Lin, Siliang Yao, Dandan Jiang, Hongxue Qin, Jiao Feng, Zhiyong
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Pest management science
Rodent infestation is a global problem. Rodents cause huge harm to agriculture, forestry, and animal husbandry around the world and spread various zoonoses. In this study, we simulated the potentially suitable habitats of Bandicota indica and predicted the impact of future climate change on its distribution under different socio-economic pathway sc...
Amjath-Babu, Tharayil Shereef Timsina, Jagadish Krupnik, Timothy J.
This research note offers insights to a new method for understanding the economic benefits of utilizing climate services for decision making in agriculture, which can provide justification for the public and private investment in provision of climate services to farmers. In order to understand the potential benefits of weather information for impro...
Mesarič, Bogomir
Za žetev pšenice uporabljajo osnovni kmetijski stroj žetvenik. Osnovna opravila žetvenika so neglede na konstrukcijske izvedbe stroja enaka. Žetvenik je sestavljen iz kosilnega, mlatilnega in čistilnega sklopa. Pri vsaki pridelavi in strojnem opravilu prihaja do nekaterih izgub. Izgube pred žetvijo nastajajo zaradi okolja, v katerem je posevek. Žet...
Costantino, Luca Ferrari, Stefania Santucci, Matteo Salo-Ahen, Outi M H Carosati, Emanuele Franchini, Silvia Lauriola, Angela Pozzi, Cecilia Trande, Matteo Gozzi, Gaia
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eLife
Drugs that target human thymidylate synthase (hTS), a dimeric enzyme, are widely used in anticancer therapy. However, treatment with classical substrate-site-directed TS inhibitors induces over-expression of this protein and development of drug resistance. We thus pursued an alternative strategy that led us to the discovery of TS-dimer destabilizer...
Montes, Carlos Hussain, Sk. Ghulam Krupnik, Timothy J.
Crop fungal diseases constitute a major cause of yield loss. The development of crop disease monitoring and forecasting tools is an important effort to aid farmers in adapting to climate variability and change. Recognizing weather as a main driver of fungal disease outbreaks, this work assesses the climate suitability for wheat blast (Magnaporthe o...
Karandeni Dewage, Chinthani S. Cools, Katherine Stotz, Henrik U. Qi, Aiming Huang, Yong-Ju Wells, Rachel Fitt, Bruce D. L.
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Frontiers in Plant Science
Use of host resistance is the most economical and environmentally safe way to control light leaf spot disease of oilseed rape (Brassica napus). The causal organism of light leaf spot, Pyrenopeziza brassicae, is one of the most economically damaging pathogens of oilseed rape in the United Kingdom and it is considered to have a high potential to evol...
Lu, Yanhui Wyckhuys, Kris A.G. Yang, Long Liu, Bing Zeng, Juan Jiang, Yuying Desneux, Nicolas Zhang, Wei Wu, Kongming
Genetically-modified crops expressing Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) proteins have been widely cultivated, permitting an effective non-chemical control of major agricultural pests. While their establishment can enable an area-wide suppression of polyphagous herbivores, no information is available on the impact of Bt crop abandonment in entire landscap...
Aheeyar, Mohamed Samarakoon, Kalani de Silva, Sanjiv
Drought is an almost annual phenomenon in Sri Lanka, occurring at varying degrees of severity and affecting many parts of the country. These droughts cause significant damage to agriculture and other economic and social activities. This paper assesses the effectiveness of satellite-based weather Index insurance (WII) bundled with real-time climate ...
Malik, Ravinder Paul Singh Amarnath, Giriraj
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) has recently developed an innovative Index-based Flood Insurance (IBFI) product to facilitate the scaling of flood insurance particularly in vulnerable economies, to provide risk cover to poor farmers against crop losses that occur due to floods. While the product developed is technically very sou...
Amarnath, Giriraj Malik, Ravinder Paul Singh Taron, Avinandan
This research report presents the first comprehensive framework of business models in terms of developing, marketing and scaling Index-based flood insurance (IBFI). The report evaluated ten case studies on agricultural insurance schemes (macro, meso and micro levels), globally, to develop public-private partnership business models for creating valu...