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BMC Plant BiologyBackground Sulfur (S) deficiency is increasingly recognized as a limiting factor for maize productivity, yet the physiological mechanisms underlying sulfur-driven yield enhancement remain insufficiently understood.
Shuai Cui +6 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 As a primary food crop, maize is widely grown around the world. However, the deficiency of essential amino acids, such as lysine, tryptophan, and methionine, results in poor nutritional quality of maize.
Shuoran Liu +5 more
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Quantitative Determination of Tremortins in Agricultural Commodities
Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL, 1971 Abstract The procedure described for the quantitative determination of tremortins in agricultural commodities involves extracting the agricultural commodity with chloroform-methanol (2 + 1), followed by thin layer chromatography and colorimetric assay. This procedure was successfully applied to the analysis of tremortin A added to grains
C T, Hou, A, Ciegler, C W, Hesseltine
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Long-Term World Agricultural Commodity Baseline Projections [PDF]
, 2018 This report provides longrun projections for the global agricultural sector, focusing on 1995 through 2005 prospects for foreign commodity markets. These "baseline" projections were made in December 1993 and represent one plausible longrun scenario for ...
Commodity Economics Division and Agriculture and Trade Analysis Division
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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Speculative bubbles in agricultural commodity markets [PDF]
European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2012 Numerous factors have been proposed in the literature as explaining the recent commodity price movements. In this paper we focus on one of the most widely discussed factors, the impact of speculative bubbles. We investigate whether commodity prices during the spike of 2007 – 2008 might have deviated from their intrinsic values based on market ...
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Linkages among precious metals commodity futures prices: evidence from Tokyo [PDF]
We investigate whether long-term co-movements among the prices of precious metals commodity futures contracts can be observed. The past literature on agricultural commodity futures prices obtains the mixed results.
Yoichi Tsuchiya
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan +3 more
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Importance of Commodity Derivatives for Serbian Agricultural Enterprises Risk Management [PDF]
, 2012 The transition to market economy in the agricultural sector of Serbia reinforces the need for the development of market mechanisms that would allow agricultural producers production planning, marketing, and hedging.
Zakić, Vladimir, Kovačević, Vlado
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AgronomyDenitrification is a key process in soil available nitrogen (N) loss. However, the effects of different water-saving irrigation systems on soil N components and denitrifying bacterial communities are still unclear.
Ruowen Qiang +8 more
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