Soil is an essential natural resource for maintaining healthy plant growth, human nutrition and ecosystem services.  However, much of the...

Legumes are special group of nitrogen-fixing plants that are an essential component of cropping system and important source of food/feed for human/animal consumption. Therefore it is timely to review the current evidence of the benefits of legumes for human health. However Like other crops, the...

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The current fragmented framework of health governance for humans, animals and environment, together with the conventional linear approach to solving current health problems, is failing to meet today's health challenges and is proving unsustainable. Advances in healthcare depend increasingly on...

Objective: To investigate the content of chromium (Cr), cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb) and 16 kinds of rare earth elements in 2 kinds of Chinese holly leaf (Ilex Kudingcha C. J. Tseng. and Ilex lartifolia Thunb.), so as to reveal the ingestion risk of each element. Methods: The samples were digested by...

This paper thoroughly investigated the main quality and safety risks of edible vegetable oil in China around the production, circulation and consumption. The main quality and safety risks of edible oil included heavy metal pollution of raw materials, adulteration and shoddy behavior of fresh edible...

The article reviews the properties of the Galactomyces geotrichum species, the mould that is most important for the dairy industry. G. geotrichum mould has been isolated from milk, cheeses and alcoholic beverage. Its presence in food products makes it possible to obtain a characteristic aroma and...

Low yields, climate change effects and heterogeneous culture conditions are some reasons for the development of new rice cultivars. This trial was developed with the objective of studying the behavior of sixteen advanced lines of rice under flooded conditions and to select the best for moving on to...

Heat stress in plants trigger responses that affect phenology, physiology, metabolism, and in some cases modify genetic expression, causing variations on agronomic and industrial yield in crops such as wheat. Although not all species and varieties show similar responses to heat stress, monitoring...