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International Soil and Water Conservation Research, 2016 Soil degradation is a growing problem worldwide because it reduces the fertile top layer of the soil available for food production and one such degradative action is soil erosion due to the harvesting of crops.
Pius Olufemi Olusegun Dada +3 more
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Antifungal effects of pawpaw seed extracts and papain on post harvest Carica papaya L. fruit rot [PDF]
, 2010 Increasingly, public debate on ban of use of synthetic chemicals for pest control has been unabated, due basically to the hazards posed by such chemicals to the ecosystem and environment.
Abikoye, B. A., Nwinyi, Obinna
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Crop wild relatives (CWR) in Zimbabwe are reservoirs of beneficial agronomic traits, yet they remain under‐documented and poorly conserved. This study developed Zimbabwe's first national CWR checklist based on a conceptual framework combining floristic, ecological and ethnobotanical data, revealing over 2700 taxa, with nearly 1000 edible species ...
Kudakwashe Mutasa +3 more
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Microorganisms asssociated with postharvest spoilage of yams
Annals of Tropical Research, 2000 This study isolated the microorganisms causing major spoilage of yams collected during a two-year period from various markets in Orissa, India. Seven fungal and two bacterial species (Erwinia sp.
R.C. Ray, M. Nedunzhiyan, C. Balagopalan
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ProceedingsThe Kponan yam (Dioscorea cayenensis-rotundata) is a culturally and economically important crop in Côte d’Ivoire but faces significant post-harvest losses, reducing farmers’ and traders’ incomes.
Yapo Hypolithe Kouadio +5 more
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Improved diagnostic tools for the detection badnaviruses in yams unveil the existence of endogenous sequences of extant badnavirus species in yams. [O.36] [PDF]
, 2015 French West Indies Biological Resources Centre for Tropical Plants (CRB-PT) maintains several germplasm collections of tropical crops and wild relatives, including a collection of more than 450 yam accessions (Dioscorea spp).
Caruana, Marie-Line +9 more
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Photodegradable Hydrogels for On‐Demand Modeling of Age‐Related Spatiotemporal ECM Deformation
Small, EarlyView.A light‐tunable PEG hydrogel enables on‐demand, spatiotemporal modeling of drusen‐like ECM bulges in the aging outer retina. By precisely controlling bulge size, the platform reveals how retinal pigment epithelium morphology adapts to topographical changes without disrupting actin cytoskeleton or polarity, effectively mimicking early ageing before ...
Felix Reul +8 more
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Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Plants can respond to herbivore attack by inducing resistance traits that affect subsequent herbivore performance and behaviour. Here, we investigate how such induced responses in Solidago altissima L.
André Kessler, Katja Poveda
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Economics of Seed Yam Production Using Minisett Technique in Oyo State, Nigeria
Field Actions Science Reports, 2011 The study evaluated the economics of seed yam production using the minisett technique in Oyo State, South West Nigeria. The analysis was based on input and output data collected from sixty yam (Dioscorea spp.) farmers and the existing market price in the
Oguntade Adegboyega Eyitayo +2 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The production‐distribution‐consumption triad has structured how anthropologists understand exchange for roughly a century. This article argues for expanding this triad to include an explicit focus on acquisition – the systems, processes, and practices of acquiring.
Hanna Garth
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