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Storage games

The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study a long‐horizon, oligopolistic market with random shocks to demand that can be arbitraged by two storage operators with finite capacity. This problem applies to any storable commodity—that is, most commodities. Because the arbitrage spread is so sensitive to market power, storage operators face strong incentives to restrain quantities ...
Sergei Balakin, Guillaume Roger
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Robust Tomato Recognition for Robotic Harvesting Using Feature Images Fusion

Sensors, 2016
Automatic recognition of mature fruits in a complex agricultural environment is still a challenge for an autonomous harvesting robot due to various disturbances existing in the background of the image.
Yuanshen Zhao, Liang Gong, Yixiang Huang, Chengliang Liu   +3 more
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De novo transcriptome sequencing in Bixa orellana to identify genes involved in methylerythritol phosphate, carotenoid and bixin biosynthesis. [PDF]

, 2015
BackgroundBixin or annatto is a commercially important natural orange-red pigment derived from lycopene that is produced and stored in seeds of Bixa orellana L.
Aguilar-Espinosa, Margarita, Carballo-Uicab, Víctor, Comai, Luca, Cárdenas-Conejo, Yair, Lieberman, Meric, Rivera-Madrid, Renata   +5 more
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Jasmonates enhance plants tolerance grown in Cd‐contaminated environments: A comprehensive overview

Annals of Applied Biology, EarlyView.
Jasmonates (JAs) enhance plant tolerance to cadmium (Cd) stress by activating antioxidant defences but may reduce Cd uptake, limiting their effectiveness for phytoremediation. This review compiles studies that evaluated the effects of JA application on plants grown in Cd‐contaminated environments. Abstract Cadmium (Cd) is a toxic heavy metal and one of
Raja Yamma Rodrigues Souza, Cristiano Soares, Daniel Baron   +2 more
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Parasitism of the root knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita (Kofoid and White) chitwood in five wild Solanaceae species

Revista Facultad Nacional de Agronomía Medellín, 2018
There is a high incidence of the nematode Meloidogyne incognita in several economically important species of Solanaceae. This nematode causes damage to the roots, leading even to the death of the plant, causing economic losses for the producer.
Ximena Navarrete, Lenin Ron, Pablo Viteri, William Viera   +3 more
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Household Vegetable Demand in the Philippines: Is There an Urban-Rural Divide? [PDF]

A three-step estimation method and a Nonlinear Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System (NQAIDS) are used to assess the vegetable demand behavior of rural and urban households in the Philippines.
Mutuc, Maria Erlinda M., Pan, Suwen, Rejesus, Roderick M.   +2 more
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‘Candidatus Phytoplasma solani’: From infection to all‐round characterisation of distinct tuf‐type strains with different virulence in tomato plants

Annals of Applied Biology, EarlyView.
‘Candidatus Phytoplasma (Ca. P.) solani’ is associated with bois noir (BN) of grapevine and stolbur of solanaceous plants and is primarily transmitted by Hyalesthes obsoletus Signoret. Four tuf‐a and five tuf‐b1 ‘Ca. P. solani’ strains were transmitted to tomato plants (cv. Micro‐Tom) by using bait‐plants and by capturing H.
Gaia Carminati, Francesco Pavan, Chiara Bernardini, Diana Sommaro, Abderraouf Sadallah, Rita Musetti, Paolo Ermacora, Marta Martini   +7 more
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Healthcare Professional Survey on Complementary Feeding and Allergy Prevention in High‐ Versus Low‐Risk Infants: An EAACI Task Force Report

Allergy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Complementary feeding (CF) influences infants' long‐term dietary preferences, growth, and food allergy (FA) risk. However, guidance given to families and the implementation of FA prevention guidelines by healthcare professionals (HCPs) remain unclear.
Emilia Vassilopoulou, Sophia Tsabouri, Stefania Arasi, Anna Comotti, Gregorio Paolo Milani, Klaudia Ryczaj, Carlo Agostoni, Ioannis Pagkalos, Berber Vlieg‐Boerstra, Chrystopherson Gengyny Caballero‐Lopez, Gavriela Feketea, Anna Nowak‐Wegrzyn, Susanne Halken, Burcin Beken, Montserrat Alvaro‐Lozano, Ines Padua, Mattia Giovannini, George Du Toit, Alberto Alvarez‐Perea, Roberto Berni Canani, Diego Peroni, Marina Pérez‐Gordo, Mohamed H. Shamji, Ludger Klimek, Ioana Agache, Elena Camelia Berghea, Franziska Roth‐Walter, Cevdet Ozdemir, Peter Smith, Liam O’ Mahony, Rosan W. Meyer, Carina Venter   +31 more
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From plant to fabric: Environmental opportunities associated with annatto dye for sustainable development in the textile industry

Coloration Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Natural dyes are compounds that occur naturally in several organisms and are classified based on chemical structure and application method. The literature cites several natural dyes used in industrial transformation processes. Annatto dye is used in the food industry, and its biological pigment is extracted from the annatto seed. However, this
Marcel Jefferson Gonçalves, Tania Maria Costa, Karine Thaise Rainert, Vera Lúcia Vogel Faustino dos Santos, Ivonete Oliveira Barcellos, Lorena Benathar Ballod Tavares   +5 more
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Caracterización física, química y compuestos bioactivos de pulpa madura de tomate de árbol (Cyphomandra betacea) (Cav.) Sendtn.

Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrición
El tomate de árbol (Cyphomandra betacea) es apreciado por sus cualidades nutritivas y ser fuente de compuestos antioxidantes, calcio, fósforo, potasio y hierro, azúcares, ácidos orgánicos, pectinas y flavonoides.
Alexia Torres
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