Nitrogen fertilizers play an essential role in ensuring global food security. However, the applied fertilizer-nitrogen, particularly that exceeding crop demand and soil N retention capacity, can ...

A new study unearthed patterns in datasets collected on rice plants across Asia that allowed researchers to develop a matrix to predict the traits of rice plants depending on their genetics and ...

Diagram illustrating the impact of natural factors, soil parameters, and nitrogen (N) application rate on the proportion of fertilizer-N losses to the applied N in the cropping seasons of wheat, rice, ...

AMES, Iowa - A recently published study led by Iowa State University scientists applied a fresh perspective to vast amounts of data on rice plants to find better ways to predict plant performance and ...