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Can crop yield risk be globally diversified? [PDF]

In 2007 and 2008 world food markets observed a significant price boom. Crop failures simultaneously occurring in some of the world’s major production regions have been quoted as one factor among others for the price boom.
Wei Xu, Martin Odening, Xiaoliang Liu
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Avidin is evolutionarily conserved in fish but dispensable for development and resistance against Streptococcus agalactiae in zebrafish

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
The presence of biotin‐binding avidin proteins in fish and their biological significance are poorly characterized. We cataloged fish avidins and demonstrate that they are widely present and evolutionarily conserved. We created avd knockout zebrafish and show that zebavidin is dispensable for development and that resistance of avd knockout embryos in ...
Anni K. Saralahti, Markus J. T. Ojanen, Mataleena Parikka, Otto Kauko, Mika Rämet, Vesa P. Hytönen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can Crop Insurance Premiums Be Reliably Estimated? [PDF]

This paper develops and applies a methodology to assess the accuracy of historical loss-cost rating procedures, similar to those used by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency (RMA), versus alternative parametric premium estimation ...
Ramirez, Octavio A., Carpio, Carlos E., Rejesus, Roderick M.   +2 more
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GelMA‐based 3D spheroids recapitulate transcriptomic and functional hallmarks of myeloid sarcoma

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
GelMA 5% hydrogels support the formation of myeloid leukemia spheroids that recapitulate MS‐specific features, including G1 arrest, apoptosis, and ECM‐driven transcriptomic reprogramming. The 3D model mimicked soft‐tissue‐like stiffness and oxygen conditions, and transcriptomic convergence with primary MS samples confirmed its utility as a preclinical ...
Nicolas Germain, Elise Buret, Le Hoang Thanh Nguyen, Marion Cocheteux, Nicolas Touya, Mélanie Dhayer, Romain Dubois, Frank Lafont, Sebastien Janel, Patrice Maboudou, Steve Lancel, Philippe Marchetti   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impacts of Weather and Time Horizon Selection on Crop Insurance Ratemaking: A Conditional Distribution Approach [PDF]

An important issue in the agricultural actuarial literature is the extent to which sample period selection affects the accuracy of insurance rating.
Woodard, Joshua D.
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The potential of considering photosynthesis parameters in crop yield breeding by genomic prediction. [PDF]

J Exp Bot
Gao Y, Wu PY, Matsubara S, Stich B.
europepmc   +1 more source

Identification and characterisation of calcitonin receptor isoforms expressed in glioblastoma derived glioma stem and U‐87 MG cells

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Glioblastoma cells express calcitonin receptor variants (CT receptor isoforms) that may help them survive stress. Using qPCR, transcript‐specific long‐read nanopore sequencing, immunofluorescence co‐localisation and comparative sequence analysis, this study identifies a novel alternatively spliced CALCR transcript that encodes the CTb receptor isoform ...
Pragya Gupta, Sebastian GB Furness, Tahereh Gharbi, Ric De Paoli‐Iseppi, Shweta S. Joshi, Michael Clark, David L. Hare, Peter Wookey   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Structural and biochemical insights into the thermostable esterase Ta0887 from Thermoplasma acidophilum

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
In this study, a novel esterase from the thermoacidophilic archaeon Thermoplasma acidophilum was biochemically and structurally characterized. Our results demonstrate that Ta0887 is a highly thermostable esterase that preferentially hydrolyzes p‐nitrophenyl hexanoate and possesses an α‐helical cap domain that likely contributes to its substrate ...
Alejandro Delgado‐Rey, Miriam Livier Llamas‐García, Gabriela M. Montero‐Morán, Leticia Santos, Samuel Lara‐González   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Actuarial Impacts of Loss Cost Ratio Ratemaking in U.S. Crop Insurance Programs [PDF]

This study examines the actuarial implications of the loss cost ratio (LCR) ratemaking methodology employed by the Risk Management Agency as a component of base rates for U.S.
Schnitkey, Gary D., Sherrick, Bruce J., Woodard, Joshua D.   +2 more
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Land degradation is associated with larger crop yield gaps across global croplands. [PDF]

Nat Food
Hadi H, Ray DK, Borrelli P, Gerber JS, Shokri N, Roman S, Wuepper D.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source