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CROP DIVERSITY AND SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE: MECHANISMS, DESIGNS AND APPLICATIONS
《农业科学与工程前沿(英文)》 2021年 第8卷 第3期 页码 359-361 doi: 10.15302/J-FASE -2021417
Intensive monoculture agriculture has contributed greatly to global food supply over many decades, but the excessive use of agricultural chemicals (fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides) and intensive cultivation systems has resulted in negative side effects, such as soil erosion, soil degradation, and non-point source pollution[1]. To many observers, agriculture looms as a major global threat to nature conservation and biodiversity. As noted in the Global Biodiversity Outlook 4[2], the drivers associated with food systems and agriculture account for around 70% and 50% of the projected losses by 2050 of terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity, respectively[3].
In addition, agricultural development and modernization of agriculture has led to a decline in the total number of plant species upon which humans depend for food[4]. Currently, fewer than 200 of some 6000 plant species grown for food contribute substantially to global food output, and only nine species account for 67% of total crop production[3]. The global crop diversity has declined in past decades.
Crop species diversity at a national scale was identified as one of the most important factors that stabilize grain production at a national level[5]. A group of long-term field experiments demonstrated that crop diversity also stabilizes temporal grain productivity at field level[6]. Therefore, maintaining crop diversity at both national and field levels is of considerable importance for food security at national and global scales.
Crop diversity includes temporal (crop rotation) and spatial diversity (e.g., intercropping, agroforestry, cultivar mixtures and cover crops) at field scale. Compared to intensive monocultures, diversified cropping systems provide additional options to support multiple ecosystem functions. For instance, crop diversity may increase above- and belowground biodiversity, improve yield stability, reduce pest and disease damage, reduce uses of chemicals, increase the efficiency of the use land, light water and nutrient resources, and enhance stress resilience in agricultural systems.
To highlight advances in research and use of crop diversity, from developing and developed countries, we have prepared this special issue on “Crop Diversity and Sustainable Agriculture” for Frontiers of Agricultural Sciences and Engineering, mainly focusing on intercropping.
Intercropping, growing at least two crops at the same time as a mixture, for example, in alternate rows or strips, is one effective pathway for increasing crop diversity at the field scale. Over recent decades, there have been substantial advances in terms of understanding of processes between intercropped species and applications in practice. There are 10 articles in this special issue including letters, opinions, review and research articles with contributions from Belgium, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerlands, UK, and Mexico etc.
The contributors are internationally-active scientists and agronomists contributing to intercropping research and extension. For example, Antoine Messean is coordinator of the EU H2020 Research project DiverIMPACTS “Diversification through rotation, intercropping, multiple cropping, promoted with actors and value chains towards sustainability”. Eric Justes is coordinator of the EU H2020 Research project ReMIX “Redesigning European cropping systems based on species mixtures”. Maria Finckh has worked on crop cultivar mixture and organic agriculture over many years. Henrik Hauggaard-Nielsen has outstanding expertise in intercropping research and applications, moving from detailed studies on species interactions in intercropping to working with farmers and other stakeholders to make intercropping work in practical farming. In addition to these established scientists, young scientists who have taken an interest in intercropping also contribute to the special issue, including Wen-Feng Cong, Yixiang Liu, Qi Wang, Hao Yang and others.
The first contribution to this special issue addresses how to design cropping systems to reach crop diversification, with Wen-Feng Cong and coworkers ( https://doi.org/10.15302/J-FASE-2021392) considering that it is necessary to optimize existing and/or design novel cropping systems based on farming practices and ecological principles, and to strengthen targeted ecosystem services to achieve identified objectives. In addition, the design should consider regional characteristics with the concurrent objectives of safe, nutritious food production and environmental protection.
