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    Silver lining to a climate crisis in multiple prospects for alleviating crop waterlogging under future climates

    Extreme weather events threaten food security, yet global assessments of impacts caused by crop waterlogging are rare. Here we first develop a paradigm that distils common stress patterns across environments, ...

    Ke Liu, Matthew Tom Harrison, Haoliang Yan, De Li Liu in Nature Communications (2023)

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    Biostimulants alleviate water deficit stress and enhance essential oil productivity: a case study with savory

    Water deficit stress exposure frequently constrains plant and agri-food production globally. Biostimulants (BSs) can be considered a new tool in mitigating water deficit stress. This study aimed to understand ...

    Esmaeil Rezaei-Chiyaneh, Hassan Mahdavikia, Hadi Alipour in Scientific Reports (2023)

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    Whole farm planning raises profit despite burgeoning climate crisis

    The climate crisis challenges farmer livelihoods as increasingly frequent extreme weather events impact the quantum and consistency of crop production. Here, we develop a novel paradigm to raise whole farm pro...

    Albert Muleke, Matthew Tom Harrison, Rowan Eisner, Peter de Voil in Scientific Reports (2022)

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    Comparative efficacy of phosphorous supplements with phosphate solubilizing bacteria for optimizing wheat yield in calcareous soils

    Phosphorus (P) deficiency is the main hurdle in achieving sustainable crop production ps especially in calcareous soils. Using bio-fertilizers like phosphate solubilizing bacteria (PSB) could be a useful appro...

    Muhammad Adnan, Shah Fahad, Muhammad Hamzah Saleem, Baber Ali in Scientific Reports (2022)

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    AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora

    We introduce the AusTraits database - a compilation of values of plant traits for taxa in the Australian flora (hereafter AusTraits). AusTraits synthesises data on 448 traits across 28,640 taxa from field camp...

    Daniel Falster, Rachael Gallagher, Elizabeth H. Wenk, Ian J. Wright in Scientific Data (2021)