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Riverbed clogging experiments at potential river bank filtration sites along the Ping River, Chiang Mai, Thailand by Pholkern, K., Srisuk, K., Grischek, T., Soares, M., Schafer, S., Archwichai, L., Saraphirom, P., Pavelic, Paul, Wirojanagud, W.

“…Riverbank filtration (RBF) is a process during which river water is subjected to subsurface flow prior to abstraction wells, often characterized by improved water quality. …”
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Development and validation of high-resolution melting markers derived from Ry sto STS markers for high-throughput marker-assisted selection of potato carrying Ry sto by Nie, X., Sutherland, D., Dickison, V., Singh, M., Murphy, A.M., Koeyer, D. de

“…As anticipated, pair one produced two visible fragments in Barbara-R bulk and one visible fragment in AC Chaleur-S bulk; pair two produced one visible fragment in all samples. When subjected to high-resolution melting (HRM) analysis, two distinct melting profiles for R and S samples were observed. …”
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Milk production, fluid balance and temperature regulation in lactating camels (camellus dromedarius). by Bekele, T.

“…Camels that calved in the long dry season had a higher lactation yield than those that calved in the wet season. Seven camels were subjected to four watering regimes, each 16 days long with 5 days of daily watering in between. …”
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Release of orange-fleshed sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas [l.] Lam.) cultivars in Mozambique through an accelerated breeding scheme by Andrade, M.I., Ricardo, J., Naico, A., Alvaro, A., Makunde, G.S., Low, Jan W., Ortíz, J., Grüneberg, W.J.

“…Data from multi-environment trials were subjected to single site and combined analysis of variance as well as to stability analysis. …”
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An assessment of mobile phone-based dissemination of weather and market information in the Upper West Region of Ghana by Etwire, Prince M., Buah, Saaka S.J., Ouédraogo, Mathieu, Zougmoré, Robert B., Partey, Samuel T., Martey, Edward, Dayamba, Sidzabda Djibril, Bayala, Jules

“…Methods We rely on primary data from 310 farmers in the Upper West Region, an understudied part of Ghana. We subject the data to three types of analysis. First, we model farmers’ decision to patronize mobile phone-based weather and market information by estimating a binary logit model. …”
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Deep sequencing of Suppression Subtractive Hybridisation drought and recovery libraries of the non-model crop Trifolium repens L. by Bisaga, M., Lowe, M., Hegarty, M., Abberton, Michael T., Ravagnani, A.

“…The pipeline generated four robust sets of transcripts induced and repressed in the leaves of plants subjected to water deficit stress (6,937 and 3,142, respectively) and following re-hydration (6,695 and 4,897, respectively). …”
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Regional Heritability Mapping provides insights into Dry matter (DM) Content in African white and yellow cassava populations by Okeke, U.G., Akdemir, D., Rabbi, Ismail Y., Kulakow, Peter A., Jannink, Jean-Luc

“…Significant segments were subjected to candidate gene analysis and we attempted to validate candidates using prediction accuracies. …”
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The International Plant Diagnostic Network (IPDN) in Africa: improving capacity for diagnosing diseases of banana (Musa spp.) and other African crops by Beed, Fenton D., Miller, S.A., Momol, M.T., Gilbertson, R., Kinyua, Z.M., Xin, J., García, L., Harmon, C.L., Vergot, P.

“…Bananas (Musa spp.) are subject to a number of diseases that are difficult todiagnose early in development when control measures are most likely to besuccessful. …”
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Performance of early maize cultivars derived from recurrent selection for grain yield and Striga resistance by Badu-Apraku, Baffour, Lum, A.F., Fakorede, M.A.B., Menkir, A., Chabi, Y., The, C., Abdulai, M., Jacob, S., Agbaje, S.

“…Two early maize populations, TZE-W Pop DT STR C0 (white) and TZE-Y Pop DT STR C0 (yellow), developed from diverse genetic backgrounds, were subjected to three cycles of S1 recurrent selection under artificial Striga infestation. …”
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Betacarotene micellarization during in vitro digestion and uptake by caco2 cells is directly proportional to betacarotene content in different genotypes of cassava by Thakkar, S.K., Maziya-Dixon, B.B., Dixon, A., Failla, M.L.

“…After cooking (boiled for 30 min), the betaC concentration in tubers from different cultivars ranged from less than detectable to 6.9 microg betaC/g cassava. Samples were subjected to simulated oral, gastric, and small intestinal digestion to determine stability and micellarization of betaC. …”
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Relative contribution of banana and plantain products to the nutritional requirements for iron, zinc and vitamin A of infants and mothers in Cameroon by Honfo, F.G., Kayodé, A.P., Coulibaly, O., Tenkouano, A.

