Special Focus: Accelerating Rural Transformation in Asian Developing Countries

1. A review of rural transformation studies: Definition, measurement,and indicators
2. Rural transformation, income growth, and poverty reduction by region in China in the past four decades
3. Regional rural transformation and its association with household income and poverty incidence in Indonesia in the last two decades
4. Developing strategy for rural transformation to alleviate poverty in Pakistan: Stylized facts from panel analysis
5. Gender and rural transformation: A systematic literature review

Crop Science

1. Phosphorylation of SiRAV1 at Ser31 regulates the SiCAT expression to enhance salt tolerance in Setaria italica
2. Growth of tandem long-mat rice seedlings using controlled release fertilizers: Mechanical transplantation can be more economical and high yielding
3. Twice-split phosphorus application alleviates low-temperature impacts on wheat by improved spikelet development and setting

Plant Protection

1. Resistance risk and molecular mechanism associated with resistance to picoxystrobin in Colletotrichum truncatum and Colletotrichum gloeosporioides
2. Physiological and biochemical characteristics of boscalid resistant isolates of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum from asparagus lettuce
3. Seedling Petri-dish inoculation method: A robust, easy-to-use and reliable assay for studying plant-Ralstonia solanacearum interactions
4. Serine protease inhibitors LmSPN2 and LmSPN3 co-regulate embryonic diapause in Locusta migratoria manilensis (Meyen) via the Toll pathway
5. Thelytokous Diglyphus wani: A more promising biological control agent against agromyzid leafminers than its arrhenotokous counterpart

Animal Science•Veterinary Medicine

1. Transcriptome-based analysis of key genes and pathways affecting the linoleic acid content in chickens
2. Characteristics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis serine protease Rv1043c in enzymology and pathogenicity in mice

Agro-Ecosystem & Environment

1. Identifying the critical phosphorus balance for optimizing phosphorus input and regulating soil phosphorus effectiveness in a typical winter wheat-summer maize rotation system in North China
2. Effects of residual plastic film on crop yield and soil fertility in a dryland farming system
3. Derivation and validation of soil total and extractable cadmium criteria for safe vegetable production

Short Communication

1. Analyzing architectural diversity in maize plants using the skeletonimage-based method
2. Biotechnology of α-linolenic acid in oilseed rape (Brassica napus)using FAD2 and FAD3 from chia (Salvia hispanica)