Capsicum chinense as an African traditional vegetable: Culture, resilience, and opportunity
Capsicum chinense is central to everyday diets, cultural identity, and smallholder livelihoods across Sub‐Saharan Africa, yet remains overlooked in agricultural research and policy. This paper reframes C. chinense as a traditional, climate‐resilient vegetable shaped by centuries of farmer stewardship and cultural selection.
Derek W. Barchenger +1 more
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From innovation to implementation: a case report on virtual reality for chronic pain and psychological well-being in clinical practice. [PDF]
Rivera-Rivera N +3 more
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Avocados are a multibillion‐dollar global commodity, but their growing export market pressures local farmers to abandon local fruit tree diversity in favor of commercial cultivar production. Interviews with rural avocado farmers and households from the Southern Mexican Highlands, Pacific Coastal Honduras, and Western Nicaragua, as well as the genetic ...
Kevin Wann +4 more
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Community Dynamics in a Changing World: highlights from the 1st Puerto Rico & Caribbean Microbiome Symposium and vision for a new microbiome hub. [PDF]
Godoy-Vitorino F.
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Conservation gap analysis for wild grapevines (Vitis L.) of the Americas
Wild grapevines (Vitis L.) native to the Americas are ecologically and culturally important plants that are also critical to the global cultivated grape industry as sources of traits for crop innovation, but many of these species are poorly documented and insufficiently conserved.
Daniel Carver +15 more
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Characterization and quantification of microplastics in marine sediments of the Colombian Caribbean. [PDF]
Garzón-Rodríguez L +8 more
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Food plants are vital to human and planetary health, but their diversity is threatened, making food security, nutrition, and environmental goals more difficult to achieve. Food plant diversity conservation, research, and education can be enhanced through collaboration between sectors, including genebanks and botanic gardens, which possess complementary
Colin K. Khoury +35 more
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Accelerated biological aging: the role of chronic inflammation, weathering and novel therapeutic strategies. [PDF]
Marin-Maldonado FM +6 more
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WorldCuP: A database of checklists documenting the World's Cultivated Plants and their distributions
Human life would be unrecognizable without the benefits of cultivated plants, including crops, ornamentals, or plants with other uses. Despite their importance in daily life and prevalence across landscapes, we know surprisingly little about global cultivated plant distributions.
Nicole L. Kinlock +2 more
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