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The biogeochemical impact of glacial meltwater from Southwest Greenland (2019)
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Hendry, K. R., Huvenne, V. A., Robinson, L. F., Annett, A., Badger, M., Jacobel, A. W., …Woodward, E. M. S. (2019). The biogeochemical impact of glacial meltwater from Southwest Greenland. Progress in Oceanography, 176, Article 102126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2019.102126

Biogeochemical cycling in high-latitude regions has a disproportionate impact on global nutrient budgets. Here, we introduce a holistic, multi-disciplinary framework for elucidating the influence of glacial meltwaters, shelf currents, and biological... Read More about The biogeochemical impact of glacial meltwater from Southwest Greenland.

Evaluation of progestogen supplementation for luteal phase support in fresh in vitro fertilization cycles (2019)
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Mohammed, A., Woad, K. J., Mann, G. E., Craigon, J., Raine-Fenning, N., & Robinson, R. S. (2019). Evaluation of progestogen supplementation for luteal phase support in fresh in vitro fertilization cycles. Fertility and Sterility, 112(3), 491-502.e3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fertnstert.2019.04.021

© 2019 American Society for Reproductive Medicine Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of progestogen supplementation in improving clinical pregnancy rates in women undergoing fresh IVF cycles and to compare different routes, start times, duratio... Read More about Evaluation of progestogen supplementation for luteal phase support in fresh in vitro fertilization cycles.

Phacelia (Phacelia tanacetifolia Benth.) affects soil structure differently depending on soil texture (2019)
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Bacq-Labreuil, A., Crawford, J., Mooney, S., Neal, A., & Ritz, K. (2019). Phacelia (Phacelia tanacetifolia Benth.) affects soil structure differently depending on soil texture. Plant and Soil, 441(1-2), 543-554. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-019-04144-4

© 2019, The Author(s). Aims: We studied the effects of Phacelia tanacetifolia, increasingly used as a cover-crop species in arable agricultural systems, upon soil structural properties in the context of two contrasting soil textures. We hypothesised... Read More about Phacelia (Phacelia tanacetifolia Benth.) affects soil structure differently depending on soil texture.

Natural variation of arsenic fractions in soils of the Brazilian Amazon (2019)
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Da Silva Júnior, E. C., Martins, G. C., De Oliveira Wadt, L. H., Da Silva, K. E., Bezerra De Lima, R. M., Dias Batista, K., …Guimarães Guilherme, R. (2019). Natural variation of arsenic fractions in soils of the Brazilian Amazon. Science of the Total Environment, 687, 1219-1231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.446

Arsenic (As) in native soils of the Amazon rainforest is a concern due to its likely origin from the Andean rivers, which transport loads of sediments containing substantial amounts of trace elements coming from the cordilleras. Yet, unveiling soil A... Read More about Natural variation of arsenic fractions in soils of the Brazilian Amazon.

The role of saliva in oral processing: Reconsidering the breakdown path paradigm (2019)
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Boehm, M. W., Yakubov, G. E., Stokes, J. R., & Baier, S. K. (2019). The role of saliva in oral processing: Reconsidering the breakdown path paradigm. Journal of Texture Studies, https://doi.org/10.1111/jtxs.12411

We discuss food oral processing research over the last two decades and consider strategies for quantifying the food breakdown model, originally conceptualised by Hutchings and Lillford . The key innovation in their seminal 1988 paper was shifting t... Read More about The role of saliva in oral processing: Reconsidering the breakdown path paradigm.

Cover crop species have contrasting influence upon soil structural genesis and microbial community phenotype (2019)
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Bacq-Labreuil, A., Crawford, J., Mooney, S. J., Neal, A. L., & Ritz, K. (2019). Cover crop species have contrasting influence upon soil structural genesis and microbial community phenotype. Scientific Reports, 9, Article 7473. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-43937-6

Cover crops (plants grown in an agricultural rotation between cash crops) can significantly improve soil quality via sequestering carbon, retaining nutrients, decreasing soil erosion, and maintaining belowground biodiversity. However, little is know... Read More about Cover crop species have contrasting influence upon soil structural genesis and microbial community phenotype.

