OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Interactive effect of soil mulching and irrigation regime on yield, irrigation water use efficiency and ‎weeds of trickle–irrigated onion	46
Bacillus sp. PM31 harboring various plant growth-promoting activities regulates Fusarium dry rot and wilt tolerance in potato	45
Integrated usage of Trichoderma harzianum and biochar to ameliorate salt stress on spinach plants	45
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi mitigate drought stress in citrus by modulating root microenvironment	38
Synthesis, characterization and application of ZnO nanoparticles for improved growth and Zn biofortification in maize	32
Phosphorus recovery using magnesium-enriched biochar and its potential use as fertilizer	31
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: an ecological accelerator of phytoremediation of metal contaminated soils	27
Biochar increases maize yield by promoting root growth in the rainfed region	24
A review and evaluation of thermal conductivity models of saturated soils	24
Effect of long-term application of organic fertilizers on improving organic matter quality in acid soil	23
Sustainable alternative crop rotations to the irrigated rice-wheat cropping system of Indo-Gangetic plains of India	22
Comparing Productivity of Organic and Conventional Farming Systems: A Quantitative Review	21
Effect of conservation agriculture on selected soil physical properties on a haplic cambisol in Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa	21
Potassium induces carbohydrates accumulation by enhancing morpho-physiological and biochemical attributes in soybean under salinity	20
Combining multivariate method and spectral variable selection for soil total nitrogen estimation by Vis–NIR spectroscopy	19
Beneficial role ofAzollasp. in paddy soils and their use as bioremediators in polluted aqueous environments: implications and future perspectives	19
Maize-alfalfa intercropping induced changes in plant and soil nutrient status under nitrogen application	18
Potassium supply in agriculture through biological potassium fertilizer: a promising and sustainable option for developing countries	18
The challenge of drought stress for grain legumes and options for improvement	18
Crop rotation suppresses soil-borne Fusarium wilt of banana and alters microbial communities	17
Biochar and phosphorus fertilization improved soil quality and inorganic phosphorus fractions in saline-alkaline soils	17
Modelling net irrigation water requirements using FAO-CROPWAT 8.0 and CLIMWAT 2.0: a case study of Tina Plain and East South ElKantara regions, North Sinai, Egypt	17
Soil health and crop response of biochar: an updated analysis	16
Maize-peanut intercropping led to an optimization of soil from the perspective of soil microorganism	16
Carryover of N-fertilization from corn to pasture in an integrated crop-livestock system	15

Effects of nitrogen fertilizer rates and waterlogging on leaf physiological characteristics and grain yield of maize	15
Sugarcane bagasse biochar increases soil carbon sequestration and yields of maize and groundnut in charland ecosystem	14
Soil quality index evaluation model in responses to six-year fertilization practices in Mollisols	14
Zinc biofortification of dual-purpose cowpea [Vigna unguiculata(L.) Walp.] for enhancing the productivity and nutritional quality in a semi-arid regions of India	13
Effects of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from different sources on soil enzymes and microorganisms of Malus prunifolia var. Ringo	13
Influence of land-use pattern on soil quality in a steeply sloped tropical mountainous region, India	13
Exogenous organic matter as strategy to reduce pesticide leaching through the soil	13
Response surface modeling of humic acid stimulation of the rice (Oryza sativa L.) root system	12
Phosphorus fertilization and intercropping interactively affect tomato and potato onion growth and rhizosphere arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community	12
Contamination factor and pollution load index to estimate source apportionment of selected heavy metals in soils around a cement factory, SW Iran	12
The biotransformation potential of Bacillus cereus on β- cypermethrin to protect the earthworm (Perionyx excavatus) on insecticide -contaminated soil	12
Manure and inorganic fertilization impacts on soil nutrients, aggregate stability, and organic carbon and nitrogen in different aggregate fractions	12
Soil acidification associated with changes in inorganic forms of N reduces the yield of tea (Camellia sinensis)	12
Soil phosphorus availability and cotton growth affected by biochar addition under two phosphorus fertilizer levels	12
The combined application of controlled-release urea and fulvic acid improved the soil nutrient supply and maize yield	12
Vis-NIR-spectroscopy- and loss-on-ignition-based functions to estimate organic matter content of calcareous soils	11
Long-term impact of grain legumes and nutrient management practices on soil microbial activity and biochemical properties	11
Relationships between field management, soil compaction, and crop productivity	11
Changes in soil organic carbon stock and nutrient status after conversion of pasture land to cultivated land in semi-arid areas of northern Ethiopia	11
Effects of organic fertilization on phosphorus availability and crop growth: Evidence from a 7-year fertilization experiment	11
Silvopastoral system for resilience of key soil health indicators in semi-arid environment	10
Combined effect of biochar and nitrogen fertilizer reduction on rapeseed productivity and nitrogen use efficiency	10
