Dancing to a different tune, can we switch from chemical to biological nitrogen fixation for sustainable food security? by Min-Yao Jhu, Giles E D Oldroyd

“…Here, we highlight our understanding of legume nodulation and future research directions that might help to overcome the barrier of achieving self-fertilising crops.…”
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Potato bruise spot sensitivity dependence on regimes of cultivation by J. Blahovec, J. Židová

“…The regimes of cultivation differ by fertilising and/or irrigation. The obtained black spots were measured carefully to obtain detailed shape and volume. …”
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Behaviour of solute transport phenomenon from rainfed sweet corn field in tropical climate by Iqbal, Mazhar

“…The overall simulation results validate the HYDRUS-1D as an effective tool for improved water and fertiliser use and AquaCrop to simulate the crop growth in the tropical climate.…”
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Organic farming and sustainable agriculture in Malaysia: organic farmers' challenges towards adoption by Tiraieyari, Neda, Hamzah, Azimi, Abu Samah, Bahaman

“…Agriculture in Malaysia is characterised by high levels of fertiliser and manure applications and consequently environmental pollution. …”
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The Effect of Disinfection of Hatching Eggs on Hatchability of Oravka Chickens by Cyril Hrnčár, Simona Prachárová, Jozef Bujko

“…We recorded a positive effect of disinfection of ozone on hatchability from fertilised eggs (91.79%) compared with disinfection of formalin (91.10%) A totally embryonal mortality of chickens had not record any difference between two methods of disinfection but we recorded positive effect of ozone on embryonic mortality of chicks to 7 day of incubation and from 15 to 21 day of incubation. …”
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Effect of Different Tillage Systems on Soil Organic Carbon and Enzymatic Activity by Małgorzata Szostek, Ewa Szpunar-Krok, Renata Pawlak, Jadwiga Stanek-Tarkowska, Anna Ilek

“…The results confirm that, regardless of other treatments, such as the use of organic fertilisers, tillage has a negative impact on the content of SOC and organic matter fractions in the O_Fs system. …”
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Calculating the carbon footprint of rice production in Vietnam and formulating a proposal for mitigation options by Dao Minh Trang, Huynh Thi Lan Huong, Mai Van Trinh

“…Three mitigation options are proposed: integrated crop management for rice; alternate wetting and drying; and the substitution of urea fertiliser (CO(NH2)2) with ammonium sulphate ((NH4)2SO4). …”
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Effects of in ovo injection of microalgae on hatchability, antioxidant and immunity-related genes expression, and post-hatch performance in broilers and Japanese quails by Hosna Hajati, Mojtaba Zaghari, Omid Noori, Reza Negarandeh, Haniel Cedraz de Oliveira

“…In experiment 2, a total of 192 fertilised broiler breeder were divided into four groups: control, sham control (0.2 CC distilled water/egg), 25 mg SP/egg, 35 mg SP/egg. …”
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Rice residue promotes mobilisation and plant acquisition of soil phosphorus under wheat (Triticum aestivum)-rice (Oryza sativa) cropping sequence in a semi-arid Inceptisol by Avijit Ghosh, Dipak Ranjan Biswas, Ranjan Bhattacharyya, Shrila Das, Tapas K. Das, Khajanchi Lal, Supradip Saha, Pushpendra Koli, Rongrong Shi, Khurshid Alam, Yonglin Ren

“…Therefore, cultivators could be advised to use rice straw at 12 Mg ha−1 with phosphorus-solubilizing microbes with 75% P of mineral P fertiliser to save 25% P fertiliser without reducing wheat and rice yield.…”
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Management practices and rice grain yield of farmers after participation in a joint experimentation by Thomas Awio, Thomas Awio, Paul C. Struik, Tjeerd Jan Stomph

“…The farm type with higher fertiliser use in nursery and field, line transplanting, timely weeding and higher N rate had the highest grain yield. …”
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Effects of drip and flood irrigation on soil heavy metal migration and associated risks in China by Muyesaier Tudi, Li Wang, Binggan Wei, Linsheng Yang, Jiangping Yu, Fengqing Jiang, Yuan Xue, Hairong Li, Fang Wang, Linfeng Li, Qiming Jimmy Yu, Huada Daniel Ruan, Des Connell