The benefits of crop diversification have been demonstrated in many studies. Wen-Feng Cong and coworkers describe the benefits of crop diversification at three scales: field, farm, and landscape. Hao Yang and coauthors reviewed the multiple functions of intercropping. Intercropping enhances crop productivity and its stability, it promotes efficient use of resources and saves mineral fertilizer, controls pests and diseases of crops and reduces the use of pesticides. It mitigates climate change by sequestering carbon in soil, reduces non-point source pollution, and increases above- and belowground biodiversity of other taxa at field scale ( https://doi.org/10.15302/J-FASE-2021398).
Eric Justes and coworkers proposed the “4C” framework to help understand the role of species interactions in intercropping ( https://doi.org/10.15302/J-FASE-2021414). The four components are competition, complementary, cooperation (facilitation) and compensation, which work often simultaneously in intercropping. Hao Yang and coworkers used the concept of diversity effect from ecology to understand the contribution of complementarity and selection effects to enhanced productivity in intercropping. The complementarity effect consists of interspecific facilitation and niche differentiation between crop species, whereas the selection effect is mainly derived from competitive processes between species such that one species dominates the other ( https://doi.org/10.15302/J-FASE-2021398). Also, Luis Garcia-Barrios and Yanus A. Dechnik-Vazquez dissected the ecological concept of the complementarity and selection effects to develop a relative multicrop resistance index to analyze the relation between higher multicrop yield and land use efficiency and the different ecological causes of overyielding under two contrasting water stress regimes ( https://doi.org/10.15302/J-FASE-2021412).
Odette Denise Weedon and Maria Renate Finckh found that composite cross populations, with different disease susceptibilities of three winter wheat cultivars, were moderately resistant to brown rust and even to the newly emerged stripe rust races prevalent in Europe since 2011, but performance varied between standard and organic management contexts ( https://doi.org/10.15302/J-FASE-2021394).
Comparing the performance of intercrops and sole crops is critical to make a sound evaluation of the benefits of intercropping and assess interactions between species choice, intercrop design, intercrop management and factors related to the production situation and pedoclimatic context. Wopke van der Werf and coworkers review some of the metrics that could be used in the quantitative synthesis of literature data on intercropping ( https://doi.org/10.15302/J-FASE-2021413).
Interspecific interactions provide some of the advantages of intercropping, and can be divided into above- and belowground interactions. Aboveground interactions can include light and space competition, which is influenced by crop species traits. Root exudates are also important in interspecific interactions between intercropped or rotated species. Qi Wang and coworkers estimated the light interception of growth stage of maize-peanut intercropping and corresponding monocultures, and found that intercropping has higher light interception than monoculture, and increasing plant density did not further increase light interception of intercropping ( https://doi.org/10.15302/J-FASE-2021403). Yuxin Yang and coworkers reported that the root exudates of fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) can reduce infection of tobacco by Phytophthora nicotianae via inhibiting the motility and germination of the spores of the pathogen ( https://doi.org/10.15302/J-FASE-2021399).
Focusing on the application of intercropping, Wen-Feng Cong and coworkers formulated species recommendations for different regions of China for different crop diversity patterns and crop species combinations. These authors also suggested three steps for implementing crop diversification on the North China Plain. Although there are multiple benefits of crop diversification, its extension and application are hindered by various technical, organizational, and institutional barriers along value chains, especially in Europe. Based on the findings of the European Crop Diversification Cluster projects, Antoine Messéan and coworkers suggested that there needs to be more coordination and cooperation between agrifood system stakeholders, and establish multiactor networks, toward an agroecological transition of European agriculture ( https://doi.org/10.15302/J-FASE-2021406). In addition, Henrik Hauggaard-Nielsen and coworkers report the outcomes of a workshop for participatory research to overcome the barriers to enhanced coordination and networking between stakeholders ( https://doi.org/10.15302/J-FASE-2021416).
Intercropping, though highly effective in labor-intensive agriculture, may be difficult to implement in machine-intensive, large-scale modern agriculture because appropriate large equipment is not commercially available for planting and harvesting various crop mixtures grown with strip intercropping[6]. Thus, the appropriate machinery will need to be developed for further practical application in large-scale agriculture.
As the guest editors, we thank all the authors and reviewers for their great contributions to this special issue on “Crop Diversity and Sustainable Agriculture”. We also thank the FASE editorial team for their kind supports.
