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European Union; agricultural land; brownfields; buildings; case studies; cities; climate; climate change; ecosystems; floods; food production; food safety; heat; hydroponics; infrastructure; land use; models; quality of life; soil; urbanization
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... The tissue of cities is getting increasingly dense and compact, however, according to the current development models, the demand for living space per person, for industrial and commercial activities, for the transport infrastructure, requires more and more land, often to the detriment of agricultural fields, that surround cities. The occupation of agricultural lands has significant impact on the r ...
Escherichia coli; active sites; carbon nitride; cooling; crystal structure; disinfection; electron transfer; freezing; graphene; heat; humic acids; irradiation; light; microwave treatment; nanosheets; photocatalysis; photolysis; physicochemical properties; surface area; water purification
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... Highly-crystalline 2-dimensional (2D) graphitic carbon nitride (g-C₃N₄) nanosheets with low structural imperfection usually possess high photocatalytic activity that benefits from the suppressed electron–hole recombination. However, the conventional exfoliation strategy is incapable for fast and clean preparation of such highly-quality g-C₃N₄ nanosheets from their bulk-type counterparts. Herein, h ...
Amaranthaceae; Turkey (country); botany; diploidy; flora; new species; Northern Africa; Persian Gulf; Sardinia; Sicily
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... A new species of Arthrocaulon Piirainen & G. Kadereit, A. meridionalis is described. This diploid taxon is known from the islands of Sicily and Sardinia and from circum-Mediterranean territories (from North Africa to the Anatolian Peninsula in Turkey and as far as the Persian Gulf on the Asian continent). The distinctive macro-, micromorphological and chorological features of this taxon are given. ...
... Geranium biuncinatum Kokwaro was collected during a fieldwork around (Khuzestan province, Shoshtar to Masjed Soleyman) in South West of Iran. It is added as a new record for the flora of Iran. Micromorphological features of mericarps and seeds are investigated by Scanning Electron Microscopy. Differences between Geranium biuncinatum and its relatives are discussed. Its diagnostic characters, geogr ...
business enterprises; consumers (people); foods; income; interviews; markets; poverty; prices; social welfare; surveys; British Columbia
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... Alternative food networks are emerging in opposition to industrial food systems, but are criticized as being exclusive, since customers’ ability to patronize these market spaces is premised upon their ability to pay higher prices for what are considered the healthiest, freshest foods. In response, there is growing interest in widening the demographic profile given access to these alternative foods ...
activists; case studies; issues and policy; politics; socioeconomic status
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... Based on a Danish case study of urban renewal in Copenhagen’s Sundholm District, this paper examines, (a) how present urban regeneration efforts in a historically welfare-driven, but increasingly neoliberalized state context, is contributing to more or less spatial exclusion of the homeless, and (b) to what extent this may be associated with a revanchist/punitive stance of the Danish state. Using ...
... On the basis of the correspondence between N. I. Vavilov and G. D. Karpechenko in 1924-1926, their working relationship during this period has been analyzed. G. D. Karpechenko had just become head of a newly established genetics laboratory at Vavilov’s institute, and the director tried to help him to understand the tasks and research methodology. As a result, for the years ahead, theoretical justi ...
Citrus; ecophysiology; gardens; households; hydrologic cycle; irrigation; irrigation water; raw fruit; transpiration; trees; urban areas; water shortages; wind
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... The idea of garden is expressed, for the first time in history, by the Mesopotamian civilization as early as the IV millennium BCE as drawings and poetry texts showing a wall fencing one single tree. This is the first representation of the idea of sheltering/protecting a tree by human artifacts and, in its simplest form, brings the idea of the tight relationship between horticulture and urban envi ...
... The dendrological garden is of great importance in the general biological and ecological education of the population. In addition to studying and protecting plants, the garden has ample opportunities to realize its achievements in educational and educational activities. One of the forms of education of ecological thinking and worldview is the creation of ecological paths. On the territory of the d ...
forest industries; forestry; males; occupations; researchers; women
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... This study adds to the literature on the gendered culture of the forest sector by examining testimonies of sexual harassment in relation to the gendering of forestry-related competence and organisations and the consequences that the sexualisation of social relations in organisations has, mainly for women. The empirical base of the study comprised testimonies within the campaign #slutavverkat publi ...
