Mapping the knowledge domain of the evolution of emergy theory: a bibliometric approach

X Xu, C Feng - Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021 - Springer
Bibliometric and visualization tools ar e effective for uncovering information contained in vast
amounts of literature data. We retrieved publications from the Web of Science (2008–2020) …

Titanium Oxide and Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles in Combination with Cadmium Tolerant Bacillus pumilus Ameliorates the Cadmium Toxicity in Maize

T Shafiq, H Yasmin, ZA Shah, A Nosheen, P Ahmad… - Antioxidants, 2022 - mdpi.com
The efficiency of Cd-tolerant plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB), zinc oxide
nanoparticles (ZnO NPs), and titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2) in maize growing in Cd …

Enhancing sustainability in the new variety-based low emergy system for maize production by nitrogen optimization

Z Qu, N Luo, J Guo, J Xu, P Wang, Q Meng - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2024 - Elsevier
Global agriculture is confronted with multiple challenges in meeting the increasing demand
for food production while adhering to planetary boundaries set to achieve the United Nations …

Short-term extreme heat at flowering amplifies the impacts of climate change on maize production

N Luo, N Mueller, Y Zhang, P Feng… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Extreme weather poses a threat to global crop production, food security and farmer
livelihoods. High temperatures have been identified as detrimental to crop yields; however …

Alleviating groundwater depletion while realizing food security for sustainable development

D Wei, X Wang, N Luo, Y Zhu, P Wang… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Groundwater depletion was one of humanity's greatest challenges for both food and
environmental security. Here we tried to address these challenges through a meta-analysis …

Optimized canopy structure improves maize grain yield and resource use efficiency

G Liu, Y Yang, W Liu, X Guo, R Xie… - Food and Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Improved canopy structure was instrumental in setting maize yield records, and yet it has
rarely been examined in China. At Qitai Farm in Xinjiang, we conducted a 4‐year field …

Farm-scale practical strategies to reduce carbon footprint and emergy while increasing economic benefits in crop production in the North China plain

J Zou, Y Yang, S Shi, W Li, X Zhao, J Huang… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
How to achieve China's “Carbon Peak” and “Carbon Neutrality” targets in the agriculture
sector is crucial but still remains challenging. This study thus aims to assess the effects of …

Enhancing maize yield through understanding the novel shoot-root interaction in morphology among hybrids with dense planting

Y Zhu, S Wang, Y Li, D Wei, N Luo, P Wang… - Field Crops Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Context Understanding the shoot-root characteristics and their interaction of maize is
essential to break the constraints of the densification process and improve grain yield …

Emergy synthesis of decoupling and recoupling crop-livestock systems under unified system boundary and modified indices

K Tan, G Cai, Z Du, X Chen, X Wang - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Sustainability assessment of integrated crop-livestock system was crucial for regulating and
improving the complex agricultural system. Emergy synthesis (ES) is a suitable tool to …

Sustainability analysis of irrigated and rainfed wheat production systems under varying levels of nitrogen fertilizer through coupling of emergy accounting and life cycle …

L Xiong, F Shah, Y Zhao, Z Li, X Zha, M Ye… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2024 - Elsevier
Most of the crop production systems have strived for improving crop productivity by
increasing various resource inputs; especially water and synthetic nitrogen (N) fertilizer …