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Orchard netting impacts on biodiversity leading to cascading effects at the ecosystem level

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agriculture must ensure food production without further compromising the ecosystem functions upon which it depends. Agricultural practices should therefore avoid harming farmland biodiversity, especially of taxa that supply the key ecosystem services (e.g.
Corrado Alessandrini, Karan Sethi, Emanuela Granata, Ekaterina Mogilnaia, Valeria Vitangeli, Giovanni Zanfei, Chiara Fedrigotti, Paolo Biella, Dino Scaravelli, Luigi Marchesi, Péter Batáry, Diego Rubolini, Paolo Pedrini, Mattia Brambilla   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing the dietary fibre in muffins with banana peel powder and evaluating its effect on physicochemical characteristics, textural quality and storage life

Discover Food
Banana peel is rich in bioactive compounds and dietary fibre, making it a valuable biomass for nutraceutical and bakery applications. This study investigates the potential of substituting refined wheat flour (RWF) with banana peel powder (BPP) at levels ...
Paramasivam Suresh Kumar, Magesh Kumar Birundha, Subramaniyan Pushpavalli, Rajendran Arthee, Thayumanavan Shuprajhaa, Goraksha C. Wakchaure   +5 more
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Integrated disease management components for Fusarium wilt of banana in India: Effects of organic amendments, flooding, and paddy rotation on disease severity

Frontiers in Agronomy
The banana Fusarium wilt pathogen, Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc), is a major threat to banana production globally. In India, Foc race 1 and tropical race 4 (TR4) are reported from multiple banana-growing states where it causes severe yield ...
Raman Thangavelu, Murugan Loganathan, Perumal Ganga Devi, Boopathy Nithya, Altus Viljoen, Guy Blomme, Thangaraj Sekar, Ramasamy Selvarajan   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Animal empathy reconsidered: a multidimensional profile account

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Empathy is the glue that holds societies together and yet several fundamental questions about empathy persist. What is empathy (the definitional question)? Is it uniquely human and, if not, which nonhuman animals possess empathy (the distribution question)? Which type or quality of empathy is realized in different species (the quality question)
Albert Newen, Maja Griem, Ludwig Huber, Thomas Bugnyar, Aaron Blaisdell, Simone Pika   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of prolonged cooking on pro-vitamin A levels of biofortified East African highland bananas

GM Crops & Food
Genetically modified East African highland bananas (EAHBs) with elevated levels of pro-vitamin A (pVA) have been developed to address vitamin A deficiency (VAD) in Uganda.
Stephen Buah, Janefer Kiwummulo, Jean-Yves Paul, Joel Walugembe, Jackline Wegesa, Robooni Tumuhimbise, Wilberforce Tushemereirwe   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pro‐Organic by Design: Choice Architecture Shaping Online Organic Grocery Purchases

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Consumer uptake of organic food is shaped by both personal values and the way choices are structured in the retail environment. Unlike prior research, we here investigate how elements of supermarket choice architecture influence organic choices.
John Thøgersen, Darius‐Aurel Frank, Jessica Aschemann‐Witzel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biodiversity Strategies in Action—Empirical Evidence From the Food Value Chain

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is an increasing need for better understanding of firm activities that contribute to biodiversity preservation. Panwar, Ober, and Pinkse offer a valuable typology of corporate biodiversity protection strategies based on temporal and spatial dimensions, namely, the preloss (proactive) strategies of conservation and compensation, and the ...
Joanna Scott‐Kennel, Sini Laari, Asta Salmi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

AI-driven banana pest and disease management: methods, applications, challenges, and future directions

Discover Internet of Things
Banana production faces escalating threats from pests and diseases, especially in smallholder systems. This review provides a comprehensive assessment of artificial intelligence applications in banana health monitoring, focusing on deep learning models ...
Jhih-Rong Liao
doaj   +1 more source

Enhanced techno-functional and bioactive characteristics of dietary fibre from banana pseudostem scutcher through greener technologies [PDF]

Sustainable Food Technology
Dietary fibre (DF), an essential nutrient for digestive and metabolic health, is gaining global traction due to its role in preventing lifestyle disorders and its incorporation into functional and sustainable food systems.
Paramasivam Suresh Kumar, Magesh Kumar Birundha   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Banana (A report) [PDF]

, 2010
The 2009 banana year was one of transition in every way. On the market, the CentraI American supply deficit resulted in a fall in consumption of between 6 and 12% in the main import zones. The end of the year was marked by supply returning normal and a very distinct worsening of the situation.
openaire   +2 more sources