Bread wheat expanded its habitat from a core area of the Fertile Crescent to global
environments within ~10,000 years. The genetic mechanisms of this remarkable evolutionary …

Deep knowledge of crop biodiversity is essential to improving global food security. Despite
bread wheat serving as a keystone crop worldwide, the population history of bread wheat …

Northeast China (NEC) is the corn granary of China, with average 38% of corn sowing area,
41% of corn production and over 80% corn commodity rate, which makes a great …

Intercropping is regarded as an important agricultural practice to improve crop production
and environmental quality in the regions with intensive agricultural production, eg, northern …

For the sake of reducing the application of chemical fertilizers (CF) and achieve the goal of
Zero Growth of CF until 2020, Chinese government released the “Action Plan for Organic-…

Heavy metal(loid)s (HMs) in organic fertilizer have become a primary source of HMs pollution
of farmlands, which could cause deleterious health effects in people exposed through soil-…

With the raising awareness of environmental protection, straw burning ban has been
implemented to control straw burning phenomenon in China. It has received significant …

Background Large-scale genotype–phenotype association studies of crop germplasm are
important for identifying alleles associated with favorable traits. The limited number of single-…

In China, returning wheat straw to the field (RWSF) is the most popular way of utilizing wheat
straw. RWSF can not only improve soil quality, but also help to control agricultural pollution …

A preliminary conceptual framework is proposed for the estimation of the costs of desertification.
This framework consists of assessment of the extent and severity of desertification, …