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Plant biostimulants and their potential role in achieving the United Nations sustainable development goals

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Plant biostimulants are substances that are obtained from a variety of sources and are applied in minute quantities to enhance plant growth and vigor. In this review we detail how the use of plant biostimulants may contribute to efforts to achieving a number of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Patrick Quille, Joanna Kacprzyk, Shane OConnell, Carl K.‐Y. Ng   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Influence of Heavy Metals (Ni, Cu, and Zn) on Nitro-Oxidative Stress Responses, Proteome Regulation and Allergen Production in Basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) Plants

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018
One of the most significant biosphere contamination problems worldwide is derived from heavy metals. Heavy metals can be highly reactive and toxic according to their oxidation levels.
Egli C. Georgiadou, Ewa Kowalska, Katarzyna Patla, Kamila Kulbat, Beata Smolińska, Joanna Leszczyńska, Vasileios Fotopoulos   +6 more
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Incorporation of Natural Antimicrobial Agents Into Thermoplastic Polymers for Food Applications: Strategies, Efficacy, Challenges and Future Directions

Packaging Technology and Science, EarlyView.
This graphical abstract summarizes the main strategies for incorporating natural antimicrobial agents into thermoplastic food packaging polymers, including melt processing, surface deposition, controlled release and chemical immobilization. It highlights the major classes of natural antimicrobials, key advantages such as microbial growth reduction and ...
Florence Akinmeye, Fabrice Gouanve, Fatima Zahra Jamal, Abdelkader Selmi, Sami Ghnimi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Florida Plant Disease Management Guide: Sweet Basil

EDIS, 2021
Minor updates to the 2009 revision with Geoffrey Meru. Previous version: Zhang, Shouan, and Pamela D. Roberts. 2009. “2006 Florida Plant Disease Management Guide: Sweet Basil”. EDIS 2009 (2).
Shouan Zhang, Geoffrey Meru, Pamela D. Roberts   +2 more
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Agrivoltaic Lettuce Production Under Future Climates: A Sustainable Strategy for Optimizing Food and Energy Yields

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Food system resilience is increasingly challenged by climate change and global trade volatility, even in high‐income nations like Canada. Agrivoltaics—co‐locating crops and photovoltaics (PV)–offers a sustainable production strategy to optimize land use and address both food and energy security.
Uzair Jamil, Linda Alrayes, Eric Fordjour, Raymond Thomas, Joshua M. Pearce   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mitigation of drought and nickel-induced stress in Basil using root endophyte Piriformospora indica: Implications for sustainable agriculture

Industrial Crops and Products
Climate change-driven water scarcity and heavy metal contamination pose significant challenges to sustainable agriculture in arid and semi-arid regions.
Farzad Rasouli, Arezoo Ajoudani, Mahtab Shokati, Nazila Vaseghi, Mohammad Haghaninia, Mohammad Bagher Hassanpouraghdam, Shahin Ahangar Ghadimi, Fatemeh Bahrevar   +7 more
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Manoeuvre Theory for European Defence

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to the debate about European defence in the light of the Russo‐Ukraine war and growing doubts about US commitment to Europe. It argues that Europeans need to fundamentally relearn the ability to imagine military strategy from a European viewpoint.
Lukas Mengelkamp, Sam Vincent
wiley   +1 more source

Benchmarked Colorectal Cancer Outcomes in a Metropolitan Hospital: A 5‐Year Review

Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology, EarlyView.
In metastatic disease, patients with lung‐only metastasis had the best 5‐year survival at 46.0% and curative‐intent approaches can dramatically improve survival. ABSTRACT Introduction Colorectal cancer (CRC) remains a major contributor to cancer‐related mortality worldwide, with survival influenced by many prognostic factors.
Jialin Du, Vincent Wang, Basil D'Souza, Russell Hodgson   +3 more
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Monetary Targeting, Wages and Inflation in 1970s Australia: Always and Everywhere a Distributional Phenomenon?

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of wages and the arbitration system in Australia's nine‐year experiment with official monetary targeting, initiated by the Fraser government in 1976. Instead of depoliticising inflation by turning it into a technical problem of monetary policy, monetarism in Australia was absorbed into the local view in which ...
Michael Beggs
wiley   +1 more source