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Consumer Preference Testing of Boiled Sweetpotato Using Crowdsourced Citizen Science in Ghana and Uganda

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021
Crowdsourced citizen science is an emerging approach in plant sciences. The triadic comparison of technologies (tricot) approach has been successfully utilized by demand-led breeding programmes to identify varieties for dissemination suited to specific ...
Mukani Moyo, Reuben Ssali, Sam Namanda, Mariam Nakitto, Eric K. Dery, Daniel Akansake, Joseph Adjebeng-Danquah, Jacob van Etten, Kauê de Sousa, Kauê de Sousa, Hannele Lindqvist-Kreuze, Edward Carey, Tawanda Muzhingi, Tawanda Muzhingi   +13 more
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Seasonal Variations in the Starch Properties of Sweet Potato Cultivars

Horticulturae, 2023
Starch is widely used in the food and non-food industries, and this is related to its physicochemical characteristics. In the coming years, climate changes will become unpredictable, and these conditions may affect the process of starch biosynthesis and ...
Thaís Paes Rodrigues dos Santos, Magali Leonel, Luciana Alves de Oliveira, Adalton Mazetti Fernandes, Sarita Leonel, Jason Geter da Silva Nunes   +5 more
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Cultivars and Fruit Part as Differentiating Factors of Physicochemical Characteristics of Mango Starches

Horticulturae, 2023
Fruit production has increased, which has led to an increase in fruit wastage, opening up new opportunities for the use of non-standard fruits as starch sources.
Nathalia Aparecida Barbosa Lossolli, Magali Leonel, Sarita Leonel, Maiqui Izidoro, Gustavo Veiga de Paula, Thais Paes Rodrigues dos Santos, Luciana Alves de Oliveira   +6 more
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Effects of short-term nitrogen and phosphorus addition on leaf stoichiometry of a dominant alpine grass [PDF]

PeerJ, 2021
The effects of increasing nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) deposition on the nutrient stoichiometry of soil and plant are gaining improving recognition. However, whether and how the responses of N cycle coupled with P of the soil–plant system to external ...
YaLan Liu, Bo Liu, Zewei Yue, Fanjiang Zeng, Xiangyi Li, Lei Li   +5 more
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Hydrocolloid Coatings as a Pre-Frying Treatment in the Production of Low-Fat Banana Chips

Horticulturae, 2023
Fried foods occupy a large portion of the fast-food market. However, growing consumer health awareness is driving research to minimize the oil content of products.
Júlia Silva Pereira dos Santos, Magali Leonel, Paulo Ricardo Rodrigues de Jesus, Sarita Leonel, Adalton Mazetti Fernandes, Lucas Felipe dos Ouros   +5 more
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Farmer Perceptions Related to Potato Production and Late Blight Management in Two Communities in the Peruvian Andes

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022
Potato late blight (LB), caused by the oomycete, Phytophthora infestans, continues to be a major constraint of potato in the Andean region and worldwide.
Willmer Perez, Gregory Allan Forbes, Rolando Arias, Willy Pradel, Nozomi Kawarazuka, Jorge Andrade-Piedra   +5 more
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Alhagi sparsifolia Harbors a Different Root-Associated Mycobiome during Different Development Stages

Microorganisms, 2022
The mycobiome in the rhizosphere and within the roots benefits the nutrition and function of host plants. However, compared with the bacterial community, root-associated mycobiomes of desert plants and the forces that drive their assemblage are limited ...
Zhihao Zhang, Xutian Chai, Yanju Gao, Bo Zhang, Yan Lu, Yi Du, Yulin Zhang, Ya Ding, Akash Tariq, Abd Ullah, Xiangyi Li, Fanjiang Zeng   +11 more
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Root morphological and physiological traits are committed to the phosphorus acquisition of the desert plants in phosphorus-deficient soils

BMC Plant Biology, 2023
Background Phosphorus (P) deficiency in desert ecosystems is widespread. Generally, desert species may allocate an enormous proportion of photosynthetic carbon to their root systems to adjust their P-acquisition strategies.
Yanju Gao, Zhihao Zhang, Fanjiang Zeng, Xingyu Ma   +3 more
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Physiological changes of three woody plants exposed to progressive salt stress

Photosynthetica, 2021
The saline character of water imposes restrictions on plant growth and survival in the Taklamakan Desert, China. Experiments were conducted on woody plant species, Tamarix ramosissima, Populus euphratica, and Haloxylon ammodendron grown under different ...
Y. LU, F.J. ZENG, X.Y. LI, B. ZHANG
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Anti-trafficking Efforts and Colonial Violence in Canada

Anti-Trafficking Review, 2019
In Responding to Human Trafficking: Dispossession, Colonial Violence, and Resistance among Indigenous and Racialized Women, Julie Kaye offers a critical examination of how Canadian state and non-state actors understand human trafficking and implement ...
Katrin Roots
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