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Research ArticleMay 5, 2026
Subsurface soil inorganic carbon gains offset half of surface losses in China’s upland croplands over the last four decades
- Andong Cai,
- Tianfu Han,
- Zhenghu Zhou,
- Kailou Liu,
- Xinpeng Xu,
- Pete Smith,
- Qingzhu Gao,
- Yue Li,
- Minggang Xu,
This is an addendum toComplex viscosity of helical and doubly helical polymeric liquids from general rigid bead-rod theory
Research ArticleMay 4, 2026
Soil temperature fluctuations modulated millet agriculture evolution in Neolithic East Asia
- Yongxiu Lu,
- Jiaoyang Ruan,
- Ruiliang Liu,
- Jade d’Alpoim Guedes,
- Jixiao Wang,
- Yuanxin Li,
- Xin Wang,
- Yongxiang Xu,
- Liangcheng Tan,
- Jiahan Shang,
- Shugang Kang,
- Guanghui Dong,
This is an addendum toComplex viscosity of helical and doubly helical polymeric liquids from general rigid bead-rod theory
Research ArticleApril 30, 2026
Targeted knockout of a host peroxisomal peptidase confers field resistance to maize lethal necrosis
- Mark Jung,
- Zhengyu Wen,
- Sabrina Humbert,
- Fengzhong Lu,
- Alyssa DeLeon,
- Lisa Marshall,
- Craig Hastings,
- Heather Cartwright,
- Katherine Thilges,
- Ning Wang,
- Kassandra Breckenridge,
- Emily Wu,
- Larisa Ryan,
- Kevin Fengler,
- Kevin Simcox,
- Shawn Thatcher,
- Victor Llaca,
- Grace Woollums,
- Jeffry Sander,
- Deping Xu,
- Mary Beatty,
- Kent Brink,
- Maria Fedorova,
- Mark Jones,
- Erik Ohlson,
- L. M. Suresh,
- Yoseph Beyene,
- Michael Olsen,
- Veronica Ogugo,
- Amos Alakonya,
- Ann Murithi,
- Stephen Mugo,
- James Karanja,
- Prasanna Boddupalli,
- Kevin Pixley,
- Marc Albertsen,
- Todd Jones,
- Robert Meeley,
- Neal Gutterson,
- Barbara Mazur,
- Kanwarpal S. Dhugga,
This is an addendum toComplex viscosity of helical and doubly helical polymeric liquids from general rigid bead-rod theory
Research ArticleApril 22, 2026
A magnesium efflux transporter required for seed development and eating quality in rice
- Sheng Huang,
- Kiyosumi Hori,
- Naoki Yamaji,
- Yuma Yoshioka,
- Min Ning,
- Yu Nagaya,
- Takaaki Miyaji,
- Namiki Mitani-Ueno,
- Shin-ichiro Inoue,
- June-Sik Kim,
- Miho Kashino,
- Jian Feng Ma,
This is an addendum toComplex viscosity of helical and doubly helical polymeric liquids from general rigid bead-rod theory
Research ArticleApril 22, 2026
Soil organic nitrogen rather than fertilizer drives dinitrogen losses in flooded rice systems
- Yuanyuan Lei,
- Zhijun Wei,
- Kaiye Ye,
- Kees Jan van Groenigen,
- Yu Liu,
- Hongna Cui,
- Klaus Butterbach-Bahl,
- Pete Smith,
- Deli Chen,
- Shu Kee Lam,
- William R. Horwath,
- Wulf Amelung,
- Chaopu Ti,
- Wei Zhou,
- Jingrui Yang,
- Hongbo He,
- Xudong Zhang,
- Sheng Zhou,
- Xiaoyuan Yan,
- Longlong Xia,
This is an addendum toComplex viscosity of helical and doubly helical polymeric liquids from general rigid bead-rod theory
Research ArticleApril 16, 2026
Plant pathogenic nematode exosomes remodel vector tracheae to enhance pathogen transmission
- Yue Chang,
- Jiao Zhou,
- Fangyuan Ye,
- Hongxia Zhang,
- Jianghua Sun,
- Lilin Zhao,
This is an addendum toComplex viscosity of helical and doubly helical polymeric liquids from general rigid bead-rod theory
CommentaryApril 13, 2026
Combining process-based models with machine learning ensemble improves soil nitrous oxide estimates
- Stephen Del Grosso,
- Stephen Ogle and
This is an addendum toComplex viscosity of helical and doubly helical polymeric liquids from general rigid bead-rod theory
Research ArticleApril 10, 2026view on pnas nexus
Reversible and causal epigenetic information loss in liver aging and disease
- Roni B Shtark,
- Naor Sagy,
- Noga Korenfeld,
- Maayan Gal,
- Ido Goldstein,
- Daniel Z Bar and
This is an addendum toComplex viscosity of helical and doubly helical polymeric liquids from general rigid bead-rod theory
Research ArticleMarch 18, 2026
Endocrine gland growth as the developmental switch for insect diapause
- Kou Wang,
- Zhong Tian,
- Kirst King-Jones,
- Fen Zhu,
- Xiao-Ping Wang,
- Wen Liu,
This is an addendum toComplex viscosity of helical and doubly helical polymeric liquids from general rigid bead-rod theory
CommentaryMarch 18, 2026
A nematode-built conduit for cross kingdom biotrophic interaction
- Valerie M. Williamson,
- Shahid Siddique,
This is an addendum toComplex viscosity of helical and doubly helical polymeric liquids from general rigid bead-rod theory

