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Diversity, genetic mapping, and signatures of domestication in the carrot (Daucus carota L.) genome, as revealed by Diversity Arrays Technology (DArT) markers by Grzebelus, Dariusz, Iorizzo, Massimo, Senalik, Douglas A., Ellison, Shelby L., Cavagnaro, Pablo, Macko-Podgorni, Alicja, Heller-Uszynska, Kasia, Kilian, Andrzej, Nothnagel, Thomas, Simon, Philipp W., Baranski, Rafal, Allender, Charlotte

“…Chromosome 2 was previously shown to carry the Vrn1 gene governing the biennial growth habit essential for cultivated carrot. …”
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Toll-like receptors, IFN-γ and IL-12 expression in bovine leukemia virus-infected animals with low or high proviral load by Nieto Farías, María Victoria, Lendez, Pamela Anahí, Marin, Maia Solange, Quintana, Silvina, Martinez Cuesta, Lucia, Ceriani, Maria Carolina, Dolcini, Guillermina Laura

“…Understanding the mechanisms which govern the control of viral dissemination will be desirable for the design of effective therapeutic or preventive strategies for BLV. …”
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Developing integrated crop knowledge networks to advance candidate gene discovery by Hassani-Pak, Keywan, Castellote, Martín Alfredo, Esch, Maria, Hindle, Matthew, Lysenko, Artem, Taubert, Jan, Rawlings, Christopher John

“…With more crop genomes emerging all the time, we are nearer having the basic information, at the gene-level, to begin assembling crop gene catalogues and using data from other plant species to understand how the genes function and how their interactions govern crop development and physiology. Unfortunately, the task of creating such a complete knowledge base of gene functions, interaction networks and trait biology is technically challenging because the relevant data are dispersed in myriad databases in a variety of data formats with variable quality and coverage. …”
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Can Science Contribute to Smallholder Management of Complex Systems? Lessons from Agroecological Intensification of Multi-Strata Coffee with Banana by Staver, Charles, Siles, P., Bustamante, O., Castellon, N., Cerdan, C., Garming, H., Burkhardt, J.

“…Finally, complexity should be addressed through scenario building under variable and uncertain futures resulting from different combinations of climate change, prices for commodities, energy and inputs and investments in social capital, governance and innovation.…”
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A Knowledge Brokering Framework for Integrated Landscape Management by McGonigle, D., Nodari, G., Phillips, R., Aynekulu, E., Estrada-Carmona, Natalia, Jones, S., Koziell, Izabella, Luedeling, Eike, Remans, R., Shepherd, Keith D., Wiberg, David A., Whitney, Cory W., Zhang, Wei

“…This poses a challenge for policymakers and practitioners in governments, development banks, non-governmental organisations, and other institutions. …”
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REDD+ in Theory and Practice: How Lessons From Local Projects Can Inform Jurisdictional Approaches by Wunder, Sven, Duchelle, Amy E., Sassi, Claudio de, Sills, E.O., Simonet, G., Sunderlin, W.D.

“…Since jurisdictional approaches to REDD+ so far also receive only hesitant and slow climate financing flows, coming mostly in non-conditional form, and operate under forest-frontier governance with similar tenure restrictions, jurisdictions would seem well-advised to plan for conditional landowner incentives only in scenarios where the preconditions for PES are met. …”
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Enhancing drought tolerance and Striga hermonthica resistance in maize using newly derived inbred lines from the wild maize relative, Zea diploperennis by Shaibu, A.S., Badu-Apraku, Baffour, Ayo-Vaughan, M.A.

“…The results revealed the predominance of GCA over SCA effects for most measured traits, suggesting that additive gene action governed the inheritance of Striga resistance and drought tolerance related traits in the inbreds. …”
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“That is my farm” – an integrated co-learning approach for whole-farm sustainable intensification in smallholder farming by Marinus, W., Descheemaeker, Katrien K., Ven, G.W. van de, Waswa, W., Mukalama, J., Vanlauwe, Bernard, Giller, Kenneth E.

“…Building common ground on concepts and processes governing farm system functioning fostered a deeper understanding by farmers on the suitability of options to their farm and by researchers on locally relevant content. …”
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Scaling Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration for Climate Change Mitigation by Costa, Ciniro, Seabauer, Matthias, Schwarz, Benjamin, Dittmer, Kyle, Wollenberg, Eva Karoline

“…The recommendations provide guidance for implementing cost-effective SOC MRV of the WBG’s agricultural investments while improving the standardization of processes for creating carbon assets – with the potential to scale across multilateral and international development agencies and governments.…”
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A green-gray path to global water security and sustainable infrastructure by Vorosmarty, C.J., Stewart-Koster, B., Green, P. A., Boone, E. L., Florke, M., Fischer, Gundula, Wiberg, David A., Bunn, S. E., Bhaduri, A., McIntyre, P. B., Sadoff, C., Liu, H., Stifel, David

“…The situation is expected to be most restrictive across the developing world, where the economic, technical, and governance capacities to overcome such challenges remain limited. …”
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Social change innovations, citizen science, miniSASS and the SDGs by Taylor, J., Graham, M., Louw, A., Lepheana, A., Madikizela, B., Dickens, Chris, Chapman, D. V., Warner, S.

