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Biochar as a sustainable alternative to açaí waste disposal in Amazon, Brazil (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 Institution of Chemical Engineers The açaí palm (Euterpe oleracea Mart) is native to the floodplains of central and South America and is cultivated in Brazil for its berries, which are considered to be a ‘superfood’. The waste açaí fiber and s... Read More about Biochar as a sustainable alternative to açaí waste disposal in Amazon, Brazil.

Action threshold development in cabbage pest management using synthetic and botanical insecticides (2020)
Journal Article

As synthetic insecticides can have environmentally detrimental side effects, it is desirable to limit their use while still achieving good marketable yield. One approach is to apply pesticides only when needed, as determined by an action threshold (A... Read More about Action threshold development in cabbage pest management using synthetic and botanical insecticides.

Effect of whole-milk allowance on liveweight gain and growth of parenchyma and fat pads in the mammary glands of dairy heifers at weaning (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 American Dairy Science Association The rates of development of 2 tissues in mammary glands, parenchyma (PAR) and the mammary fat pad (MFP), in response to nutrition in early life might have a major bearing on lifetime milk production. Historic... Read More about Effect of whole-milk allowance on liveweight gain and growth of parenchyma and fat pads in the mammary glands of dairy heifers at weaning.

Impact of rising body weight and cereal grain food processing on human magnesium nutrition (2020)
Journal Article

Aim The World Health Organisation (WHO) magnesium (Mg) estimated average requirement (EAR) is not adjusted for rise in human body weight (BW) and neglects body Mg stores depletion. Cereal grain food processing results in Mg loss and reduces dietar... Read More about Impact of rising body weight and cereal grain food processing on human magnesium nutrition.

Soil and foliar zinc application to biofortify broccoli (Brassica oleracea var. Italica L.): Effects on the zinc concentration and bioavailability (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences. All rights reserved. Agronomic zinc (Zn) biofortification of crops could help to alleviate dietary Zn deficiency, which is likely to affect more than one billion people worldwide. To evaluate the effici... Read More about Soil and foliar zinc application to biofortify broccoli (Brassica oleracea var. Italica L.): Effects on the zinc concentration and bioavailability.

Development of a lyophilization process for Campylobacter bacteriophage storage and transport (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Bacteriophages are a sustainable alternative to control pathogenic bacteria in the post-antibiotic era. Despite promising reports, there are still obstacles to phage use, notably titer stabili... Read More about Development of a lyophilization process for Campylobacter bacteriophage storage and transport.

Untangling early embryo development using single cell genomics (2020)
Journal Article

The zygote undergoes five cell divisions prior to the first signs of lineage segregation. Blastocyst formation requires segregation of the trophectoderm, needed for implantation, and the inner cell mass, which differentiate towards the major lineages... Read More about Untangling early embryo development using single cell genomics.

The Arabidopsis thaliana N-recognin E3 ligase PROTEOLYSIS1 influences the immune response (2019)
Journal Article

N-degron pathways of ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis (formerly known as the N-end rule pathway) control the stability of substrate proteins dependent on the amino-terminal (Nt) residue. Unlike yeast or mammalian N-recognin E3 ligases, which each recog... Read More about The Arabidopsis thaliana N-recognin E3 ligase PROTEOLYSIS1 influences the immune response.

Improving the efficacy of selenium fertilizers for wheat biofortification (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019, The Author(s). Increasing the selenium (Se) concentration of staple crops by fertilization is a valuable pathway to increase Se in the human diet, thus preventing Se deficiency. A pot trial was set up to investigate whether the application of... Read More about Improving the efficacy of selenium fertilizers for wheat biofortification.

Lifestyle information and commercial weight management groups to support maternal postnatal weight management and positive lifestyle behaviour: the SWAN feasibility randomised controlled trial (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 The Authors. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Objectives: To assess feasibility of a future randomised controlled t... Read More about Lifestyle information and commercial weight management groups to support maternal postnatal weight management and positive lifestyle behaviour: the SWAN feasibility randomised controlled trial.

