Using ORYZA2000 to model cold rice yield response to climate change in the He…

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the most important staple crops in China. Increasing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations and associated climate change may greatly affect rice production. We assessed the potential impacts of climate change on cold rice production in the Heilongjiang province, one of China's most important rice production regions. Data for a baseline period (1961–1990) a…

Genetic diversity and population structure of Pisum sativum accessions for ma…

Field pea (Pisum sativum L.) is an important protein-rich pulse crop produced globally. Increasing the lipid content of Pisum seeds through conventional and contemporary molecular breeding tools may bring added value to the crop. However, knowledge about genetic diversity and lipid content in field pea is limited. An understanding of genetic diversity and population structure in diverse germpla…

Improvement of copper tolerance of Arabidopsis by transgenic expression of an…

Allene oxide cyclase (AOC, E 5.3.99.6) is an essential enzyme in the jasmonic acid (JA)biosynthetic pathway and mediates a wide range of adaptive responses. In this report, five AOC genes (GhAOC1–GhAOC5) were cloned from upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.),sequenced, and characterized. Real-time PCR analysis indicated that the transcripts of GhAOCs were abundantly expressed in roots and le…

Resistance to Aspergillus flavus in maize and peanut:Molecular biology, breed…

The colonization of maize (Zea mays L.) and peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) by the fungal pathogen Aspergillus flavus results in the contamination of kernels with carcinogenic mycotoxins known as aflatoxins leading to economic losses and potential health threats to humans. The regulation of aflatoxin biosynthesis in various Aspergillus spp. has been extensively studied, and has been shown to be r…

Grain yield losses in yellow-rusted durum wheat estimated using digital and c…

The biotrophic fungus Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici is the causal agent of the yellow rust in wheat. Between the years 2010–2013 a new strain of this pathogen (Warrior/Ambition),against which the present cultivated wheat varieties have no resistance, appeared and spread rapidly. It threatens cereal production in most of Europe. The search for sources of resistance to this strain is prop…

Determination of rice panicle numbers during heading by multi-angle imaging

Plant phenomics has the potential to accelerate progress in understanding gene functions and environmental responses. Progress has been made in automating high-throughput plant phenotyping. However, few studies have investigated automated rice panicle counting. This paper describes a novel method for automatically and nonintrusively determining rice panicle numbers during the full heading stage…

Identification of EST–SSRs and molecular diversity analysis in Mentha piperita

EST sequences of Mentha piperita available in the public domain (NCBI) were exploited to develop SSR markers. A total of 1316 ESTs were assembled into 155 contigs and 653 singletons and of these, 110 sequences were found to contain 130 SSRs, with a frequency of 1 SSR/3.4 kb. Dinucleotide repeat SSRs were most frequent (72.3%) with the AG/CT (43.8%) repeat motif followed by AT/AT (16.2%). Primer…

Bed planting of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)improves nitrogen use efficiency …

Conventional flat planting is commonly used for growing wheat in Pakistan and the crop is irrigated by flood irrigation, but it leads to ineffective use of applied nitrogen owing to poor aeration and leaching and volatilization losses. The practice also results in greater crop lodging, lower water use efficiency, and crusting of the soil surface. In contrast, bed planting of wheat not only save…

QTL IciMapping: Integrated software for genetic linkage map construction and …

QTL IciMapping is freely available public software capable of building high-density linkage maps and mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) in biparental populations. Eight functionalities are integrated in this software package: (1) BIN: binning of redundant markers;(2) MAP: construction of linkage maps in biparental populations; (3) CMP: consensus map construction from multiple linkage maps sh…

Preliminary Study on Baseflow Separation at Watersheds in East Java Regions

This research aims to determine the range of parameter value, baseflow index and the appropriate method for base flow separation. Seven (7) recursive-digital-filters (RDF) and two (2) graphical methods are used for this study. Discharge data from 8 watersheds in the administrative area of UPT PSDA Bondowoso in East Java were used to test the methods. Firstly, each method was calibrated using…

Endeavoring to Food Sustainability by Promoting Corn Cob and Rice Husk Brique…

Sustainable agriculture production is a key on achieving food consumption adequacy in developing country but many farmers should struggle more in fulfilling production sustainability whilst keeping on with the economical target. The research was endeavored to seek a viable application on achieving agricultural sustainability and recognizing farmers and community biggest obstacles such as energy…

Improvement of Antioxidant and Immune Status of Atherosclerotic Rats Adrenali…

The aimed to improve the activity of SOD and reduce the levels of MDA, CRP, and IL-6 of atherosclerotic-rats using cardamomrhizome ethanolic-extract (CREE). A total of 28 Sprague-Dawley rats, aged 2-3 months, 180-250 g were injected with adrenaline, and given the egg-yolks for 3 weeks. The rats were divided into 4 groups, 7 rats each, I, were given CREE; II, statin;III, CREE+statin; and IV, fee…

