang, Bengen Hong

“…Furthermore, an empirical formula for estimating the critical (NH4)2SO4 solution concentration for aggregation and dispersion of ore body aggregates with different grain composition was proposed. Some major conclusions were drawn. …”
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Continuous Sign Language Recognition With Multi-Scale Spatial-Temporal Feature Enhancement by Zhen Wang, Dongyuan Li, Renhe Jiang, Manabu Okumura

“…Existing CSLR methods struggle with fully leveraging fine-grained continuous frame information and often overlook the importance of multi-scale feature integration during decoding. …”
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Source material for naked barley breeding in the Northwest of the Russian Federation by K. A. Lukina, I. G. Loskutov, V. I. Khoreva, O. N. Kovaleva

“…Field and laboratory studies resulted in making agrobiological descriptions of the accessions and identifying sources of individual agronomic traits (earliness, high yield, and good grain quality) and their combinations under the conditions of the Russian Northwest. …”
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