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... BACKGROUND: Anthracnose, caused by the fungus Colletotrichum lindemuthianum, increases losses in the production of common beans. As 1,3‐diazoles can act against fungi by inhibiting the enzyme squalene epoxidase (SE), 2‐aminoselenazoles and 2‐aminothiazoles were synthesized and subjected to tests with the fungus. In addition, the interactions of the most promising substances with the enzyme SE were ...
bean flour; beans; bioactive properties; pH; polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; principal component analysis; protein content; thermal properties; vicilin
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... In this study, a comparative investigation on the structural, technofunctional and bioactive properties of protein concentrates from different common bean genotypes was performed. Protein extractions were carried out at different pH and salt concentrations and the highest protein content for the concentrates (77.7%) was determined for pH 11 and 0.4% of salt. The protein content of the common bean ...
... A novel positive single-stranded RNA virus, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum hypovirus 9 (SsHV9), was identified in the plant-pathogenic Sclerotinia sclerotiorum strain GB375, which was associated with a garden bean plant in the United States. The complete genome of SsHV9 is 14,067 nucleotides in length, excluding the poly(A) tail. It has a single large open reading frame encoding a putative polyprotein ( ...
... Restaurants are characterized by high levels of meat being consumed in this out-of-home setting, while plant-based meat alternatives remain a niche product, thus preserving a high environmental impact of food consumption. We tested whether subtly re-designing the restaurant menu, so that plant-based meat alternatives were perceived as the default to a greater extent, increased consumer selection o ...
Juan Carlos Suárez; José Alexander Anzola; Amara Tatiana Contreras; Dina Luz Salas; José Iván Vanegas; Milan O. Urban; Stephen E. Beebe; Idupulapati M. Rao
Phaseolus vulgaris; Zea mays; acid soils; agronomic traits; agronomy; beans; continuous cropping; corn; experimental design; fertilizer application; grain yield; intercropping; land use; mineral fertilizers; organic fertilizers; production costs; Amazonia
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... Intercropping the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) with maize (Zea mays L.) is a widely used agronomic practice in smallholder farms in different regions of the world. Although it is a common practice in the Colombian Amazon region, crop yields are low due to the degradation of low fertility, acidic soil and high-temperature stress. Studies are needed on how the integration of genetically adapt ...
Ioannis Karavidas; Georgia Ntatsi; Vasiliki Vougeleka; Anestis Karkanis; Theodora Ntanasi; Costas Saitanis; Evgenios Agathokleous; Andreas Ropokis; Leo Sabatino; Fanny Tran; Pietro P. M. Iannetta; Dimitrios Savvas
... Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is the most important legume for human consumption worldwide and an important source of vegetable protein, minerals, antioxidants, and bioactive compounds. The N₂-fixation capacity of this crop reduces its demand for synthetic N fertilizer application to increase yield and quality. Fertilization, yield, and quality of common bean may be optimised by several othe ...
Allium ampeloprasum; Phaseolus vulgaris; Zea mays; beans; corn; data collection; developmental stages; leeks; soil; weeds; France
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... This article introduces a dataset of 2 801 images of vegetable crops. Maize (Zea mays), bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) and leek (Allium ampeloprasum) crops at an early stage of development (between 2 and 5 weeks from seeding of transplanting) are supported. Two kinds of annotations are provided: (i) bounding boxes enclosing the crops of interest or their stems, weeds being left apart, and (ii) crop str ...
... Knowledge is insufficient on feasible remediation techniques to agricultural soils contaminated by multiple heavy metal(loid)s with elevated concentrations and extreme acidy from acid mine drainages (AMD). We aimed to elucidate the effect of integrated biochar (BC) and soil replacement on improving the mining soil properties and then alleviating the phytotoxicity of As, Pb, Cd, Cu, and Zn on radis ...
... Peripheral artery disease (PAD) has high morbidity and mortality rates. A metabolomics approach was employed to determine whether consumption of bean-rich diets for 8 weeks would impact the metabolomic profile of individuals with PAD. Serum and urine, collected from 54 participants with clinical PAD at baseline and after 8 weeks on 0.3 cups beans/day (n = 19), 0.6 cups beans/day (n = 20), or contr ...
Lorenzo Raggi; Luca C. Pacicco; Leonardo Caproni; Clara Álvarez-Muñiz; Külli Annamaa; Ana M. Barata; Diana Batir-Rusu; María J. Díez; Maarit Heinonen; Vojtěch Holubec; Shelagh Kell; Hrvoje Kutnjak; Helene Maierhofer; Gert Poulsen; Jaime Prohens; Parthenopi Ralli; Filomena Rocha; María L. Rubio Teso; Dan Sandru; Pietro Santamaria; Sarah Sensen; Olivia Shoemark; Salvador Soler; Silvia Străjeru; Imke Thormann; Jens Weibull; Nigel Maxted; Valeria Negri
... During the last century, the progressive substitution of landraces with modern, high yielding varieties, led to a dramatic reduction of in situ conserved crop diversity in Europe. Nowadays there is limited and scattered information on where landraces are cultivated. To fill this gap and lay the groundwork for a regional landrace in situ conservation strategy, information on more than 19,335 geo-re ...
