All Outputs (26)

The draft genomes of five agriculturally important African orphan crops (2018)
Journal Article

Background: Continuous growth of the world population is expected to double the worldwide demand for food by 2050. Eighty-eight percent of countries current face a serious burden of malnutrition, especially in Africa and South and South-East Asia. Ab... Read More about The draft genomes of five agriculturally important African orphan crops.

A 6,000-year record of environmental change from the eastern Pacific margin of central Mexico (2018)
Journal Article

The transition from the mid- to late-Holocene in MesoAmerica saw increasing complexity in spatial patterns of change. Records from the western part of the region are sparse, with lacustrine sequences affected by long term anthropogenic disturbance or... Read More about A 6,000-year record of environmental change from the eastern Pacific margin of central Mexico.

Prevalence of inherited blood disorders and associations with malaria and anemia in Malawian children (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 American Society of Hematology. In sub-Saharan Africa, inherited causes of anemia are common, but data are limited regarding the geographical prevalence and coinheritance of these conditions and their overall contributions to childhood anemia.... Read More about Prevalence of inherited blood disorders and associations with malaria and anemia in Malawian children.

A regulatory module controlling GA-mediated endosperm cell expansion is critical for seed germination in Arabidopsis (2018)
Journal Article

A key component of seed germination is the interplay of mechanical forces governing embryo growth and the surrounding restraining endosperm tissue. Endosperm cell separation is therefore thought to play a critical role in the control of this developm... Read More about A regulatory module controlling GA-mediated endosperm cell expansion is critical for seed germination in Arabidopsis.

Methane transport in agricultural soil after injection of isotopically-enriched methane in the sub-surface (2018)
Journal Article

Small quantities of radioactive methane (14CH4) may be released over prolonged periods from geological disposal facilities for radioactive waste. The impact of this release depends on the capacity of soil to oxidise 14CH4 to 14CO2 during transport fr... Read More about Methane transport in agricultural soil after injection of isotopically-enriched methane in the sub-surface.

Combining two national-scale data sets to map soil properties, the case of available magnesium in England and Wales: combining two soil surveys (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 The Authors. European Journal of Soil Science published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Society of Soil Science. Given the costs of soil survey it is necessary to make the best use of available datasets, but data that differ wi... Read More about Combining two national-scale data sets to map soil properties, the case of available magnesium in England and Wales: combining two soil surveys.

Paleoclimate change in Ethiopia around the last interglacial derived from annually-resolved stalagmite evidence (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Oxygen and carbon (δ18Ο/δ13C) isotope, growth rate and trace element data are reported for a U-Th dated, annually-laminated stalagmite, GM1 from Goda Mea Cave, Ethiopia. The stalagmite grew intermittently around the last interglac... Read More about Paleoclimate change in Ethiopia around the last interglacial derived from annually-resolved stalagmite evidence.

Essential tips for a rock-solid PhD: Part II (2018)
Journal Article

Insulin-like peptide 3 (INSL3) is a major regulator of female reproductive physiology (2018)
Journal Article

BACKGROUND Insulin-like peptide 3 (INSL3) is a member of the relaxin family of neohormones which has evolved to address specifically mammalian aspects of reproduction related to viviparity and internal fertilization. It was originally identified as... Read More about Insulin-like peptide 3 (INSL3) is a major regulator of female reproductive physiology.

Towards low-cost image-based plant phenotyping using reduced-parameter CNN (2018)
Conference Proceeding

Segmentation is the core of most plant phenotyping applications. Current state-of-the-art plant phenotyping applications rely on deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, these networks have many layers and parameters, increasing training a... Read More about Towards low-cost image-based plant phenotyping using reduced-parameter CNN.

Analytical ultracentrifugation in saliva research: Impact of green tea astringency and its significance on the in-vivo aroma release (2018)
Journal Article

Current saliva testing methods rely on cutting edge yet expensive techniques for the detection and analysis of genetic material, proteins and biomarkers for clinical use. However, these techniques are limited in scope and often cannot be used with co... Read More about Analytical ultracentrifugation in saliva research: Impact of green tea astringency and its significance on the in-vivo aroma release.

Metallome of cerebrovascular endothelial cells infected with Toxoplasma gondii using ?-XRF imaging and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (2018)
Journal Article

In this study, we measured the levels of elements in human brain microvascular endothelial cells (ECs) infected with T. gondii. ECs were infected with tachyzoites of the RH strain, and at 6, 24, and 48 hours post infection (hpi), the intracellular co... Read More about Metallome of cerebrovascular endothelial cells infected with Toxoplasma gondii using ?-XRF imaging and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry.

Essential tips for a rock-solid geoscience PhD: part I (2018)
Journal Article

Characterization of Southeast Asia mangoes (Mangifera indica L) according to their physicochemical attributes (2018)
Journal Article

Mango (Mangifera indica L.) is an economically important fruit crop grown in the tropics. One of the important traits of mango for successful commercial production is the storage quality of the fruit. This study was conducted to evaluate the postharv... Read More about Characterization of Southeast Asia mangoes (Mangifera indica L) according to their physicochemical attributes.

Sensitivity of simulated crop yield and nitrate leaching of the wheat-maize cropping system in the North China Plain to model parameters (2018)
Journal Article

Process-based crop simulation models are often over-parameterised and are therefore difficult to calibrate properly. Following this rationale, the Morris screening sensitivity method was carried out on the DAISY model to identify the most influential... Read More about Sensitivity of simulated crop yield and nitrate leaching of the wheat-maize cropping system in the North China Plain to model parameters.

The stable isotope composition of organic and inorganic fossils in lake sediment records: current understanding, challenges, and future directions (2018)
Journal Article

This paper provides an overview of stable isotope analysis (H, C, N, O, Si) of the macro and microscopic remains from aquatic organisms found in lake sediment records and their application in (palaeo)environmental science. Aquatic organisms, includin... Read More about The stable isotope composition of organic and inorganic fossils in lake sediment records: current understanding, challenges, and future directions.

Chloroplast-rich material from the physical fractionation of pea vine (Pisum sativum) postharvest field residue (Haulm) (2018)
Journal Article

An innovative procedure for plant chloroplasts isolation has been proposed, which consists of juice extraction by physical fractionation from plant material and recovery of its chloroplast-rich fraction (CRF) by centrifugation. This simple method has... Read More about Chloroplast-rich material from the physical fractionation of pea vine (Pisum sativum) postharvest field residue (Haulm).

Immunological effects of altering the concentrate inclusion level in a grass silage-based diet for early lactation Holstein Friesian cows (2018)
Journal Article

Concentrate inclusion levels in dairy cow diets are often adjusted so that the milk yield responses remain economic. While changes in concentrate level on performance is well known, their impact on other biological parameters, including immune functi... Read More about Immunological effects of altering the concentrate inclusion level in a grass silage-based diet for early lactation Holstein Friesian cows.

Evidence for functional state transitions in intensively-managed soil ecosystems (2018)
Journal Article

Soils are fundamental to terrestrial ecosystem functioning and food security, thus their resilience to disturbances is critical. Furthermore, they provide effective models of complex natural systems to explore resilience concepts over experimentally-... Read More about Evidence for functional state transitions in intensively-managed soil ecosystems.

Production of membrane proteins for characterisation of their pheromone-sensing and antimicrobial resistance functions (2018)
Journal Article

Despite the importance of membrane proteins in cellular processes, studies of these hydrophobic proteins present major technical challenges, including expression and purification for structural and biophysical studies. A modified strategy of that pro... Read More about Production of membrane proteins for characterisation of their pheromone-sensing and antimicrobial resistance functions.