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Preinoculation of Soybean Seeds Treated with Agrichemicals up to 30 Days before Sowing: Technological Innovation for Large-Scale Agriculture

International Journal of Microbiology, 2017
The cultivation of soybean in Brazil experienced an expressive growth in the last decades. Soybean is highly demanding on nitrogen (N) that must come from fertilizers or from biological fixation.
Ricardo Silva Araujo, Sonia Purin da Cruz, Edson Luiz Souchie, Thomas Newton Martin, André Shigueyoshi Nakatani, Marco Antonio Nogueira, Mariangela Hungria   +6 more
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The Necessity for the Modernization of the Technical-Material Base of Agricultural Exploitations within the Process of Forming Competition-Economy [PDF]

The necessity for the modernization of the production processes in agriculture resides in the fact that this is the most important means to raise agricultural productivity, especially in the long term, to reduce production costs and to raise economic ...
Florina Oana VIRLANUTA, Monica SUSANU, Saftica ENACHI, Viorica IOAN   +3 more
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Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles using guava leaves: an effective strategy to control chilli fruit rot disease

BMC Plant Biology
Background Anthracnose, caused by Colletotrichum capsici, is a significant fungal disease affecting chilli crops, leading to yield losses of 10–25%. Traditional control methods, primarily chemical fungicides, not only pose risks to the environment and ...
Saba Mazhar, Sajjad Hyder, Babar Shahzad Khan, Amjad Shahzad Gondal, Raees Ahmed, Iqra, Mudassir Iqbal   +6 more
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Towards reduced reliance on fungicides for disease control in New Zealands cropbased industries

New Zealand Plant Protection, 2010
The challenge faced by New Zealands fruit vegetable and arable sectors is to reduce the negative impacts of fungicides on market access environmental sustainability and consumer confidence while at the same time achieving adequate disease control for export market and international regulatory requirements Controlling diseases in a humid climate with ...
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Effect of Lactoperoxidase System on the Control of Colletotrichum musae on Bananas

Food Technology and Biotechnology, 2011
Postharvest diseases are a major concern for plant products, leading to considerable postharvest losses. Colletotrichum musae is responsible for anthracnose and is also involved in crown rot, the two main postharvest diseases of banana.
Gérard Loiseau, Luc de Lapeyre de Bellaire, Woeheoudama Sagoua, Marie-Noëlle Ducamp   +3 more
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The Role of Fungi in the Etiology of Multiple Sclerosis

Frontiers in Neurology, 2017
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the central nervous system. Infectious triggers of MS are being actively investigated.
Julián Benito-León, Julián Benito-León, Julián Benito-León, Martin Laurence   +3 more
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Neurotoxicity and Oxidative Damage Induced from Exposure of Male Rats to Low doses of the Synthetic Environmental Contaminant Tributyltin

Wasit Journal for Pure Sciences
    Tributyltin chloride (TBT) is an organotin compound widely used in several high biocides for agro-industrial applications, such as fungicides, and marine antifouling paints leading to endocrine disrupting actions, such as imposex development in ...
Sura Alkadhimy, Mokhtar I. Yousef
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“Multi-functional Agriculture - Agriculture as a Resource for Energy and Environmental Preservation

Italian Journal of Agronomy, 2008
In the present global situation, agriculture plays a major role in the interaction between socio-economic and biophysical processes. In addition to its principal and fundamental role of providing food, it now also needs to consider other ecosystem ...
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Sexual reproduction in Phytophthora infestans [PDF]

, 2007
Potato late blight, caused by the oomycete Phytophthora infestans, is one of the most devastating plant diseases worldwide. It is becoming increasingly difficult to control the disease in Sweden, leading to an ever more intensified use of fungicides in ...
Andersson, Björn
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