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Large-scale school meal programs and student health: Evidence from rural China by Wang, Jingxi, Hernandez, Manuel A., Deng, Guoying

“…We find that NIP participation is, on average, associated with a higher height-for-age z-score in the order of 0.22-0.42 standard deviations. …”
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COVID-19 and the Egyptian economy: From reopening to recovery: Alternative pathways and impacts on sectors, jobs, and households by Breisinger, Clemens, Raouf, Mariam, Wiebelt, Manfred, Kamaly, Ahmed, Karara, Mouchera

“…While Egypt posted negative economic growth rates from April to June 2020 at the height of the crisis, overall economic growth was still positive at 3.6 percent for fiscal year (FY) 2019/20. …”
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Misreporting month of birth: Diagnosis and implications for research on nutrition and early childhood in developing countries by Larsen, Anna Folke, Headey, Derek D., Masters, William A.

“…A large literature has used children’s birthdays to identify exposure to shocks and estimate their impacts on later outcomes. Using height-for-age z scores (HAZ) for more than 990,000 children in 62 countries from 163 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), we show how random errors in birth dates create artifacts in HAZ that can be used to diagnose the extent of age misreporting. …”
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Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults by NCD Risk Factor Collaboration, Le Port, Agnès

“…Here we use 2,009 population-based studies, with measurements of height and weight in more than 112 million adults, to report national, regional and global trends in mean BMI segregated by place of residence (a rural or urban area) from 1985 to 2017. …”
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The effects of income fluctuations on rural health and nutrition by Kosec, Katrina, Song, Jie

“…We find that young children (age 0-5) exposed to reductions in income experienced reductions in height. At the same time, older children and adults saw decreases in BMI and—for adults—decreases in the incidence of overweight.…”
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Food transfers, cash transfers, behavior change communication and child nutrition: Evidence from Bangladesh by Ahmed, Akhter, Hoddinott, John F., Roy, Shalini

“…Only cash plus nutrition BCC had a significant impact on nutritional status, but its effect on height-for-age z scores (HAZ) was large, 0.25SD. We explore the mechanisms underlying this impact. …”
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Household dairy production and child growth: Evidence from Bangladesh by Choudhury, Samira, Headey, Derek D.

“…We find that household dairy production increases height-for-age Z scores by 0.52 standard deviations in the critical 6–23 month growth window, though in the first year of life we find that household dairy supply is associated with a 21.7 point decline in the rate of breastfeeding. …”
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Low level aflatoxin exposure associated with greater linear growth in southern Mexico: A longitudinal study by Leroy, Jef L., Sununtnasuk, Celeste, Garcia-Guerra, Armando, Wang, Jia-Sheng

“…AF exposure was associated (p < .05) with greater linear growth: an increase equivalent to the sample interquartile range (~0.5 pg AFB1‐lysine/mg albumin) was associated (p < .05) with an increase in the child's height‐for‐age deficit of 1.5 to 2.0 mm in the 4 months from baseline (average age 8 months) to follow‐up (average age 12 months); the magnitude of the difference in the 10‐month follow‐up was smaller and not statistically significant. …”
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Is exposure to poultry harmful to child nutrition?: An observational analysis for rural Ethiopia by Headey, Derek D., Hirvonen, Kalle

“…We test this novel hypothesis using a large agricultural survey of rural Ethiopian households that includes measures of child height-for-age Z-scores (HAZ), ownership of poultry and other types of livestock, and an indicator of whether livestock are kept within the main household dwelling overnight. …”
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Misreporting month of birth: Implications for nutrition research by Larsen, Anna Folke, Headey, Derek D., Masters, William A.

“…Height-for-age z-scores (HAZs) and stunting status (HAZ&lt;−2) are widely used to measure child nutrition and population health. …”
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Native arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi promote Plukenetia volubilis growth and decrease the infection levels of Meloidogyne incognita by Corazon-Guivin, M.A., del Aguila, S.R., Correa, R.X., Cordova-Sinarahua, D., Maia, L.C., Alves da Silva, D.K., da Silva, G.A., Lopez-Garcia, A., Coyne, D., Oehl, F.

“…Overall, the results showed that AMF inoculation of P. volubilis seedlings positively improved their development, particularly their biomass, height, and the leaf nutrient contents. When seedlings were exposed to M. incognita, plant growth was also noticeably higher for AMF-inoculated plants than those without AMF inoculation. …”
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Does household’s food and nutrient acquisition capacity predict linear growth in children? Analysis of longitudinal data from rural and small towns in Ethiopia by Mekonnen, Daniel Ayalew

“…Using nationally representative longitudinal data, results of fixed effects estimations suggested that a standard deviation increase in the household MPA was associated with a 10–11% increase in the height-for-age z-score; and a 10% increase in the household MPA was associated with a 3.2 – 5.6% reduction in stunting rate in children 6–59 months of age. …”
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What determines adult cognitive skills?: Impacts of preschooling, schooling, and post-schooling experiences in Guatemala by Behrman, Jere R., Hoddinott, John F., Maluccio, John, Soler-Hampejsek, Erica, Behrman, Emily L., Martorell, Reynaldo, Ramirez-Zea, Manuel, Stein, Aryeh D.