“…Globally aquatic ecosystems are highly threatened and concerted efforts by governments and civil society to ‘turn the situation around’ are simply not working. …”
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Genomic resources to guide improvement of the shea tree by Hale, I., Ma, X., Melo, A.T.O., Padi, Francis K, Hendre, P.S., Kingan, S.B., Sullivan, S.T., Chen, S., Boffa, J.-M., Muchugi, Alice, Danquah, A., Barnor, M.T., Jamnadass, Ramni H., Peer, Y. van de, Deynze, A. van

“…In a first genome-wide look at the suite of fatty acid (FA) biosynthesis genes that likely govern stearin content, the primary determinant of shea butter quality, relatively high copy numbers of six key enzymes were found (KASI, KASIII, FATB, FAD2, FAD3, and FAX2), some likely originating in shea’s more recent WGD event. …”
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Pathways to Women’s Empowerment in the Promotion of Climate Smart Agriculture in the Philippines, Myanmar, and Cambodia by Verzosa, Fatima, Cabriole, Marie Aislinn, Thant, Phyu Sin, Phen, Bunthoeun, Itliong, Kirstein, Myae, Chan, Thong, Chanphirum, Urdelas, Farah Gaud A., Naung, Ye Win, Moe, May Zin, Tola, Cheam, Barbon, Wilson John, Monville-Oro, Emilita, Gonsalves, Julian Francis

“…Far from an equalizing event, climate change risks and disasters often magnify and aggravate existing inequalities in society, including gender inequality. National governments and the international development community recognized that in order to strengthen and accelerate their goals for agricultural development, economic growth and food security they need to build the contributions that women make and take steps to alleviate barriers to women empowerment. …”
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How Do Game Design, Gender, and Players’ Backgrounds Affect Behavior in Framed Field Experiments? Evidence from Community Forestry in India by Zhang, Wei, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Valappanandi, Sanoop, Balakrishna, Raksha, Reddy, Hemalatha, Janssen, Marco A., Thomas, Liya, Priyadarshini, Pratiti, Kandicuppa, Sandeep, Chaturvedi, Rahul, Ghate, Rucha

“…Findings have methodological and practical implications for designing behavioral intervention programs to improve common-pool resource governance.…”
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Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) for Pilot of Climate Smart Agricultural Innovations and Climate I... by International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, International Livestock Research Institute

“…The training will cover community governance and inclusion of vulnerable groups; rangeland management; and relationship management. …”
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Influence of land-use change and season on soil greenhouse gas emissions from a tropical wetland: A stepwise explorative assessment by Ondiek, Risper Ajwang', Hayes, Daniel S., Kinyua, Damaris Njeri, Kitaka, Nzula, Lautsch, Erwin, Mutuo, Paul, Hein, Thomas

“…Instead, emission rates were primarily governed by season. The highest emissions (>175 mg m−2 h−1) during the dry season were attributed to high soil organic carbon content. …”
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Multi-stakeholder perception analysis of the status, characteristics, and factors affecting small-scale carp aquaculture systems in Bangladesh by Rossignoli, Cristiano, Lozano, Denise, Barman, Benoy, Brako Dompreh, Eric, Manyise, Timothy, Wang, Quanli, Dam Lam, Rodolfo, Moruzzo, Roberta, Paz Mendez, Alvaro, Gasparatos, Alexandros

“…Very diverse actions from national governments, civil sector and international organizations have been seeking to enhance the performance of small-scale aquaculture systems. …”
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Climate smart rice innovations to reduce the impact of climate change on the livelihood of value chain actors by Ndindeng, S.A., Zenna, N., Dossou-Yovo, Elliott Ronald, Arouna, A., Yadav, S., Semwal, V., Ibrahim, A., Futakuchi, K., Manneh, B.

“…Conclusions and recommendations Although climate change is a serious threat to rice production affecting both yield and quality, African governments will have to implement policy measures that enhance the scaling and adoption of climate smart rice innovation developed by AfricaRice to mitigate the impact of climate change if they aspire to reduce rice imports.…”
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Adaptation finance gap by Savvidou, Georgia, Canales, Nella, Haque, Nabil, Pauw, Pieter, Mbeva, Kennedy, Zamarioli, Luis

“… ● These barriers include low grant-to-loan ratios, failure to consider local issues when planning and designing projects, limited technical capacity among decision makers, and misalignment between the duration of the approval and disbursement process and the shorter-term mandates of national and local governments. ▶ In the 2017–2021 period, less than 17 per cent of commitments were dedicated to projects with a specific focus on local communities. …”
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The E-FooD Dataset and Food Security Simulators for Kenya and Nigeria: Innovative Tools to Support National Policies and Strategies by Breisinger, Clemens, Ecker, Olivier, Comstock, Andrew R., Kassim, Yumna, Rennison, Alan, Pape, Utz, Momanyi, Dorah, Adeyemo, Temitayo

“…Recent global food price spikes and household income losses pose significant challenges to people’s food security and diets, raising important questions for governments and international organizations about how best to support households. …”
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