A Portable Low-cost Non-destructive Ripeness Inspection for Oil Palm FFB

Color considered as a main character to determine quality of agricultural products, especially fruit ripeness. Human eyes are excellent in differentiating color, however, human perception to color are often inconsistent, influence by their physical and psychological state. In this study, the ripeness of oil palm fresh fruits bunch (FFB) assessed using a portable and low-cost device,comprised of…

Biodegradability simulation of coffee wastewater using instant coffee

Water minimization in wet process of robusta coffee can improve coffee bean quality while reduce the volume of coffee wastewater. However, this process increases the concentration of organic material in wastewater up to 100% that requires specific handling. High organic matter content in wastewater has potential to be utilized as a source of renewable energy through anaerobic process. The obje…

Water Usage Pattern on Different Group Residing In Vicinity Harapan Rainforest

This study was aimed to investigate water usage behavior on different group who residing in vicinity Harapan Rainforest. The qualitative and quantitative information was collected from 101 respondents by using semi-structure questionnaires. Respondent consist of three groups of people who residing in vicinity rainforest; indigenous people (Suku Anak Dalam), local people (Malay) and migrant (Jav…

Biophysical Monitoring on the Effect on Different Composition of Goat and Cow…

Currently Indonesia has targeted to satisfy the national demand of maize by fulfilling its own production. The policy will benefit the social economy of the local farmers and communities and create a variety of jobs. Attempts in fulfilling demand should uphold production sustainability, even then many indication show declining capability of soil to have increased. Reducing the capability of soi…

Solubilization of Potassium Containing Mineral by Microorganisms From Sugarca…

Potassium solubilizing microorganisms (KSM) isolated from sugarcane rhizosphere and their capability on solubilization from some insoluble potassium were examined. Isolation of potassium solubilizer was carried out from three sugarcane plantations area, on Alexandrov’s agar medium. From the 41 isolated microorganisms were selected 15 isolates potassium solubilizing microorganisms which exhibi…

Advanced Organic Chemistry Part A: Structure and Mechanisms

As in the previous editions, a significant amount of specific information is provided in tables and schemes. These data and examples serve to illustrate the issues that have been addressed in the text. Instructors who want to achieve a broad coverage, but without the level of detail found in the tables and schemes, may choose to advise students to focus on the main text. In most cases, the …

Advanced Oil Crop Biorefineries

The twenty first century is a period of human history where natural resources are stretched to the limit, unprecedented levels of carbon emissions and a rapidly rising population, predicted to reach nine billion by 2050. It is indeed the opinion of some that we have excavated a hole so deep that there is now no turning back from catastrophe, however I believe that it is in human nature to …

Entrepreneurship as New Approach to Support National Agriculture Development …

Sustainable food systems for food security and nutrition becomes international issue and also at Indonesia. There are many efforts to reach sustainable food but all activities just focus on cultivation aspect. Conversely, strategy approach that involving farmer Internal potential, called entrepreneurship has not been used as a supporting policy. The objective of this study is to disseminate a n…

Cropping Pattern Scenario based on Global Climate Indices and Rainfall in Ban…

Although there has been a high relationship between global climate and rainfall in Indonesia, but little evidence is available for relationship among global climate indices, rainfall and crop yield to determine cropping pattern. This study evaluates the relationships between global climate indices, which are representative by Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) and Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Ni…

AMMI Model for Yield Estimation in Multi-Environment Trials: A Comparison to …

Maximum information from the Multi-environment trials (MET) can be reached by seeking the best estimator of each genotype’s mean yield in a given environment. AMMI (additive main-effects and multiplicative interaction) is popular for analyzing MET data with fixed effect. When the environment included in MET is the sample of large environment, then environment effects regarded as random may be…

On The Development of Statistical Modeling in Plant Breeding: An Approach of …

Generalized AMMI (GAMMI) model has been widely used to model the Genotype × Environment Interaction (GEI) with categorical (or in general, non-normal) response variables. It was developed by introduce the concept of Generalized Linear Model (GLM) into Additive Main Effect & Multiplicative Interaction (AMMI) model. GAMMI model will provide two major results (i) the stability analysis of some g…

Air pollution removal by green infrastructures and urban forests in the city …

We investigated the potential performance of air pollution removal by the green infrastructures and urban forests in the city of Florence, central Italy, with a focus on the two most detrimental pollutants for human health: particulate (PM10) and ozone (O3). The spatial distribution of green infrastructures was mapped using remote sensing data. A spatial modeling approach using vegetation indic…

