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Breeding and deploying high-zinc maize in the tropics by Boddupalli, Prasanna, Palacios Rojas, Natalia, San Vicente Garcia, Felix, Dhliwayo, Thanda, Menkir, Abebe, Ndhlela, Thokozile, Nair, Sudha, Zhang, Xuecai

“…Conventional breeding strategies, alongside modern tools such as QTL mapping, genome-wide association studies (GWAS), and genomic selection (GS), have been instrumental in developing high-zinc varieties. Data from efforts in Latin America and Africa reveal that these varieties can perform competitively in terms of yield and agronomic traits. …”
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A mechanistic understanding of the effect of lime and compost on soil cadmium availability in cacao farms by Wiersma, Wietse, Favaro, Anna, Comans, Rob N.J., Pulleman, Mirjam Margreet, Groenenberg, Jan E.

“…This insight is highly relevant in the context of food safety regulations affecting the cacao sector in Latin America. Geochemical multisurface models (MSMs) can be used to generate such knowledge, yet their potential for this purpose remains underexplored. …”
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Escalamiento de variedades de papa biofortificadas en Perú, con énfasis en la producción y distribución de semillas by Andrade-Piedra, J.L., Perez, W., Hareau, G., Pradel, W., Polar, Vivian, Ordinola, M., Infantas, V., Salas, E., Burgos, G.

“…Together, these actions create an end-to-end pathway from breeding to nutrition impact, demonstrating how biofortified potatoes can contribute to improved health, resilient food systems, and inclusive rural development in Peru, with lessons applicable to other countries in Latin America and beyond. …”
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Bosques secundarios y manejo integrado de recursos en la agricultura migratoria por colonos en Latinoamérica by Smith, J., Finegan, B., Sabogal, C., Ferreira, M. do S.G., Siles, G., Kop, P. van de, Díaz, A.

“…This paper discusses the socioeconomic, policy and ecological opportunities and constraints to the regeneration and management of secondary forests (SF) on small scale colonist farms in three Latin American countries. So far there has been little recognition of SF as a forest resource. …”
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Could payments for forest carbon contribute to improved tropical forest management? by Smith, J., Applegate, G.

“…Results from studies primarily in Asia and Latin America are analyzed in the context of the modalities of the Kyoto Protocol. …”
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The efficiency of payments for environmental services in tropical conservation by Wunder, Sven

“…I reviewed the PES literature for developing countries and combined these findings with observations from my own field studies in Latin America and Asia. A PES scheme, simply stated, is a voluntary, conditional agreement between at least one “seller” and one “buyer” over a well-defined environmental service—or a land use presumed to produce that service. …”
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El papel de las instituciones informales en el uso de los recursos forestales en América Latina by Pacheco, P., Barry, D.M., Cronkleton, P., Larson, A.M.

“…This study adopts an institutional approach to analyze the way in which informal rules, in their interaction with formal rules, shape the use of forest resources by diverse types of smallholders and communities (i.e., indigenous people, agro-extractive and traditional communities) in Latin America. Attention is given to understanding the ‘working rules’, comprising both formal and informal rules, that individuals use in making their decisions for land and forest resources access and use, which in turn affect benefits generation and distribution from such resources use. …”
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A produção familiar como alternativa de um desenvolvimento sustentável para a Amazônia: lições aprendidas de iniciativas de uso florestal por produtores familiares na Amazônia boli... by Pokorny B., Godar, Javier, Hoch, L., Johnson, J., Koning, J. de, Medina, G., Steinbrenner, R., Vos, V., Weigelt, J.

“…This book presents lessons learnt from more than 100 studies by researchers from Latin America, from practitioners and from local families themselves. …”
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La producción familiar como alternativa de un desarrollo sostenible para la Amazonía: lecciones aprendidas de iniciativas de uso forestal por productores familiares en la Amazonía... by Pokorny B., Godar, Javier, Hoch, L., Johnson, J., Koning, J. de, Medina, G., Steinbrenner, R., Vos, V., Weigelt, J.

“…This book presents lessons learnt from more than 100 studies by researchersfrom Latin America, from practitioners and from local families themselves. …”
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Sucrose supplements in cattle given grass silage-based diet. 1. Digestion of organic matter and nitrogen by Khalili, H., Huhtanen, P.

“…In a 4 X 4 Latin square experiment, 4 male Friesian cattle with rumen and duodenal cannulae were given a basal diet of grass silage 700, barley 240 and rapeseed meal 60 g/kg total DM, at the rate of 5.3 kg DM/day (diet C) or supplemented with sucrose 1.0 kg/day given twice daily (diet S), twice daily with sodium bicarbonate 0.25 kg/day (diet B) or as a continuous intraruminal infusion (diet I). …”
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Sucrose supplements in cattle given grass silage-based diet. 2. Digestion of cell wall carbohydrates by Khalili, H., Huhtanen, P.