The risk of selenium deficiency in Malawi is large and varies over multiple spatial scales (2019)
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Phiri, F. P., Ander, E. L., Bailey, E. H., Chilima, B., Chilimba, A. D. C., Gondwe, J., …Broadley, M. R. (2019). The risk of selenium deficiency in Malawi is large and varies over multiple spatial scales. Scientific Reports, 9(1), Article 6566. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-43013-z

Selenium (Se) is an essential human micronutrient. Deficiency of Se decreases the activity of selenoproteins and can compromise immune and thyroid function and cognitive development, and increase risks from non-communicable diseases. The prevalence o... Read More about The risk of selenium deficiency in Malawi is large and varies over multiple spatial scales.

Material properties of cocoa butter emulsions: effect of dispersed phase droplet size and compression speed on mechanical response (2019)
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di Bari, V., Sullo, A., Norton, J., & Norton, I. (2019). Material properties of cocoa butter emulsions: effect of dispersed phase droplet size and compression speed on mechanical response. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 575, 292-298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfa.2019.04.028

Water-in-cocoa butter (CB) emulsions material properties were investigated using uniaxial compression test. Emulsions containing 20% (wt%) water and with a range of droplet size were manufactured to assess the role of defect size on emulsions mechani... Read More about Material properties of cocoa butter emulsions: effect of dispersed phase droplet size and compression speed on mechanical response.

The Scope, Functions, and Dynamics of Posttranslational Protein Modifications (2019)
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Millar, A. H., Heazlewood, J. L., Giglione, C., Holdsworth, M. J., Bachmair, A., & Schulze, W. X. (2019). The Scope, Functions, and Dynamics of Posttranslational Protein Modifications. Annual Review of Plant Biology, 70, 119-151. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-arplant-050718-100211

© 2019 by Annual Reviews. All rights reserved. Assessing posttranslational modification (PTM) patterns within protein molecules and reading their functional implications present grand challenges for plant biology. We combine four perspectives on PTMs... Read More about The Scope, Functions, and Dynamics of Posttranslational Protein Modifications.

Role of Asian summer monsoon subsystems in the inter-hemispheric progression of deglaciation (2019)
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Nilsson-Kerr, K., Anand, P., Sexton, P. F., Leng, M. J., Misra, S., Clemens, S. C., & Hammond, S. J. (2019). Role of Asian summer monsoon subsystems in the inter-hemispheric progression of deglaciation. Nature Geoscience, 12(4), 290-295. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0319-5

The responses of Asian monsoon subsystems to both hemispheric climate forcing and external orbital forcing are currently issues of vigorous debate. The Indian summer monsoon is the dominant monsoon subsystem in terms of energy flux, constituting one... Read More about Role of Asian summer monsoon subsystems in the inter-hemispheric progression of deglaciation.

A core mechanism for specifying root vascular pattern can replicate the anatomical variation seen in diverse plant species (2019)
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Mellor, N., Vaughan-Hirsch, J., Kümpers, B. M., Help-Rinta-Rahko, H., Miyashima, S., Pekka Mähönen, A., …Bishopp, A. (2019). A core mechanism for specifying root vascular pattern can replicate the anatomical variation seen in diverse plant species. Development, 146(6), Article dev172411. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.172411

Pattern formation is typically controlled through the interaction between molecular signals within a given tissue. During early embryonic development, roots of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana have a radially symmetric pattern, but a heterogeneou... Read More about A core mechanism for specifying root vascular pattern can replicate the anatomical variation seen in diverse plant species.

Prospects of orphan crops in climate change (2019)
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Mabhaudhi, T., Chimonyo, V. G. P., Hlahla, S., Massawe, F., Mayes, S., Nhamo, L., & Modi, A. T. (2019). Prospects of orphan crops in climate change. Planta, 250(3), 695-708. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-019-03129-y

Main conclusion Orphan crops can contribute to building resilience of marginal cropping systems as a climate chnage adaptation strategy. Orphan crops play an important role in global food and nutrition security, and may have potential to contribute t... Read More about Prospects of orphan crops in climate change.

