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Regional Differences in U.S. Consumer Preferences for Native Woody Shrubs With Varying Aesthetic Characteristics

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native plants offer a variety of aesthetic (e.g., fall colour, fruit, flowers) and functional benefits (e.g., pollinator friendly, wildlife friendly, water management). How these benefits influence consumer choice and perceived value of native versus introduced plants is not well understood.
Alicia Rihn   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Species-Specific Effects on Throughfall Kinetic Energy in Subtropical Forest Plantations Are Related to Leaf Traits and Tree Architecture.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
Soil erosion is a key threat to many ecosystems, especially in subtropical China where high erosion rates occur. While the mechanisms that induce soil erosion on agricultural land are well understood, soil erosion processes in forests have rarely been ...
Philipp Goebes   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Phenotypic diversity of wild Sierra Leonean coffee (Coffea stenophylla) collected from Kenema and Moyamba districts

open access: yesBeverage Plant Research, 2023
Coffee is a major cash and export crop in Sierra Leone and is mainly cultivated in southern and eastern provinces. Kenema, Kailahun, Moyamba, Bo, Pujehun and Kono are major coffee growing districts in the country.
Paul Musa Lahai   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Too Complex to Choose? The Role of Heuristics in Shaping Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Income Stabilization Tool in Italy

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT European agriculture is increasingly exposed to economic instability driven by extreme weather events, market volatility, and geopolitical tensions. To manage these growing risks, farmers are encouraged to adopt innovative risk management strategies such as the Income Stabilization Tool (IST), which offers protection against severe income ...
Alice Stiletto   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interspecific hybrid confirmation in wide crosses of cotton (Gossypium spp) through morphological, cytological and molecular analysis

open access: yesElectronic Journal of Plant Breeding, 2020
Interspecific triploid hybrids were developed between tetraploid cultivated species Gossypium barbadense cv. Suvin and TCB 37 and diploid wild species Gossypium armourianum.
S. Imtiyazahmed, L. Mahalingam, N. Premalatha, K. Senguttuvan and V. P. Sobhakumari
doaj   +1 more source

F1 Interspecific hybridity confirmation in cotton through morphological, cytological and molecular analysis

open access: yesElectronic Journal of Plant Breeding, 2019
Interspecific triploid hybrid was developed between tetraploid cultivated species Gossypium hirsutum cv. MCU 5 and CO 14 and diploid wild species Gossypium armourianum.
M. Muthuraj   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Is There a Market for Organic Milk in Serbia? Insights From Integrated Choice and Latent Variable Model

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Past growth in the global organic market has been concentrated in high‐income countries, while in middle‐income countries such as Serbia the organic market remains nascent and characterized by a sparse assortment of organic products, high retail premia and limited evidence on consumer preferences and their drivers.
Milan Tatic   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

How does the Kids SIPsmartER program impact the sugar‐sweetened beverage intake of students: An investigation beyond total treatment effect in randomized controlled trial

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This study develops and empirically estimates a structural framework to decompose the causal pathways of multilevel behavioral interventions targeting adolescent health behaviors. We apply this framework to the Kids SIPsmartER (KSS) program, a 6‐month, school‐based intervention evaluated through a clustered randomized controlled trial in rural
Naveen Abedin   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of phenotypic variability of seedlings obtained from open pollination of three varieties of the genus Hylotelephium

open access: yesFolia Horticulturae, 2023
This article reflects on the conventional open pollination breeding method of the genus Hylotelephium. Six-year-old seedlings were evaluated and compared with the mother plants for 3 years. A total of 1 063 seedlings were evaluated (54 in the H.
Sotolářová Oldřiška   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

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