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Soil recovery of alluvial gold mine spoils in the Peruvian Amazon using Stylosanthes guianensis, a promising cover crop by Velásquez Ramírez, Manuel Gabriel, Castillo Torres, Dennis del, Guerrero Barrantes, Juan Antonio, Vásquez Bardales, Joel, Thomas, Evert, Cusi Auca, Edgar, Chinen Gushiken, Midori, Muñoz Diaz, Betzy, Russo, Ricardo, Corvera Gomringer, Ronald

“…After 470 days after sowing, average plant height was 46.7 cm with a survival rate > 50% and yields of 23.9 t ha−1 and 450 kg ha−1 of dry biomass and nitrogen, respectively. …”
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Genetic diversity and environmental influence on growth and yield parameters of Bambara groundnut by Olanrewaju, Oluwaseyi S., Oyatomi, Olaniyi, Babalola, O.O., Abberton, Michael T.

“…Significant variation was also observed for accession and location interactions (genotype x environment interactions) for plant height, leaf length, leaf width, chlorophyll content, number of petioles, germination count, number of pods, number of seeds, seed length, seed width, and yield. …”
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Agricultural contribution to the nutritional status of children: A comparative study of annual crop, agroforestry, and mixed-farming type in Buol, Indonesia by Purwestri, R.C., Lusiana, B., Wirawan, N.N., Fahmi, I., Habibie, I.Y., Sane, M., Hochmalová, M., Fetriyuna, F., Hájek, M., Handayani, D.

“…Furthermore, the weight and height of the children were measured. In total, 200 female/male farmers and their under-five children from annual food crop (n = 79), agroforestry (n = 53), and mixed (n = 68) farming systems were recruited. …”
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Monitoring large-scale on-farm performance of improved forage varieties in western Kenya by Karimi, Peggy, Odhiambo, Ruth, Paul, Birthe K.

“…A scoping survey was conducted among 480 farmers, who received planting material, from which a further 169 farmers were selected for on-farm monitoring. Data on plant height, total fresh weight and dry matter yield was collected at intervals of six weeks. …”
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Foliar diseases and the associated fungi in rice cultivated in Kenya by Ng'ang'a, Everlyne M., Kyallo, Martina M., Orwa, P., Rotich, F., Gichuhi, E., Kimani, J.M., Mwongera, D., Waweru, Bernice, Sikuku, P., Musyimi, D.M., Mutiga, Samuel K., Ziyomo, Cathrine, Murori, R., Wasilwa, L., Correl, J.C., Talbot, N.J.

“…We scored the symptoms of blast and brown spot and assessed the lodging, plant height, and maturity of the crops (days after planting). …”
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Estimation of soybean grain yield from multispectral high-resolution UAV data with machine learning models in west Africa by Alabi, T.R., Abebe, A.T., Chigeza, G., Fowobaje, K.R.

“…UAV-based spectral bands, canopy height, vegetation indices (VI), and texture features were generated by gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) and integrated to predict crop grain yield using five machine learning (ML) regression models, including Cubist, Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), Stochastic Gradient Boosting (GBM), Support vector machine (SVM), and Random Forest (RF). …”
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Comparison of UAV and SAR performance for crop type classification using machine learning algorithms: a case study of humid forest ecology experimental research site of west Africa by Duke, O.P., Alabi, T.R., Neeti, N., Adewopo, Julius

“…Multiple combinations of the UAV datasets were analysed to assess the impact of canopy height model (CHM) on classification accuracy and to determine the optimum dataset (including spatial resolution) for the land cover classification. …”
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Evaluation of performance and stability of new sources for tolerance to post-emergence herbicides in lentil (Lens culinaris ssp. culinaris Medik.) by Balech, Rind, Maalouf, Fouad, Patil, Somanagouda, Hejjaoui, Kamal, Abou-Khater, Lynn, Rajendran, Karthika, Rubiales, Diego, Agrawal, Shiv Kumar

“…Herbicide treatments delayed the flowering time and maturation of tested lentil accessions. The plant height of selected tolerant accessions was reduced by 15% and 8% in the plots treated by imazethapyr and metribuzin, respectively. …”
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Identification of genomic regions associated with agronomic and disease resistance traits in a large set of multiple DH populations by Sadessa, Kassahun, Beyene, Yoseph, Ifie, Beatrice E., Mahabaleswara, Suresh L., Olsen, Michael, Ogugo, Veronica, Wegary, Dagne, Tongoona, Pangirayi, Danquah, Eric, Offei, Samuel Kwame, Boddupalli, P.M., Gowda, Manje

“…Genome-wide association study (GWAS) using a mixed linear FarmCPU model identified SNPs associated with the studied traits i.e., about seven and eight SNPs for the grain yield; 16 and 12 for anthesis date; seven and eight for anthesis silking interval; 14 and 5 for both ear and plant height; and 15 and 5 for moisture under both WW and WS environments, respectively. …”
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Effects of intercropping desho grass with vetch on forage yield, nutritional quality and soil fertility in Lemo District of Hadiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia by Berhanu, Melkamu