Nitrogen modulates cotton root morphology by affecting abscisic acid (ABA) and salicylic acid (SA) content	10
Effects of nitrogen application rate on summer maize (Zea mays L.) yield and water–nitrogen use efficiency under micro–sprinkling irrigation in the Huang–Huai–Hai Plain of China	10
Forms, transformations and availability of phosphorus after 32 years of manure and mineral fertilization in a Mollisol under continuous maize cropping	10
Growth, yield and water productivity of rice as influenced by seed priming under alternate wetting and drying irrigation	10
Modeling the final fruit yield of coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.) using multiple linear regression and artificial neural network models	10
Effect of water conditions and nitrogen application on maize growth, carbon accumulation and metabolism of maize plant in subtropical regions	10
Investigation of biochars application on potassium forms and dynamics in a calcareous soil under different moisture conditions	10
Effects of water discharge rate and slope gradient on runoff and sediment yield related to tillage erosion	10
Development of rill erosion and its simulation with cellular automata-rill model in Chinese Loess Plateau	9
Long-term soil quality decline due to the conventional tobacco tillage in Southern Brazil	9
The use of indigenous bacterial community as inoculant for plant growth promotion in soybean cultivation	9
Plant growth-promoting of olive and walnut actinobacteria: isolation, screening PGP traits, antifungal activities, identification, and hydroponic production of wheat	9
Characteristics of crop straw-decayed products and their ameliorating effects on an acidic Ultisol	9
Shifts of bacterial community structure and function in long-term soybean monoculture	9
Alleviation of cadmium toxicity by mercapto-triazole priming in wheat	9
Changes in soil phosphorus forms in a long-term cropping system as influenced by fertilization and tillage	9
Effect of rock dust-amended compost on the soil properties, soil microbial activity, and fruit production in an apple orchard from the Jiangsu province of China	9
Effects of various phosphorus fertilizers on maize yield and phosphorus uptake in soils with different pH values	9
Integrated nutrient management reduced the nutrient losses and increased crop yield in irrigated wheat	9
Effect of controlled-release fertilizers on leaf characteristics, grain yield, and nitrogen use efficiency of machine-transplanted rice in southwest China	9
Dicyandiamide efficacy of inhibiting nitrification and carbon dioxide emission from calcareous soil depends on temperature and moisture contents	8
Physiological role of hydrogen sulfide in seed germination and seedling development under stress conditions	8
Co-application of controlled-release urea and a superabsorbent polymer to improve nitrogen and water use in maize	8
Anthropogenic land use changes diversity and structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities at 100-m scale in northeast China	8
Deep placement of mixed controlled-release and conventional urea improves grain yield, nitrogen use efficiency of rainfed spring maize	8
The effects of ground cover management on fruit yield and quality: a meta-analysis	8
Urea-based nitrogen fertilization in agriculture: a key source of N₂O emissions and recent development in mitigating strategies	8
Organic amendment increases wheat yield by improving soil N transformations and reducing N loss in North China Plain	8

Breeding rice for heat tolerance and climate change scenario; possibilities and way forward. A review	8
Impact of levels of residue retention on soil properties under conservation agriculture in Vertisols of central India	8
Alleviation of salt stress in rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) plants by biochar-based rhizobacteria: new insights into the mechanisms regulating nutrient uptake, antioxidant activity, root growth	8
Greenhouse gas emissions of rice straw return varies with return depth and soil type in paddy systems of Northeast China	8
Impact of long term integrated nutrient management (INM) practice on aluminium dynamics and nutritional quality of rice under acidic Inceptisol	8
Tillage and crop residue incorporation effects on soil bacterial diversity in the double-cropping paddy field of southern China	7
Elemental sulphur with sulphur oxidizing bacteria enhances phosphorus availability and improves growth and yield of wheat in calcareous soil	7
Uptake, translocation, transformation and physiological effects of nanoparticles in plants	7
Optimizing essential oil, fatty acid profiles, and phenolic compounds of dragon’s head (Lallemantia iberica) intercropped with chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) with biofertilizer inoculatio	7
Tillage systems influence on greenhouse gas emission factor and global warming potential under rice-mustard-rice cropping system	7
Preventing soil degradation in shifting cultivation using integrated farming system models	7
Nitrogen and phosphorus availability in the rhizosphere of maize plants cultivated in biochar amended soil	7
Potassium-mediated regulation of sucrose metabolism and storage root formation in sweet potato	7
Soil phosphorus fate and its lability after a long-term phosphorus fertilizer strategy in Brazilian Oxisol	7
Effects of different nitrogen fertilizer types and rates on cotton leaf senescence, yield and soil inorganic nitrogen	7
Analysis of spatial and temporal changes of RUSLE-K soil erodibility factor in semi-arid areas in two different periods by conditional simulation	7
