Cover crops (CCs) are a promising and sustainable agronomic practice to ameliorate soil
health and crop performances. However, the complex of relationships between CCs, the …

Sustainable food production is one of the major challenges of the twenty-first century in the
era of global environmental problems such as climate change, increasing population and …

Cover crops (CCs) are a promising strategy for maintaining and enhancing agroecosystem
sustainability, yet CCs' effects on the subsequent crop yield are highly variable. To …

Context Since the ridge-furrow farming with plastic film mulching has caused widespread
environmental pollution in maize field, it is essential to explore a substitutive strategy to …

Through advancements in technology humans have cultivated more food, used more fossil
fuel reserves, polluted the environment, and caused climate change. This was not the case …

The objective of this experiment was to assess the effects of organic or chemical nutrient
solutions on the growth and composition of lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) in greenhouse …

The responses of lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.'Arroyo') to organic nitrogen (N) fertilizers were
investigated in a greenhouse. Fertilizers were blood meal (BLO), feather meal (FM) …

With global population growth and climate change, food security and global warming have
emerged as two major challenges to agricultural development. Plastic film mulching (PM) …

In dry environments, potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is grown under mulching for water
conservation and improving tuber yield and nitrogen use efficiency (NUE). A meta-analysis …

There is a growing trend in the use of cover crops in the United Kingdom, and whilst
research shows there are many soil and environmental benefits, little is known about the …