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Kaiyang Qiu, Zhigang Li, Yingzhong Xie, Dongmei Xu, Chen He and Richard Pott
Desertification reversal is globally significant for the sustainable development of land resources. However, the mechanisms of desertification reversal at the level of plant community are still unclear. We hypothesized that desertification reversal has c...
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Fernanda Alves de Freitas Guedes, Luana Beatriz dos Santos Nascimento, Mara Priscila Costa, Andrew Macrae, Marcio Alves-Ferreira, Camila Caldana and Fernanda Reinert
Growing varieties with higher water-use efficiency is crucial to address water limitation in agriculture. Breeding programs often resort to model plants, and Setaria viridis has been consolidating its position as a model for C4 grasses. However, we lack ...
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Albertus Wijanarko, Muslikhin Hidayat and Sutijan Sutijan
The naphtha cracking process is the most commonly used technology for the production of ethylene, propylene, mixed C4s (including 1,3-butadiene and other C4 components), and pygas (pyrolysis gasoline, a mixture of benzene, toluene, and xylene), all of wh...
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Ieva Me?aka, Arta Kronberga, Marta Berga, Laura Kalane, Laura Pastare, Gundars Skudrin? and Ilva Nakurte
The extensive application of synthetic insecticides and herbicides over the past 50 years has led to a number of problems, including negative effects on non-target organisms and the evolution of pesticide-resistant pests. As an alternative means of pest ...
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El-Sayed A. Badr, Rady T. Tawfik and Mortada S. Alomran
Irrigation water quality is important to sustain agricultural productivity. The primary irrigation water sources in Al-Ahsa Oasis, KSA, are groundwater wells, mixed with treated wastewater and agricultural drainage. This study sought to evaluate irrigati...
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Zhiyi Tang, Chao Cao, Kunxian Tang, Hongshuai Qi, Yuanmin Sun and Jiangbo Yang
Carbon and nitrogen contents and their isotopic components, and AMS (Accelerator Mass Spectrometry) radiocarbon dating ages, were measured for 57 coastal sediments from Weizhou Island to analyze the distribution of total inorganic carbon (TIC) and its ca...
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Sandia Primeia, Chihiro Inoue and Mei-Fang Chien
Bioremediation is one of the promising environment-friendly approaches to eliminate oil contamination. However, heavy oil is known to degrade slowly due to its hydrophobicity. Therefore, microorganisms capable of producing biosurfactants are gaining subs...
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Lillian Kay Petersen
Crop yields are strongly dependent on the average climate, extreme temperatures, and carbon dioxide concentrations, all of which are projected to increase in the coming century. In this study, a statistical model was created to predict US yields to 2100 ...
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Pradeep Wagle and Prasanna H. Gowda
Adoption of better management practices is crucial to lessen the impact of anthropogenic disturbances on tallgrass prairie systems that contribute heavily for livestock production in several states of the United States. This article reviews the impacts o...
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Christiana Funmilola Olusegun, Philip G. Oguntunde and Emiola O. Gbobaniyi
This study investigates the future climatic impacts of different percentages of trees/shrubs, C4 and C3 plant functional types (PFTs) over the West Africa region. The ratio of co-existence among the different PFTs was done as a representation of agri-sil...
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