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Exploring ecosystem services contribution to social-ecological resilience in Ethiopian agricultural landscapes. by Lemenih, Mulugeta, Bossio, Deborah A., Langan, Simon J.

“…The approach was to i) examine trends in the stock of bundle of ecosystem services in three study landscapes namely Fogera, Jeldu and Diga within the Blue Nile Basin of Ethiopia, ii) describe the trajectories in livelihood strategies, poverty status and present evidence of success and failure in these SES, and iii) explore linkages between stocks of ecosystem services, livelihood conditions and resilience of the SES. …”
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Iron and ferritin accumulate in separate cellular locations in Phaseolus seeds by Cvitanich, C, Przybylowicz, WJ, Urbanski, DF, Jurkiewicz, AM, Mesjasz-Przybylowicz, J, Blair, Matthew W., Astudillo, Carolina, Jensen, E, Stougaard, J

“…Using the non-destructive micro-PIXE (Particle Induced X-ray Emission) technique we show that the tissue in the proximity of the provascular bundles holds up to 500 ?g g-1 of iron, depending on the genotype. …”
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Synergistic interactions of begomoviruses with sweet potato chlorotic stunt virus (genus Crinivirus) in sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas L.) by Cuéllar, Wilmer Jose, Galvez, Marco, Fuentes, S., Tugume, Joab K., Kreuze, Jan F.

“…Three hundred and ninety‐four sweet potato accessions from Latin America and East Africa were screened by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the presence of begomoviruses, and 46 were found to be positive. …”
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Assessment of groundnut under combined heat and drought stress by Hamidou, F., Halilou, O., Vadez, Vincent

“…Understanding of combined effects of heat and drought on physiological traits, yield and its attributes is of special significance for improving groundnut productivity. Two hundred and sixty-eight groundnut genotypes were evaluated in four trials under both intermittent drought and fully irrigated conditions, two of the trial being exposed to moderate temperature, while the two other trials were exposed to high temperature. …”
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Flock size and egg production performance of backyard chicken reared by rural woman in Peshawar, Pakistan by Javed, K., Farooq, M., Mian, M.A., Durrani, F.R., Mussawar, S.

“…A study was conducted during the year 2000 to investigate flock size and egg production performance of backyard chicken maintained by woman in rural areas of Peshawar, NWFP, Pakistan. One hundred and thirty female farmers were selected at random from 13 randomly selected nearby villages of Peshawar city. …”
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Antimicrobial use in developing countries by Grace, Delia, Lindahl, Johanna F., Hung Nguyen-Viet, Kakkar, M.

“…In developing countries as much as several hundred thousand tons may be used every year, agricultural use probably exceeds medical use, and most use is probably in intensive systems. …”
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Transgenic bananas with enhanced resistance against Xanthomonas wilt disease by Tripathi, L., Tripathi, J.N., Tushemereirwe, Wilberforce K., Arinaitwe, G., Kiggundu, A.

“…The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), in partnership with the National Agriculture Research Organization (NARO), Uganda and the African Agriculture Technology Foundation (AATF), have developed hundreds of transgenic bananas constitutively expressing the Hypersensitive Response Assisting Protein (Hrap) or Plant Ferredoxin Like Protein (Pflp) gene originated from sweet pepper (Capsicum annuum). …”
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Genetic analysis of grain yield and other traits of early maturing maize inbreds under drought and wellwatered conditions by Oyekunle, M., Badu-Apraku, Baffour

“…Knowledge andunderstanding of the genetics of hybrid performance under drought is invaluablein designing breeding strategies for improving maize yield. One hundred and fiftyhybrids obtained by crossing 30 inbreds in sets using the North Carolina DesignII plus six checks were evaluated under drought and well-watered conditions for2 years at three locations in Nigeria. …”
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Evidence for the presence of African swine fever virus in an endemic region of Western Kenya in the absence of any reported outbreak by Thomas, Lian F., Bishop, Richard P., Onzere, Cynthia K., Mcintosh, M.T., Lemire, K.A., Glanville, William A. de, Cook, Elizabeth A.J., Fèvre, Eric M.

“…This study wished to expand our understanding of ASFV epidemiology during a period when no outbreaks were reported. Results: Two hundred and seventy six whole blood samples were analysed using two independent conventional and real time PCR assays to detect ASFV. …”
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High-density molecular characterisation and association mapping in Ethiopian durum wheat landraces reveals high diversity and potential for wheat breeding by Mengistu, D.K., Kidane, Yosef Gebrehawaryat, Catellani, M., Frascaroli, E., Fadda, Carlo, Pe, M.E., Dell'Acqua, Martin

“…Here we report the extensive molecular and phenotypic characterisation of hundreds of Ethiopian durum wheat landraces and improved lines, with the underlying assumption that new allelic diversity will provide novel loci to international wheat breeding through quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping. …”
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GnpIS-Ephesis, the phenotypic data integration platform for INRA networks experimental data – data discovery and dataset building use cases by Pommier, C., Alaux, M., Letellier, T., Michotey, Célia, Cornut, Guillaume, Lebreton, A., Labernadiere, M., Laine, M., Arnaud, Elizabeth, Adam-Blondon, Anne-Françoise, Quesneville, H.

“…For instance, a dataset including phenology variables like budbreak or flowering can be extracted and used as input for statistical analysis tools or model to evaluate adaptability of several hundreds of vitis variety.…”
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A Fosmid pool-based next generation sequencing approach to haplotype-resolve whole genomes by Suk, Eun-Kyung, Schulz, Sabrina, Mentrup, Birgit, Huebsch, Thomas, Duitama, Jorge, Hoehe, Margret R.

