NPJ sustainable agriculture最新文献

How the proposal for a new regulation for new genomic techniques affects the European Union's food system sustainability objectives. 关于新基因组技术的新法规提案如何影响欧盟食品系统可持续性目标。

NPJ sustainable agriculture Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-02 DOI: 10.1038/s44264-026-00154-9

Maximilian Kardung, Samuel Ahado, Yasmine Ambrogio, Lukáš Čechura, Kutay Cingiz, Dennis Eriksson, João Godinho, Yan Jin, Dimitrios G Karpouzas, Stelios Kartakis, Zuzana Smeets Kristkova, Justus Wesseler

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Narrowing farmland biodiversity knowledge gaps with Digital Agriculture. 利用数字农业缩小农田生物多样性知识差距。

NPJ sustainable agriculture Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-31 DOI: 10.1038/s44264-025-00118-5

Ruben Remelgado, Michael Beckmann, Moudrý Vítězslav, Elisa Padulosi, Michela Perrone, Petteri Vihervaara, Christopher Marrs, Anette Eltner, Duccio Rocchini, Anna F Cord

{"title":"Narrowing farmland biodiversity knowledge gaps with Digital Agriculture.","authors":"Ruben Remelgado, Michael Beckmann, Moudrý Vítězslav, Elisa Padulosi, Michela Perrone, Petteri Vihervaara, Christopher Marrs, Anette Eltner, Duccio Rocchini, Anna F Cord","doi":"10.1038/s44264-025-00118-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44264-025-00118-5","url":null,"abstract":"Digital Agriculture - broadly defined as the use of digital technologies and data to manage and optimize agricultural production systems - holds significant but largely untapped potential for biodiversity monitoring. Both fields share many (semi-)automated data collection technologies, analytical methods and workflows, but remain largely disconnected - and are sometimes even perceived as incompatible - in research, education and practice. Here, we explore how existing data streams from Digital Agriculture can directly contribute with primary biodiversity data required by policy-relevant applications, linking them to the Essential Biodiversity Variables framework. We discuss the benefits of this integration, its challenges, and outline pathways for its adoption with respect to ongoing advances in biodiversity science and policy. This integration could improve the precision of biodiversity conservation in farmland, and accelerate transitions to sustainable agriculture - an urgent priority to safeguard nature and its contribution to people.","PeriodicalId":520846,"journal":{"name":"NPJ sustainable agriculture","volume":"4 1","pages":"10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12860687/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146109532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Climate stressor projections inform adaptation needs in South Asian oilseed systems. 气候压力源预测为南亚油籽系统的适应需求提供了信息。

NPJ sustainable agriculture Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-30 DOI: 10.1038/s44264-026-00170-9

Anasuya Barik, Paresh B Shirsath, Roshan Babu Ojha, Vinay Kumar Sehgal, Virender Singh Bhatia, Sanjoy K Bandyopadhyay, Pramod K Aggarwal

{"title":"Climate stressor projections inform adaptation needs in South Asian oilseed systems.","authors":"Anasuya Barik, Paresh B Shirsath, Roshan Babu Ojha, Vinay Kumar Sehgal, Virender Singh Bhatia, Sanjoy K Bandyopadhyay, Pramod K Aggarwal","doi":"10.1038/s44264-026-00170-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44264-026-00170-9","url":null,"abstract":"Climate stressors impact major oilseed crop systems of groundnut, mustard, and soybean in South Asia. Our analysis shows that the intensity of all heat-related and water stresses is projected to rise by the 2050 s and 2080 s, while rainfall-related stressors show mixed and uncertain responses. We also find that heat stress effects during the full crop cycle and the reproductive phases are different in nature. Critical-phase heat stress is likely to increase mainly in frequency rather than intensity, whereas full-cycle heat stress is likely to intensify in the future. These shifts in climate stressors have direct implications for the suitability of adaptation interventions for oilseed systems. Genetic options, such as stress-tolerant varieties, and financial instruments, such as crop insurance, emerge as consistently robust across scenarios. In contrast, structural, nutrient, and irrigation-based interventions lose effectiveness as climate stressors exceed their adaptive limits. By mapping these future suitability transitions, this study provides a first-order basis for tailored adaptation planning and climate-smart oilseed systems in South Asia.","PeriodicalId":520846,"journal":{"name":"NPJ sustainable agriculture","volume":"4 1","pages":"57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13318630/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148379561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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By-products of insect farming as a novel sustainable biofertilizer for crops. 昆虫养殖的副产品作为一种新的可持续的农作物生物肥料。

NPJ sustainable agriculture Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-07-30 DOI: 10.1038/s44264-026-00175-4

Katherine Y Barragán Fonseca, Daan Mertens, Pedro Beschoren da Costa, Joop J A van Loon, Marcel Dicke