“…This effect can be attributed to the methods of adding water and fertilisers to the soil under drip irrigation. Altering these variables can impact the level of heavy metals that bioaccumulate in crops. …”
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Tackling climate risk to sustainably intensify smallholder maize farming systems in southern Africa by William C D Nelson, Munir P Hoffmann, Carlotta May, Frederick Mashao, Kingsley Ayisi, Jude Odhiambo, Thomas Bringhenti, Jan Henning Feil, Sara Yazdan Bakhsh, Issaka Abdulai, Reimund P Rötter

“…An additional TP7 (forecasting) investigated varying planting density and fertiliser in line with weather forecasts. Input intensity levels were low and villages expressed similar challenges to climate risk adaptation, with strategies mostly limited to adjusted planting dates and densities, with less than 2% of farmers having access to water for irrigation. …”
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Integrated Nutrient Management Improves the Growth and Yield of Rice and Greengram in a Rice—Greengram Cropping System under the Coastal Plain Agro-Climatic Condition by Satyabrata Mangaraj, Rabindra Kumar Paikaray, Sagar Maitra, Shriram Ratan Pradhan, Lalita Mohan Garnayak, Manoranjan Satapathy, Barsita Swain, Satyananda Jena, Bijayalaxmi Nayak, Tanmoy Shankar, Mohammed Alorabi, Ahmed Gaber, Akbar Hossain

“…It was concluded that the treatment consisting of 50% RDF (chemical fertiliser) + 50% RDN (FYM) to rice and 75% RDF + <i>Rhizobium</i> + PSB to greengram increased the productivity of the rice–greengram cropping system. …”
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Building Principles for Constructing a Mammalian Blastocyst Embryo by Peter L. Pfeffer

“…The self-organisation of a fertilised egg to form a blastocyst structure, which consists of three distinct cell lineages (trophoblast, epiblast and hypoblast) arranged around an off-centre cavity, is unique to mammals. …”
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Finite automata model for leaf disease classification by V.T. Krishnaprasath, J Preethi

“…Indian Government's farmer portal is available for pesticides, fertilisers, and farm machinery. To alleviate this problem, the paper describes a model to validate the leaf image, predicting leaf disease and notifying the farmer in an effective way on the harvest failure to stabilise farming income. …”
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Growth and health state of silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) in the ridge area of the Jizerské hory Mts. by V. Balcar, D. Kacálek

“…The results document that the increments of the plantations fertilised with amphibolite were higher by 25% on average than those of the control plantations while the increments of the plantations treated with dolomitic limestone were lower by 13%. …”
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Infection à <em> Salmonella enteritidis </em> au Soudan by I.E. Mamoun, Abdelmelik Ibrahim Khalafalla, M.R. Bakhiet, H.A.M. Agab, Y.A. Sabiel, J. Ahmed H. el

“…L'infection a eu pour origine une centrale de distribution ayant importé des oeufs fertilisés et des effectifs parentaux contaminés. L'épidémie de S. enteritidis, qui a dévasté un grand nombre d'élevages de volailles durant l'année 1990, pourrait être attribuée à celle ayant sévi au même moment en Europe en particulier, et dans le monde en général. …”
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An outbreak of Vibrio alginolyticus infection in juvenile sea cucumbers Holothuria scabra in Sabah, Malaysia by Othman, Rafidah, Nawi, Mohd Firdaus, Muhamad Shaleh, Sitti Raehanah, Md Yasin, Ina Salwany, Ching, Fui Fui, Abidin, N. A., Saad, Mohd Zamri

“…Approximately 690,000 eggs were fertilised with a hatching rate of 9%, an estimated 60,000 larvae were produced. …”
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FLUXES OF NITROGEN WITHIN DECIDUOUS FRUIT TREES by Massimo Tagliavini, Peter Millard

“…Guidelines for N management aim to limit fertiliser applications under threshold limits, in order to reduce N losses. …”
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Consumption risk, technology adoption and poverty traps: evidence from Ethiopia. by Dercon, S, Christiaensen, L

“…Controlling for unobserved household and time-varying village characteristics, it emerges that not just exante credit constraints, but also the possibly low consumption outcomes when harvests fail, discourage the application of fertiliser. The lack of insurance causes inefficiency in production choices.…”