In California, aflatoxin contamination of almond, fig, and pistachio has become a serious problem in recent years due to long periods of drought and probably other climatic changes. The atoxigenic biocontrol product Aspergillus flavus AF36 has been registered for use to limit aflatoxin contamination of pistachio since 2012 and for use in almond and...
Background: Donkeys are important throughout the world as work animals and occasionally as pets or a meat source. Most descriptions of skin disease in donkeys are reported in small case series, textbooks or review articles. Hypothesis/Objectives: To document skin diseases and their prevalence in donkeys and to investigate predilections for the most...
10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.12.014 / JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES / 65 / 1-11
The Vallerano district in Rome is built on an alluvial valley with a very complex geological setting (highly heterogeneous soil deposits) due to the depositional activity of Tiber River tributaries ongoing since the Pleistocene age. A high-resolution engineering-geological model of the valley was reconstructed through field investigations, borehole...
Low-cost particulate matter (PM) sensors are promising tools for supplementing existing air quality monitoring networks. However, the performance of the new generation of low-cost PM sensors under field conditions is not well understood. In this study, we characterized the performance capabilities of a new low-cost PM sensor model (Plan-tower model...
General orthogonal regression (GOR) is a superior regression procedure for conversion of different magnitude types into preferred ones. It yields a linear relation between dependent (Y-t) and independent variable (X-t) based on observed data (X-obs, Y-obs). Recent investigations have shown that the conventional GOR procedure for obtaining Y-t by su...
Persistent and widespread fog affects several densely populated and agriculturally fertile basins around the world. Dense and polluted fog is especially known to impact transportation, air quality, and public health. Here we report a striking observation of holes in fog over urban areas in satellite imagery. The extent of fog holes appear highly co...
Published in PeerJ
Invasive species are a growing threat to food biosecurity and cause significant economic losses in agricultural systems. Despite their damaging effect, they are attractive models for the study of evolution and adaptation in newly colonised environments. The Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata, as a member of the family Tephritidae, is one o...
Open Access Journal / Interactions between pathogenic and nonpathogenic fungal species in the tree canopy are complex and can determine if disease will manifest in the plant and in other organisms such as honey bees. Seasonal dynamics of fungi were studied in an almond orchard in California where experimental release of the atoxigenic biopesticide ...
Published in Environmental Earth Sciences
Several studies conducted on occurrences of evaporitic salts in various parts of the world often interpret the formation of such salts as the result of the evaporation of subsurface brines, saline lake waters and sea water-contaminated groundwater, on one hand, and the deposition of sea sprays and wind-transported salts, on the other hand. This stu...