{"title":"By-products of insect farming as a novel sustainable biofertilizer for crops.","authors":"Katherine Y Barragán Fonseca, Daan Mertens, Pedro Beschoren da Costa, Joop J A van Loon, Marcel Dicke","doi":"10.1038/s44264-026-00175-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44264-026-00175-4","url":null,"abstract":"The development of sustainable high-yield farming practices is crucial to support a growing human population while providing long-term solutions for the environmental impact of intensified agriculture. Nutrient-rich bio-residuals generated through the industrial production of insects hold a high but underexplored potential as an alternative to less sustainable fertilizers. In a two-year field experiment, we show that mustard plants grown in insect-exuviae-amended soil perform as well or even better than plants grown in soil amended with reference organic fertilizers. Improved plant performance was driven by increased plant growth in terms of height and width, a larger number of flowers produced, more interactions with pollinators, and a larger seed production compared to untreated plants. A parallel greenhouse experiment revealed that native root-associated microbial communities in exuviae-amended soil were more species-rich, less variable, and were characterized by several well-known plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria compared to those found in unamended soil or soil treated with reference fertilizer. Collectively, these findings demonstrate that valorizing insect-based bio-residuals can improve agricultural sustainability while simultaneously supporting a circular economy.","PeriodicalId":520846,"journal":{"name":"NPJ sustainable agriculture","volume":"4 1","pages":"62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13423803/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148655575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Synthetic microbial communities for sustainable hydroponic tomato production. 可持续水培番茄生产的合成微生物群落。

NPJ sustainable agriculture Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-26 DOI: 10.1038/s44264-026-00147-8

Samuel W Wilkinson, Harry C Wright, T E Anne Cotton, David Pascual-Pardo, Stuart A Campbell, Upuli Wickramaarachchi, Duncan D Cameron, Boglarka Z Gulyas, Peter Ho, Alan R Mackie, Samantha J Caton, Jurriaan Ton, Stephen A Rolfe

{"title":"Synthetic microbial communities for sustainable hydroponic tomato production.","authors":"Samuel W Wilkinson, Harry C Wright, T E Anne Cotton, David Pascual-Pardo, Stuart A Campbell, Upuli Wickramaarachchi, Duncan D Cameron, Boglarka Z Gulyas, Peter Ho, Alan R Mackie, Samantha J Caton, Jurriaan Ton, Stephen A Rolfe","doi":"10.1038/s44264-026-00147-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44264-026-00147-8","url":null,"abstract":"Hydroponic horticulture will play a key role in future food production as the growing global population becomes increasingly urbanised. Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is a widely grown and consumed crop that is already cultivated hydroponically in glasshouses in areas of the world with cooler climates, such as Northern Europe. Hydroponic growing systems enable high yields but can enhance disease susceptibility which increases the risk of devastating yield losses. Manipulation of the hydroponic microbiome has been proposed as a strategy to protect plants against disease. However, this hypothesis remains largely untested. We examined whether introducing synthetic communities of plant-beneficial microbes (SynComs) could offer a sustainable disease protection solution for hydroponic tomato production. We identified individual microbes and in turn two SynComs that induce systemic disease resistance during the vulnerable early stages of development. The two SynComs were evaluated further in a commercial-scale greenhouse trial. Although both SynComs reduced early growth, they had no adverse effects on yield or fruit quality. Strikingly, while only one SynCom strain consistently persisted in the hydroponic stone wool substrate throughout the six-month trial, the introduction of disease-suppressive SynComs at sowing had significant and similar impacts on bacterial community structure six months later. Our findings demonstrate that microbial SynComs can reduce disease susceptibility of hydroponically grown tomato without compromising yield, offering a viable and sustainable approach for crop protection in controlled environment agriculture.","PeriodicalId":520846,"journal":{"name":"NPJ sustainable agriculture","volume":"4 1","pages":"42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13212151/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148059529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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New genomic techniques for sustainable agriculture and their prospects in Europe. 可持续农业的新基因组技术及其在欧洲的前景。

NPJ sustainable agriculture Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-02 DOI: 10.1038/s44264-026-00158-5

George Gaskell, Agnes Allansdottir, Jürgen Hampel, Nicole Kronberger, Gema Revuelta de la Poza, Helge Torgersen

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Agrohydrological analysis of waterlogging impacts and mitigation in Ethiopia. 埃塞俄比亚内涝影响和缓解的农业水文分析。

NPJ sustainable agriculture Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-09-02 DOI: 10.1038/s44264-026-00179-0

Mosisa Tujuba Wakjira, Peter Molnar, Ruud Bartholomeus, Teklu Erkossa, Katrien Descheemaeker