Identification of QTLs for relative root traits associated with phosphorus efficiency in two culture systems in Brassica napus (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019, Springer Nature B.V. Modifications of root system morphology and architecture are considered important strategies of plant tolerance to phosphorus (P) deficiency. However, the effect of culture system on the responses of root traits to P defi... Read More about Identification of QTLs for relative root traits associated with phosphorus efficiency in two culture systems in Brassica napus.

A century of anthropogenic environmental change in tropical Asia: Multi-proxy palaeolimnological evidence from Singapore’s Central Catchment (2019)
Journal Article

The environmental ramifications of rapid development on the functioning of warm tropical freshwater ecosystems are poorly understood. Here, a multi-proxy palaeolimnological approach is used to examine the nature and degree of anthropogenic environmen... Read More about A century of anthropogenic environmental change in tropical Asia: Multi-proxy palaeolimnological evidence from Singapore’s Central Catchment.

Mediterranean winter rainfall in phase with African monsoons during the past 1.36 million years (2019)
Journal Article

Mediterranean climates are characterized by strong seasonal contrasts between dry summers and wet winters. Changes in winter rainfall are critical for regional socioeconomic development, but are difficult to simulate accurately1 and reconstruct on Qu... Read More about Mediterranean winter rainfall in phase with African monsoons during the past 1.36 million years.

Temporal variability in foraminiferal morphology and geochemistry at the West Antarctic Peninsula: a sediment trap study (2019)
Journal Article

The West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) exhibits strong spatial and temporal oceanographic variability, resulting in highly heterogeneous biological productivity. Calcifying organisms that live in the waters off the WAP respond to temporal and spatial var... Read More about Temporal variability in foraminiferal morphology and geochemistry at the West Antarctic Peninsula: a sediment trap study.

Rapid identification of homozygosity and site of wild relative introgressions in wheat through chromosome-specific KASP genotyping assays (2019)
Journal Article

For future food security, it is important that wheat, one of the most widely consumed crops in the world, can survive the threat of abiotic and biotic stresses. New genetic variation is currently being introduced into wheat through introgressions fro... Read More about Rapid identification of homozygosity and site of wild relative introgressions in wheat through chromosome-specific KASP genotyping assays.

Characterization of human FcεRIα chain expression and gene copy number in humanized rat basophilic leukaemia (RBL) reporter cell lines (2019)
Journal Article

Several laboratories have created rat basophil leukemia (RBL) cell lines stably transfected with the human high affinity IgE receptor (FcεRI H). More recently, humanized RBL cell lines saw the introduction of reporter genes such as luciferase (RS-ATL... Read More about Characterization of human FcεRIα chain expression and gene copy number in humanized rat basophilic leukaemia (RBL) reporter cell lines.

miRNAs in plant development (2019)
Book Chapter

Since the discovery of the first microRNA (miRNA) in Caenorhabditis elegans about 25 years ago, small RNAs have emerged as key players in the broad regulation of gene expression in most developmental processes in both plants and animals. miRNAs are... Read More about miRNAs in plant development.

The influence of charge on the multiple thermal transitions observed in xanthan (2019)
Journal Article

Helix-coil transitions in xanthans occur at lower temperatures when the pyruvate group is charged, destabilising the polymer chains. Increasing salt content increases the transition temperature by reducing the effective charge on the pyruvate. A simp... Read More about The influence of charge on the multiple thermal transitions observed in xanthan.

Hydro-mechanical processing of brewer's spent grain as a novel route for separation of protein products with differentiated techno-functional properties (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Hydro-mechanical processing using a colloid mill with a large gap setting leads to the preferential breakup of the residual aleurone and endosperm tissues of brewer's spent grain, forming a protein rich fines material with small p... Read More about Hydro-mechanical processing of brewer's spent grain as a novel route for separation of protein products with differentiated techno-functional properties.

Molecular phenotyping of the surfaceome of migratory chondroprogenitors and mesenchymal stem cells using biotinylation, glycocapture and quantitative LC-MS/MS proteomic analysis (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019, The Author(s). The complement of cell surface proteins, collectively referred to as the surfaceome, is a useful indicator of normal differentiation processes, and the development of pathologies such as osteoarthritis (OA). We employed biochem... Read More about Molecular phenotyping of the surfaceome of migratory chondroprogenitors and mesenchymal stem cells using biotinylation, glycocapture and quantitative LC-MS/MS proteomic analysis.