“…This method can be used in combination with, but also without, whole genome shotgun sequencing to extensively resolve heterozygous SNPs and structural variants within genomic regions, resulting in haploid contigs of several hundred kb up to several Mb. This method has a broad range of applications including population and ancestry genetics, the clinical interpretation of mutations in personal genomes, the analysis of cancer genomes and highly complex disease gene regions such as MHC. …”
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The global burden of disease study 2013: What does it mean for the NTDs? by Herricks, J.R., Hotez, Peter J., Wanga, V., Coffeng, L.E., Haagsma, J.A., Basáñez, M.-G., Buckle, G., Budke, C.M., Carabin, H., Fèvre, Eric M., Fürst, T., Halasa, Y.A., King, C.H., Murdoch, M.E., Ramaiah, K.D., Shepard, D.S., Stolk, W.A., Undurraga, E.A., Stanaway, J.D., Naghavi, M., Murray, C.J.L.

“…The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) is a landmark initiative that systematically quantifies the prevalence, morbidity, and mortality for hundreds of diseases, injuries, and risk factors of global health importance. …”
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Profitability and technical efficiency of soybean production in northern Nigeria by Ugbabe, O.O., Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Kamara, A., Mbaval, J., Oyinbo, O.

“…This study estimated the profitability and efficiency of production of the early maturing soybean. Nine hundred soybean farming households in thirty communities from three Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Kano State were sampled for the study. …”
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Aflatoxin producing Aspergillus spp. and aflatoxin levels in stored cassava chips as affected by processing practices by Essono , G.G., Ayodele, M., Akoa, A., Foko, J., Filtenborg, O., Olembo, S.

“…In order to assess persistence of toxigenic fungiin cassava chips, aflatoxin-producing fungi (Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus nomius,andAspergillus parasit-icus) and aflatoxins were contrasted at regular intervals in home-stored cassava chips collected in twolocations of southern Cameroon throughout a two-month monitoring period. Three hundred and forty-six isolates of aflatoxin-producing fungi were found to be associated with all samples.A. flavuscontam-inated more samples in both types of chips (267 isolates in 53 samples), followed byA. nomius(58 iso-lates in 15 samples), whereasA. parasiticuswas rarest. …”
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Genetic diversity in cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) germplasm collection from Ghana by Opoku, S., Bhattacharjee, Ranjana, Kolesnikova-Allen, M., Motamayor, J., Schnell, R., Ingelbrecht, I.L., Enu-Kwesi, L., Adu-Ampomah, Y.

“…The present study has been, therefore, undertaken to assess the degree and distribution of genetic diversity present in cocoa germplasm collections from the Cocoa Research Institute (CRIG), seed gardens and materials from farmers' plantations in Ghana, using molecular markers. Two hundred and thirty-five trees representing all the cocoa-growing regions of Ghana were sampled in situ from farmers' fields and grouped as farmers' collection. …”
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Business model scenarios and suitability: smallholder solar pump-based irrigation in Ethiopia. Agricultural Water Management – Making a Business Case for Smallholders by Otoo, Miriam, Lefore, Nicole, Schmitter, Petra S., Barron, Jennie, Gebregziabher, Gebrehaweria

“…Analysis of potential gains and benefits suggests that direct purchase of solar pumps by farmers is feasible, and that out-grower schemes and pump supplier options with bundled financing offer promising solutions. The potential constraints that different investors may face in up-scaling the business models are also discussed, particularly within institutional, regulatory and financial contexts. …”
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Complete avian malaria parasite genomes reveal features associated with lineage-specific evolution in birds and mammals by Böhme, U., Otto, T.D., Cotton, J.A., Steinbiss, S., Sanders, M., Oyola, Samuel O., Nicot, A., Gandon, S., Patra, K.P., Herd, C., Bushell, E., Modrzynska, K.K., Billker, O., Vinetz, J.M., Rivero, A., Newbold, C.J., Berriman, M.

“…For the first time in the Plasmodium lineage, we find evidence of transposable elements, including several hundred fragments of LTR-retrotransposons in both species and an apparently complete LTR-retrotransposon in the genome of P. gallinaceum.…”
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ConR: An R package to assist large-scale multispecies preliminary conservation assessments using distribution data by Dauby, G., Stévart, T., Droissart, V., Cosiaux, A., Deblauwe, V., Simo-Droissart, M., Sosef, M.S.M., Lowry, P.P., Schatz, G.E., Gereau, R.E., Couvreur, T.L.P.

“…As distributional data for taxa become increasingly available via large open access datasets, ConR provides a novel, timely tool to guide and accelerate the work of the conservation and taxonomic communities by enabling practitioners to conduct preliminary assessments simultaneously for hundreds or even thousands of species in an efficient and time-saving way.…”
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Genetic variances and correlations in an early tropical white maize population after three cycles of recurrent selection for Striga resistance by Badu-Apraku, Baffour

“…The early maturing population, TZE-W Pop DT STR, has gone through three cycles of S1 recurrent selection for improvement for grain yield and Striga resistance. Three hundred full-sib families within half-sib groups from cycle 3 of TZE-W Pop DT STR were evaluated under artificial Striga infestation in Ferkéssedougou, Côte d’Ivoire, 2002, and in Mokwa, Nigeria, 2003. …”
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