{"title":"Agrohydrological analysis of waterlogging impacts and mitigation in Ethiopia.","authors":"Mosisa Tujuba Wakjira, Peter Molnar, Ruud Bartholomeus, Teklu Erkossa, Katrien Descheemaeker","doi":"10.1038/s44264-026-00179-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44264-026-00179-0","url":null,"abstract":"Waterlogging is a major yet understudied constraint to cropland productivity. Here, we apply an agrohydrological modeling framework to assess the climatology of waterlogging (1981-2010), its yield impacts on major grain crops, and the potential for mitigation at a 500m x 500m grid resolution across Ethiopia's rainfed agriculture (RFA) region. We estimate that areas within 39% of the grid cells in the RFA region are prone to waterlogging. Chickpea is the most sensitive crop, with average yield losses from 34% under low-severity to 97% under extreme-severity conditions, followed by wheat, barley, and faba bean (18-92% of yield loss). In contrast, maize and sorghum are generally tolerant except under extreme conditions. Our results also show considerable potential to reduce losses through soil drainage and use of tolerant crops. For instance, improved drainage could increase the current wheat yield on average by 57% under low waterlogging conditions. In flat areas where drainage is infeasible, productivity could be enhanced through using tolerant native crops and the expansion of rice production.","PeriodicalId":520846,"journal":{"name":"NPJ sustainable agriculture","volume":"4 1","pages":"74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13538058/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148890176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Strategic foresight provides insight into the resilience of climate-neutral farming transitions in a volatile world. 战略远见使我们能够洞察气候中性农业转型在动荡世界中的复原力。

NPJ sustainable agriculture Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-08-31 DOI: 10.1038/s44264-026-00185-2

David Styles, Daniel Henn, Colm Duffy, Kevin Black, Andres Martinez-Arce

{"title":"Strategic foresight provides insight into the resilience of climate-neutral farming transitions in a volatile world.","authors":"David Styles, Daniel Henn, Colm Duffy, Kevin Black, Andres Martinez-Arce","doi":"10.1038/s44264-026-00185-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44264-026-00185-2","url":null,"abstract":"Farmers manage almost 5 billion hectares of land globally, deliver food security and underpin cultural and economic life in rural areas. Farming policies typically prioritise stability and incremental change to mitigate risk. Yet scientific evidence points to a need for transformative change across the land sector to effectively tackle the climate and biodiversity crises. Meanwhile, climate and geopolitical volatility underscore the need for resilient farm systems. Reconciling multifaceted objectives within long-term strategic policymaking for farming and land use is a major challenge, requiring multi-dimensional evidence. Using Ireland's land sector as an example, we employ strategic foresight combined with quantitative back-casting to explore alternative climate-neutral farming pathways under different future contexts. Bioeconomy and protein diversification pathways score better across sustainability, resilience and risk indicators compared with business as usual (BAU) under uncertain futures represented by shared socioeconomic pathways. These findings help to situate the important, tangible risks associated with climate-neutral transitions against multifaceted risks facing farming stakeholders under BAU.","PeriodicalId":520846,"journal":{"name":"NPJ sustainable agriculture","volume":"4 1","pages":"73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13529586/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148883369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Novel field-based approaches reveal wheat genotypic differences in nitrogen use efficiency and grain protein dynamics. 基于田间的新方法揭示了小麦氮素利用效率和籽粒蛋白质动态的基因型差异。

NPJ sustainable agriculture Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-26 DOI: 10.1038/s44264-026-00168-3

Stéphanie M Swarbreck, Alek Ligeza, Susie Roques, Daniel Kindred, Roger Sylvester-Bradley, Howard Griffiths, Alison R Bentley

{"title":"Novel field-based approaches reveal wheat genotypic differences in nitrogen use efficiency and grain protein dynamics.","authors":"Stéphanie M Swarbreck, Alek Ligeza, Susie Roques, Daniel Kindred, Roger Sylvester-Bradley, Howard Griffiths, Alison R Bentley","doi":"10.1038/s44264-026-00168-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44264-026-00168-3","url":null,"abstract":"Achieving high yield and grain quality in wheat typically requires substantial nitrogen (N) fertiliser application. However, given economic and environmental constraints, it is critical to understand whether growers can reduce N inputs without compromising performance, and whether existing varieties differ in their ability to cope with lower N availability. Using a novel field-based experimental platform, we assessed the performance of fifteen registered wheat varieties under six N regimes and over two seasons with contrasting weather patterns. As expected, yields and grain protein contents both increased with N application, although protein content plateaued at a higher N threshold than yield. We noted higher genotypic differences in N use efficiency (NUE; defined as yield per unit of available N) under zero- N fertiliser applications, revealing intrinsic variation in low-N resilience. N-driven yield increase was more strongly associated with spike number rather than spike weight. Two varieties selected in Denmark where tight fertiliser regulations are in place were included for comparison and could achieve high yield with contrasting strategies; one with low and the other with high spike weight. In addition, using a novel stable isotope field-based method, we could show that under higher N levels, the post-anthesis N uptake was decreased and this trait is critical to achieving positive grain protein deviation (higher increase in grain protein content than expected given its yield). Our findings highlight the necessity of evaluating commercial and pre-breeding wheat germplasm under reduced N conditions to identify genotypes suited to sustainable, lower-input agricultural systems in a changing climate.","PeriodicalId":520846,"journal":{"name":"NPJ sustainable agriculture","volume":"4 1","pages":"53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13309280/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148348587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Designing on-farm trials: an example with interventions to improve micronutrient status of grain crops. 设计农场试验：以干预措施改善粮食作物微量营养素状况为例。

NPJ sustainable agriculture Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-31 DOI: 10.1038/s44264-025-00101-0

R M Lark, M G Manzeke-Kangara, J M Kihara, M R Broadley

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