Green Building for a Green Tourism. A new model of eco-friendly agritourism

The following paper highlights the enhancement and promotion of Campania region’s rural tourism plus the Green Building’s importance for a kind of sustainable and competitive one, providing ideas and valuable suggestions on how natural, environmental and cultural assets of the landscape should be properly exploited. Rural tourism is about values and traditions’ reaffirmation, but is mo…

Identifying strategies for energy consumption reduction and energy efficiency…

TESLA (Transfering Energy Save Laid on Agroindustry) is a EU project pointing to the reduction of energy consumption and the improvement of energy efficiency in key agro-food sectors’ cooperatives, as those processing fruit and vegetables. After a general analysis of energy consumptions during the first phase of the project, the processes responsible for the higher energy consumptions in thes…

Sustainability and food: a text analysis of the scientific literature

The paper analyses the evolution of the research debate related to sustainability and to the relation between food and sustainability. A number of text analysis techniques were combined for the investigation of scientific papers. The results stress how discourse analysis of sustainability in the pre-Rio period is mostly associated with agriculture and with a vision where the ecological and env…

The city and the territory system: towards the "New Humanism"paradigm

In this time of great transformations (increasing urbanization, climate change, biodiversity loss, growing disparities etc) we are searching a new development model, able to better satisfy the needs of all people. The "revised" traditional city model, (that is linked to a specific territory, to localism, to recognize the local identities that make the differences with their specific Heritage,ba…

Exploring the Italians' food habits and tendency towards a sustainable diet: …

Over the last few years, the Mediterranean diet has received growing attention as it represents a sustainable diet in which nutrition, local food production, biodiversity, culture and sustainability are strongly interconnected, with a low impact on the environment. By using repeated cross-sections of the ISTAT “Aspects of daily-life” survey over the period 1997-2012, we assess prevailing f…

Hub agribusiness in the Center Italy: Simulation of the growth of a new "indu…

The province of Rieti has provided for the drafting of "master plan" able to harmonize local development goals with the financial opportunities of the programming period 2014-2020. Lazio Region through resolution number 1 of 2006 are driving the process of reorganization of industrial Agribusiness theorizing the start up of a single HUB between Lazio (Guidonia-CAR) and Abruzzo (Pescara -Agribus…

Ecological Agro-ecosystem Sustainable Development in Relationship to Other Se…

Sustainable agriculture is the major economic sector (i.e. about 30% of Global economy) with the industrial and trading system in the world’s economy. It is important to understand why the sustainable development is very important to the point of improving of human life and reducing the poverty. Additionally, we need to sustain our natural resources to be replenished and continue support our …

Selected physical properties, texture and sensory characteristics of extruded…

Directly expanded breakfast cereals were processed with a single screw extrusion-cooker TS-45 with L:D=16:1 at screw speed 120 rpm, shaped on the circular open die 2 mm in diameter. Wholegrain wheat flour in amount of 50, 60 and 70% of total mass was the basic raw material, additionally corn grit, rice flour, cocoa and sugar were used. The initial moisture content of raw materials was set to 1…

Pesticide spray characterisation using high speed imaging techniques

Spray droplet characteristics are important features of an agricultural spray. The objective of this study is to measure the droplet size for different types of hydraulic spray nozzles using a developed backlighted image acquisition system and image processing technique. An in-focus droplet criterion was established to decide whether a droplet is in focus and can be measured in an accurate way.…

Analysis of energy-consumption of bioethanol production in agricultural disti…

The paper analyses the process and impact of selected factors on energy efficiency of potato-derived ethyl alcohol production process in Poland. Data from a variety of agricultural distilleries in Poland were used, and 10 selected indices of the process were taken into account. The research involved using sophisticated tools such as cluster analysis, sensitivity analysis and artificial neural n…

Practical deviation in sustainable pesticide application process

Using agrochemicals becomes essential practice of modern farming but in the same time it puts risk to human, animal health and the environment. The initial actions to create balance between this negative impact and the necessity to use the pesticides concerning the environment, people's living conditions and the economic, those factors are defined as the sustainable development. In this paper t…

Gainers and losers of the implementation of the new Common Agricultural Polic…

The new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) defined in 2013 is implemented since 2015. It offers several options to the Member States/Regions. This paper describes the choices which have been made in Wallonia and their consequences on direct payments. It appears that 42% of the farmers will lose between 2014 and 2019, while 44% will gain and a quasi-status quo is observed for the remaining 14%. Fi…

Trajectory planning with obstacles on the example of tomato harvest

The paper presents the PR-APT method (Planning Rectilinear-Arc Polynomial Trajectory) for planning a trajectory of the manipulator end-effector. In the described method, a path consists of two rectilinear segments of intersecting directions combined with the blending arc of a set radius. The arc can make a fragment of an avoidable obstacle. he algorithm and the implemented method on the exampl…

