Nitrate (NO3-) fertilisers are commonly used to improve the yield and quality of most non-legume crops such as potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). Root cells absorb nitrate from the soil using plasma membrane-bound transporters. In this study, we overexpressed a putative nitrate transporter from potato (StNPF1.11) to study its effect on the level of tub...
Progressive freeze concentration is an alternative method to concentrate aqueous industrial streams compared to evaporation or membrane separation. In this research sucrose and maltodextrin solutions were concentrated in a stirred progressive freeze concentrator. The solute inclusion in the formed ice was studied using varying stirring speeds, init...
The in vitro gas production technique (IVGPT) has been a valuable tool in ruminant nutrition research for decades and has more recently been used in horse nutrition studies to investigate fermentation activities of the equine hindgut though primarily using feces as inoculum. This study was conducted to evaluate the use of equine rectal content in t...
The loss rate of endangered animal species has reached levels that are critical enough for our time to be called the sixth mass extinction. Families of vertebrates and large mammals, such as Rhinocerotidae, are likely to become extinct in a few years unless countermeasures are taken. Before doing so, however, it is imperative to assess current anim...
The increasing demand for animal protein by the growing world population intensifies the exploration of novel feed sources. This study evaluated the nutritional value of six intact seaweed species (i.e. the brown species Saccharina latissima, Laminaria digitata, and Ascophyllum nodossum, the red species Palmaria palmata, and Chondrus crispus and gr...
Mechanistic models (MMs) have served as causal pathway analysis and 'decision-support' tools within animal production systems for decades. Such models quantitatively define how a biological system works based on causal relationships and use that cumulative biological knowledge to generate predictions and recommendations (in practice) and generate/e...
In het klimaatakkoord is de rol die stedelijk groen kan spelen voor de klimaatopgave onderbelicht. Dat is jammer, omdat de oppervlakte van steden, dorpen en infrastructuur in Nederland aanzienlijk is. En het aardige van stedelijk groen is dat dit naast het vastleggen van CO2, ook kan bijdragen aan aanpassing aan klimaatverandering: wateropvang bij ...
Physical activity has been associated with lower risks of breast and colorectal cancer in epidemiological studies; however, it is unknown if these associations are causal or confounded. In two-sample Mendelian randomisation analyses, using summary genetic data from the UK Biobank and GWA consortia, we found that a one standard deviation increment i...
China has been developing fast over the last decades. Intensive human activities in food production and urbanization have led to increasing nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) losses to water systems, causing freshwater and coastal water pollution. Reducing water pollution is important in China, especially given its commitments to the Sustainable Devel...
