New production from public and exclusive varieties released by the small grains breeding program at Virginia Tech generated cumulative discounted benefits of $41 million from 2000 to 2018. Fitted yields from field trials were combined with acreage estimates to generate weighted average yields...

Grain size is a critical factor determining materials properties but is challenging to be modulated in nanoscale. Here, we found the grain size can be enhanced from ~23 nm to ~557 nm for Cu but slightly from ~30 nm to ~145 nm for Cu 96 W 4 with the substrate temperature from 298 to 773 K using...

The study of evapotranspiration (ET) is of great theoretical and practical significance for understanding the regional ecological and environmental problems and hydrological cycle processes. The Grain for Green Project (GFGP) in the Chinese Loess Plateau was used as the study area. Based on...

An extraordinary high-strength dilute Mg-0.8Al-0.1Ca-0.6Mn (wt. %) alloy wire was successfully developed by hot drawing, which exhibits high tensile yield strength of 394 MPa, ultimate tensile strength of 431 MPa and moderate elongation to failure of 6.0%. The high strength was mainly attributed...

It is widely recognized that climate change makes the weather more erratic. Since the combination of temperature and precipitation is a major driver ofgrain crop productivity, more frequent extreme rainfalls and heat waves, flooding and draught tend to make grain production and hence grain...

A novel mathematical model based on the recently proposed Changing Grain Size Model (CGSM) was developed to take into account the grain size distribution, the sintering effect, and the grains overlapping phenomenon in the particle during the carbonation and calcination of pure limestone. The...