Showing papers in "Journal of Integrative Agriculture in 2020"

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper employed the multivariate probit model to investigate the rational and irrational motives on food hoarding behavior, and also found factors attributing to the different buying behaviors.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the impact of COVID-19 on agricultural export companies in China using a unique firm-level survey data and found that although on average agricultural businesses experienced declines in the exports, exports of some agricultural products especially grain and oil held strong and even increased, implying the essential demand for staple food during the pandemic.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors conducted a survey and interviews with 46 agricultural cooperatives in Shanghai to analyze the impact of the corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on vegetable production and offer suggestions on agricultural insurance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the COVID-19 pandemic's impacts on the dairy industries in China and the United States and derive policy recommendations for enhancing the diary industries' resilience to pandemics and other market shocks.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used data from the latest round of a nationally representative household panel survey to examine the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on rural poverty in China and found that households in the bottom four quintiles when ranked in terms of household income per capita are much more likely to perceive themselves of falling back into or falling into poverty during this pandemic than those in the richest quintile.

TL;DR: In this article, a field study was conducted in Punjab, Pakistan, in 2017 and 2018 to explore the trade-offs between water saving and paddy yield, water productivity and economics of two aromatic rice varieties under dry direct seeded rice (DDSR) and TPR.

TL;DR: Drought resistant cultivar Dexiamian 1 and drought sensitive cultivar Yuzaomian 9110 were screened through hydroponics experiment, which can be used as ideal experimental materials to study the mechanism of different cotton cultivars with contrasting drought sensitivities in response to drought stress.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper assessed the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Chinese residents' food safety knowledge and behavior, and explored the possible influence mechanism, namely, focus on media information.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors combined land surface temperature (LST) and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) derived from AQUA/TERRA MODIS data, and solar declination (Ds) in univariate and multivariate linear regression models.

TL;DR: A cost and benefit assessment of the status of biofumigation for the control of plant-parasitic nematodes as an alternative to conventional methyl bromide usage is sought.

TL;DR: This model can be effectively applied under a variety of backgrounds, image sizes, grain sizes, shooting angles, and shooting heights, as well as different levels of grain crowding, and constitutes an effective detection and enumeration tool for wheat grain.

TL;DR: The first record of T. absoluta as an invasive pest in China was found in tomato fields in Ili Kazakg Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China, and its occurrence was confirmed by both morphological and molecular approaches.

TL;DR: In this paper, the root growth defect is caused by reduced reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation in root tips, and pHBA treatment could maintain higher level of ROS accumulated in the pHBA less sensitive cucumber than that in pHBA-sensitive cucumber.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the composition and levels of sugar and acid in blueberries and found that glucose, fructose, and sucrose were positively correlated with total sugar content; the citric acid content was positively associated with the titratable acidity and total organic acids.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of Lactobacillus plantarum inoculums on fermentation quality and in vitro digestibility of corn stover silage was investigated, and subsequent in vitro dry matter digestibility, neutral detergent fiber digestibility (NDF-D), volatile fatty acids (VFA), methane (CH4) production, cellulolytic bacteria proportions and their activities were also determined.

TL;DR: The recent outbreak of COVID-19 has spread rapidly across the world as mentioned in this paper and has seriously affected public health and national and global economies since the beginning of 2020, the world's cumulative reported infections exceeded 46 million and the number of deaths reached 1.2 million (WHO 2020).

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of varying irrigation regimes and N rates on shoot growth, grain yield and WUE of maize (Zea mays L.) grown under APRI in the Hexi Corridor area of Northwest China in 2014 and 2015.

TL;DR: In this paper, a light spectrum study of 100% red light emitting diodes (LEDs) light spectrum, 100% blue LEDs light spectrum (BB), 65% red+35% blue (RB) and 45% red + 35% blue+20% green LEDs light Spectrum (RBG) providing illumination at the in vitro cultured stage of potato plantlets for 4 weeks using fluorescent lamp as control (CK).

TL;DR: This review introduces the advances in physiological, genetic, and molecular researches in photoperiodism of soybean, and progress in the improvement of the photo-thermal adaptability, and proposed a novel concept of ‘ecotyping’ and the strategies for widely-adapted soybean cultivar breeding.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of cash crop cultivation on household income and migration decisions, using survey data collected from low-income regions in China, using an endogenous treatment regression model that accounts for potential selection bias issue.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of light spectra and selenium forms on plant growth, photosynthetic performance, Se accumulation and nitrate reduction were investigated, and the results showed that the light spectras and Se forms had significant interactions for plant growth.

TL;DR: An automatic monitoring system for rice light-trap pests based on machine vision and a close correlation between the automatic and manual identification methods based on the daily pest number of one-year images from one light trap is found.

TL;DR: The study aims to substantiate the anti-dengue potential of some traditional herbs and make them available for further studies to facilitate TCM users, and serve as the base knowledge for further investigation on their combined treatments or integrative treatment with western medicines, which may improve the overall anti- dengue activity in future.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper used three transplanting methods: mechanical pot-seedling transplanting with wide-narrow row (K, average row spacing of 30 cm); equidistant row (D, 33 cmx12 cm); and mechanical carpet-seeding transplanting (T, 30 cm×12.4 cm).

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of subsoiling depth (30, 35 and 40 cm), period interval (2 or 3 years) and combined pre-sowing tillage practice (rotary cultivation or ploughing) on soil condition improvement was studied on a tidal soil in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors explored regional differences in different types of loss and potential factors affecting the severity farmer households suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic and found that sales contraction and price volatility in the context of interruption of supply chain dominated the total losses during the pandemic.

TL;DR: The updated understanding will offer new approaches for development of breeding lines for overcoming indica-japonica hybrid sterility, which facilitates developing of inter-subspecific hybrid rice.

TL;DR: The results revealed that long-term continuous soybean cropping increased the soil fungal abundance compared with soybean rotation, and thefungal abundance was decreased in long- term continuous maize cropping compared with maize rotation.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper used the Google Earth Engine (GEE) cloud computing platform and Landsat 8 images to extract the fallowed paddy field area on Sanjiang Plain of China in 2018.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of BR treatment on rice leaf SOD and POD activities, MDA, chlorophyll, P, and stem-sheath K contents were more significant in KJD6 than in K131.