“…We use an indicator of whether the child was stunted (child height-for-age Z-score &lt; –2) as our representation of preschooling experiences, and we use tenure in skilled occupations as our representation of post-schooling experiences. …”
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Identifying high-yielding and drought-tolerant wheat cultivars based on ideotypic traits and yield responses to stress by Yibo Li, Fulu Tao, Yuanfeng Hao, Yonggui Xiao, He Zhonghu, Reynolds, Matthew P.

“…The high-yielding cultivars under both irrigation treatments are characterised by a compact plant type, larger thousand-grain weight, larger chlorophyll content, higher leaf photosynthesis, shorter plant height and stay-green traits. The stomatal and nonstomatal limitations are strongly associated with genotype yield performance, elucidating a potential mechanism underlying drought tolerance. …”
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Identification of novel genes associated with herbicide tolerance in Lentil (Lens culinaris ssp. culinaris Medik.) by Balech, Rind, Maalouf, Fouad, Kaur, Sukhjiwan, Jighly, Abdulqader, Joukhadar, Reem, Alsamman, Alsamman M., Hamwieh, Aladdin, Abou-Khater, Lynn, Rubiales, Diego, Agrawal, Shiv Kumar

“…Highly significant differences among accessions were observed for days to flowering (DF) and maturity (DM), plant height (PH), biological yield (BY), seed yield (SY), number of pods per plant (NP), as well as the reduction indices (RI) for PH, BY, SY and NP. …”
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Season affects yield and metabolic profiles of rice (Oryza sativa) under high night temperature stress in the field by Schaarschmidt, Stephanie, Lawas, Lovely Mae F., Glaubitz, Ulrike, Li, Xia, Erban, Alexander, Kopka, Joachim, Jagadish, Krishna S.V., Hincha, Dirk K., Zuther, Ellen

“…Eight rice cultivars with contrasting HNT sensitivity were grown in the field during the wet (WS) and dry season (DS) in the Philippines. Plant height, 1000-grain weight and harvest index were influenced by HNT in both seasons, while total grain yield was only consistently reduced in the WS. …”
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Genetic diversity using single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and screening for salinity tolerance in rice germplasm at reproductive stage by Barrera, Wilfredo B., Dela Viña, Celia B., Vispo, Naireen Aiza, Singh, Rakesh Kumar

“…The significant effect (P < 0.01) of salinity include increased Na+ sequestration in the flag leaf, increased unfilled grains (except for the field method) and reduced pollen fertility, total yield, panicle length and the average number of filled grains per panicle. Plant height (except for the soil method) and K+ ion concentration in the flag leaf were not significantly affected by salinity (P > 0.05). …”
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Increasing flooding tolerance in rice: combining tolerance of submergence and of stagnant flooding by Kato, Yoichiro, Collard, Bertrand C. Y., Septiningsih, Endang M., Ismail, Abdelbagi M.

“…It was important to increase lodging resistance, since plant height >140 cm increased lodging under stagnant flooding. …”
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Revisiting rice breeding methods – evaluating the use of rapid generation advance (RGA) for routine rice breeding by Collard, Bertrand C. Y., Beredo, Joseph C., Lenaerts, Bert, Mendoza, Rhulyx, Santelices, Ronald, Lopena, Vitaliano, Verdeprado, Holden, Raghavan, Chitra, Gregorio, Glenn B., Vial, Leigh, Demont, Matty, Biswas, Partha S., Iftekharuddaula, Khandakar M., Rahman, Mohammad Akhlasur, Cobb, Joshua N., Islam, Mohammad Rafiqul

“…Evaluation of RGA breeding lines at IRRI for yield, flowering time and plant height indicated transgressive segregation for all traits. …”
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QTL mapping and candidate gene analysis of ferrous iron and zinc toxicity tolerance at seedling stage in rice by genome-wide association study by Zhang, Jian, Chen, Kai, Pang, Yunlong, Naveed, Shahzad Amir, Zhao, Xiuqin, Wang, Xiaoqian, Wang, Yun, Dingkuhn, Michael, Pasuquin, Julie, Li, Zhikang, Xu, Jianlong

“…Genome-wide association study (GWAS) is an effective way to identify loci and favorable alleles governing Fe and Zn toxicty as well as dissect the genetic relationship between them in a genetically diverse population A total of 29 and 31 putative QTL affecting shoot height (SH), root length (RL), shoot fresh weight (SFW), shoot dry weight (SDW), root dry weight (RDW), shoot water content (SWC) and shoot ion concentrations (SFe or SZn) were identified at seedling stage in Fe and Zn experiments, respectively. …”
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