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The Chemical Defense Response of Two Different Cotton Varieties Against Cotton Aphids in the Kashi Region Open

Shuaishuai Sha, Pan Xie, Jiaqi Ding, Xuming Wang, Wei Gao , et al. · 2025

(1) Objective: To investigate the chemical defense response mechanisms of two cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L., Malvaceae) varieties, Xinlu Zhong 57 and Xinlu Zhong 78, in response to feeding by the cotton aphid (Aphis gossypii Glover, 1877) …

Drought and high nighttime temperature impact on soybean seed yield and quality under ambient and elevated CO2 environments Open

Naflath Thenveettil, Raju Bheemanahalli, Tulsi P. Kharel, Krishna N. Reddy, Wei Gao , et al. · 2025

The increasing prevalence of abiotic stresses, including high nighttime temperatures (HNT) and drought during the reproductive stage, poses a risk to global soybean production. Additionally, the influence of rising atmospheric CO 2 levels …

Impacts of varying day and night environmental conditions on cotton flowering, yield, and fiber quality Open

Naflath Thenveettil, Mai Allam, Saseendran S. Anapalli, Krishna N. Reddy, Wei Gao , et al. · 2025

Introduction Increases in the frequency of higher-than-optimum air temperatures can substantially reduce cotton production. Little is known about the influence of different combinations of day/nighttime temperature on cotton flowering and …

Exploring the effects of drought and salt stress on physiology, leaf reflectance, and growth dynamics of Brassica carinata Open

Ranadheer Reddy Vennam, Durga P. M. Chinthalapudi, Amrit Shrestha, Raju Bheemanahalli, Ramdeo Seepaul , et al. · 2025

ProMind-LLM: Proactive Mental Health Care via Causal Reasoning with Sensor Data Open

Xianfeng Zheng, Sungdae Ji, Jiawei Sun, Renqi Chen, Wei Gao , et al. · 2025

Mental health risk is a critical global public health challenge, necessitating innovative and reliable assessment methods. With the development of large language models (LLMs), they stand out to be a promising tool for explainable mental h…

Strategic cultivar and planting density integration: Optimizing canopy structure for enhanced yields in sweet maize Open

Delian Ye, Jiajie Chen, Zexun Yu, Wei Gao, Muhammad Atif Muneer , et al. · 2025

High plant density (PD) can differentially impact maize yields depending on cultivar characteristics due to varying responses of canopy structures to high PD, making canopy optimization essential to improve yield. This is especially import…

Impacts of extreme weather events on daily vegetation phenological development in the Lesser Khingan Mountains of China Open

Danyao Zhu, Luhe Wan, Wei Gao · 2025

Phenological development is intricately linked to climate change, and existing evidence suggests that the frequent occurrence of extreme weather events (EWEs) exerts a more profound influence on phenology. However, most prior studies have …

Impact of climate change stressors—temperature, CO<sub>2</sub>, and UV‐B—on early growth and development of different cover crop species Open

Tulsi P. Kharel, K. Raja Reddy, Akanksha Sehgal, Nisarga Kodadinne, Raju Bheemanahalli , et al. · 2025

Different cover crop (CC) species may respond differently to the projected climate change scenarios. A study was carried out in a controlled environmental chamber to evaluate early season growth and development of five CC species: cereal r…

ProMind-LLM: Proactive Mental Health Care via Causal Reasoning with Sensor Data Open

Xianfeng Zheng, Sungdae Ji, Jiawei Sun, Renqi Chen, Wei Gao , et al. · 2025

MindGuard: Towards Accessible and Sitgma-free Mental Health First Aid via Edge LLM Open

Sungdae Ji, Xianfeng Zheng, Jiawei Sun, Renqi Chen, Wei Gao , et al. · 2024

Mental health disorders are among the most prevalent diseases worldwide, affecting nearly one in four people. Despite their widespread impact, the intervention rate remains below 25%, largely due to the significant cooperation required fro…

