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Multi-Omic Profiling, Structural Characterization, and Potent Inhibitor Screening of Evasion-Related Proteins of a Parasitic Nematode, Haemonchus contortus, Surviving Vaccine Treatment

open access: yesBiomedicines, 2023
The emergence of drug-resistant parasitic nematodes in both humans and livestock calls for development of alternative and cost-effective control strategies.
Nikola Palevich   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Low pyrrolizidine alkaloid levels in perennial ryegrass is associated with the absence of a homospermidine synthase gene

open access: yesBMC Plant Biology, 2018
Background Pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) are a class of secondary metabolites that function as feeding deterrents in a range of different plant species.
Geoffrey P. Gill   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dynamics and genetic diversification of Escherichia coli during experimental adaptation to an anaerobic environment [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2017
Background Many bacteria are facultative anaerobes, and can proliferate in both anoxic and oxic environments. Under anaerobic conditions, fermentation is the primary means of energy generation in contrast to respiration.
Thomas J. Finn   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

A Eurasia-wide polyploid species complex involving 6x Trifolium ambiguum, 2x T. occidentale and 4x T. repens produces interspecific hybrids with significance for clover breeding

open access: yesBMC Plant Biology, 2019
Background Trifolium ambiguum occurs as a 2x, 4x, 6x polyploid series in W Asia. The 6x form is the most agronomically desirable, having strong rhizomatous spread and drought tolerance.
Warren M. Williams   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of Feed Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectra as Predictors of Methane Emissions from Ruminants

open access: yesAnimals, 2022
Feed chemical composition is associated with methane (CH4) formation in the rumen, and thus CH4 yields (Ym; CH4 emitted from per unit of dry matter intake) could be predicted using near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) of feeds fed to ruminants ...
Xuezhao Sun   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Some effects of topographic aspect on grassland responses to elevated CO2

open access: yesPlant Production Science, 2019
Grasslands are distributed globally across various topographies. In non-flat grasslands, aspect (the direction that a slope faces) influences the amounts of radiation and consequent effects on temperature and soil moisture, all of which are important ...
Mark Lieffering   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gene and transcript abundances of bacterial type III secretion systems from the rumen microbiome are correlated with methane yield in sheep

open access: yesBMC Research Notes, 2017
Background Ruminants are important contributors to global methane emissions via microbial fermentation in their reticulo-rumens. This study is part of a larger program, characterising the rumen microbiomes of sheep which vary naturally in methane yield ...
Janine Kamke   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Seed Transmission of Epichloƫ Endophytes in Lolium perenne Is Heavily Influenced by Host Genetics

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science, 2018
Vertical transmission of symbiotic Epichloƫ endophytes from host grasses into progeny seed is the primary mechanism by which the next generation of plants is colonized. This process is often imperfect, resulting in endophyte-free seedlings which may have
Milan Gagic   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

RIM-DB: a taxonomic framework for community structure analysis of methanogenic archaea from the rumen and other intestinal environments [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2014
Methane is formed by methanogenic archaea in the rumen as one of the end products of feed fermentation in the ruminant digestive tract. To develop strategies to mitigate anthropogenic methane emissions due to ruminant farming, and to understand rumen ...
Henning Seedorf   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Introgression of Trifolium ambiguum Into Allotetraploid White Clover (Trifolium repens) Using the Ancestral Parent Trifolium occidentale as a Bridging Species

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science, 2022
White clover (Trifolium repens) is an allotetraploid pasture legume widely used in moist temperate climates, but its vulnerability to drought, grazing pressure and pests has restricted its wider use.
Ihsan Ullah   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

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