Proposing a constructed wetland within the branch drains network to treat degraded drainage water in Tina Plain, North Sinai, Egypt	7
Effects of 22-year fertilisation on the soil organic C, N, and theirs fractions under a rice-wheat cropping system	7
Ridge irrigation reduced greenhouse gas emission in double-cropping rice field	7
Lime equivalence of organic manures and scope of their utilization as acid soil amendments	7
Using Le Bissonnais method to study the stability of soil aggregates in plantations and its influence mechanism	6
On-farm fertilizing materials in organic horticulture: agronomic performance, energy use and GHG emission evaluation	6
Biological indicators of soil quality under conventional, reduced, and no-tillage systems	6
Inoculation of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi increases lettuce yield without altering natural soil communities	6
Survival, morphological variability, and performance ofOpuntia ficus-indicain a semi-arid region of India	6
Wide-precision planting pattern under different tillage methods affects photosynthesis and yield of winter wheat	6
Soil erosion control and wheat productivity are improved by a developed ridge-furrow and reservoir tillage systems	6
Pyrolytic synthesis and performance efficacy comparison of biochar-supported nanoscale zero-valent iron on soil polluted with toxic metals	6
Long-term effect of integrated fertilization on maize yield and soil fertility in a calcaric fluvisol	6
Interactive effects of boron stress and mycorrhizal (AMF) treatments on tomato growth, yield, leaf chlorophyll and boron accumulation, and fruit characteristics	6
Effects of thidiazuron and ethephon on the grain filling and dehydration characteristics of maize in Northeast China	6
Identifying suitable soil quality indicators in an Indian rice-wheat system as influenced by long-term (30 years) inorganic-organic fertilization	6
Does biochar application enhance soil salinization risk in black soil of northeast China (a laboratory incubation experiment)?	6
Growth, phenology and harvesting time of cactus-millet intercropping system under biotic mulching	6
Growth, grain yield, water and nitrogen use efficiency of rainfed maize in response to straw mulching and urea blended with slow-release nitrogen fertilizer: A two-year field study	6
Soil labile carbon and nitrogen fractions after eleven years of manure and mineral fertilizer applications	6
Improving productivity of maize-lentil rotation in alkaline Fluvisol following soil test crop response (STCR) - targeted yield approach of nutrient management	6
The spatial pattern and seasonal changes in the soil phosphorus content in relation to the phosphatase activity: a case study of Luvisols	6
PGPR inoculation of a contaminated soil affects plant growth and phytoavailability of Cd and Pb	6
The distribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities at soil aggregate level in subtropical grasslands	5
Effects of potassium application on soil ecological resistance to Verticillium wilt of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)	5
Phosphorus fractions in biochar-amended soil — chemical sequential fractionation, ³¹P NMR, and phosphatase activity	5
Use of treated wastewater in irrigation: productive and nutritional aspects of millet and chemical properties of clay and sandy loam soils	5
Soil microbial properties and functional diversity in response to sewage sludge amendments	5
Variations in soil bacterial communities and putative functions in a sugarcane soil following five years of chemical fertilization	5
Eleven-year mulching and tillage practices alter the soil quality and bacterial community composition in Northeast China	5
Rhizospheric microbiomes help Dongxiang common wild rice (Oryza rufipogonGriff.) rather thanLeersia hexandraSwartz survive under cold stress	5
Association of growth-promoting bacteria and hydroponic system aiming at reducing the time of production of banana seedlings	5
Topcross hybrids in papaya (Carica papaya L.): evaluation of the potential for increasing fruit quality in new cultivars	5
Effect of different fertilizers on the bacterial community diversity in rhizosperic soil of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum L.)	5
Spatial variability assessment of soil fertility in black soils of central India using geostatistical modeling	5
Application of ammonium sulfate affects greenhouse gases and microbial diversity of an oil palm plantation on tropical peat	5
Impact of forty-seven years of long-term fertilization and liming on soil health, yield of soybean and wheat in an acidic Alfisol	5
Copper and Zinc fractions and adsorption in sandy soil with long-term pig manure application	5
Effect of allelochemicals, soil enzyme activity and environmental factors from Stellera chamaejasme L. on rhizosphere bacterial communities in the northern Tibetan Plateau	5
Soil metaphenomics: a step forward in metagenomics	5
Polyacrylamide dissolved in low-quality water effects on structure stability of soils varying in texture and clay type	5
Release of potassium from some heated calcareous soils to different solutions	5
Amount of biologically nitrogen fixed by faba bean and its uptake by winter wheat determined by ¹⁵N ID method	5
Effects of phosphate loaded LDH-biochar/hydrochar on maize dry matter and P uptake in a calcareous soil	5
Nitrate transport and assimilation in plants: a potential review	5
Short-term nickel residual effect in field-grown soybeans: nickel-enriched soil acidity amendments promote plant growth and safe soil nickel levels	5
Sulfur management strategies to improve partial sulfur balance with irrigated peanut production on deep sands	5