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Holistic food system innovation strategies can close up to 80% of China’s domestic protein gaps while reducing global environmental impacts
China’s imports of livestock feed, particularly protein-rich feeds, pose challenges to global environmental sustainability. Achieving protein self-sufficiency for food and feed in China without exceeding envir...
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An optimized crop–livestock system can achieve a safe and just planetary boundary for phosphorus at the sub-basin level in China
The contribution of crop and livestock production to the exceedance of the planetary boundary for phosphorus (P) in China is still unclear, despite the country’s well-known issues with P fertilizer overuse and...
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Fertilizer application improvements in China
Management practices including augmenting the ratio of organic to chemical fertilizers, implementing deep application techniques and reintegrating straw into fields can bolster food production while optimizing...
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Co-benefits for net carbon emissions and rice yields through improved management of organic nitrogen and water
Returning organic nutrient sources (for example, straw and manure) to rice fields is inevitable for coupling crop–livestock production. However, an accurate estimate of net carbon (C) emissions and strategies ...
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Open AccessCity-level livestock methane emissions in China from 2010 to 2020
Livestock constitute the world’s largest anthropogenic source of methane (CH4), providing high-protein food to humans but also causing notable climate risks. With rapid urbanization and increasing income levels i...
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Challenges of optimal crop management
Redesigning crop management practices for climate, crop and soil co-optimization has great potential to maintain high yields, mitigate social and environmental impacts, and support sustainable agricultural int...
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Ammonia mitigation campaign with smallholder farmers improves air quality while ensuring high cereal production
Reducing cropland ammonia (NH3) emissions while improving air quality and food supply is a challenge, particularly in China where there are millions of smallholder farmers. We tested the effectiveness of a tailor...
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Open AccessComprehensive assessment of the utilization of manure in China’s croplands based on national farmer survey data
China’s rapid increase in mass excreta and its environmental discharge have attracted substantial attention. However, cropland as a main destination of excreta utilization has not been extensively evaluated. H...
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Open AccessMind the blind spot: lessons from fungal community sequencing in a plant–soil feedback experiment
Plant–soil feedback (PSF) has gained increasing interest in agricultural systems. An important question is whether PSF differs between different crop** systems. Few attempts have yet been made to identify th...
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Integrating crop redistribution and improved management towards meeting China’s food demand with lower environmental costs
China feeds 19.1% of the world’s population with 8.6% of the arable land. Here we propose an integrated approach combining crop redistribution and improved management to meet China’s food demand in 2030. We si...
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Integrating life cycle assessment and a farmer survey of management practices to study environmental impacts of peach production in Bei**g, China
While intensive peach production has expanded rapidly in recent years, few studies have explored the environmental impacts associated with specific regional systems or the optimal management strategies to mini...
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Manure fertilization enhanced microbial immigration in the wheat rhizosphere
Microbial immigration is essential for understanding microbial mechanisms involved in nutrient cycling under different fertilization strategies. Here, we aimed to illustrate the effects of fertilization on mic...
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Open AccessBottom-up estimates of reactive nitrogen loss from Chinese wheat production in 2014
Excessive use of synthetic nitrogen (N) for Chinese wheat production results in high loss of reactive N loss (Nr; all forms of N except N2) into the environment, causing serious environmental issues. Quantifying ...
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Open AccessTowards a generic prototy** approach for therapeutically-relevant peptides and proteins in a cell-free translation system
Advances in peptide and protein therapeutics increased the need for rapid and cost-effective polypeptide prototy**. While in vitro translation systems are well suited for fast and multiplexed polypeptide pro...
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Peat-vermiculite alters microbiota composition towards increased soil fertility and crop productivity
Harnessing soil microbiomes is a major demand for development of sustainable and productive agriculture. Here we aimed to assess the impact of two different types of organic material amendments in combination ...
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Improved Crop Management Achieved High Wheat Yield and Nitrogen Use Efficiency
Approaches to meet increasing demand for cereals while improving agricultural resource use efficiency have been extensively studied. However, the dominant intensive agricultural paradigm still considers high y...
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Optimization of China’s maize and soy production can ensure feed sufficiency at lower nitrogen and carbon footprints
China purchases around 66% of the soy that is traded internationally. This strains the global food supply and contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. Here we show that optimizing the maize and soy production ...
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Air quality, nitrogen use efficiency and food security in China are improved by cost-effective agricultural nitrogen management
China’s gains in food production over the past four decades have been associated with substantial agricultural nitrogen losses, which contribute to air and water pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and damage ...
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Oxidization of TGFβ-activated kinase by MPT53 is required for immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb)-derived components are usually recognized by pattern recognition receptors to initiate a cascade of innate immune responses. One striking characteristic of Mtb is their utilizatio...
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Open AccessMicroRNA-27a controls the intracellular survival of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by regulating calcium-associated autophagy
Tuberculosis (TB) caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) kills millions every year, and there is urgent need to develop novel anti-TB agents due to the fast-growing of drug-resistant TB. Although autophagy re...
