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Brazil seed transfer zones: Supporting seed sourcing for climate‐resilient ecosystem restoration

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Brazil has tens of millions of hectares of degraded land that must be restored to meet national and global biodiversity and climate goals. Sowing genetically diverse native seeds is key to restoring degraded lands to climate‐resilient landscapes, but we still lack guidance on how to effectively match seed sources to restoration sites across broad ...
Mateus Silva, André Braga Junqueira, Pedro Guimarães, Danielle Celentano, Beatriz Murer, Tobias Fremout, Evert Thomas, Christopher Kettle, Edjane Damasceno, Adler Medeiros, Rodrigo Dutra‐Silva, Fabian Borghetti, Fatima Piña‐Rodrigues, Anabele Gomes, Veronica Maioli, R. Toby Pennington, Lucy Rowland, Eduardo Malta   +17 more
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Herpetogramma bipunctalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) biology and techniques for rearing on leaves of the blackberry (Rubus spp., Rosaceae)

Brazilian Journal of Biology
The larvae of the southern beet webworm Herpetogramma bipunctalis (Fabricius, 1794) damage the leaves of species in the plant genus Rubus. The present study investigated the biology of H. bipunctalis and developed a protocol for raising H.
GI. Diez-Rodríguez, LK. Hübner, LEC. Antunes, DE. Nava   +3 more
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Ethnobotanical and genetic assessments of Central American avocado landraces reveal novel sources of biodiversity and ancient migration patterns

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
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, Heather B. Thakar, Courtney A. Hofman, Hector Neff, Logan Kistler   +4 more
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Presença de folhas no enraizamento de estacas de amoreira-preta

Ciência Rural, 2014
A propagação da amoreira-preta pode ser feita de forma sexuada ou assexuada, sendo esta última empregada na produção comercial. A utilização de estacas da parte aérea tem como vantagem o aproveitamento de materiais retirados da planta no momento da poda,
Gerson Kleinick Vignolo, Luciano Picolotto, Michel Aldrighi Gonçalves, Ivan Dos Santos Pereira, Luis Eduardo Corrêa Antunes   +4 more
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Advancing Sclerotinia risk forecasting for winter rapeseed in Germany: integrating crop phenology and disease development into a decision support system

Pest Management Science, EarlyView.
Integrating crop phenology and sclerotia germination models into SkleroPro improved Sclerotinia risk prediction accuracy from 34% to 66%, optimizing fungicide timing and supporting sustainable winter rapeseed production. Abstract BACKGROUND Sclerotinia stem rot, caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, threatens winter rapeseed (Brassica napus) production ...
Vera Krause, Nazanin Zamani‐Noor, Lena Müller, Hella Kehlenbeck, Anto Raja Dominic   +4 more
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Pedology in Precision Agriculture from a Brazilian context

Revista de Ciencias Agrícolas, 2023
Precision agriculture (PA) is advancing in Brazil concerning several crops, mainly for medium to large-sized farms, occasionally evolving towards automation and digital agriculture.
José Maria Filippini-Alba, Carlos-Alberto Flores, Alberto C. de Campos Bernardi   +2 more
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Transcriptomic resources and functional validation of RNAi in the cabbage seedpod weevil, Ceutorhynchus obstrictus

Pest Management Science, EarlyView.
Transcriptome sequencing of Ceutorhynchus obstrictus revealed RNA interference (RNAi) targets; double‐stranded RNA microinjection reduced transcript levels and increased mortality, with αCOP and Rop showing strongest lethal effects, indicating promising RNAi‐based pest control candidates.
Apurva Vikas Sabnis, Triin Kallavus, Éricmar Avila Dos Santos, Liina Soonvald, Riina Kaasik, Silva Vilumets, Clauvis Nji Tizi Taning, Kristof De Schutter, Eve Veromann   +8 more
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Green Hydrogen as a Sustainability Transition in Spain: Motivations and Implications for Energy Governance

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Green hydrogen has emerged as a strategic component of Spain's decarbonization agenda, with the country leveraging its renewable energy potential and industrial capabilities to align with the European Union's climate goals. Drawing on a multidimensional theoretical framework, this article examines the key drivers shaping Spain's green hydrogen
Zeynep Arıöz, Xira Ruiz‐Campillo
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Geopolymers as a Sustainable Chemical Platform: From Building Materials to Advanced Functional Applications

The Chemical Record, EarlyView.
Geopolymers are presented as a chemically programmable platform whose properties emerge from activation chemistry, nanoscale disorder, and interfacial design. The review highlights sustainability challenges, the shift toward nanoengineered and hybrid systems, and the rise of halloysite‐based architectures enabling tunable structures across scales for ...
Martina Maria Calvino, Lorenzo Lisuzzo, Giuseppe Cavallaro, Stefana Milioto, Giuseppe Lazzara   +4 more
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Clima Urbano

Geografares, 2011
O presente trabalho é uma resenha do livro intitulado Clima Urbano, organizado por Carlor Augusto de Figueiredo Monteiro e Francisco Mendonça. A obra faz-se pertinente à Climatologia Urbana por apresentar diferentes possibilidades de se estudar o clima das cidades e analisar suas condições ambientais.
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