Subclinical mastitis (SCM) particularly affects milk yield, quality and health of lactating animals. It is an apparently invisible problem that silently leads to enormous financial damage to the whole dairy industry. It is evident from previous studies that faulty animal husbandry practices...

Improvement of crop plants relies on the availability of plant genetic variation. There are several approaches for enhancing genetic variability and for breeding better genotypes to achieve high productivity to meet the demands of food security. India is an agrarian country, whose economic...

In Ecuador, as in other Latin American countries, the agricultural sector has a high economic as well as sociocultural importance. Nevertheless, there is a large group of plant-parasitic nematodes that affect the development and longevity of plants, thereby resulting in a reduction in crop...

Ecological organic agriculture (EOA) is a holistic production management system that can solve many problems in the vegetable crops' value chain (VC). It is, however, unclear about the EOA technologies for the fruit vegetable VC that have already been validated or are in process of validation in...

The date dust mite (DDM), Oligonychus afrasiaticus (McGregor 1939) (Acari: Tetranychidae) is an extremely serious fruit pest of date palm, Phoenix dactylifera L. In recent years, the mite caused economic damage and reduction of yield in may date palm-growing countries in North Africa and the Middle ...

Micronutrient malnutrition is one of the major concerns noted in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. In developing countries, children under the age of five and pregnant women are at the highest risk of adverse events from micronutrient malnutrition. Staple food crops that are common...

Molds and their toxins, mycotoxins, are of major global challenges in the food industry due to their harmful effects on human health as well as their economic losses. Tomato and its products are prone to fungal spoilage at industrial and consumer levels. In this study, we aim to emphasize the...

Macroalgae (seaweeds) are drawing interest as potential tools for climate mitigation within a burgeoning blue carbon agenda. With the high rates of net primary productivity, they are one of the main carbon sinks in the global ocean, both as biomass standing stock and as vectors of carbon export...

In Japan, augmentative biological control is mainly implemented in greenhouses using arthropod natural enemies. Two imported natural enemy species, Phytoseiulus persimilis Athias-Henriot (Acari: Phytoseiidae) against spider mites and Encarsia formosa Gahan (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) against the...

The investigation of the nutritional value of Neglected and Underutilized Crop Species is essential for their valorization. This global systematic review aimed at investigating the nutritional value of tigernut to highlight the importance of the species in the fight against malnutrition. Extensive...