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Impact of fruit orientation and pelleting material on water uptake and germination performance in artificial substrate for sugar beet (2020)
Journal Article
Blunk, S., Hoffer, J., Brosda, S., de Heer, M. I., Sturrock, C. J., & Mooney, S. J. (2020). Impact of fruit orientation and pelleting material on water uptake and germination performance in artificial substrate for sugar beet. PLoS ONE, 15(5), Article e0232875. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232875

© 2020 Blunk et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are cred... Read More about Impact of fruit orientation and pelleting material on water uptake and germination performance in artificial substrate for sugar beet.

Potential Use of Rice Husk Biochar and Compost to Improve P Availability and Reduce GHG Emissions in Acid Sulfate Soil (2020)
Journal Article
Phuong, N. T. K., Khoi, C. M., Ritz, K., Sinh, N. V., Tarao, M., & Toyota, K. (2020). Potential Use of Rice Husk Biochar and Compost to Improve P Availability and Reduce GHG Emissions in Acid Sulfate Soil. Agronomy, 10(5), Article 685. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10050685

© 2020 by the authors. Acid sulfate soil (ASS) has major problems related to phosphorus deficiency and high potential for N2O emissions, as well as strong acidity. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of rice husk biochar and compo... Read More about Potential Use of Rice Husk Biochar and Compost to Improve P Availability and Reduce GHG Emissions in Acid Sulfate Soil.

Strigolactones control root system architecture and tip anatomy in solanum lycopersicum l. Plants under p starvation (2020)
Journal Article
Schubert, A., Santoro, V., Sturrock, C. J., Gresta, F., Ertani, A., Cardinale, F., …Celi, L. (2020). Strigolactones control root system architecture and tip anatomy in solanum lycopersicum l. Plants under p starvation. Plants, 9(5), Article 612. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9050612

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. The hormones strigolactones accumulate in plant roots under phosphorus (P) shortage, inducing variations in plant phenotype. In this study, we aimed at understanding whether strigolactones con... Read More about Strigolactones control root system architecture and tip anatomy in solanum lycopersicum l. Plants under p starvation.

Detection and quantification of pore, solid and gravel spaces in CT images of a 3D soil sample (2020)
Journal Article
Ojeda-Magaña, B., Ruelas, R., Quintanilla-Domínguez, J., Robledo-Hernández, J. G., Sturrock, C. J., Mooney, S. J., & Tarquis, A. M. (2020). Detection and quantification of pore, solid and gravel spaces in CT images of a 3D soil sample. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 85, 360-377. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apm.2020.04.021

© 2020 Elsevier Inc. In this study, we scanned the core of a cylindrical soil sample (60mm diameter and 100mm height) by X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) producing 300 consecutive 2D digital images with 16-bit gray level depth and a resolution of 32 mi... Read More about Detection and quantification of pore, solid and gravel spaces in CT images of a 3D soil sample.

Co‐foundress confinement elicits kinship effects in a naturally sub‐social parasitoid (2020)
Journal Article
Khadar Abdi, M., Lupi, D., & Hardy, I. (2020). Co‐foundress confinement elicits kinship effects in a naturally sub‐social parasitoid. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 33(8), 1068-1085. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13635

Kinship among interacting individuals is often associated with sociality and also with sex ratio effects. Parasitoids in the bethylid genus Goniozus are sub-social, with single foundress females exhibiting post-ovipositional maternal care via short-t... Read More about Co‐foundress confinement elicits kinship effects in a naturally sub‐social parasitoid.

Peat Properties, Dominant Vegetation Type and Microbial Community Structure in a Tropical Peatland (2020)
Journal Article
Girkin, N. T., Lopes dos Santos, R. A., Vane, C. H., Ostle, N., Turner, B. L., & Sjögersten, S. (2020). Peat Properties, Dominant Vegetation Type and Microbial Community Structure in a Tropical Peatland. Wetlands, 40, 1367–1377. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-020-01287-4

Tropical peatlands are an important carbon store and source of greenhouse gases, but the microbial component, particularly community structure, remains poorly understood. While microbial communities vary between tropical peatland land uses, and with... Read More about Peat Properties, Dominant Vegetation Type and Microbial Community Structure in a Tropical Peatland.

Roots or Flowers? Take a Guess (2020)
Book Chapter
Ajmera, I., Stekel, D., Band, L., & Hodgman, C. (2020). Roots or Flowers? Take a Guess. In F. Matthäus, S. Matthäus, S. Harris, & T. Hillen (Eds.), The Art of Theoretical Biology (66-67). Springer

Phosphorus is a growth-limiting nutrient for plants. The use of phosphate (Pi) fertiliser is unsustainable because its stocks are non-renew-able and the run-off of surplus fertiliser damages the environment.

Factors associated with inbreeding in charollais lambs (2020)
Journal Article
Sercombe, K., & Bell, M. J. (2020). Factors associated with inbreeding in charollais lambs. International Journal of Agriculture, Environment and Bioresearch, 5(02), 96-107. https://doi.org/10.35410/IJAEB.2020.5495

Inbreeding within sheep populations is a relatively understudied area due to limited pedigree information. This study assessed the level of inbreeding within a Charollais sheep population. Data were obtained from35,220 Charollais lambs between the ye... Read More about Factors associated with inbreeding in charollais lambs.

Bacteriophage ZCSE2 is a Potent Antimicrobial against Salmonella enterica Serovars: Ultrastructure, genomics and efficacy (2020)
Journal Article
Mohamed, A., Taha, O., El-Sherif, H. M., Connerton, P. L., Hooton, S. P., Bassim, N. D., …El-Shibiny, A. (2020). Bacteriophage ZCSE2 is a Potent Antimicrobial against Salmonella enterica Serovars: Ultrastructure, genomics and efficacy. Viruses, 12(4), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.3390/v12040424

© 2020 by the authors. Developing novel antimicrobials capable of controlling multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogens is essential to restrict the use of antibiotics. Bacteriophages (phages) constitute a major resource that can be harnessed as an alt... Read More about Bacteriophage ZCSE2 is a Potent Antimicrobial against Salmonella enterica Serovars: Ultrastructure, genomics and efficacy.

Selenium deficiency risks in sub-Saharan African food systems and their geospatial linkages (2020)
Journal Article
Ligowe, I. S., Phiri, F. P., Ander, E. L., Bailey, E. H., Chilimba, A. D. C., Gashu, D., …Broadley, M. R. (2020). Selenium deficiency risks in sub-Saharan African food systems and their geospatial linkages. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 79(4), 457-467. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0029665120006904

Selenium (Se) is an essential element for human health. However, our knowledge of the prevalence of Se deficiency is less than for other micronutrients of public health concern such as iodine, iron and zinc, especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). St... Read More about Selenium deficiency risks in sub-Saharan African food systems and their geospatial linkages.