Iodine uptake, storage and translocation mechanisms in spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) (2019)
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Humphrey, O. S., Young, S. D., Bailey, E. H., Crout, N. M., Ander, E. L., Hamilton, E. M., & Watts, M. J. (2019). Iodine uptake, storage and translocation mechanisms in spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.). Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 41(5), 2145-2156. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-019-00272-z

© 2019, Springer Nature B.V. Iodine is an essential micronutrient for human health; phytofortification is a means of improving humans’ nutritional iodine status. However, knowledge of iodine uptake and translocation in plants remains limited. In thi... Read More about Iodine uptake, storage and translocation mechanisms in spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.).

One “OMICS” to integrate them all: ionomics as a result of plant genetics, physiology and evolution (2019)
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Pita-Barbosa, A., Ricachenevsky, F. K., & Flis, P. M. (2019). One “OMICS” to integrate them all: ionomics as a result of plant genetics, physiology and evolution. Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology, 31(1), 71-89. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40626-019-00144-y

© 2019, Brazilian Society of Plant Physiology. The ionome concept, which stands as the inorganic composition of an organism, was introduced 15 years ago. Since then, the ionomics approaches have identified several genes involved in key processes for... Read More about One “OMICS” to integrate them all: ionomics as a result of plant genetics, physiology and evolution.

Landmark Papers no. 8: Burgess, T.M. & Webster, R. 1980. Optimal interpolation and isarithmic mapping of soil properties. I. The semi-variogram and punctual kriging. Journal of Soil Science, 31, 315-331: Commentary on the impact of Burgess & Webster (1980a) (2019)
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Lark, R., Heuvelink, G., & Bishop, T. (2019). Landmark Papers no. 8: Burgess, T.M. & Webster, R. 1980. Optimal interpolation and isarithmic mapping of soil properties. I. The semi-variogram and punctual kriging. Journal of Soil Science, 31, 315-331: Commentary on the impact of Burgess & Webster (1980a). European Journal of Soil Science, 70(1), 7-10. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.12749

This landmark paper by Burgess & Webster (1980a) signalled a new era in the spatial mapping of the soil. The emergence of pedometrics as a distinct subdiscipline of soil science was a gradual process, and had its roots in earlier studies than this on... Read More about Landmark Papers no. 8: Burgess, T.M. & Webster, R. 1980. Optimal interpolation and isarithmic mapping of soil properties. I. The semi-variogram and punctual kriging. Journal of Soil Science, 31, 315-331: Commentary on the impact of Burgess & Webster (1980a).

The draft genomes of five agriculturally important African orphan crops (2018)
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Chang, Y., Liu, H., Liu, M., Liao, X., Sahu, S. K., Fu, Y., …Liu, X. (2019). The draft genomes of five agriculturally important African orphan crops. GigaScience, 8(3), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giy152

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)
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Davies, S. J., Metcalfe, S. E., Aston, B. J., Byrne, A. R., Champagne, M. R., Jones, M. D., …Noren, A. (2018). A 6,000-year record of environmental change from the eastern Pacific margin of central Mexico. Quaternary Science Reviews, 202, 211-224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.11.008

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)
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McGann, P. T., Williams, A. M., Ellis, G., McElhinney, K. E., Romano, L., Woodall, J., …Suchdev, P. S. (2018). Prevalence of inherited blood disorders and associations with malaria and anemia in Malawian children. Blood Advances, 2(21), 3035-3044. https://doi.org/10.1182/bloodadvances.2018023069

© 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)
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Sánchez-Montesino, R., Bouza-Morcillo, L., Marquez, J., Ghita, M., Duran-Nebreda, S., Gómez, L., …Oñate-Sánchez, L. (2019). A regulatory module controlling GA-mediated endosperm cell expansion is critical for seed germination in Arabidopsis. Molecular Plant, 12(1), 71-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2018.10.009

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)
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Shaw, G., Atkinson, B., Meredith, W., Snape, C., Lever, D., & Hoch, A. (2018). Methane transport in agricultural soil after injection of isotopically-enriched methane in the sub-surface. Scientific Data, 5, 180208. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.208

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.