Both weather fluctuation and farming system influence the epidemiology of crop diseases.
However, short-term experiments are difficult to mechanistically extrapolate into long-term …

To implement organic rice farming around a drinking water source in the western suburbs of
Shanghai, pioneering field experiments on the relationships between fertilizer applications …

Prioritizing research for crop health management is critical in times of rapid agricultural
changes. A generic model for plant diseases, EPIRICE, was developed and coupled to a …

Plant disease epidemiology requires expansion of its current methodological and theoretical
underpinnings in order to produce full contributions to global food security and global …

The phyllosphere is a vital yet often neglected habitat hosting diverse microorganisms with
various functions. However, studies regarding how the composition and functions of the …

Rice is the most rapidly growing staple food in Africa and although rice production is steadily
increasing, the consumption is still out-pacing the production. In Tanzania, two important …

Pulse crop rotation in rice cultivation is a widely accepted agronomic practice. Depending
upon the water regime, rice cultivation has been classified into wetland and aerobic …

The application of data science (DS) techniques has become increasingly essential in
various fields, including epidemiology and climatology in agricultural production systems. In …

Soil fungi play an important role in agricultural ecosystems, yet the understanding of the
responses of fungi community and function to different fertilization is limited. Here we report …

Assessing disease risk has become an important component in the development of climate
change adaptation strategies. Here, the infection ability of leaf blast (Magnaporthe oryzae) …