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Building capacity in vector‐borne plant virus research: The CONNECTED Network

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Plant viruses spread by insects decimate crop yields globally, causing food security challenges in vulnerable areas, including regions of Africa. Interdisciplinary research is needed to protect future crop supplies. CONNECTED, the Community Network for African Vector‐Borne Plant Viruses, increased research capacity in Central, East, West and Southern ...
Nina F. Ockendon‐Powell, Diane L. Hird, Alice Beck, Heather Child, Helen Thomas‐Hughes, Neil Boonham, Gary D. Foster, Bruce Cronin, Andy M. Bailey   +8 more
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An Analysis of the Supply for Seed Yams in Nigeria [PDF]

This study was conducted to examine the supply of seed yam in major yam producing areas of Northern and Southern Nigeria using the supply function analysis.
Akinpelu, A.O, Aniedu, O.C, Anyaegbunam, H.N, Asumugha, G.N, Ibeagi, O.O, Njoku, M.E, Ogbonna, M.C, Okoye, B.C   +7 more
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Integrating indigenous crops in agroforestry systems: Lesser yam and teak mixed systems are more profitable than monocultures in Indonesia

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Major staple crops are often introduced and cultivated in monocultures. Yams are stable crops native to the majority of low‐ and middle‐income countries and can provide an alternative to introduced staple crops. We showed that lesser yams cultivated together with teak trees (planted at the border of the farm) are more profitable than lesser yam ...
Budiadi, Sawitri, Enggal Primananda, Aqmal Nur Jihad, Marco Campera, Rika Bela Rahmawati   +5 more
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The Central Yam Department of the Moscow State: The Problem of Formation (15th–16th Centuries)

Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2018
This article considers the issue of the central body and officials running regular communication in the Moscow state between the 15th and 16th centuries. The author demonstrates that there was a close connection between the changes that took place in the 
Oleg Vladimirovich Semyonov
doaj   +1 more source

Molecular characterization of Secoviridae and Potexvirus infecting yams (Dioscorea spp) [PDF]

, 2011
The prevalence of virus species is generally high among vegetatively?propagated crops, because they cannot be sanitized via seed production and therefore accumulate viruses over long periods of time.
Anzala, Fabiola, Filloux, Denis, Gomez, Rose-Marie, Pavis, Claudie, Roumagnac, Philippe, Teycheney, Pierre-Yves   +5 more
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The Impact of Credit and Training on Farmers Efficiency: A Semi‐Parametric Meta‐Frontier Analysis

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers in developing countries face several constraints, which affect their productivity. To reduce these constraints and enhance productivity, government and non‐governmental agencies implement programmes that provide credit and training to farmers.
Anthony Baffoe‐Bonnie, Genti Kostandini   +1 more
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Short-term chloral hydrate as an add-on treatment may improve sleep and alleviate agitation in inpatients with treatment resistant schizophrenia: a retrospective case series study

Frontiers in Psychiatry
IntroductionChloral hydrate (CH), a medication dating back to 1832, is tranquilizer and sleep promoter still used today. It remains an option for short-term insomnia therapy and sedation before medical procedures, despite its controversial safety profile.
Assaf Shelef, Assaf Shelef, Habashi Alaa, Habashi Alaa, Esther Bloemhof-Bris, Dania Halperin, Shira Weizman, Shira Weizman, Rafael Stryjer, Rafael Stryjer   +9 more
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Production of Polyclonal Antibody Against an Isolate of Yam-infecting Badnavirus from Nigeria [PDF]

, 2010
Integrated viral sequences and high sequence variability among badnaviruses complicates the development of specific reliable molecular detection tests for yam-infecting badnaviruses.
Eni, A. O., Hughes, J. d' A., Rey, M. E. C.   +2 more
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Claiming kinship through ‘filial heart’: migrant care workers in ageing Shanghai Revendiquer la parenté par le « cœur filial » : travailleurs migrants du care dans Shanghai vieillissante

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Drawing on the ethnography of migrant care workers in eldercare in Shanghai, this article reveals the evolving landscape of caregiving and kinship practices in contemporary China. The ethnography presents the emic perspective of care workers, who actively develop symbolic trajectories for claiming kinship through ‘filial heart’ in caregiving.
Xinyuan Wang
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Kekerabatan Genetik Populasi Bengkuang Pachyrhizus Erosus Berdasarkan Karakter Morfologi Bunga dan Daun [PDF]

, 2006
Yam bean Pachyrhizus erosus is widely cultivated in Central America, Africa, Asia and Pacific. The objective of the research was to analyse genetic relationships of yam bean originated from Indonesia compared to its ancestor species from Mexico and ...
Karuniawan, A. (Agung), Wicaksana, N. (Noladhi)   +1 more
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