Fungal diversity and its mechanism of community shaping in the milieu of sanitary landfill
《环境科学与工程前沿(英文)》 2021年 第15卷 第4期 doi: 10.1007/s11783-020-1370-6
• Ascomycota was the predominant phylum in sanitary landfill fungal communities.
关键词: Sanitary landfill Fungal community Diversity Saprotroph Physical habitat Environmental factor
《医学前沿(英文)》 2023年 第17卷 第4期 页码 758-767 doi: 10.1007/s11684-022-0981-7
《环境科学与工程前沿(英文)》 2022年 第16卷 第10期 doi: 10.1007/s11783-022-1562-3
● 548 representative nor genes were collected to create complete phylogenetic trees.
关键词: N2O Greenhouse gas NO reductase NO dismutase Primer Crystal structure
Yingjun ZHANG, Wenjie LU, Hao ZHANG, Jiqiong ZHOU, Yue SHEN
《农业科学与工程前沿(英文)》 2018年 第5卷 第1期 页码 57-63 doi: 10.15302/J-FASE-2017192
关键词: diversity fertilizing grassland management practice grazing mowing productivity reseeding
Effect of salinity on community structure and naphthalene dioxygenase gene diversity of a halophilic
Tingting Fang, Ruisong Pan, Jing Jiang, Fen He, Hui Wang
《环境科学与工程前沿(英文)》 2016年 第10卷 第6期 doi: 10.1007/s11783-016-0888-0
关键词: Phenanthrene Halophilic bacteria Gene diversity Naphthalene dioxygenase genes
Hongzhe Chen , Sumin Wang , Huige Guo , Yunlong Huo , Hui Lin , Yuanbiao Zhang
《环境科学与工程前沿(英文)》 2022年 第16卷 第1期 页码 9-9 doi: 10.1007/s11783-021-1443-1
Genetic diversity and population structure of indigenous chicken breeds in South China
Xunhe HUANG,Jinfeng ZHANG,Danlin HE,Xiquan ZHANG,Fusheng ZHONG,Weina LI,Qingmei ZHENG,Jiebo CHEN,Bingwang DU
《农业科学与工程前沿(英文)》 2016年 第3卷 第2期 页码 97-101 doi: 10.15302/J-FASE-2016102
关键词: microsatellites genetic diversity population structure indigenous chicken South China conservation
Diversity and distribution of proteorhodopsin-containing microorganisms in marine environments
Bo WEI
《环境科学与工程前沿(英文)》 2012年 第6卷 第1期 页码 98-106 doi: 10.1007/s11783-010-0278-y
关键词: proteorhodopsin (PR) microorganism community diversity marine environments
面向三频WiFi应用的分集玻璃天线 Article
胡鹏飞, 梁国华, 陆贵文, 潘咏梅, 郑少勇
《工程(英文)》 2023年 第23卷 第4期 页码 157-169 doi: 10.1016/j.eng.2022.09.011
本文研究了两种新型极化和方向图分集玻璃介质谐振器天线(DRA),均适用于三频段(2.4 GHz、5.2 GHz和5.8 GHz)无线保真(WiFi)应用。通过比较这两种分集DRA以及一种新的空间分集玻璃DRA,研究了哪种类型的分集天线最适合WiFi 路由器应用。同时,将这三种分集玻璃DRA还与商用空间分集单极子对进行了比较,以衡量玻璃DRA在WiFi 路由器应用中的性能。本文在极化分集天线中,提出了双端口馈电方案来激发不同的DRA模式。DRA模式的频率通过使用阶梯形DRA进行调谐。在方向图分集设计中,引入了堆叠DRA来拓宽锥形和宽边辐射模式的带宽。实验制作了这三种新型分集天线,并测量了三种分集玻璃天线和参考空间分集单极天线的误码率(BER),并对结果进行了比较和讨论。结果表明,极化分集全向DRA的误码率最为稳定。
Chunhong Chen, Hong Liang, Dawen Gao
《环境科学与工程前沿(英文)》 2019年 第13卷 第4期 doi: 10.1007/s11783-019-1146-z
AOA amoA genes in the soils of the two wetlands affiliated with three lineages. The main drivers of AOA community were pH and total organic carbon and ammonium. The soil characteristics rather than the vegetation control the AOA community.
