Producing more grain with lower environmental costs

X Chen, Z Cui, M Fan, P Vitousek, M Zhao, W Ma… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Agriculture faces great challenges to ensure global food security by increasing yields while
reducing environmental costs 1 , 2 . Here we address this challenge by conducting a total of …

Integrated soil–crop system management: reducing environmental risk while increasing crop productivity and improving nutrient use efficiency in China

…, Z Cui, M Fan, W Zhang, X Chen… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
During the past 47 yr (1961–2007), Chinese cereal production has increased by 3.2‐fold,
successfully feeding 22% of the global human population with only 9% of the world's arable …

Phosphorus dynamics: from soil to plant

J Shen, L Yuan, J Zhang, H Li, Z Bai, X Chen… - Plant …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
With increasing demand of agricultural production and as the peak in global production will
occur in the next decades, phosphorus (P) is receiving more attention as a nonrenewable …

Pursuing sustainable productivity with millions of smallholder farmers

Z Cui, H Zhang, X Chen, C Zhang, W Ma, C Huang… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Sustainably feeding a growing population is a grand challenge 1 , 2 , 3 , and one that is
particularly difficult in regions that are dominated by smallholder farming. Despite local …

Improving crop productivity and resource use efficiency to ensure food security and environmental quality in China

M Fan, J Shen, L Yuan, R Jiang, X Chen… - Journal of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
In recent years, agricultural growth in China has accelerated remarkably, but most of this
growth has been driven by increased yield per unit area rather than by expansion of the …

Plant flavones enrich rhizosphere Oxalobacteraceae to improve maize performance under nitrogen deprivation

…, Z Su, M Bucher, K Tsuda, S Goormachtig, X Chen… - Nature plants, 2021 - nature.com
Beneficial interactions between plant roots and rhizosphere microorganisms are pivotal for
plant fitness. Nevertheless, the molecular mechanisms controlling the feedback between root …

[HTML][HTML] An experiment for the world

F Zhang, X Chen, P Vitousek - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
… China's scientists are using a variety of approaches to boost crop yields and limit
environmental damage, say Fusuo Zhang, Xinping Chen and Peter Vitousek. … Fusuo …

Closing yield gaps in China by empowering smallholder farmers

…, G Cao, X Li, H Zhang, C Wang, Q Liu, X Chen… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Sustainably feeding the world’s growing population is a challenge 1 , 2 , 3 , and closing yield
gaps (that is, differences between farmers’ yields and what are attainable for a given region…

Integrated nutrient management for food security and environmental quality in China

F Zhang, Z Cui, X Chen, X Ju, J Shen, Q Chen… - Advances in …, 2012 - Elsevier
While the concept of sustainability as a goal has become widely accepted, the dominant
agricultural paradigm still considers high yield and reduced environmental impact being in …

Rhizosphere processes and management for improving nutrient use efficiency and crop productivity: implications for China

F Zhang, J Shen, J Zhang, Y Zuo, L Li, X Chen - Advances in agronomy, 2010 - Elsevier
Rhizosphere dynamics have been widely investigated since the beginning of last century
but little attention has been paid to process-based rhizosphere management at an …