Xanthopoulou, Aliki; Montero-Pau, Javier; Picó Sirvent, María Belén; Boumpas, Panagiotis; Tsaliki, Eleni; Paris, Harry S.; Tsaftaris, Athanasios; Kalivas, Apostolos; Mellidou, Ifigeneia; Ganopoulos, Ioannis(Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.), 2021-05-12)
[EN] Background Summer squash (Cucurbita pepo: Cucurbitaceae) are a popular horticultural crop for which there is insufficient genomic and transcriptomic information. Gene expression atlases are crucial for the identification ...
Gil Muñoz, Francisco; Pérez-Pérez, Juan Gabriel; Quiñones, Ana; Primo-Capella, Amparo; Cebolla Cornejo, Jaime; FORNER GINER, MARIA ANGELES; BADENES CATALA, MARISA; Naval Merino, María del Mar(Public Library of Science, 2020-02-25)
[EN] Persimmon (Diospyros kaki Thunb.) production is facing important problems related to climate change in the Mediterranean areas. One of them is soil salinization caused by the decrease and change of the rainfall ...
[EN] The development of double haploids (DHs) is a straightforward path for obtaining pure lines but has multiple bottlenecks. Among them is the determination of the optimal stage of pollen induction for androgenesis. In ...
Benito, Patricia; Ligorio, Daniele; Bellón, Javier; Yenush, Lynne; Mulet, José Miguel(Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.), 2022-09-15)
[EN] Background: According to the most popular defnition, a biostimulant is any substance or microorganism applied
to plants with the aim to enhance nutrition efciency, abiotic stress tolerance and/or crop quality traits, ...
[EN] On 12 March 2018, the Valencian official bulletin published the Law of "L'Horta de València". In addition, on 20 December 2018, the same bulletin published approval of the Territorial Action Plan for Planning and ...
[EN] The purpose of this contribution is to develop a Circular Economy Composite indicator to benchmark EU countries performance. Europe is at the forefront of the global transition towards a sustainable and circular ...
[EN] A qPCR-based method was developed to detect and quantifyPodosphaera pannosa, the main causal agent of peach powdery mildew. A primer pair was designed to target part of the ITS region of the fungal ribosomal DNA, which ...
[EN] A semi-industrial scale AnMBR plant was operated for more than 600 days to evaluate the long-term operation of this technology at ambient temperature (ranging from 10 to 27 ¿ C), variable hydraulic retention times ...
[EN] Increased interannual climate variability affects agricultural livelihoods throughout the world. In many regions, climate services support decision-makers in their adaptation efforts. The range of these services and ...
Martínez-Ventura, Jordi; Miguel Arbones, Eduardo María de; Sentieri Omarrementeria, Carla; Galan Vivas, Juan José; Calero-Llinares, María(MDPI AG, 2021-08-26)
[EN] Architectural education plays a fundamental role in achieving sustainable development by training future professionals who can contribute to sustainability through their practice. Nevertheless, to ensure the introduction ...
[EN] Bilayer films of cassava starch-based (with 10% gellan gum) and polylactic (PLA): Poly(3-
hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV) polyester blend (with 75% PLA) monolayers were
obtained by melt-blending and ...
González-Orenga, Sara; Boscaiu, Monica; Verdeguer Sancho, Mercedes María; Sánchez-Moreiras, A. M.; González, L; Vicente, Oscar(University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest, 2022-12)
[EN] Climate change represents one of the greatest environmental challenges of the 21st century, accentuated by deforestation and the degradation of habitats. Changes in vital aspects such as temperature, the amount and ...
López-Martín, María; Pérez De Castro, Ana María; Picó Sirvent, María Belén; Gómez-Guillamon, Maria Luisa(MDPI AG, 2022-10)
[EN] Cucurbits powdery mildew (CPM) is one of the main limiting factors of melon cultivation worldwide. Resistance to races 1, 2, and 5 has been reported in the African accession TGR-1551, whose resistance is controlled ...
Lezoche, Mario; Hernández, Jorge E.; Alemany Díaz, María Del Mar; Panetto, Hervé; Kacprzyk, Janusz(Elsevier, 2020-05)
[EN] The term "Agri-Food 4.0" is an analogy to the term Industry 4.0; coming from the concept "agriculture 4.0". Since the origins of the industrial revolution, where the steam engines started the concept of Industry 1.0 ...
[EN] Increasing nutrient use efficiency of fertilizers is one of the major challenges to improve crop yields and minimize environmental impacts. This work compared the efficacy of a new ecological
polymer-coated urea ...
[EN] Fresh market demands high quality fruit and, therefore, citrus growers and researchers are constantly looking for
solutions to avoid seed presence. Current horticultural techniques have low effectiveness or high cost. ...
Cofelice, M.; Cuomo, F.; Chiralt, A.(MDPI AG, 2019-09-04)
[EN] The necessity of producing innovative packaging systems has directed the attention of food industries towards the use of biodegradable polymers for developing new films able to protect foods and to extend their ...
Igual Ramo, Marta; García-Segovia, Purificación; Martínez-Monzó, Javier(Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2021)
[EN] Edible insects have seen increasing use as a nutritive ingredient in food because of their high protein content and digestibility of amino acids from insect-enriched food. Therefore, the aim of this work was to evaluate ...
Igual Ramo, Marta; García-Segovia, Purificación; Martínez-Monzó, Javier(Elsevier, 2021-07)
[EN] The aim of this study was to investigate the amino acid (AA) release from breads enrichment with edible insects, Alphitobius diaperinus and Tenebrio molitor or pea protein during in vitro gastrointestinal digestion. ...
[EN] Volatile profile of melon fruit from 25 introgression lines (ILs), developed by introgressing specific genomic regions from the Japanese cultivar `Ginsen makuwa¿ (MAK) into the `Charentais¿ recurrent genetic background ...