This image depicts productive, sustainable, and resilient maize production systems. The multi-element outer cycle represents maize’s production environment: the upper arc signifies the atmospheric environment (solar radiation, temperature, precipitation), requiring cropping systems to maximize light and temperature utilization for achieving local yield potential. The lower arc illustrates the whole-process smart and precision management from tillage to harvest, integrating green inputs, intelligent agricultural machinery, and information technologies, forming the Green High-yield & High-efficiency Technology.
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The inner cycle presents the core design principles underpinning this technology, built on three pillars: high-yielding smart population, rhizoboint manipulation and healthy soils. To meet the tempo-spatial demand of high-yielding population, rhizoboint manipulation employs targeted technologies functioning at the root-rhizosphere-hyphosphere-soil microbe interfaces to maximize the potential of root and their accompanying organisms. This synergistically couples crop photosynthetic carbon assimilation and belowground allocation, and nutrient mobilization and uptake, supporting high aboveground productivity, efficient nutrient use, reduced environmental losses, and soil carbon sequestration. Healthy soil is fundamental for enhancing crop resilience to extreme climate events and simplifying farm management.
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