... 'CARBAP K74' is a triploid plantain-like hybrid developed and selected in partnership between CARBAP and CIRAD. It results from a cross between an improved plantain-like tetraploid (AAAB) parental line and an improved cooking-type diploid (AA). Molecular studies showed that this hybrid is free of any endogenous banana streak virus (eBSV) sequence. An agronomic evaluation was performed over two cro ...
... Internal browning (IB) of 'Fuji' apples (Malus × domestica Borkh.) is an important physiological disorder which occurs during long term controlled atmosphere and regular atmosphere storage. The aim of this study was to use micro- and nano X-ray computed tomography (CT) to establish differences in airspace shape and size (tissue density) and porosity of the fruit with and without IB. The fruit was ...
Malus domestica; apples; canopy; cultivars; grafting (plants); orchards; pruning; regrowth; rootstocks; summer; trees; vigor; wages and remuneration; Brazil
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... Different canopy management strategies have been used to reduce vigor and labor costs, including time of pruning and training system. “Fruiting wall” systems lend themselves to mechanical hedging, to control vigor and reduce labor costs. Hedging could eliminate the need for summer pruning. This trial evaluated different hedging times during the summer and different hedging intensities in a Brazili ...
apples; bitter pit; calcium; field experimentation; fruits; genotype; grafting (plants); leaves; magnesium; manganese; nutrient content; rootstocks; scions; sulfur; zinc; United States
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... 'Honeycrisp' apples are susceptible to mineral nutrient-related fruit disorders, such as bitter pit. We utilized a well-established apple rootstock field trial in the Champlain Valley, NY, USA with 40 rootstocks (including B.9, M.9 and G.41 as controls) to determine the effects of rootstock genotypes on mineral nutrient concentrations in mature leaves and immature fruit. Positive relationships wer ...
... ‘Jinmei’, a yellow-fleshed kiwifruit cultivar, was selected from the backcross population of interspecific cultivar ‘Jinyan’ (female parents) and Actinidia chinensis (male parent) at the Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The fruit is long and cylindrical with dense short hairs on the fruit surface. The fruit is big, with average weight of 90-120 g and maximum weight of 176 g. Th ...
Diospyros kaki; brix; color; fruit quality; fruits; persimmons; pollination; progeny; proliferating cell nuclear antigen; taste; Korean Peninsula
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... 'Jowan' was crossed with 'Shinshu' and 'Taeshu' in 2005. From the progeny we selected '05-17-58' and evaluated some characteristics. The fruit ripens at late September on Youngam area in Korea, it's soluble sugar content is 16.4 °Brix, the fruit weight is 180-200 g, fruit shape is round oblate, and fruit skin color is light orange. Also its fruit quality is very high and has a juicy flesh, crunchy ...
... Macadamia is an Australian native genus, comprising of four species. Commercial cultivars for the production of macadamia nuts are derived from two species, M. tetraphylla and M. integrifolia. The different species of Macadamia have unique leaf and flowering patterns, due to inherent biological rhythms. Usually, M. tetraphylla has four leaves in a whorl, while the other species have three leaves p ...
... Late flowering, to avoid the late frosts, is one of the main objectives of the Almond Breeding Program of CEBAS-CSIC. The late flowering self-compatible ‘Antoñeta’ and ‘Marta’ were released long time ago, and they are nowadays broadly cultivated. Afterwards, we released the extra-late self-compatible ‘Penta’ and the ultra-late self-compatible ‘Tardona’, the latest flowering almond cultivar ever re ...
apricots; cold; cold tolerance; crossing; cultivars; females; fruit juices; fruit peels; fruits; hybrids; males; odors; seeds; soil quality; sourness; sweetness; texture; total soluble solids; China
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... 'Meixiang', a new hybrid early-maturing apricot cultivar, was bred through the crossing of a large sweet-kernel apricot cultivar (female parent) with an early-maturing apricot (male parent). The fruit is mostly round, with an average mass of 97 g. The fruit peel of 'Meixiang' apricot is golden yellow, and the sunny side is rosy red. It has thick yellow flesh with delicate texture and less fiber, a ...
... 'Omic' approaches have emerged as valuable technologies to monitoring the biological status of an organism. Among all their applications, the study of plant-pathogen interactions is on the cutting edge of plant research. Regarding to Brassica crops diseases, the causal agent of black rot (Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris, Xcc) is one of the most devastating soilborne diseases worldwide. Howev ...