Ministry of Agriculture

Alfalfa-winter wheat rotations stabilize yields and maintain soil water sustainability under precipitation variability

Global climate change caused variation in precipitation patterns has become a threat for food security, especially for semi-arid rainfed farming system, i.e., the Loess Plateau. Whether short-term alfalfa-winter wheat rotations could serve as sustainable alternatives to winter wh...

Key innovation triggers adaptive radiation of the genus Medicago

Reconstruction of a robust phylogeny of Medicago using genome-scale nuclear data from the Angiosperms353 probe set sheds light on the origin of the genus and provides evidence that pod morphological traits acted as key innovations, playing a central role in the adaptive radiation...

Actinidia arguta AaMYB4 Confers Cold and Drought Tolerance Through Up-Regulating Antioxidant Capacity Associated with the ROS Scavenging

Actinidia arguta possesses great commercial value as an economically important fruit crop, which accumulates abundant nutrients and bioactive components with medicinal potential. However, adverse abiotic environments, especially cold and drought stress, severely restrict its vege...

Crop Growth Models: Development, Applications, Recent Advances, and Future Perspectives

Global climate change has posed a serious threat to agricultural production and food security. Crop growth models, with their excellent simulation and prediction capabilities, have become one of the important tools for guiding agricultural production and ensuring food security. T...

Biostimulatory Effect of 3-Acetonyl-3-Hydroxyoxindole on the Growth and Secondary Metabolites of Khaya senegalensis: UPLC–MS/MS Profiling and Molecular Docking Insights

Developing sustainable agricultural biostimulants that simultaneously optimize vegetative growth and specialized metabolic pathways is critical for maximizing plant growth, photosynthetic efficiency, and metabolome reprogramming. In this study, for the first time, the effects of...

Differentiation in the Underground Bud-Bank Structure of Poa pratensis Across Contrasting Alpine Grassland Habitats on the Eastern Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

Underground bud banks play a critical role in vegetative regeneration of alpine grassland plants, but how species-level underground regenerative structures vary across contrasting habitats remains unclear. This study investigated the widely distributed clonal grass Poa pratensis...

Silicon-mediated regulation of photosynthesis, ion homeostasis and antioxidant defense improves salinity tolerance in Agropyron cristatum × A. desertorum cv. Hycrest-Mengnong

Abstract Soil salinity is a major abiotic stress that severely limits plant growth and productivity worldwide, particularly under changing climate conditions. Silicon (Si) has emerged as a promising approach for improving plant tolerance to salinity stress; however, its integrate...