Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering (FASE) collects innovative papers that advance the understanding of scientific, technological/engineering, socio-economic, institutional/policy, and management factors that drive current and future agricultural productivity and sustainability globally. It is an open-access journal published quarterly with no page charges. The Editor-in-Chief of FASE is Academician Prof. Qixin Sun, China Agricultural University. The associate Editors-in-Chief are Prof. Hans Lambers, University of Western Australia; Prof. Shenggen Fan and Prof. Yaofeng Zhao, China Agricultural University; Prof. Oene Oenema, Wageningen University; Prof. William J. Davies, Lancaster University; and Prof. Peter Vitousek, Stanford University. All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by experts of international standing.
The regular topics of FASE are:
1. Agricultural Sustainability and Green Development
2. Soil Microbiology and Plant Health
3. Fertilizer and Nutrient Management
4. Agricultural Ecosystems, Biodiversity and Services
5. Soil Health and Management
6. Crop Protection and Pest Management
7. Agricultural Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering
8. Climate Change Adaptation and Crop Rotation in Agriculture
9. Others
Other related topics:
Rhizobiont for high nutrient use efficiency
1. Rhizobiont key interface interaction for high nutrient use efficiency
2. The mechanism of Rhizobiont system to improve nutrient use efficiency
3. The biological management for improving nutrient use efficiency
4. Others
Soils for food security
1. Remediation of soil constraint factors (compaction, acidification, salinization, soil sickness, etc.)
2. Soil health promotion (soil quality improvement, soil preservation, etc.)
3. Soil management and food security (technologies, policies, perspectives, etc.)
4. Others
Agricultural plastic’s application and problems
1. The behavior, fate and impact of plastics on soil, plant and microbial health in agricultural ecosystems;
2. The effect of plastics on soil element cycling and microbial ecology;
3. Socioeconomic and governance issues that lead to plastic pollution;
4. Solutions for remediating plastic contaminated soil and reducing usage of plastics such as novel plastic mulch alternatives and plastic removal approaches.
The innovation and application of green technology for increasing crop production and efficiency
1. Innovation in the principle of green technology for increasing production and efficiency of food crops, vegetables and fruit trees (in-season root-zone nutrient management, plant population design, improvement of soil fertility, etc.)
2. Technological breakthrough and product development of green technology for increasing production and efficiency of food crops, vegetables and fruit trees (integrated soil–crop system management, precision fertilization, etc.)
3. Model construction of green technology for increasing crop production and efficiency, and typical case analysis (regional model, policies, perspectives, etc.)
4. Others
Food systems transformation
1. Agricultural and food policies
2. Nexus between nutrition, food and environment
3. Food waste and loss
4. Environmental resources and sustainability
5. Multi-win technology innovation, adoption and diffusion
6. Climate resilience
7. Gender equity, youth incentive and smallholders
8. Others
Smart agriculture
1. Agricultural artificial intelligence (digitalization)
2. Agricultural equipment (mechanization, automation, etc.)
3. Unmanned farm
4. Intelligent field management (pest monitoring, water and fertilizer integration, etc.)
5. Agricultural robotics
6. Agricultural remote sensing
7. Agricultural sensors and information sensing (non-destructive testing, machine vision, etc.)
8. Phenotypic analysis of plants and animals
9. Agricultural security and resilience (disaster monitoring and prediction, yield forecasting, etc.)
10. Climate-smart agriculture
11. Agricultural traceability
12. Ecology and dual carbon (carbon capture, carbon-nitrogen cycle, nutrition, etc.)
13. Others