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Advancing SafeWax, A Bio‐Inspired Superhydrophobic Coating, Toward Sustainable and Climate‐Resilient Crop Protection

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study advances SafeWax, a bio‐inspired, fatty‐acids‐based superhydrophobic coating, by identifying an agriculturally compliant solvent and revealing how solvent‐controlled Fatty acid crystallization governs the coating's microscopic structure and performance.
Niv Ben‐Arie, Iryna Polishchuk, Franziska Tauber, Coralie Schneider, Elena Prudnikov, Alessia Calora, Silvia Milita, Simona Fermani, Mireia Alejandra Ibanez Revert, Ilaria Filippetti, Claudio Ratti, Matthias Kellermeier, Markus Rueckel, Boaz Pokroy   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Melanin's Role in Balancing Mechanical Strength and Reproductive Output in Environmentally Stressed Fungal Spores

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Melanin content directly controls fungal spore mechanical properties, with pigmented spores achieving rupture forces two orders of magnitude higher than hyaline spores. Environmental stress drives this quantity‐quality tradeoff; stressed species invest energy in melanin‐reinforced, mechanically superior thick‐walled, super‐hydrophobic spores, while ...
Atul Agrawal, Steven E. Naleway
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of agricultural conservation practices on fish and wildlife : a Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) bibliography /

, 2008
"The bibliography is a guide to recent scientific literature covering effects of agricultural conservation practices on fish and wildlife. The citations listed here provide information on how conservation programs and practices designed to improve fish ...
Harper, Cassandra Y., Water Quality Information Center (U.S.), Makuch, Joe., Gagnon, Stuart R., National Agricultural Library (U.S.)   +4 more
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Mechanics of Telson Ridges in Mantis Shrimp for Impact Analysis and Implications for Bioinspired Elastic Shell Designs

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The mantis shrimp telson reveals how ridged biological shields control deformation under impact. Inspired by this architecture, telson‐inspired ridged curved shells transform ridge geometry and macroscopic curvature into bidirectional snap‐through, tunable stiffness, and enhanced hysteretic energy dissipation for multifunctional architected materials ...
Phani Saketh Dasika, Adwait Trikanad, Wei Huang, Taige Hao, David Kisailus, Pablo D. Zavattieri   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Farmers’ Perception about Major Insect Pests of Cucurbits and Their Management

Indonesian Journal of Agricultural Research, 2020
A survey was undertaken in five Village Development Committees (VDCs) of Lamjung District, Nepal from June to August 2018 to investigate major insect pests and their management practices in cucurbits. A total of ninety-five cucurbit growers were selected
Subina Tripathi, Kabita Kumari Shah, Injila Tiwari, Jiban Shrestha   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Intracrystalline Void‐Mediated Toughening of Brittle Crystals in Quail Eggshells

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
In quail eggshells, the high density and disordered arrangement of intracrystalline voids inhibit lattice cleavage, suppress long‐range crack propagation, and promote deformation twinning and quasi‐plasticity, serving as an essential toughening motif. We show that these voids remain within a narrow subcritical size range and therefore predominantly do ...
Jingxiao Zhong, Qihang Wang, Andre E. Vellwock, Sinuhe Perea Puente, Tingting Zhu, Jia Hui Lim, Kadda Medjoubi, Sebastian Hoerl, Erika Griesshaber, Wolfgang W. Schmahl, Yannicke Dauphin, Emeline Raguin, Peter Werner, Francesco Stellacci, Michael V. Swain, Peter Fratzl, Shahrouz Amini   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Food Safety on the Farm: Good Agricultural Practices and Good Handling Practices – Worker Health and Hygiene

EDIS, 2017
Good agricultural practices (GAPs) and good handling practices (GHPs) encompass the general procedures that growers, packers and processors of fresh fruits and vegetables should follow to ensure the safety of their product.
Jessica A. Lepper, Keith R. Schneider, Renée M. Goodrich Schneider, Aswathy Sreedharan   +3 more
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Utilizing the Metastability of Spidroins as a Strategy for Improving Mechanical Properties of Biomimetic Spider Silk Fibers

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Phase transitions are central for the assembly of recombinant silk proteins into fibers. Soluble protein can transition into condensed states such as condensates and gels. These states are metastable and evolve in a time‐dependent way. Metastability depends on the protein sequence, and this relationship can be used to enhance the mechanical properties ...
Fred‐Eric Sammalisto, Topias Lankinen, Celine Tallroth, Rafael A. Lara, Matilda Backholm, Markus B. Linder   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Good Agricultural Practices, Quality, Traceability, and Precision Agriculture

, 2015
Agricultural production is part of a long chain of activities that starts from seeding and stretches all the way to the consumer. It should meet consumer expectations in terms of quality, safety, and also value or price. Many intermediate steps are involved and these often involve handling, storage, and transportation across national borders or ...
Josse De Baerdemaeker, Wouter Saeys
openaire   +1 more source

Best Management Practices: How Economical is it in Southern Agricultural Systems? [PDF]

Conventional drainage systems tend to aggravate runoff and nutrient leaching problems on farms especially during the off-season. This study uses a biophysical economic model to identify, evaluate and determine multifunctional benefits of implementing and
Matekole, Augustus N., Appelboom, Timothy W., Westra, John V.   +2 more
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