The impact of structural and operational parameters of the centrifugal disc s…

The objective of this study was to specify the impact of structural and operational parameters of the centrifugal disc spreader on the spatial distribution of fertilizer varied in terms of physical properties (urea, ammonium sulfate, nitrochalk). The spatial distribution was characterized by parameters of the stationary spread pattern in the polar coordinate system: average angle and average ra…

Applicability of MIKE SHE to Simulate Hydrology in Argesel River Catchment

A fully distributed, physically-based hydrologic modelling system, MIKE SHE, was used in this study to simulate surface flow as runoff and subsurface flow drainage routed through tile drainage infrastructure within the Argesel River watershed. MIKE SHE,Système Hydrologique Européen, is a sub-model under the collection of models within the MIKE framework from the Danish Hydraulic Institute (DH…

The Romanian External Trade in 2007 – 2013

In this paper we have focused on the Romanian external trade during the period 2007 - 2013. Using statistical indicators it has been analyzed the Romanian imports and exports at the global level, data available from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. After the study we could find scarce products that we import in large quantities, so we can cover the needs of food,like meat, sug…

Molecular Detection of Resistance Genes to Leaf Rust Lr34 And Lr37 in Wheat G…

Leaf rust, caused by Puccinia triticina, is the most common rust disease of wheat. Using molecular markers technology, with a wide variety of approaches, can improve the efficiency of the selection strategies in wheat breeding programs. One of the most known resistance gene to leaf rust is Lr34, involved in adult plant resistance (APR) or „slow rusting” type. In order to obtain cultivars w…

Histopathological Study of Brain from Cattle with Nervous Symptomatology

This study aim the identification of morphopatological changes of the central nervous system in cattle with clinical nervous symptoms. Studied animals were represented by brain samples from cattle with clinical nervous signs, received in the Morphopathology Department for diagnosis of TSEs and other neurological diseases. Application of diagnostic protocol for cattle with nervous symptoms is ac…

The Role of Geometry on Livestock Facilities under Different Types of Actions

The objective of the paper is the investigation of the livestock facility response, in the specific conditions of seismicity of Romania. All buildings are designed for a particular use, and this is reflected in their shape, size and layout. The design and development of a traditional livestock facility can provide important information about agricultural or industrial practices in the past. Sma…

Results regarding Some Morphometric Features of Spermatozoa in Ram

It is well known nowadays that morphological type classification of spermatozoa is an important component of the modern semen evaluation. Meanwhile, current methods of analysis are subjective and highly diversified; they are also ones of the best tools for artificial insemination using cryogenic preserved semen for the contemporary livestock producer. The aim of the present study was to determi…

Study on the Influence of Average Daily Light Duration and Different Levels o…

In order to determine the effect of average daily lighting duration and battery cages level on the production performance of laying quails, an experiment on 500 quail hens of Balote

Relationships among Feed Intake, Blood Metabolites, Follicle Size and Progest…

The aim of this study was to determine the relationships among feed intake, blood metabolites, follicle size, and progesterone (P4) concentration in ewes that did or did not exhibit estrus after estrous synchronization. Sixteen cycling, Merino ewes were synchronized for 12 days with a controlled internal drug release (CIDR) devices (300 mg P4). Ewes were classified by estrous behavior as exhibi…

The study aims to explore farmers’ practice and constraints in organic vegetable farming as well as to identify farmers’ perception and their adaptability to move to or improve their organic vegetable farming. It also helps to select and determine factors influencing farmers’ perception and adaptation to uptake organic vegetable farming and to investigate if this in turn supports sustaina…

Evolution of Game Theory Application in Irrigation Systems

Agriculture is the largest consumer of water. Since water demand for irrigational purposes is expected to rise and given the fact that freshwater is not an unlimited resource, conflicts about the use of water and allocation issues are becoming more intense. The present paper examines the potential for water conflict when water consumption for irrigation takes place. In order to contribute to th…

The growth of Arthrocnemum macrostachyum and Halimione portulacoides in an ex…

The marine halophytes Arthrocnemum macrostachyum and Halimione portulacoides are found growing naturally in saltmarshes within Greece creating an aesthetically pleasing groundcover that also reflects the changing of seasons. The potential use of these species in an extensive green roof system in coastal areas would lead to additional benefits such as preserving and enhancing the local landscap…

Agricultural irrigation canals in southern France and new urban territorial u…

Agricultural irrigation canals are widespread across southern France, where they cover a large portion of the Provençal region. While they are still extensively used in productive farming, part of the irrigated area is gradually being taken over by peri-urban habitat and business and industrial parks. As a result, some parts of the canal network have now been abandoned, either built over or tu…