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Agrotecnio aims to become a reference in Europe addressing all the key elements of the food production chain in an integrated way focusing on target crops and animals of commercial importance, rather than model systems. This later aspect sets our centre apart from other centers which focus on fundamental science and/or model plant and animal systems. As a result we should be able to address fundamental and important questions in the crop/animal of interest and results from our research will be directly and immediately applicable to our target organism. [Més informació]
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Dosis óptima económica de fósforo en el cultivo de papa en el sudeste bonaerense
(Asociación Argentina de la Ciencia del Suelo, 2016-08-09)Asegurar una buena disponibilidad de fósforo (P) para el cultivo de papa, es tan importante como ajustar la estrategia de fertilización para producir el máximo rendimiento con la mayor eficiencia económica. El Avail®, ... -
Métodos agronómicos y ambientales de determinación de fósforo en Argiudoles del sudeste bonaerense
(Asociación Argentina de la Ciencia del Suelo, 2015-09-15)Los análisis de suelo son herramientas útiles para evaluar la fertilidad edáfica y efectuar recomendaciones de fertilización (métodos agronómicos). Otros métodos, denominados ambientales, estiman el fósforo (P) que puede ... -
Descriptive study for culling and mortality in five high-producing Spanish dairy cattle farms (2006–2016)
(BMC, 2018)Background: High turnover rate in dairy farms due to culling and mortality is associated with poor animal welfare, an increase in production costs and lower economic benefits for the dairy farm. Understanding cow ... -
Fruiting effi ciency: an alternative trait to further rise wheat yield
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd.Association of Applied Biologists, 2015)Further improvements in wheat yields are critical, for which increases in grain number would be required. In the recent past, higher grain number was achieved through increased growth of the juvenile spikes before anthesis, ... -
Woody plants optimise stomatal behaviour relative to hydraulic risk
(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)Stomatal response to environmental conditions forms the backbone of all ecosystem and carbon cycle models, but is largely based on empirical relationships. Evolutionary theories of stomatal behaviour are critical for ... -
Stratified sampling in fruit orchards using cluster-based ancillary information maps: a comparative analysis to improve yield and quality estimates
(Springer, 2019-03-25)Estimation of yield or other fruit quality parameter is of great interest to farmers to decide on management actions just before harvesting and, in any case, to anticipate and plan harvesting operations. Making accurate ... -
Carcass lean-yield effects on the fatty acid and amino acid composition of Duroc pork and its technological quality after vacuum-aging
(CSIRO Publishing, 2018)Eighty purebred Duroc castrated male pigs slaughtered at 210 days of age were used to evaluate the effect of lean yield (European Union carcass grading based on lean content; or R, O and P classes) on the fatty acid and ... -
Contrasting distribution patterns between aquatic and terrestrial Phytophthora species along a climatic gradient are linked to functional traits
(Springer Nature, 2018)Diversity of microbial organisms is linked to global climatic gradients. The genus Phytophthora includes both aquatic and terrestrial plant pathogenic species that display a large variation of functional traits. The extent ... -
La repoblación forestal en España: las especies utilizadas desde 1877 a partir de las cartografías forestales
(Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA), 2019)En España, la actividad repobladora moderna comenzó en la segunda mitad del siglo xix. Este artículo analiza qué uso se hizo de las diferentes especies forestales en el periodo comprendido entre 1877 y 2013. Un periodo que ... -
Differential accumulation of pelargonidin glycosides in petals at three different developmental stages of the orange-flowered gentian (Gentiana lutea L. var. aurantiaca)
(Public Library of Science, 2019)Corolla color in Gentiana lutea L. exhibits a yellow/orange variation. We previously demonstrated that the orange petal color of G. lutea L. var. aurantiaca is predominantly caused by newly synthesized pelargonidin ... -
Five genomic regions have a major impact on fat composition in Iberian pigs
(Nature Research, 2019)The adipogenic nature of the Iberian pig defines many quality attributes of its fresh meat and dry-cured products. The distinct varieties of Iberian pig exhibit great variability in the genetic parameters for fat deposition ... -
Unravelling the contribution of the Penicillium expansum PeSte12 transcription factor to virulence during apple fruit infection
(Elsevier, 2018)Blue mould disease caused by Penicillium expansum infection is one of the most important diseases of pome fruit accounting for important economic losses. In the present study, the PeSte12 transcription factor gene was ... -
Influence of size and shape of forest inventory units on the layout of harvest blocks in numerical forest planning
(Springer, 2019)The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of using alternative types of forest inventory units (FIUs) in multi-objective forest planning. The research was carried out in a Mediterranean forest area in central ... -
Drought and phytophthora are associated with the decline of oak species in Southern Italy
(Frontiers Media, 2018)Forest decline induced by climate change is a global phenomenon that affects many tree species, mainly in drought-prone areas as the Mediterranean region. In southern Italy, several oak species have shown decline symptoms ... -
Barley β-glucan accelerates wound healing by favoring migration versus proliferation of human dermal fibroblasts
(Elsevier, 2019)β-Glucans are considered candidates for the medication in different human pathologies. In this work, we have purified β-glucan from a selected barley line and tested their effects in primary human dermal fibroblasts. ... -
No-tillage systems linked to reduced soil N2O emissions in Mediterranean agroecosystems
(SCU, The University of the West of England, Bristol, 2019-01-10)Most emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O) are linked to the use of nitrogen (N) fertiliser in agriculture, highlighting a need for agricultural management practices that reduce emissions while maintaining agronomic productivity. ... -
Towards improving the electroanalytical speciation analysis of indium
(Elsevier, 2019)The geochemical fate of indium in natural waters is still poorly understood, while recent studies have pointed out a growing input of this trivalent element in the environment as a result of its utilisation in the manufacturing ... -
Els reptes actuals de la gestió del risc per micotoxines
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Sphaerophoria rueppelli adults change their foraging behavior after mating but maintain the same preferences to flower traits
(SpringerInternational Organization for Biological Control, 2019-02-20)Hoverflies can play an important role in aphid biological control. Adult hoverflies depend on pollen and nectar to survive. Therefore the placement of flower resources in agroecosystems is a common method to enhance the ... -
Faecal bacterial and short-chain fatty acids signature in hypercholesterolemia
(Nature Research, 2019)Gut microbiota has been suggested to affect lipid metabolism. The objective of this study was to characterize the faecal microbiota signature and both short chain fatty acids (SCFAs) and bile acids (BA) profile of ...