Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech

Simulating N2O emissions following crop residue return while preserving consistency at the crop succession scale: A multi-year field assessment of the STICS model

Effective mitigation of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions requires improved prediction of how management practices affect soil nitrous oxide (N 2 O) emissions. This study aimed to evaluate the ability of the STICS model to simulate the response of the N2O emissions to crop-re...

Perceived Value and Organic Food Purchase Intention for Sustainable Agricultural Development: An Extended Theory of Planned Behavior in Shandong, China

Understanding consumer demand for organic food is important for the development of sustainable agricultural markets and the broader transition toward more sustainable food systems. This study examines how health, safety, environmental, social, and hedonic values, together with su...

Comparative life cycle assessment of the local agri‐food product Lagenaria siceraria and soybean seeds from Côte d'Ivoire

Abstract Sub‐Saharan Africa's structural protein deficit is increasingly met through imported soy, and diversification towards local sources is advocated on nutritional and food‐security grounds. Whether such substitution delivers an environmental benefit is not self‐evident, sin...

Cellular responsiveness as a predictive indicator for population collapse and autonomous control in continuous cultures of Pseudomonas putida

KT2440 equipped with fluorescent biosensors and monitored by automated flow cytometry in the Segregostat platform, we show that exposure to benzoate, a plastic-derived aromatic feedstock, progressively reduces cellular responsiveness, defined as the fraction of cells that success...

Underground Signals: The Ecological Power of Root Volatiles

Root volatiles mediate diverse belowground interactions among plants, microbes, and invertebrates, but biological and environmental conditions strongly influence their production, movement, perception, and ecological effects. This review synthesizes current knowledge through an i...

Unlocking the agroecological transition in intensive farming systems

A system-wide transformation of dominant intensive farming and food systems is strongly needed to address their high sanitary, environmental, and social costs. Here we argue that simultaneously addressing lock-ins across the entire food system is essential to enable such a transf...

How beech ecophysiology shapes temperate forest gross primary productivity – Part 1: A wavelet-based framework for extracting seasonal dynamics

Long-term eddy covariance (EC) records provide unique opportunities to investigate how seasonal carbon dynamics shape interannual and decadal trends in forest carbon uptake. Yet extracting reproducible phenological and structural information from noisy, non-stationary gross prima...

Net carbon losses in Central African forests revealed by high-resolution biomass change maps

Dense humid forests in Central Africa hold vast biomass carbon stocks but are increasingly affected by small-scale disturbances that are difficult to detect with current satellite observations. Here, we generate 10 m canopy height maps for 2019–2022 using deep learning with space...

How beech ecophysiology shapes temperate forest gross primary productivity – Part 2: Identifying critical timeframes across phenological stages

Seasonal processes fundamentally shape forest carbon uptake, yet their timing and sensitivity remain poorly resolved. Using a 24-year eddy-covariance record from a maturing beech forest (FR-Hes), we developed three annual ecophysiological indicators (IRise, IPeak and IDrop) of gr...

Grassland destruction causes shifts in plant traits that persist during recovery

Old-growth grasslands assemble over millennia and support high biodiversity and many ecosystem services, but continue to undergo widespread destruction for production of crops, timber, and minerals. How biodiversity recovers after grassland destruction and the functional conseque...

Pectin–Protein Complexes: A Design‐Oriented Platform for Tailoring Food Texture Modification

ABSTRACT Pectin–protein complexes have emerged as promising functional ingredients in texture‐modified foods (TMF) due to their multifunctional roles in gelation, emulsification, and water retention. These properties enable the design of customized textures for applications such...

A Darwin Core dataset of scorpions (Arachnida, Scorpiones) from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) Collections

This data paper details the publication of a dataset derived from the scorpion (Order Scorpiones C.L. Koch, 1850) collections preserved at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Brussels. The dataset includes all 3,652 specimens mostly identified to genus or spe...

From Cotton to Wheat–Maize: Farmer Decision-Making and Cropping Structure Transformation in a Smallholder County of China

Adjusting cropping structure is a key way smallholder agriculture adapts to changing labor availability, production costs, mechanization, and agricultural services. Most studies explain such change through macro-level factors—prices, policies, and resource endowments—and pay less...

Repellency of Selected Algerian-Origin Essential Oils and Hybrid Formulations Against Two Arbovirus Vectors, Culex pipiens s.l. and Aedes albopictus

Mosquitoes are significant public health insects responsible for numerous vector-borne diseases. Injudicious chemical use has developed metabolic and genetic resistance in mosquitoes. This study evaluated the repellent efficacy of five essential oils (EOs) from local plants [Ment...

Toward Sustainable Management of Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): A Review on the Role of Endophytic Fungi in Crop Protection

The fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda, is a highly polyphagous pest that has rapidly expanded across Africa, Asia, and Oceania, threatening food security and agricultural productivity. Reliance on synthetic insecticides for FAW management is increasingly challenged by in...