Academic Articles & Research Papers

Landscape fragmentation and pollinator movement within agricultural environments: a modelling framework for exploring foraging and movement ecology

Pollinator decline has been linked to landscape change, through both habitat fragmentation and the loss of habitat suitable for the pollinators to live within. One method for exploring why landscape change should affect pollinator populatio...

Investigating uptake of N₂O in agricultural soils using a high-precision dynamic chamber method

Uptake (or negative flux) of nitrous oxide (N2O) in agricultural soils is a controversial issue which has proved difficult to investigate in the past due to constraints such as instrumental precision and methodological uncertainties. Using ...

Particulate matter, air quality and climate: lessons learned and future needs

The literature on atmospheric particulate matter (PM), or atmospheric aerosol, has increased enormously over the last 2 decades and amounts now to some 1500–2000 papers per year in the refereed literature. This is in part due to the enormou...

Growth responses of entire and immunocastrated male pigs to dietary protein with and without ractopamine hydrochloride

The interaction between dietary balanced protein, ractopamine (RAC) and Improvac (IMP) on the growth response of 120 individually penned male PICC pigs was evaluated. The pigs entered the trial at 16 weeks of age and were assigned to 12 tre...

Sugar Signaling and Post-transcriptional Regulation in Plants: An Overlooked or an Emerging Topic?

Plants are autotrophic organisms that self-produce sugars through photosynthesis. These sugars serve as an energy source, carbon skeletons, and signaling entities throughout plants’ life. Post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression p...

Application of plant extracts and Trichoderma harzianum for the management of tomato seedling damping-off caused by Rhizoctonia solani

Seedling production under smallholder farming systems can be negatively affected by both abiotic and biotic factors. Seedling damping-off caused by Rhizoctonia solani is one of the major biotic factors which causes significant yield reducti...

Socioeconomic Determinants of Sustainable Technology Adoption and Its Influence on Brazilian Agricultural GVP

Brazil’s agricultural sector is characterized by persistent productive duality: a technologically advanced export-oriented segment coexists with a large stratum of smallholders generating low economic returns. Understanding the economic det...

Melatonin: dual players mitigating drought-induced stress in tomatoes via modulation of phytohormones and antioxidant signaling cascades

Abstract Drought stress significantly retards the plant production. Melatonin is a vital hormone, signaling molecule, and bio-regulator of diverse physiological growth and development processes. Its role in boosting agronomic traits under d...

BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS AND THERMAL REQUIREMENTS OF THE BIRD CHERRY-OAT APHID, Rhopalosiphum padi (LINNAEUS), REARED ON WHEAT SEEDLINGS

The bird cherry-oat aphid, Rhopalosiphum padi (Linnaeus) was studied at 15, 20 and 25oC constant temperatures. Wheat seedlings were offered for feeding and maintaining the aphid, R. padi using the Punctured Ependorf Tube Technique. R. padi ...

Integrative omics analysis on phytohormones involved in oil palm seed germination

Abstract Background Heat treatment is widely used to break dormancy for seed germination and phytohormones could be deeply involved. However, effect of heat treatment on phytohormone related genes/proteins/metabolites and possible relations...

A large deletion conferring pale green leaves of maize

Abstract Background The structural basis of chloroplast and the regulation of chloroplast biogenesis remain largely unknown in maize. Gene mutations in these pathways have been linked to the abnormal leaf color phenotype observed in some mu...

Mitigation of salinity stress in canola plants by sodium nitroprusside application

Salinity is a global issue threatening land productivity and food production. The present study aimed to examine the role of sodium nitroprusside (SNP) on the alleviation of NaCl stress on different parameters of canola (Brassica napus L.) ...

TAXONOMIC REVISION OF THE FAMILY CASUARINACEAE R. BR., 1814 (ORDER, FAGALES) IN EGYPT

Research on 4WS Agricultural Machine Path Tracking Algorithm Based on Fuzzy Control Pure Tracking Model

This paper presents a path tracking algorithm based on a fuzzy control pure tracking model for autonomous navigation of 4WS agricultural machines. The aim of this research is to implement path tracking for unmanned 4WS agricultural machiner...

Impacts of land-use changes and landholding fragmentation on crop water demand and drought in Wadi El-Farigh, New Delta project, Egypt

Despite Egypt’s limited water resources, more lands in the western desert of the Nile Delta are currently being reclaimed to increase the agricultural area to feed its fast-growing population and provide jobs for new generations. These recl...

A Preliminary Study on the Efficacy of Essential Oils Against <i>Trichoderma longibrachiatum</i> Isolated from an Archival Document in Italy

In this study, a historically significant journal subject to fungal colonization was used as a case study for experimenting with a fumigation treatment using essential oils. The experiments were carried out both in vitro and in vivo directl...

Empirical study on optimal reinsurance for crop insurance in China from an insurer's perspective

This study investigates the optimal reinsurance for crop insurance in China in an insurer's perspective using the data from Inner Mongolia, Jilin, and Liaoning, China. On the basis of the loss ratio distributions modeled by AnHua Crop Risk ...

Marginal Impact of climate variability on crop yields in Ghana

The impacts of climate variability indicators on crop yields have attracted global attention over the years. This is particularly so because of the growing concern about the effect of climate change on sustainable food production, especiall...

Ozonation, electrochemical, and biological methods for the remediation of malachite green dye wastewaters: A mini review

The extensive usage of malachite green (MG) dyes in the fish and dye industries cause serious water pollution, leading to catastrophic effects on living organisms and the environment. In addressing the challenges of health risks related to ...

Research on the Quality Variation Patterns During the Fermentation Process of Coffee-Grounds Craft Beer

To investigate the metabolic differences and mechanisms during the fermentation process of coffee-grounds craft beer, HS-SPME-GC/MS untargeted metabolomics technology was used to study the metabolic differences during the fermentation proce...