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Participatory plant breeding in Denmark

open access: yes, 2010
Plant breeding gets more and more concentrated on a couple of multinational companies, and financing plant breeding via the traditional royalty founded certification system exclusive for the specific needs in organic farming is not profitable in most ...
Andersen, Rikke, Borgen, Anders
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Phenotypic changes in different spinach varieties grown and selected under organic conditions

open access: yes, 2011
Organic and low-input agriculture needs flexible varieties that can buffer environmental stress and adapt to the needs of farmers. We implemented an experiment to investigate the evolutionary capacities of a sample of spinach (Spinacia oleracea L ...
Goldringer, I.   +17 more
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Effectiveness of rTMS on Working Memory and Inhibitory Impairments in Patients With Post‐Stroke Executive Deficits

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Considerable efforts have been dedicated to developing effective treatments for post‐stroke executive impairment (PSEI), among which repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has shown great potential. This study aimed to investigate the therapeutic effects of high‐frequency rTMS on working memory (WM) and response ...
Mengting Lao   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH METHODS FOR TECHNOLOGY EVALUATION: A MANUAL FOR SCIENTISTS WORKING WITH FARMERS

open access: yes
This manual presents methods that enable agricultural scientist and farmers to evaluate technologies/practices jointly. The methods are specifically designed for participatory research on germplasm and soil fertility technologies, and they are ...
Bellon, Mauricio R.
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Decentralized-participatory plant breeding

open access: yes, 2014
A participatory breeding project conducted in Syria with the objective of testing an alternative way to produce improved varieties of crops grown in marginal environments such as barley.
Gonsalves, Julian Francis
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Choroid Plexus Enlargement and USPIO‐Based Inflammatory Feature in Cerebral Small Vessel Disease

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective The choroid plexus (CP) is a key component of the blood–cerebrospinal fluid barrier (BCSFB), but its mechanism of action in cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) remains unclear. This study investigated CP volume (CPV) alterations and their association with conventional imaging markers in CSVD and explored the underlying role of ...
Yongqiang Qu   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bringing Farmers Back into Breeding: Experiences with Participatory Plant Breeding and Challenges for Institutionalisation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB). It reviews the approach from both a technical and a social perspective and identifies the challenges for incorporating PPB in national plant breeding regimes..
Almekinders, Conny J.M., Hardon, Jaap
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Added Prognostic Value of EEG Reactivity in Comatose Patients Following Cardiac Arrest

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives To evaluate the added prognostic value of EEG reactivity for favorable outcome compared with background analysis during and after targeted temperature management (TTM). Methods Prospective observational cohort study of comatose post–cardiac arrest patients admitted to a single academic center between 2017 and 2022, all undergoing ...
Sarah Caroyer   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

What plant breeding may (and may not) look like in 2050?

open access: yesThe Plant Genome
At the turn of 2000 many authors envisioned future plant breeding. Twenty years after, which of those authors’ visions became reality or not, and which ones may become so in the years to come. After two decades of debates, climate change is a “certainty,”
Filippo M. Bassi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

40 years of participatory plant breeding in Portugal. The Vaso program

open access: yesBook of Abstracts: EUCARPIA Scientific Conference on Breeding to Meet Environmental and Societal Challenges, 224–25. Coimbra, Portugal.
40 years of participatory plant breeding in Portugal. The Vaso program 
Mendes-Moreira, Pedro   +6 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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