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Cryptorchidism and Fertility [PDF]

Clinical Medicine Insights: Reproductive Health, 2015
Cryptorchidism, the failure of one or both testes to descend into the scrotum prenatally, occurs in 2.4%-5% of newborns. Many of these testes will descend spontaneously shortly after birth, but ~23% will remain undescended unless surgery is performed.
Fatma Fawzy, Amr Hussein, Hosni Salem, Ahmed Mahmoud El Kashash, Mostafa Mahmoud Eid   +4 more
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Dynamic Change of Soil Enzyme Activities and Soil Microbe During Rice Main Growth Stages in Different Long-term Fertilizer Regimes

Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, 2017
Soil microbe and soil enzyme activities are closely related to the fertilizer inputs. Our objective was to explore the dynamic change of soil microbe and soil enzyme activities in paddy field during early and late rice (Oryza sativa L.) main growth ...
Hai-Ming Tang, Xiao-Ping Xiao, Wen-Guang Tang, Chao Li, Ke Wang, Kai-Kai Cheng, Geng Sun   +6 more
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Fertilizers for food and nutrition security in sub-Saharan Africa: An overview of soil health implications

Frontiers in Soil Science, 2023
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) faces chronic food insecurity associated with soil degradation and the peculiar aftermath of climate change and exacerbated by rising population and historically poor agricultural practices.
Christian Dimkpa, William Adzawla, Renu Pandey, Williams K. Atakora, Anselme K. Kouame, Martin Jemo, Prem S. Bindraban   +6 more
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Substituting Organic Fertilizer for Chemical Fertilizer: Evidence from Apple Growers in China

Land, 2021
This study investigates the key factors affecting farmers’ decisions to use chemical fertilizer and/or organic fertilizer in Chinese apple production. This study calculates partial output elasticities and elasticities of the substitution between organic ...
Pingping Fang, D. Abler, Guanghua Lin, A. Sher, Q. Quan   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Increased organic fertilizer application and reduced chemical fertilizer application affect the soil properties and bacterial communities of grape rhizosphere soil

Scientific Reports, 2020
Increasing organic fertilizer application can improve the sustainability of soil productivity, but the effects of increased organic fertilizer application with reduced chemical fertilizer application over different time periods on chemical properties and
Linnan Wu, Yu Jiang, Fengyun Zhao, Xiufeng He, Huai-feng Liu, Kun Yu   +5 more
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Intra- and inter-isolate variation of ribosomal and protein-coding genes in Pleurotus: implications for molecular identification and phylogeny on fungal groups

BMC Microbiology, 2017
Background The internal transcribed spacer (ITS), RNA polymerase II second largest subunit (RPB2), and elongation factor 1-alpha (EF1α) are often used in fungal taxonomy and phylogenetic analysis.
Xiao-Lan He, Qian Li, Wei-Hong Peng, Jie Zhou, Xue-Lian Cao, Di Wang, Zhong-Qian Huang, Wei Tan, Yu Li, Bing-Cheng Gan   +9 more
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An integrative approach based on crop modeling and geospatial and statistical analysis to quantify and explain the maize (Zea mays) yield gap in Ghana

Frontiers in Soil Science, 2022
In Ghana, maize (Zea mays) is a crop crucial to achieving food and nutrition security. Maize consumption has increased exponentially over the past decades and contributes to 25% of the caloric consumption in the country.
Mohamed Boullouz, Mohamed Boullouz, Prem S. Bindraban, Isaac N. Kissiedu, Anselme K. K. Kouame, Krishna P. Devkota, Williams K. Atakora   +6 more
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Corrigendum: He XL, Horak E, Wang D, Li TH, Peng WH, Gan BC (2019) Descriptions of five new species in Entoloma subgenus Claudopus from China, with molecular phylogeny of Entoloma s.l. MycoKeys 60: 1–26. https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.61.46446 [PDF]

MycoKeys, 2020
Entoloma subgenus Claudopus is widely distributed, yet the taxonomy and systematics of its species are still poorly documented. In the present study, more than forty collections of Claudopus were gathered in China and subsequently analysed, based on ...
Xiao-Lan He, Egon Horak, Di Wang, Tai-Hui Li, Wei-Hong Peng, Bing-Cheng Gan   +5 more
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Iron Oxide Nanoparticles as a Potential Iron Fertilizer for Peanut (Arachis hypogaea)

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2016
Nanomaterials are used in practically every aspect of modern life, including agriculture. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of iron oxide nanoparticles (Fe2O3 NPs) as a fertilizer to replace traditional Fe fertilizers, which have ...
Mengmeng Rui, Chuanxin Ma, Y. Hao, Jing Guo, Y. Rui, Xinlian Tang, Qi Zhao, Xing Fan, Zetian Zhang, Tianqi Hou, Siyuan Zhu   +10 more
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Effects of Different Long-Term Fertilizer Management Systems on Soil Microbial Biomass Turnover in a Double-Cropping Rice Field in Southern China

Agriculture, 2022
Soil microbial biomass content is usually regarded as an early indicator of changes in soil quality and soil fertility in paddy fields. Soil microbial biomass turnover is mainly influenced by the application of different fertilizer management systems ...
Haiming Tang, Yilan Xu, Chao Li, Lihong Shi, Li Wen, Weiyan Li, Kaikai Cheng, Xiaoping Xiao   +7 more
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