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 ...
[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] 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
[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 ...
Baviera-Puig, Amparo; MONTERO DE VICENTE, LUIS; Escribá-Pérez, Carmen; Buitrago Vera, Juan Manuel(Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria, 2021)
[EN] Aim of study: Commercially, chicken meat has a similar positioning to turkey meat, as both are healthy and low-fat meats. For this reason, we proposed analysing consumer behaviour with respect to each of these meats ...
Jiménez Benítez, Antonio Luis; Ferrer Polo, Francisco Javier; Greses, Silvia; Ruiz-Martínez, Ana; Fatone, Francesco; Eusebi, Anna Laura; Mondéjar, Nieves; FERRER, J.; Seco, Aurora(Elsevier, 2020-10-10)
[EN] The use of anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) technology on urban wastewater can help to alleviate droughts, by reusing the water and nutrients embedded in the effluent in agriculture (fertigation) in line with ...
Boyaci, Hatice Filiz; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Unlu, Abdullah; Gumrukcu, Emine; Oten, Mehmet; Plazas Ávila, María de la O(MDPI AG, 2020-06)
[EN] The identification of heterotic groups may provide an important advantage for hybrid eggplant (Solanum melongena) breeding. In this study, we evaluated the combining ability and heterotic patterns of eggplant lines ...
García-Segovia, Purificación; Igual Ramo, Marta; Martínez-Monzó, Javier(MDPI AG, 2021-07)
[EN] Beetroot is a root vegetable with carotenoids, phenols, vitamins, minerals, and water-soluble betalain pigments such as betacyanins (red-violet color) and betaxanthins (yellow-orange color), which have many nutritional ...
[EN] Cereal fungal contamination causes both economic and human health problems. In the present study, the chemical composition of commercial bay leaf, cinnamon, clove and oregano essential oils, and antifungal activity ...
GÓMEZ-MARTÍN, M. ESTHER; Gimenez-Carbo, Ester; Andrés-Doménech, Ignacio; Pellicer, Eugenio(Emerald, 2021-08-14)
[EN] Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the potential for implementing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into the civil engineering bachelor degree in the School of Civil Engineering at Universitat Politecnica ...
[EN] A field survey conducted on asymptomatic grapevine propagation material from nurseries and symptomatic young grapevines throughout different regions of Algeria yielded a collection of 70 Phaeoacremonium-like isolates ...
[EN] BACKGROUND Ever since the beginning of agriculture, yields have been threatened by weeds. Chemical weed control is far more effective and economical than other methods. The frequent use of herbicides has led to ...
[EN] Agricultural packaging has a direct impact on the environmental performance of food. The carbon footprint (CF) of two of the most used packaging systems for international transport by road of fruit and vegetables is ...
Alemany Díaz, María Del Mar; Esteso, Ana; Ortiz Bas, Ángel; del Pino, Mariana(Elsevier, 2021-03)
[EN] Imbalance between supply and demand of crops frequently occurs in markets originating an excess or shortage of supply in relation to demand. This causes high volatility and uncertainty in market prices, unmet demand, ...