Vol. 1, No. 2 (2021)
Table of Contents
Soil Health Restoration Through Integrated Organic Amendments: A Systematic Review of Mechanisms, Evidence, and Emerging Directions
Dr. Nguyen Minh Anh
Abstract: Background: Soil degradation has already affected around one-third of the worldwide arable land using different factors, for example, erosion, compaction, salinization, acidification, and organic matter loss, which has a negative impact on food security, climate objectives, and ecosys...
Functional Genomics of Salinity Stress Adaptation in Rice
Jonas Michael Kramer, Emilia Sophie Schneide
Abstract: Background: Salinity stress is an escalating threat to global food security, severely limiting the growth, development, and productivity of rice (Oryza sativa L.), a staple food for more than half of the world's population. Between 2015 and 2025, research on rice salinity toleranc...
Climate Change Impacts on Phenological Development of Major Field Crops: A Critical Evaluation and Evidence Synthesis
Takumi Hiroshi Tanaka
Abstract: Background: Climate change operates as a primary disruptive force in global agroecosystems, altering environmental drivers that dictate plant ontogeny. Crop phenology—the timeline of biological life-cycle phases—serves as a highly sensitive bioindicator of these environmen...
Nano-Biofertilizers and Their Impact on Nutrient Assimilation Pathways
Isabela Cristina Ferreira, Pedro Augusto Santos
Abstract: Background: The escalating demand for global food security, coupled with ecological degradation caused by the excessive use of conventional chemical fertilizers, has created an urgent need for sustainable agricultural inputs. Nano-biofertilizers (NBFs), which combine nanostructured ca...
Root Hydraulic Conductivity and Water Acquisition Strategies in Crops: A Critical Review of Anatomical, Molecular, and Environmental Determinants
Jonathan Michael Harrison, Emily Grace Carter
Abstract: Background: Climate-driven accelerations in global aridity underscore the urgent requirement to engineer crop cultivars with optimized water-use efficiency. Root hydraulic conductivity (Lpr), which governs the volumetric water flux across the root cylinder per unit of driving force, c...
High-Throughput Phenotyping of Drought Adaptive Traits in Cereals: A Critical Review of Sensor Technologies, Platforms, and Data Analytics Pipelines
Maximilian Josef Felix, Clara Elisabeth Wagner, Felix Martin Becker
Abstract: Background: Drought stress represents one of the most critical threats to global cereal production and food security under climate change. While genomic selection and molecular breeding have advanced exponentially, the ability to accurately, non-destructively, and dynamically characte...
Artificial Neural Network Models for Crop Yield Prediction: A Comprehensive Critical Review of Architectural Evolutions, Data Modalities, and Knowledge Gaps (2015–2025)
Kenta Shun Saito, Yui Haruka Fujimoto, Ren Daichi Nakamura, Ayaka Misaki Kobayashi
Abstract: Context: As climate fluctuations, population surges, and political tensions continue to increase, worldwide food security is more vulnerable than ever. To stabilize the flows of the goods through the supply chains, formulate adequate macroeconomic policy, and apply precision farming, ...
Metagenomic Insights into Soil Microbial Community Assembly: A Critical and Quantitative Review of Deterministic versus Stochastic Drivers
Min Jae Park, Ji Hoon Kim
Abstract: Context: Understanding how soil microorganisms come together is a key issue in microbial ecology which has important implications for ecosystem recovery, farming efficiency, and global biogeochemical processes. Research based on amplicon sequencing such as 16S rRNA and ITS sequencing ...
Soil Carbon Stabilization Mechanisms Under Conservation Tillage: A Critical Review and Synthesis
Matteo Lorenzo Romano, Giulia Francesca Ricci
Abstract: Background: Conservation tillage practices, including no-tillage (NT) and reduced tillage (RT), have been widely advocated as viable management strategies to mitigate atmospheric carbon dioxide (COâ‚‚) emissions by enhancing soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration. However, the m...
Sustainable Intensification Through Integrated Crop–Livestock Systems: A Review of Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning for Precision Nutrient Management
Haruto Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Sota Hiroaki, Yuto Keisuke Matsuda, Miyu Akari Aoki
Abstract: Background: Integrated crop–livestock systems (ICLS) represent a cornerstone of sustainable agricultural intensification, promoting dynamic nutrient cycling, biodiversity, and ecosystem resilience. However, optimizing multi-enterprise interactions requires sophisticated decision...