Temperature and elevated CO2 alter soybean seed yield and quality, exhibiting transgenerational effects on seedling emergence and vigor Open

Naflath Thenveettil, Raju Bheemanahalli, Krishna N. Reddy, Wei Gao, K. Raja Reddy · 2024

Introduction Environmental conditions play a prime role in the growth and development of plant species, exerting a significant influence on their reproductive capacity. Soybean is sensitive to high temperatures during flowering and seed de…

Impact of ultraviolet-B radiation on early-season morpho-physiological traits of indica and japonica rice genotypes Open

Sonal Mathur, Raju Bheemanahalli, Salah Jumaa, Naqeebullah Kakar, Vangimalla R. Reddy , et al. · 2024

Ultraviolet (UV)-B radiation is considered one of the major detrimental rays coming from the Sun. UV-B radiation has a harmful impact on plant growth and development. The effect of UV-B radiation was studied on 64 rice ( Oryza sativa L.) g…

DAWN: Dashboard for Agricultural Water Use and Nutrient Management—A Predictive Decision Support System to Improve Crop Production in a Changing Climate Open

Xin‐Zhong Liang, Drew Gower, Jennifer A. Kennedy, Melissa A. Kenney, Michael C. Maddox , et al. · 2024

Climate change presents huge challenges to the already-complex decisions faced by U.S. agricultural producers, as seasonal weather patterns increasingly deviate from historical tendencies. Under USDA funding, a transdisciplinary team of re…

Optimal Plant Density Improves Sweet Maize Fresh Ear Yield without Compromising Grain Carbohydrate Concentration Open

Delian Ye, Jiajie Chen, Zexun Yu, Yanfang Sun, Wei Gao , et al. · 2023

It is crucial to synergistically improve the yield and quality of sweet maize by implementing precise and strategic planting methods. However, a comprehensive understanding of how increasing plant density affects the sweet maize fresh ear …

Assessment of the impact of dams on aquatic food webs using stable isotopes: Current progress and future challenges Open

Fen Guo, Brian Fry, Keheng Yan, J. Huang, Qian Zhao , et al. · 2023

A bibliometric analysis of research for climate impact on agriculture Open

You Wu, Shuhan Meng, Chaoshun Liu, Wei Gao, Xin‐Zhong Liang · 2023

Climate anomalies and changes have complex and critical impacts on agriculture. Given global warming, the scientific community has dramatically increased research on these impacts. During 1996–2022, over 3,000 peer-reviewed papers in the W…

Assessment of quality control measures in the monitoring of microplastic: a critical review Open

Wei Gao, Xuejiao Deng, Jun Zhang, Lin Qi, Xiu-Qing Zhao , et al. · 2023

Microplastics usually refer to solid plastic particles with particle size less than 5 mm. As a new type of pollutant unavoidable produced during human production and living activities, microplastics affect the ecological environment and hu…

Sweetpotato cultivars responses to interactive effects of warming, drought, and elevated carbon dioxide Open

Shasthree Taduri, Raju Bheemanahalli, Chathurika Wijewardana, Ajaz A. Lone, Stephen L. Meyers , et al. · 2023

Plants are sensitive to changes projected in climates, such as elevated carbon dioxide (eCO 2 ), high temperature (T), and drought stress (DS), which affect crop growth, development, and yield. These stresses, either alone or in combinatio…

Removal of Microplastics from Water by Coagulation of Cationic-Modified Starch: An Environmentally Friendly Solution Open

Wei Gao, Aoyun Mo, Jie Jiang, Yuqing Liang, Xiaomu Cao , et al. · 2023

Removal of microplastics in water: Technology progress and green strategies Open

Wei Gao, Yalin Zhang, Aoyun Mo, Jie Jiang, Yuqing Liang , et al. · 2022

Microplastics (MPs) are globally distributed in aquatic environments, and become a growing threat to the ecosystem. It is urgently needed to develop effective technologies to remove MPs from water. In this review, we summarized progress in…

