Optimising Management Practices to Secure Grassland Agroecosystems' Sustainability

Editorial

11 December 2024

Editorial: Optimising management practices to secure grassland agroecosystems' sustainability

Zhou Li

Yuan Li

Bin Yao

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Carmen Carmona

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Impact

GHG emissions in different enterprises of IFS model.

Original Research

21 February 2024

Crop–livestock-integrated farming system: a strategy to achieve synergy between agricultural production, nutritional security, and environmental sustainability

P. M. Shanmugam

, 9 more and

Marappan Gopi

7,785 views

7 citations

Results of cluster analysis and principal component analysis of agronomic traits of alfalfa under (A) control environment, (B) salt pond in Yantai, and (C) saline soil in Dongying.

Original Research

04 October 2023

Genetic diversity and salt tolerance assessment of 51 alfalfa (Medicago sativa) varieties under saline soil conditions

Shugao Fan

, 2 more and

Mingjun Zhang

1,416 views

5 citations

Linear relationships between maize above-ground biomass and NUE, and PUE (A–C) and between maize grain yield and the grain N:P ratio in 2020 and 2021 (D, E).

Original Research

09 February 2024

Leguminous green manure amendments improve maize yield by increasing N and P fertilizer use efficiency in yellow soil of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau

Xiaoye Gao

, 2 more and

Ming Wang

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4 citations

The relative abundances of dominant bacterial and fungal communities at the phylum and genus levels in C: blank control, N: nitrogen application, P: short-term drought and NP: short-term drought × nitrogen application. (A,C) The relative abundances of the top 10 bacterial phyla and genera among the four treatments. (B,D) The relative abundances of the top 10 fungal phyla and genera among the four treatments.

Original Research

21 December 2023

Effects of short-term drought, nitrogen application and their interactions on the composition and functional genes of soil microbial communities in alfalfa grassland on the Loess Plateau

Ruobing Wang

, 11 more and

Jingyong Ma

1,444 views

3 citations

Original Research

20 May 2024

Forage yield, competition, and economic indices of oat and common vetch intercrops in a semi-arid region

Yu Jiao

, 1 more and

Fuhong Miao

894 views

2 citations

Original Research

13 September 2023

Tropical range grasses can sustain soil functions despite nutrient depletion in semiarid degraded land

Pankaj Patidar

, 8 more and

Amaresh Chandra

1,206 views

1 citations

Original Research

05 March 2024

Effect of plantation age on plant and soil C:N:P stoichiometry in Kentucky bluegrass pastures

Xiaoxing Wei

, 4 more and

Zhenggang Guo

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Original Research

12 September 2023

How do risk preferences influence forage planting behaviors among farmers in the agro-pastoral ecotone of China?

Wene Zhang

, 3 more and

Minjuan Zhao

1,569 views

2 citations

System crop-water productivity (A), precipitation use efficiency (B), and fallow efficiency (C) among the different cropping systems. Different letters indicate significant differences between treatments (p < 0.05). W = winter wheat, F = summer fallow, R = forage rape, V = common vetch.

Original Research

05 September 2023

Productivity, water and nitrogen utilization of intensified dryland farming with annual forages on the Chinese Loess plateau

Jianqiang Deng

, 4 more and

Yuying Shen

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Effect of herbicide (2 + D, G + D, G + 2) and concentration (100%, 200%, 300%) on soil ammonium-N (NH4+-N) content at different depths (0–10, 10–20, 20–30, 30–60, 60–100 cm) in December 2021, January 2022, and March 2022. * and *** indicate significance levels at p < 0.05 and 0.001. Values are means of four replicates (± standard deviation). F value is marked in the figure. Note the y-intercept is not 0. For a description of the abbreviations, refer to the Figure 1 caption.

Original Research

27 June 2023

Optimizing lucerne (Medicago sativa) termination on the Loess Plateau, China: a comparative analysis of conventional tillage and herbicide treatments

Yixuan Zhao

, 4 more and

Yuan Li

1,434 views

1 citations

Original Research

01 March 2023

Effect of genotype and environment on agronomical characters of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) in a typical acidic soil environment in southwest China

Zheng Tian

, 8 more and

Rui Dong

1,475 views

6 citations

Evolutionary branch diagram of various soil bacterial species (A) and principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) of soil bacterial community structure (B). H1–4, root growth stages of mixed forage: January 4 (H1), March 14 (H2), April 21 (H3), and May 19 (H4).

Original Research

18 April 2023

Soil bacterial community structure at different plant maturity stages in an annual grass–legume production system

Yixiao Xie

, 10 more and

Wenlong Gou

875 views

3 citations

Original Research

28 February 2023

Soil properties and silage quality in response to oat and pea seeding ratios and harvest stage on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Wen Liu

, 6 more and

Dengpan Bu

1,311 views

1 citations

Original Research

05 June 2023

Management practices during the renewal year affect the carbon balance of a boreal legume grassland

Yuan Li

, 4 more and

Narasinha J. Shurpali

1,230 views

1 citations

The effects of different N addition levels (N0, 0 mg N kg−1 soil; N1, 50 mg N kg−1 soil; N2, 100 mg N kg−1 soil) and N addition forms [Ca (NO3)2, NH4Cl, NH4NO3 and Urea] on the activities of acid phosphatase (ACP) and alkaline phosphatase (ALP), the abundance of phoC and phoD genes in yellow soil and limestone soil. The error bars represent the standard error (n = 4). “*” Indicates significant differences between the N addition treatment and the control group (p < 0.05).

Original Research

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems

Influences of nitrogen input forms and levels on phosphorus availability in karst grassland soils

Jing Zhou

, 4 more and

Jihui Chen

1,691 views

1 citations

Pearson’s correlation coefficient (r) between soil physicochemical and biological properties observed under different grazing densities and landscape positions. C, carbon; N, nitrogen; HWC, hot-water extractable carbon; HWN, hot-water extractable nitrogen; CWC, cold-water extractable carbon; CWN, cold-water extractable nitrogen; MBC, microbial biomass carbon; MBN, microbial biomass nitrogen; AMF, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; G (−), gram-negative bacteria; G (+), gram-positive; TPLFA, total phospholipid fatty acid. Bold numeric values represent significance at p ≤ 0.05.

Original Research

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems

Impacts of Stocking Densities on Soil Biochemical and Microbial Properties in a Mixed-Grass Prairie Ecosystem at Two Landscape Positions

Sangeeta Bansal

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Sandeep Kumar

1,442 views

1 citations

The differential expression pattern of the six TF families. (A) The number and expression pattern of differentially expressed TFs. The positive numbers indicate the up-regulated TFs and the negative numbers indicate the down-regulated TFs. (B) The differential expression pattern of the six TF families were depicted by a heatmap. The color scale represents FPKM values in each treatment, normalized using z-score.

Original Research

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems

Physio-biochemical and transcriptomic analysis of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens PG-4-induced salt stress tolerance in Macrotyloma uniflorum

Yanna Wu

, 8 more and

Kai Luo

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