Rice production and research have met unprecedented challenges in recent years. Yield
and total production have plateaued for many years in some major producing rice …

Excessive nitrogen (N) application to rice (Oryza sativa L.) crop in China causes
environmental pollution, increases the cost of rice farming, reduces grain yield and …

Dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA), the nearly forgotten process in the
terrestrial nitrogen (N) cycle, can conserve N by converting the mobile nitrate into non …

Incredible accomplishments have been achieved in agricultural production in China, but
many demanding challenges for ensuring food security and environmental sustainability …

Understanding plant traits that are associated with high grain yield and high nitrogen use
efficiency (NUE) is very important in breeding program to develop N-efficient varieties …

Deep placement of nitrogen fertilizer affects the fate of fertilizer nitrogen through influencing
nitrogen transformation. Few studies have examined ammonia (NH 3) volatilization and …

A major challenge in rice production is to achieve the goal of increasing both food
production and resource use efficiency. This study investigated if and how irrigation regimes …

Many environmental factors constrain the production of major food crops in Sub-Saharan
Africa and South Asia. At the same time, these food production systems themselves have a …

Rice production in China has more than tripled in the past five decades mainly due to
increased grain yield rather than increased planting area. This increase has come from the …

A major challenge in rice (Oryza sativa L.) production is to enhance water use efficiency
(WUE) and maintain or even increase grain yield. WUE, if defined as the biomass …