“…In a 4 X 4 Latin square experiment, 4 male Friesian cattle with rumen and duodenal cannulae were given a basal diet of grass silage 700, barley 240 and rapeseed meal 60 g/kg total DM at the rate of 5.3 kg DM/day (diet C) or supplemented with sucrose 1.0 kg/day given twice daily (diet S), twice daily with sodium bicarbonate 0.25 kg/day (diet B) or as a continuous intraruminal infusion (diet I). …”
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The utilisation of complete cereal-based diets differing in roughage inclusion level by Matabele goats and Sabi sheep by Hatendi, P.R., Ndlovu, L.R., Smith, T., Said, A.N.

“…Treatment diets were offered ad libitum to castrate Matabele goats (46.4 (+ or -) 1.81 kg) and Sabi sheep (49.4 (+ or -) 1.8 kg) in an incomplete paired latin square (4 diets and 3 periods). Each 32-day period comprised a 21-day adaptation period followed by a seven-day digestibility and concurrent rate of passage determination of chromium mordanted hay and four-day in sacco degradation of veld hay. …”
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The effect of sucrose supplements on particle-associated carboxymethylcellulase (EC 3.2.1.4) and xylanase (EC 3.2.1.8) activities in cattle given grass-silage-based diet by Huhtanen, P., Khalili, H.

“…Cattle with a permanent rumen cannula and a simple "T"-piece duodenal cannula were given 4 diets in a 4X4 Latin Square experiment. The basal diet (diet C) consisted of grass silage, barley and rapeseed meal (700, 240 and 60 g/kg total DM) given daily or supplemented with sucrose 1.0 kg given twice daily (Diet S), twice daily with sodium bicarbonate 0.25 kg/day (diet B) or as a continuous intrarumen infusion (diet I). …”
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The effects of supplementing Napier grass (Pennisetum purpureum) with rock phosphate and steamed bone meal compared with a commercial mineral mix on phosphorus absorption in cattle by Odongo, N.E., Tanner, J.C., Romney, Dannie L., Plaizier, J., Straaten, P. van, McBride, B.

“…Twelve Boran steers with a mean live weight of 215.8 ± 13.9 kg were used in an incomplete Latin Square experiment to compare the apparent phosphorus (P) absorption in cattle when Napier grass (Pennisetum purpureum) was supplemented with Busumbu rock phosphate (BRP), Minjingu rock phosphate (MRP), steamed bone meal (SBM) or a commercial mineral mix (CMM). …”
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EcoHealth approach to control of zoonotic emerging infectious diseases in Southeast Asia: Sharing the experiences by Gilbert, Jeffrey

“…Always keen to test a novel approach, researchers learned of the EcoHealth approach that had been pioneered in Latin America and submitted a proposal entitled an ‘Ecosystem Approaches to the Better Management of Zoonotic Emerging Infectious Diseases in SE Asia’ was accepted for funding by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC, Canada). …”
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The climate of cloud forests by Jarvis, Andy, Mulligan, M.

“…There are some clear differences in the climates of cloud forests found in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and those in Asia. …”
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Patrimonial violence: A study of women’s property rights in Ecuador by Deere, Carmen Diana, Contreras, Jacqueline, Twyman, Jennifer

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Domestication patterns in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and the origin of the Mesoamerican and Andean cultivated races by Chacón Sánchez, María I., Pickersgill, B, Debouck, Daniel G.

“…Chloroplast DNA polymorphisms were studied by PCR sequencing and PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism in 165 accessions of domesticated landraces of common bean from Latin America and the USA, 23 accessions of weedy beans, and 134 accessions of wild beans covering the entire geographic range of wild Phaseolus vulgaris. …”
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Expression and inheritance of hypersensitive resistance to rice hoja blanca virus mediated by the viral nucleocapsid protein gene in transgenic rice by Lentini, Zaida, Lozano Potes, Iván, Tabares Z., Eddie, Fory Sánchez, L.F., Domínguez, J., Cuervo Ibáñez, Maritza, Calvert, Lee A.

“…This is the first report of transgenic resistance to RHBV and the transformation of an indica rice variety from Latin America. Rice transformed with the RHBV nucleocapsid protein (N) gene had a significant reduction in disease development. …”
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Extensive diversity and inter-genepool introgression in a world-wide collection of indeterminate snap bean accessions by Blair, Matthew W., Chaves, A., Tofiño Rivera, Adriana Patricia, Palacio Mejia, JD, Calderón Sotelo, J.F.

“…The genotypes were predominantly from Asia, Europe and the United States but included some varieties from Latin America and Africa. AFLP polymorphism ranged from 53.2 to 67.7% while SSR polymorphism averaged 95.3% for the 32 fluorescent and 11 non-fluorescent markers evaluated and total expected heterozygosity was higher for SSR markers (0.521) than for AFLP markers (0.209). …”
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