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Life-cycle assessment of farrow-to-finish pig production systems: a review.
Life-cycle assessment (LCA) is a holistic approach to quantifying and comparing resource use and associated environmental impacts of a product, good...
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Lignin synthesis, transcriptional regulation and potential for useful modification in plants.
Lignin, the second most abundant plant polymer on earth, has always been of great interest for research with regard to its biological roles and pot...
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Interaction of soybean and Phakopsora pachyrhizi, the cause of soybean rust.
Soybean rust, caused by Phakopsora pachyrhizi Syd., is a major disease limiting soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] production in many areas of the world...
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Improving bioethanol production by increasing sugar beet crop yield.
This review presents a summary of published papers on the improvement of sugar beet yield and its transformation into bioethanol. After describing the...
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Understanding the survival strategies of nematodes.
Nematodes are a remarkable group of invertebrates with enormous economic and social importance. Free-living nematodes are found in a wide variety of...
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Effects of industrial agriculture on climate change and the mitigation potential of small-scale agro
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), agriculture is responsible for 10-12% of total global anthropogenic emissions and a...
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Quantitative polymerase chain reaction for the detection of organisms in soil.
Detection and quantification of soil organisms using traditional methods (culture, plating and microscopy) are difficult and do not always allow ident...
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Food security: the role of effective agrobiodiversity management.
Over the next 30 years, global agriculture will be faced with the daunting problem of feeding an additional 2-3 billion people with less water, less e...
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Livestock and climate change, challenges and options.
This review outlines livestock's major emission pathways and production trends, and explores the challenges and options for livestock in addressing ...
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Cultivation of medicinal and aromatic plants in saline environments.
In the last few decades there has been probably more interest in drugs obtained from plant sources than at any time in history because of success wit...
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