Zhenggui Zhang

Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

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Zhanbiao Wang

Zhengzhou University

Lu Feng

Cotton Research Institute

Xiaofei Li

Beijing Red Cross Blood Center

Yingchun Han

Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Shiwu Xiong

Cotton Research Institute

Minghua Xin

Cotton Research Institute

Yabing Li

Cotton Research Institute

Yaping Lei

Cotton Research Institute

Beifang Yang

Cotton Research Institute

Guoping Wang

Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology

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Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Cotton Research Institute

Zhengzhou University

State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Hebei Agricultural University

Chinese Academy of Sciences

China Agricultural University

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Chinese Academy of Forestry

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Extreme rainfall and soil water consumption differences increase yield shedding at lower fruiting branches, reducing cotton water productivity under different sowing dates

Agricultural Water Management (2024)

Fengqi Wu Simeng Guo Weibin Huang Zhenggui Zhang Yingchun Han

Water consumption

10.1016/j.agwat.2024.109115

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The nitrogen footprint and reactive nitrogen reduction potential of cotton production in China

Journal of Cleaner Production (2023)

Weibin Huang Fengqi Wu Zhenggui Zhang Yongming Meng Jian Wang

Reactive nitrogen

Cash crop

Footprint

10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.136808

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Application of image technology to simulate optimal frequency of automatic collection of volumetric soil water content data

Agricultural Water Management (2022)

Jian Wang Xin Li Zhenggui Zhang Xiaofei Li Yingchun Han

Precision Agriculture

Image histogram

10.1016/j.agwat.2022.107674

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Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and ammonia volatilization from cotton fields by integrating cover crops with reduced use of nitrogen fertilizer

Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment (2022)

Guilan Sun Zhenggui Zhang Shiwu Xiong Xiaoyan Guo Yingchun Han

Cropping system

Volatilisation

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Nitrous oxide

10.1016/j.agee.2022.107946

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Advantages of an Orychophragmus violaceus-maize rotation in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and reactive nitrogen losses and increasing net ecosystem economic benefits on the North China Plain

Journal of Cleaner Production (2021)

Zhenggui Zhang Jie An Yingchun Han Lu Feng Xiaofei Li

Introducing cover crops into crop rotation systems is widely practiced to enhance the sustainability of agricultural production, but comprehensive evaluations of farmlands in cover crop-maize rotations on the North China Plain (NCP) from environmental, economic and net ecosystem economic benefits (NEEB) perspectives have rarely been performed. Therefore, a field experiment was conducted to compare economic benefits (EB), greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, reactive nitrogen (Nr) losses, soil nutrient cycling values (SNV) and NEEB in three farming systems. The farming systems included a conventional wheat-maize (WM) rotation system, a government-promoted monoculture maize (MM) system and an innovative Orychophragmus violaceus (O. violaceus)-maize (OvM) rotation system. The OvM rotation system achieved more EBs from the maize season but lower annual profits than the WM system, with 68.29% lower GHG emissions and 39.33% lower Nr losses. In addition, the highest SNV was achieved in the OvM rotation system, which was 700.18% and 116.97% higher than those in the WM and MM systems, respectively. Furthermore, the NEEB of the OvM rotation system was 61.92% and 29.31% higher than those of the WM and MM systems, respectively. In conclusion, the OvM rotation is recommended as a sustainable and cleaner maize production farming system for the NCP and other regions with similar ecological conditions because it led to lower annual GHG emissions and Nr losses, as well as higher SNV and NEEB than the other farming systems.

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10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128426

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Growing cover crop mixtures are more sustainable than single cover crop in continuous cotton cropping: Comprehensive assessment from 3-year field experiment

Journal of Cleaner Production (2023)

Zhenggui Zhang Jian Wang Weibin Huang Yingchun Han Guoping Wang

Vicia villosa

Intercropping

Cash crop

Cropping system

10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.138350

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Environmental impacts of cotton and opportunities for improvement

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment (2023)

Zhenggui Zhang Jing Huang Yuan Yao Gregory Peters Ben Macdonald

Water use

10.1038/s43017-023-00476-z

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Cover crops and N fertilization affect soil ammonia volatilization and N2O emission by regulating the soil labile carbon and nitrogen fractions

Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment (2022)

Zhenggui Zhang Jian Wang Weibin Huang Jiale Chen Fengqi Wu

Soil carbon

Volatilisation

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10.1016/j.agee.2022.108188

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Orychophragmus violaceus as a winter cover crop is more conducive to agricultural sustainability than Vicia villosa in cotton-fallow systems

Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science (2021)

Zhenggui Zhang Xiaofei Li Shiwu Xiong Jie An Yingchun Han

The current cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) fallow farming system causes soil degeneration and cotton yield reduction. Cover cropping is commonly associated with improved soil fertility and crop productivity, while the effect of cover crops on soil quality and cotton productivity remains unclear in the region. Using a monoculture cotton (cotton-fallow) as the control, a field experiment was conducted to verify the impacts of cotton with two cover crops, Orychophragmus violaceus (cotton/O. violaceus) and Vicia villosa (cotton/V. villosa), on soil chemical properties and cotton productivity. The results showed that cotton/O. violaceus increased the soil organic matter (SOM), total nitrogen (TN), and available nitrogen (AN) by 5.77%, 2.03%, and 13.07% compared to cotton-fallow at a 0–100 cm soil depth, respectively. Cotton/O. violaceus developed relatively greater cotton biomass accumulation and higher cotton yield than cotton/V. villosa and cotton-fallow, an immediate cause of which was greater reproductive organ biomass accumulation and a larger number of bolls per unit area. Furthermore, SOM and TN had a significantly positive correlation with cotton biomass and yield. Cotton/O. violaceus were more conducive than cotton/V. villosa and cotton-fallow in the Yellow River basin of China and in other areas with similar requirements.

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Vicia sativa

10.1080/03650340.2021.1905800

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Loose and tower-type canopy structure can improve cotton yield in the Yellow River basin of China by increasing light interception

Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science (2022)

Jie An Zhenggui Zhang Xiaofei Li Fangfang Xing Yaping Lei

Determining the optimal plant architecture and canopy structure are important objectives in research on the breeding and cultivation of high-yielding crops. To address this challenge, a field experiment was conducted in Anyang, Henan, China, to assess cotton light interception, boll spatial distribution, leaf area index (LAI), plant height and biomass, lint yield and yield component during 2018–2019. Treatments including 10 cotton cultivars with belong to tower-shaped and tube-type canopy structure. Compared with compact cotton varieties, the loose and tower-shaped cotton varieties intercepted more light (average 28.6%) and had a higher LAI (average 34.2%), resulting in a higher cotton yield (average 14.8%). In addition, polynomial correlation showed that the maximum light interception rate occurred at the flowering and boll-forming stage, when the annual mean plant height (94.6 cm), LAI (3.58) and biomass (15,006 kg ha−1) all reached their peak. Moreover, yield was extremely significantly positively correlated with intercepted photosynthetically active radiation (IPAR) (R = 0.7) and positively correlated with light use efficiency (LUE) (R = 0.36). Overall, the results suggest that cotton cultivars with loose and tower-type canopy structures intercept more light and should be planted to increase cotton yield and LUE in the Yellow River basin of China and areas with similar conditions.

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Photosynthetically active radiation

10.1080/03650340.2022.2045584

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