Soil salinization seriously threatens global food security with continuously expanding affected areas. Bacillus megaterium -based bioinoculant serves as an eco-friendly strategy for saline–alkali land remediation, whereas wild-type (WT) strains generally exhibit poor salt–alkali tolerance. To address this limitation, atmospheric and room temperature plasma (ARTP) mutagenesis combined with a microbial microdroplet culture (MMC)...

Changes in precipitation phase and seasonal water supply can modify land‐surface moisture memory, but their implications for summer heat extremes remain insufficiently understood in midlatitude dryland transition zones. Northern China has experienced substantial hydroclimatic changes in recent decades, yet it remains unclear whether these changes have altered the efficiency with which spring snowmelt regulates subsequent summe...