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Farm Typologies of Banana and Plantain Smallholders: Agricultural Practices and Disease Constraints in Department of Huila, Colombia [PDF]
Scientifica, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.Bananas and plantains (Musa spp.) are among the most widely cultivated crops in tropical regions and are consumed worldwide. These agricultural systems provide fundamental products in the Colombian basket of goods and generate the highest domestic rural employment.
Paula Bermeo-Fúquene +7 more
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A rapid inventory of amphibians, squamates, and bats of Mata de Plátano Field Station and Nature Reserve, Arecibo, Puerto Rico [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 7, July 2024.We perform a rapid survey of amphibians, reptiles, and bats at the Mata de Plátano Field Station and Nature Reserve in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a protected reserve adjacent to a larger forest. Our rapid survey resulted in finding 70%, 14%, and 22% of the amphibians, reptiles, and bat fauna, respectively, highlighting that smaller areas can act as refuges ...
Justin Matthew Bernstein +4 more
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Rapid taxonomic categorization of short, abundant virus sequences for ecological analyses [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 6, June 2024.We sampled 1086 bats from two, adjacent Puerto Rican caves and tested them for infection by herpesviruses, resulting in 3131 short, viral sequences. Using percent identity of nucleotides and a machine learning algorithm (affinity propagation), we categorized herpesviruses into 43 operational taxonomic units (OTUs).
Anna R. Sjodin +3 more
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Effects of Quetiapine on Novelty‐Related Object Recognition Memory and Hippocampal BDNF Level in Sleep‐Deprived Rats [PDF]
Brain and Behavior, Volume 15, Issue 1, January 2025.In our study, we evaluated the effects of short‐ and long‐term antipsychotic quetiapine use on learning and memory performance impaired by sleep deprivation, as well as without sleep deprivation, by behavioral analysis and measurement of BDNF levels in the hippocampus. We also measured anxiety levels by stool count.
Öznur Özge Özcan +4 more
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Thapsigargin blocks electromagnetic field‐elicited intracellular Ca2+ increase in HEK 293 cells
Physiological Reports, Volume 10, Issue 9, May 2022., 2022 Abstract Biological effects of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) have previously been identified for cellular proliferation and changes in expression and conduction of diverse types of ion channels. The major effect elicited by EMFs seems to be directed toward Ca2+ homeostasis.
Federico Bertagna +4 more
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Biotecnología en el Sector Agropecuario y Agroindustrial, 2017 Se estima que el 85% de los insumos químicos usados por las industrias de curtiembres europeas para producir 1000 kg de cuero crudo se vierten a los afluentes de recurso hídrico en forma de contaminantes, entre ellos el Cromo VI (Cr (VI)), un compuesto ...
Tatiana Andrea Dávila Martínez +3 more
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Tecnología en Marcha, 2014 Durante esta investigación se muestrearon periódicamente sistemas productivos de piña y plátano en la Región Huetar Norte (RHN) y de piña en la Región Huetar Atlántica (RHA), con el objetivo de identificar los géneros de nematodos fitoparásitos asociados
Tomás de Jesús Guzmán-Hernández +4 more
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Las exportaciones de plátano como una estrategia de desarrollo rural en Colombia
Apuntes del CENES, 2019 Este artículo busca identificar oportunidades en mercados internacionales para el plátano fresco y transformado de origen colombiano, a partir del análisis de información obtenida de fuentes secundarias en el que son analizadas las variables de ...
Marcela Carvajal-García +3 more
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Aportes al conocimiento de entomofauna asociada al plátano (Musa paradisiaca), Madre de Dios, Perú
Agroindustrial Science, 2022 El plátano es uno de los componentes más importantes en la economía y seguridad alimentaria, principalmente de países en desarrollo. En el Perú, su importancia radica por el valor nutricional que aporta al consumidor y un importante factor de seguridad ...
Karen Vanessa Santiago Corisepa +2 more
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Exportaciones de plátano canario. ¿Son racionales las decisiones de pica?
Economía Agraria y Recursos Naturales, 2014 Los productores canarios de plátano han optado en los últimos años por no enviar al mercado peninsular una parte significativa de su oferta exportable.
José Juan Cáceres-Hernández +3 more
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