Detection of tomato brown rugose fruit virus in environmental residues: The importance of contextualizing test results
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Belgian dietitians′ knowledge, perceptions and willingness-to-recommend of genetically modified food and organisms
BackgroundDietitians play a critical role in the public's relationship with food and are often overlooked as an important stakeholder group in the general debate about sustainable food. Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are one type of modern food source that could contribute to a more sustainable food system. This case study is the first to ex...
Sentinel-1 time series data for sunflower (Helianthus annuus) phenology monitoring
status: published
Understanding the biofortified cassava market in Nigeria : determinants of consumer demand and farmer supply
Biofortified foods are smart and strategic nutritious foods which plays critical role in addressing global burden of micronutrients in many emerging economies. While there is more and more consensus about the potential benefits of biofortification, the challenge lies on how to scale up its consumption and market system. This requires understanding ...
First reports and morphological and molecular characterization of Pratylenchus delattrei and Quinisulcius capitatus asso...
Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is classed among the most important leguminous crops of high economic value in Ethiopia. Two plant-parasitic nematode species, Pratylenchus delattrei and Quinisulcius capitatus, were recovered from chickpea-growing areas in Ethiopia and characterized using molecular and morphological data, including the first scanning ...
Host plant status and damage threshold of Pea (Pisum sativum) and Celeriac (Apium graveolens var. rapaceum) for the temp...
Outdoor vegetable cultivation is an important economic activity, both for fresh consumption and for the frozen vegetable industry within Flanders, Belgium. In recent years, due to the intensive nature of vegetable cultivation in the open air, nematode problems increased. The quarantine root-knot nematode Meloidogyne chitwoodi causes economic damage...
Honey as a sustainable indicator of heavy metals in tropical rainforest vegetation zone : an early warning monitoring ap...
Honeybees are considered important bioindicators in detecting contaminants in the environment. Some cases of environmental contamination could not have been proven without the aid of honeybees in the vicinity. Herein presented is an integrative approach to using Apis mellifera honey to detect heavy metals in a rainforest vegetation zone where no mo...
Substrate-Driven Phosphorus Bioavailability Dynamics of Novel Inorganic and Organic Fertilizing Products Recovered from ...
Municipal wastewater is a valuable source of phosphorus (P) for the production of fertilizing products, such as microalgae (MA), crab carapace material (CCM), P salt produced by chemical leaching of sludge (P salt CL), and sewage sludge ash produced by pyrolysis and the incineration of sludge (SSA PI). This study compares the P availability of thes...
The future of CRISPR gene editing according to plant scientists
This study surveyed 669 plant scientists globally to elicit how (which outcomes of gene editing), where (which continent) and what (which crops) are most likely to benefit from CRISPR research and if there is a consensus about specific barriers to commercial adoption in agriculture. Further, we disaggregated public and private plant scientists to s...
Spatial variability of iron, zinc and selenium content in faba bean (Vicia faba L.) seeds from central and southwestern ...
Aims This study has been carried out to determine the spatial variability of faba bean seed Fe, Zn and Se content across agro-ecological zones in central and southwestern Ethiopia, where it is an important source of protein in the diet. The study assessed whether soil properties, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), faba bean characteristics and gen...