Climate Stressors on Growth, Yield, and Functional Biochemistry of two Brassica Species, Kale and Mustard Open

Akanksha Sehgal, K. Raja Reddy, Charles Hunt Walne, T. Casey Barickman, Skyler Brazel , et al. · 2022

Due to climate change, the attainment of global food security is facing serious challenges in meeting the growing food demand. Abiotic stresses are the foremost limiting factors for agricultural productivity. However, not much information …

Lake algal bloom monitoring via remote sensing with biomimetic and computational intelligence Open

Zhibin Sun, Ni‐Bin Chang, Chi-Farn Chen, Wei Gao · 2022

Study on constitutive model of fractured rock masses by using statistical strength theory Open

Xin Chen, Wei Gao, tianyang He, Shuangshuang Ge, Pengfei Ma , et al. · 2022

By using the basic principle of the continuous damage mechanics as a reference, together with the statistical strength theory based on the Weibull distribution, a new constitutive model of fractured rock masses for deep underground enginee…

Individual and Interactive Effects of Multiple Abiotic Stress Treatments on Early-Season Growth and Development of Two Brassica Species Open

Akanksha Sehgal, K. Raja Reddy, Charles Hunt Walne, T. Casey Barickman, Skyler Brazel , et al. · 2022

Potential global climate change-related impacts on crop production have emerged as a major research priority and societal concern during the past decade. Future changes, natural and human-induced, projected in the climate have implications…

Spatial Cooperative Simulation of Land Use-Population-Economy in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, China Open

Wei Tu, Wei Gao, Mingxiao Li, Yao Yao, Biao He , et al. · 2022

The fast urbanization has eroded the city boundaries and made the mega-city region. It also brings great challenges to the sustainable development goals, such as excessive exploitation and population explosion. Classical cellular automata …

Prominent Toxicity of Isocyanates and Maleic Anhydrides to Caenorhabditis Elegans: Multilevel Assay for Typical Organic Additives of Biodegradable Plastics Open

Xinyu Li, Yinxing Chen, Wei Gao, Aoyun Mo, Yalin Zhang , et al. · 2022

Assessing the Funding and Quality of Education in Public Primary Schools in Mali Open

Abou Sidibé, Wei Gao, Lala Jaiteh · 2022

Malian primary education has been suffering from funding inadequacies over the past two decades, negatively affecting the school’s learning outcomes. At the same time, several studies on school funding conducted in Mali continue to drive t…

Individual and Interactive Temporal Implications of UV-B Radiation and Elevated CO2 on the Morphology of Basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) Open

T. Casey Barickman, Skyler Brazel, Akanksha Sehgal, Charles Hunt Walne, Wei Gao , et al. · 2021

Temporal and spatial variations in ozone levels and temporal changes in solar radiation greatly influence ultraviolet radiation incidence to crops throughout their growth, yet the interactive effects of CO2 and UV-B radiation on Basil prod…

Drought and Elevated Carbon Dioxide Impact the Morphophysiological Profile of Basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) Open

T. Casey Barickman, Bikash Adhikari, Akanksha Sehgal, Charles Hunt Walne, K. Raja Reddy , et al. · 2021

Treating plants with elevated carbon dioxide (eCO2) can increase their drought tolerance. Increased atmospheric CO2, a fundamental factor in climate change, may compensate for the drought-induced reduction in crop growth and yield. Basil, …

Drought and Elevated CO2 Impacts Photosynthesis and Biochemicals of Basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) Open

T. Casey Barickman, Bikash Adhikari, Akanksha Sehgal, Charles Hunt Walne, K. Raja Reddy , et al. · 2021

Drought-induced reduction in crop growth and productivity can be compensated by increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), a significant contributor to climate change. Drought stress (DS) affects crops worldwide due to dwindling water re…

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