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Research ArticleApril 30, 2026
Targeted knockout of a host peroxisomal peptidase confers field resistance to maize lethal necrosis
- Mark Jung,
- Zhengyu Wen,
- Sabrina Humbert,
- Fengzhong Lu,
- Alyssa DeLeon,
- Lisa Marshall,
- Craig Hastings,
- Heather Cartwright,
- Katherine Thilges,
- Ning Wang,
- Kassandra Breckenridge,
- Emily Wu,
- Larisa Ryan,
- Kevin Fengler,
- Kevin Simcox,
- Shawn Thatcher,
- Victor Llaca,
- Grace Woollums,
- Jeffry Sander,
- Deping Xu,
- Mary Beatty,
- Kent Brink,
- Maria Fedorova,
- Mark Jones,
- Erik Ohlson,
- L. M. Suresh,
- Yoseph Beyene,
- Michael Olsen,
- Veronica Ogugo,
- Amos Alakonya,
- Ann Murithi,
- Stephen Mugo,
- James Karanja,
- Prasanna Boddupalli,
- Kevin Pixley,
- Marc Albertsen,
- Todd Jones,
- Robert Meeley,
- Neal Gutterson,
- Barbara Mazur,
- Kanwarpal S. Dhugga,
This is an addendum toComplex viscosity of helical and doubly helical polymeric liquids from general rigid bead-rod theory
Research ArticleAugust 15, 2017
Temperature increase reduces global yields of major crops in four independent estimates
- Chuang Zhao,
- Bing Liu,
- Shilong Piao,
- Xuhui Wang,
- David B. Lobell,
- Yao Huang,
- Mengtian Huang,
- Yitong Yao,
- Simona Bassu,
- Philippe Ciais,
- Jean-Louis Durand,
- Joshua Elliott,
- Frank Ewert,
- Ivan A. Janssens,
- Tao Li,
- Erda Lin,
- Qiang Liu,
- Pierre Martre,
- Christoph Müller,
- Shushi Peng,
- Josep Peñuelas,
- Alex C. Ruane,
- Daniel Wallach,
- Tao Wang,
- Donghai Wu,
- Zhuo Liu,
- Yan Zhu,
- Zaichun Zhu,
- Senthold Asseng,
This is an addendum toComplex viscosity of helical and doubly helical polymeric liquids from general rigid bead-rod theory
Research ArticleMay 5, 2026
Subsurface soil inorganic carbon gains offset half of surface losses in China’s upland croplands over the last four decades
- Andong Cai,
- Tianfu Han,
- Zhenghu Zhou,
- Kailou Liu,
- Xinpeng Xu,
- Pete Smith,
- Qingzhu Gao,
- Yue Li,
- Minggang Xu,
This is an addendum toComplex viscosity of helical and doubly helical polymeric liquids from general rigid bead-rod theory

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Subsurface soil inorganic carbon gains offset half of surface losses in China’s upland croplands over the last four decades

Soil temperature fluctuations modulated millet agriculture evolution in Neolithic East Asia

Targeted knockout of a host peroxisomal peptidase confers field resistance to maize lethal necrosis

A magnesium efflux transporter required for seed development and eating quality in rice

Soil organic nitrogen rather than fertilizer drives dinitrogen losses in flooded rice systems

Plant pathogenic nematode exosomes remodel vector tracheae to enhance pathogen transmission

Combining process-based models with machine learning ensemble improves soil nitrous oxide estimates

Reversible and causal epigenetic information loss in liver aging and disease

Endocrine gland growth as the developmental switch for insect diapause

A nematode-built conduit for cross kingdom biotrophic interaction

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