“…Data on biomass yield; plant height and chemical compositions were recorded and analyzed using the General Linear Model procedures of SAS. …”
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Evaluating preschool linear growth velocities: an interim reference illustrated in Nepal by Manohar, Swetha, Colantuoni, Elizabeth, Thorne-Lyman, Andrew Lucian, Shrestha, Binod, Adhikari, Ramesh Kant, KC, Angela, Bhattarai, Abhigyna, West Jr., Keith Parker

“…Design: The WHO Child Growth Velocity Standard was adapted to derive 12-month increments and conjoined to the Tanner-Whitehouse Height Velocity Reference data yielding contiguous preschool linear growth annualised velocities. …”
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Genomic predictions to leverage phenotypic data across genebanks by El-Hanafi, Samira, Jiang, Yong, Kehel, Zakaria, Schulthess, Albert W, Zhao, Yusheng, Mascher, Martin, Haupt, Max, Himmelbach, Axel, Stein, Nils, Amri, Ahmed, Reif, Jochen Christoph

“…As a proof of concept, we evaluated the power of across-genebank prediction for extensive germplasm collections relying on historical data on flowering/heading date, plant height, and thousand kernel weight of 9,344 barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) plant genetic resources from the German Federal Ex situ Genebank for Agricultural and Horticultural Crops (IPK) and of 1,089 accessions from the International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) genebank. …”
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The effect of cutting regime and genotype on growth, seed yield, seed quality and herbage yield of seven Urochloa (syn. Brachiaria) grass genotypes in the Adamawa region of Cameroo... by Ojong, N., Takor, M., Egbe, A., Bechem, E., Etchu, K., Mutai Collins, K.

“…In both years, genotypes were significantly different for plant height and tiller numbers at 12 weeks after cutting (P ≤ 0.007). …”
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Development of population-specific prediction equations for bioelectrical impedance analyses in Vietnamese children by Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Young, Melissa F., Khuong, Long, Ramakrishnan, Usha, Martorell, Reynaldo, Hoffman, Daniel J.

“…We identified a top performing model with the least number of parameters (age, sex, weight and resistance index or resistance and height), low RMSE (FM 0.70, FFM 0.74, PBF 3.10), low MAE (FM 0.55, FFM 0.62, PBF 2.49), high R2 (FM 0.95, FFM 0.92, PBF 0.82), and the least difference between predicted values and actual values from DEXA (FM 0.03kg or 0.01SD, FFM 0.06kg or 0.02SD, PBF 0.27% or 0.04SD). …”
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Provision and utilization of health and nutrition services during the COVID-19 pandemic in urban Bangladesh by Sununtnasuk, Celeste, Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Pant, Anjali, Tran, Lan Mai, Kachwaha, Shivani, Menon, Purnima

“…Services for women and children which require proximity, however, were more severely affected; weight and height measurements fell by 20–29pp for pregnant women and 37–57pp for children, and child immunizations fell by 38pp. …”
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A&T Ethiopia Adolescent Nutrition Baseline Survey 2019: Adolescent Girl by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…In Ethiopia, A&T implemented a package of adolescent nutrition interventions through school-based (flag assemblies, classroom lessons, girls’ clubs, peer mentoring, weight and height measurement, and parent-teacher meetings) and community platforms (health post and home visits and community gatherings). …”
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A&T Ethiopia Adolescent Nutrition Baseline Survey 2019: Teacher/Principal by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…In Ethiopia, A&T implemented a package of adolescent nutrition interventions through school-based (flag assemblies, classroom lessons, girls’ clubs, peer mentoring, weight and height measurement, and parent-teacher meetings) and community platforms (health post and home visits and community gatherings). …”
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A&T Ethiopia Adolescent Nutrition Baseline Survey 2019: Health Extension Worker by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…In Ethiopia, A&T implemented a package of adolescent nutrition interventions through school-based (flag assemblies, classroom lessons, girls’ clubs, peer mentoring, weight and height measurement, and parent-teacher meetings) and community platforms (health post and home visits and community gatherings). …”
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A&T Ethiopia Adolescent Nutrition Baseline Survey 2019: Parent by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…In Ethiopia, A&T implemented a package of adolescent nutrition interventions through school-based (flag assemblies, classroom lessons, girls’ clubs, peer mentoring, weight and height measurement, and parent-teacher meetings) and community platforms (health post and home visits and community gatherings). …”
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Can unconditional cash transfers mitigate the impact of civil conflict on acute child malnutrition in Yemen?: Evidence from the national social protection monitoring survey by Ecker, Olivier, Maystadt, Jean-François, Guo, Zhe

“…Our results indicate that an increase by one standard deviation in civil conflict intensity translates into an increase in the prevalence of acute child malnutrition by at least 0.7 percentage points if measured by weight-for-height z-scores and by at least 1.7 percentage points if measured by mid-upper arm circumference z-scores. …”
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