This position paper honours agricultural scientist and colleague, Professor Bob Loomis, by
discussing the urgent global challenge of food security and the related impacts on the …

Yield gap analysis could provide management suggestions to increase crop yields, while
the understandings of resource utilization efficiency could help judge the rationality of the …

CONTEXT Process-based crop models provide ways to predict crop growth, evaluate
environmental impacts on crops, test various crop management options, and guide crop …

Global warming is a crucial factor affecting crop production in ecologically vulnerable areas.
Warming-induced changes in the yields of different crops could pose significant challenges …

产量潜力和产量差的研究对揭示未来粮食增产潜力, 有针对性地制定提高作物产量的措施具有
重要意义. 通过总结近年发表的64 篇经典文献, 本文总结了世界三大粮食作物小麦 …

In rapidly developing countries, intensive agriculture faces the conflict between food security
and environmental deterioration. To improve the sustainability of agricultural land use, this …

Wheat is one of the staple food crops worldwide and breeding for high yield wheat is critical
to meet the need of increasing world population. To determine the factors that limit wheat …

Agricultural intensification is often considered the primary approach to meet rising food
demand. Here we compare impacts of intensive cultivation on crop yield in the North China …

Discriminating winter wheat-summer maize distribution is fundamental for agricultural water
resources management in the North China Plain (NCP) which confronts severe conflicts …

Closing the gap between current and potential yields is one means of increasing agricultural
production to feed the globally increasing population. Therefore, investigation of the …