Elizabeth Nakhungu Wafula; Mercyline Onduso; Irene Njoki Wainaina; Carolien Buvé; Peter Kahenya Kinyanjui; Stephen Mwangi Githiri; Wouter Saeys; Daniel Ndaka Sila; Marc Hendrickx
... The presence of antinutrients in common beans negatively affects mineral bioavailability. Therefore, this study aimed to predict the antinutrient to mineral molar ratios (proxy-indicators of in vitro mineral bioavailability) of a wide range of raw bean types, using near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy. Iron, zinc, phytate and tannin concentrations and, antinutrient to mineral molar ratios were determi ...
Apis mellifera; Helianthus annuus; United States Environmental Protection Agency; beans; ecotoxicology; honey bees; imidacloprid; indigenous species; models; passion fruits; pesticide application; pesticide law; research; risk; risk assessment; tomatoes; Brazil
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... All across the world, different countries use Ecological risk assessments (ERA) of pesticides to pollinators as a regulatory tool to understand the safety of pesticide use in agriculture. However, pesticide application is still recognized as one of the main stress factors causing a decline in the global population of bees. In all ERA procedures, the effects of pesticides on the honey bee species A ...
... Bacillus subtilis can mitigate crop growth and yield under heat stress. We studied whether these benefits can be reproduced in the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). We hypothesized that B. subtilis strains AP-3 and AP-12 could improve bean crop performance under heat stress. Heat stress consisted of cultivation at 35 °C compared to pots at 25 °C in controlled environment chambers. Treatments we ...
... The current knowledge of bean plants microbiome is far from being complete. Unraveling the complexity of the bacterial communities within common bean cultivars that may significantly contribute to plant health, growth and protection against soil pathogens, represents a major challenge. In this study, the richness and composition of the bacterial communities from bean plant rhizospheres and control ...
... The present study is region specific carried out to see the relation of bean anthracnose with weather in Kashmir and also to assess the yield loss in bean vis-a-vis anthracnose. Such studies form basis for deciding disease suppressive crop geometry and also sowing date alterations besides helping in disease predictions. The yield loss study in particular reveals the importance of a disease before ...
Anser fabalis; acoustics; beans; flight; lakes; water birds
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... Wild animals are vulnerable to environmental noise. In wetlands, wintering waterbirds are easily disturbed by ship noises; however, the behavioral changes of waterbirds in response to different levels of noise are unclear. We simulated the acoustic environment created by ship movement to investigate the effects of ship noise on foraging, vigilance, and flight behaviors of the wintering bean goose ...
Jenifer Sthephanie Araújo da Silva; Erika Valente de Medeiros; Diogo Paes da Costa; Carlos Alberto Fragoso de Souza; Julyana Braga de Oliveira; Rafaela Félix da França; Cristina M. Souza-Motta; José Romualdo de Sousa Lima; Claude Hammecker
... The root soil interface harbors complex microbial interactions that influence plant and soil health. A better understanding of using of biochar derived from different waste sources with Trichoderma spp. (TRI), and the relationship between plant disease and environmental parameters would assist setting priorities. Here, we hypothesized that biochar and TRI could be useful in managing cassava root r ...
ash content; beans; biofuels; biomass; bulk density; business enterprises; charcoal; energy; energy poverty; food waste; markets; pineapples; sanitation; sludge; soil; waste management; water content; wood; Uganda
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... This study explored the production and evaluation of briquettes made from dried fecal sludge mixed with fresh food waste as a dual strategy to solve energy poverty and poor sanitation problems in Ugandan slums. Cylindrical briquettes measuring 82 mm height by 76 mm diameter were produced from dried fecal sludge (FS) alone, and FS mixed separately with pineapple peels (FS + PP), charcoal fines (FS ...
Lucas Eduardo de Oliveira Aparecido; João A Lorençone; Pedro A Lorençone; Glauco de Souza Rolim; Kamila C de Meneses; José R da Silva Cabral de Moraes; Guilherme B Torsoni
Coffea arabica; agriculture; air; air temperature; beans; climate; decision making; evapotranspiration; meteorological data; sanitary and phytosanitary regulations; thermometers; Brazil
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... BACKGROUND: The loss of coffee leaves caused by the attack of pests and diseases significantly reduces its production and bean quality. Thus this study aimed to estimate foliation for regions with the highest production of arabica coffee in Brazil using nonlinear models as a function of climate. A 25‐year historical series (1995–2019) of Coffea arabica foliation (%) data was obtained by the Procaf ...
Brachiaria; beans; carbon; carbon sinks; cerrado; corn; crop rotation; cropland; deforestation; drought; ecosystems; forests; intensive farming; intercropping; irrigated farming; irrigation; land management; meteorology; no-tillage; rice; site preparation; soybeans; stubble; Brazil
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... The Cerrado is one of the most important agricultural production areas in Brazil where soybean and maize have expanded in recent decades through deforestation. The effects of cropland on the carbon (C) balance still needs to be understood at the ecosystem scale to better situate the role of land management in the tropical C cycle. In this study, we measured the C exchange of two fields (irrigated ...