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Setting an integrated soil monitoring system for Malta : strategy, feasibility and recommendations [PDF]

, 2014
Chapter 6Since 2010, MEPA has embarked on a project (which attracted co-funded ERDF assistance) (1) to develop a multi-thematic environment strategy that would lead to updating of its data/ information monitoring capabilities for a number of ...
Cutajar, Sandro
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The potential of organic substrates based on mushroom substrate and straw to dissipate fungicides contained in effluents from the fruit-packaging industry – Is there a role for Pleurotus ostreatus?

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2016
Citrus fruit-packaging plants (FPP) produce large wastewater volumes with high loads of fungicides like ortho-phenylphenol (OPP) and imazalil (IMZ). No methods are in place for the treatment of those effluents and biobeds appear as a viable alternative.
Panagiotis A. Karas, Constantinos Ehaliotis, Evangelia S. Papadopoulou, Sotirina Makri, Dimitrios G. Karpouzas, Urania Menkissoglu-Spiroudi   +5 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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In Vitro Control of Phytophthora infestans and Alternaria solani Using Crude Extracts and Essential Oils from Selected Plants

International Journal of Agronomy, 2020
Tomato production is constrained by fungal diseases especially the early and late blight caused by Alternaria solani and Phytophthora infestans, respectively. Control of the two diseases is usually by use of synthetic fungicides which have a long residue
Lydia G. Mugao, Phyllis W. Muturi, Bernard M. Gichimu, Ezekiel K. Njoroge   +3 more
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An In Vitro Evaluation of Industrial Hemp Extracts Against the Phytopathogenic Bacteria Erwinia carotovora, Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato, and Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci

Molecules
Pests and diseases have caused significant problems since the domestication of crops, resulting in economic loss and hunger. To overcome these problems, synthetic pesticides were developed to control pests; however, there are significant detrimental side
Getrude G. Kanyairita, Desmond G. Mortley, Willard E. Collier, Sheritta Fagbodun, Jamila M. Mweta, Hilarie Uwamahoro, Le’Shaun T. Dowell, Mwamba F. Mukuka   +7 more
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Post-harvest physiological deterioration of cassava (Manihot esculenta) - A review

The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2016
Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is a valued root crop grown throughout the tropics for food, feed and biofuel and industrial uses. Fresh cassava roots have short shelf-life due to an endogenous phenomenon called Post-harvest Physiological ...
RAJU SARAVANAN, VELUMANI RAVI, ROY STEPHEN, SHERIFF THAJUDHIN, JAMES GEORGE   +4 more
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Practical method for the large-scale synthesis of 4′-chloro-2-nitrobiphenyl: A key intermediate of Boscalid

Advanced Agrochem
Boscalid is a pesticide with the advantages of broad spectrum bactericidal activity, high efficiency, low toxicity, and no cross-resistance with other fungicides currently available on the market.
You Chen, Tong Meng, Rui Guo, Zhaoru Liu, Sixuan Meng, Jian Chen, Guang-Ao Yu   +6 more
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Circular 40 [PDF]

, 1980
For cooperation and assistance in the work reported here, we gratefully acknowledge Dr. William Burgoyne, State of Alaska Division of Environmental Conservation and Mr. Delon Brown, USDA, Alaska Crop and Livestock Reporting Service.
Bleicher, David P., Mitchell, William W., Scorup, Peter C.   +2 more
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Crambe as a Specialty Crop in North Dakota [PDF]

Production Economics,
Johnson, Roger G., Sell, Randall S., Watt, David L.   +2 more
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Pesticide distribution and use in vegetable production in the Red River Delta of Vietnam [PDF]

, 2009
For a long time pesticides attracted interest from the Vietnamese governments and farmers for their positive effects in protecting crop yield losses resulting from pests and other plant diseases.
Brink, P.J., van den, Mol, A.P.J., Oosterveer, P.J.M., Pham Van Hoi   +3 more
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