关键词: Ammonia-oxidizing archaea amoA gene Freshwater marsh Diversity Distribution
Zhili HE, Joy D. VAN NOSTRAND, Ye DENG, Jizhong ZHOU
《环境科学与工程前沿(英文)》 2011年 第5卷 第1期 页码 1-20 doi: 10.1007/s11783-011-0301-y
关键词: functional gene arrays (FGAs) GeoChip microbial communities functional diversity/composition/structure environmental factor ecosystem functioning
Yang GAO, Chiyuan MIAO, Jun XIA, Liang MAO, Yafeng WANG, Pei ZHOU
《环境科学与工程前沿(英文)》 2012年 第6卷 第2期 页码 213-223 doi: 10.1007/s11783-011-0345-z
关键词: enzyme activity soil DNA microbial population plant diversity heavy metal
《环境科学与工程前沿(英文)》 2023年 第17卷 第3期 doi: 10.1007/s11783-023-1637-9
● Converting xylose to caproate under a low temperature of 20 °C by MCF was verified.
关键词: Xylose fermentation Caproate Low temperature Bifidobacterium FAB pathway RBO pathway
《机械工程前沿(英文)》 2006年 第1卷 第1期 页码 85-89 doi: 10.1007/s11465-005-0023-6
A novel fuzzy clustering method based on chaos immune evolutionary algorithm (CIEFCM) is presented to solve fuzzy edge detection problems in image processing. In CIEFCM, a tiny disturbance is added to a filial generation group using a chaos variable and the disturbance amplitude is adjusted step by step, which greatly improves the colony diversity of the immune evolution algorithm (IEA). The experimental results show that the method not only can correctly detect the fuzzy edge and exiguous edge but can evidently improve the searching efficiency of fuzzy clustering algorithm based on IEA.
关键词: disturbance amplitude disturbance diversity generation processing
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Primary assessment of the diversity of Omicron sublineages and the epidemiologic features of autumn/winter
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Phylogenetic diversity of NO reductases, new tools for monitoring, and insights into NO production in
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Grassland management practices in Chinese steppes impact productivity, diversity and the relationship
Yingjun ZHANG, Wenjie LU, Hao ZHANG, Jiqiong ZHOU, Yue SHEN
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Effect of salinity on community structure and naphthalene dioxygenase gene diversity of a halophilic
Tingting Fang, Ruisong Pan, Jing Jiang, Fen He, Hui Wang
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The abundance, characteristics and diversity of microplastics in the South China Sea: Observation around
Hongzhe Chen , Sumin Wang , Huige Guo , Yunlong Huo , Hui Lin , Yuanbiao Zhang
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Genetic diversity and population structure of indigenous chicken breeds in South China
Xunhe HUANG,Jinfeng ZHANG,Danlin HE,Xiquan ZHANG,Fusheng ZHONG,Weina LI,Qingmei ZHENG,Jiebo CHEN,Bingwang DU
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Diversity and distribution of proteorhodopsin-containing microorganisms in marine environments
Bo WEI
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Community diversity and distribution of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in marsh wetlands in the black soil
Chunhong Chen, Hong Liang, Dawen Gao
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Development and applications of functional gene microarrays in the analysis of the functional diversity
Zhili HE, Joy D. VAN NOSTRAND, Ye DENG, Jizhong ZHOU
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Plant diversity reduces the effect of multiple heavy metal pollution on soil enzyme activities and microbial
Yang GAO, Chiyuan MIAO, Jun XIA, Liang MAO, Yafeng WANG, Pei ZHOU
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Low-temperature caproate production, microbial diversity, and metabolic pathway in xylose anaerobic fermentation
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