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Adaptive Responses of Tropical Crops: A Multi‐Scale Omics Integrated Perspective

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Tropical crops integrate genomic, morphological, physiological, and ecological adaptations to thrive under extreme and variable environments. This review highlights how natural selection, domestication, and breeding shape stress resilience, resource‐use strategies, and productivity in sugarcane, banana, cassava, rubber and oil palm, offering new routes
Peilin Wang, Chenhui Li, Dongjiao Wang, Qibin Wu, Zhen Zeng, Huiming Guo, Han Cheng, Songbi Chen, Hongxing Cao, Hongmei Cheng, Jianghui Xie, Youxiong Que   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aminopropyl-Functionalized Silica CO2 Adsorbents via Sonochemical Methods

Journal of Chemistry, 2016
Aminopropyl-functionalized hexagonal mesoporous silica (HMS) products, as are of interest for CO2 capture applications, were separately prepared by mixing aminopropyltrimethoxysilane (APTS) and HMS in toluene via a conventional stirred reactor and via ...
Gregory P. Knowles, Alan L. Chaffee
doaj   +1 more source

Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor, Francis Tsiboe, Ayobami Adetoyinbo, Jacob Ankamah   +3 more
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Topsoil Carbon Spatial Patterns and Successional Shifts in Dominant Controls in Tropical Forests on Hainan Island

Land
Soil organic carbon (SOC) is a key component of terrestrial carbon stocks, yet its spatial variability, recovery potential, and dominant controls across tropical forest succession remain insufficiently quantified.
Dong Qiao, Zijia Zhang, Yue Jiao, Lina Peng, Meian Luo, Guojiao Yang, Kun Zhao, Chuan Jin   +7 more
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Carbon costs and benefits of Indonesian rainforest conversion to plantations

Nature Communications, 2018
Land-use intensification in the tropics plays an important role in meeting global demand for agricultural commodities but generates high environmental costs.
Thomas Guillaume, M. Kotowska, D. Hertel, A. Knohl, Valentyna Krashevska, K. Murtilaksono, S. Scheu, Y. Kuzyakov   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Application of a novel schema for describing fossil fern foliage and investigating taxonomic and morphological change across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary in western North America

American Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise The Chicxulub asteroid impact at the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary triggered a mass extinction 66 million years ago. Ferns thrived in the aftermath of the extinction, evidenced by the well‐documented “fern spore spike.” However, fern macrofossil records across the K–Pg boundary are less understood.
Fern B. Holian, Emily B. Sessa, Richard S. Barclay, Regan E. Dunn, Jacquelyn L. Gill, Kirk R. Johnson, S. Augusta Maccracken, Ian M. Miller, Jarmila Pittermann, Ellen D. Currano   +9 more
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Climatic controls on vegetation trends and variability in Southeast Asia over the recent two decades

Environmental Advances
Although the spatiotemporal patterns of vegetation productivity in tropical forests have been widely studied, the differences between long-term trends and interannual variability and their respective driving factors remain poorly understood.
Weirong Zhang, Yue Jiao, Zijia Zhang, Hongxia Luo, Junna Feng, Shuai Hao, Zhongmin Hu, Chuan Jin   +7 more
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Some new mammal records from the rainforests of south-eastern Nigeria

Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy, 2001
<strong>Abstract</strong> In this paper we report new data on the occurrence and range of seven mammal species in the rainforest region of south-eastern Nigeria. The species in question are: <em>Potamogale velox</em> (Insectivora)
Francesco Angelici, Bomiegha Egbide, Godfrey Akani   +2 more
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Choosing between human trash and trashed forests: Resilience in nonvolant Atlantic Forest small mammals

Ecología Austral, 2023
Open pit rubbish dumps generate serious environmental problems both in Brazil and elsewhere. The goal of this study was to evaluate the occurrence patterns of an assemblage of small flightless mammals in the area of a landfill deactivated 19 years ago ...
Fernanda Gatto-Almeida, Juliana Quadros, Liliani Marilia Tiepolo   +2 more
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Pracaxi Oil as a Potential Inhibitor of Fat Bloom

Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fat bloom is one of the major technological challenges faced by the chocolate industry, caused by the polymorphic transition from β2(V) to β1(VI) crystals in cocoa butter (CB). One strategy to slow down this polymorphic transition is the addition of lipids rich in very long chain fatty acids (VLCFA), such as behenic acid.
Victoria Marques Gropelli, Priscila Dayane De Freitas Santos, Thayná Torres Da Silva, Ana Paula Badan Ribeiro, Rosiane Lopes Cunha   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source