“…The daily quantities consumed by rural and urban subjects were not significantly different. The daily supply of Fe by (ban+plant) to children and mothers was 5% and 2%; Zn supply was 3% and 4%, respectively. …”
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Balancing carrots and sticks in REDD+: implications for social safeguards by Duchelle, Amy E., Sassi, Claudio de, Jagger, P., Cromberg, M., Larson, A.M., Sunderlin, William D., Atmadja, S., Resosudarmo, I.A.P., Pratama, C.D.

“…We analyzed the impacts of different types of REDD+ interventions (incentives vs. disincentives) on key safeguard-relevant indicators, i.e., tenure security, participation, and subjective well-being, as well as on reported forest clearing. …”
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Comparing methods for assessing the effectiveness of subnational REDD+ initiatives by Bos, A.B., Duchelle, Amy E., Angelsen, A., Avitabile, Valerio, Sy, Veronique de, Herold, Martin, Joseph, S., Sassi, Claudio de, Sills, E.O., Sunderlin, William D., Wunder, Sven

“…Yet, BACI requires more data than BA, and is subject to possible bias in the before period. Selection of proper control areas is vital, but at either scale is not straightforward. …”
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Perceptions across scales of governance and the Indonesian peatland fires by Carmenta, R., Zabala, A., Daeli, W., Phelps, J.

“…Peatlands are crucial global carbon stocks threatened by land use change and fire and subject to a range of policy interventions that affect many different stakeholder groups. …”
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Genetic analysis of drought-adaptive traits at seedling stage in early-maturing maize inbred lines and field performance under stress conditions by Adewale, Samuel A., Akinwale, R.O., Fakorede, M.A.B., Badu-Apraku, Baffour

“…Data collected were subjected to analysis of variance using the DIALLEL-SAS program. …”
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Plantain production in an alley cropping system on an Ultisol in southeastern Nigeria by Ruhigwa, B.A., Gichuru, M., Swennen, Rony L., Tariah, N.M.

“…Although P. purpureum mulch gave the best results, its use is subject to serious constraints such as the high labor requirement for cutting, transportation, application and management in addition to the extra land required for its production which cannot be justified by the higher yield. …”
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Response of yam (Dioscorea rotundata Poir.) to various periods of weed interference in an intercropping with maize (Zea mays L.), okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L. Moench), and sweet... by Orkwor, G., Okereke, O., Ezedinma, C.I., Hahn, S., Ezumah, H., Akobundu, I.

“…Yam was intercropped with maize, okra, and sweet potato and subjected to various periods of weed interference and weed-free regimes. …”
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Competition for land resources: Driving forces and consequences in crop-livestock production systems of the Ethiopian highlands by Mekuria, Wuletaw, Mekonnen, Kindu, Thorne, Peter J., Bezabih, Melkamu, Tamene, Lulseged D., Abera, Wuletawu

“…Results: The results of satellite remote sensing revealed that 51% of the land in the study area was subject to accelerated land conversions. The household survey results indicated that feed resources and grain production pressures were 1.43 and 1.34 t ha−1 respectively. …”
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Aflatoxin contamination of dried insects and fish in Zambia by Kachapulula, P.W, Akello, J., Bandyopadhyay, Ranajit, Cotty, P.J.

“…Average aflatoxin concentrations exceeded regulatory limits for Zambia (10 μg/kg) in the moth Gynanisa maja (11 μg/kg), the moth Gonimbrasia zambesina (Walker) (12 μg/kg), and the termite Macrotermes falciger (Gerstacker) (24 μg/kg). When samples were subjected to simulated poor storage, aflatoxins increased (P < 0.001) to unsafe levels in caterpillars (mean, 4,800 μg/kg) and fish (Oreochromis) (mean, 23 μg/kg). …”
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Variant antigen repertoires in Trypanosoma congolense populations and experimental infections can be profiled from deep sequence data using universal protein motifs by Silva Pereira, S., Casas-Sánchez, A., Haines, L.R., Ogugo, Moses W., Kihara, Absolomon, Sanders, M., Kemp, Stephen J., Acosta-Serrano, Á., Noyes, H., Berriman, M., Jackson, A.P.

“…Trypanosome genomes contain many hundreds ofVSGgenes, subject to rapid changes in nucleotide sequence, copy number, and chromosomal position. …”
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