20 articles in this issue
María I. Saldaña y Hernández,Regino Gómez,Juan M. Pat,José D. Álvarez,Julián Pérez,Carlos F. Ortiz
Berta Schnettler,Gloria Crisóstomo,Natally Mills,Horacio Miranda,Marcos Mora,Germán Lobos,Klaus G. Grunert
In light of the increasing use of nanotechnology in food production, consumer acceptance of sunflower oil produced with nanotechnology or from genetically modified (GM) plants and the conventionally produced raw materials available in Temuco (Araucanía Re... see more
Cristian Adasme-Berríos,Roberto Jara-Rojas,Bárbara Ramos-Cabello,Marcelo Rodríguez,Marcos Mora
The main objective of this article was to analyze consumer responses to agricultural produce advertising. A survey was given to a non-probabilistic sample of 400 consumers in Rancagua, the capital city of the O'Higgins Region. A principal components analy... see more
Liliana Morales,Rodrigo Echeverría,María del V. Barrera
Unlike in the central zone of Chile, the use of contract farming (CF) is uncommon in the southern regions of the country, and few studies have attempted to explain this situation. The objective of this study was to analyze the factors that influence the u... see more
Alejandra Engler,Alejandro del Pozo
Cereal grain yields have increased worldwide during the 20th century as a consequence of plant breeding, improved cultural practices and intensive use of inputs. However, there is evidence that there are differences in yield pattern evolution across count... see more
Ignacio Schiappacasse,Felipe Vásquez Felipe Vásquez,Laura Nahuelhual,Cristian Echeverría
Guillermo Donoso,José Cancino,Ricardo Olguín,Daniela Schönhaut
Research on the determinants that influence the price of farmland has found renewed interest in the past decade because agricultural land values are an important source of information for tracing the distribution of benefits generated by agricultural grow... see more
Aline P. Puga,Renato de Mello Prado,Ben-Hur Mattiuz,Diego Wyllyam do Vale,Ivana M. Fonseca
In general, tropical soils present low concentrations of zinc (Zn), and the deficiency of Zn is recognized as a world nutritional problem for cereal production and human beings. Therefore, the main goal of this study was to assess the effects of different... see more
Eleodoro E. Del Valle,Paola Lax,Juan Rondán Dueñas,Marcelo E. Doucet
The effects of insect cadavers infected with three isolates of Heterorhabditis bacteriophora and one isolate of Steinernema diaprepesi on a population of Meloidogyne incognita in pepper (Capsicum annuum) and summer squash (Cucurbita maxima) were evaluated... see more
Germán Sepúlveda-Chavera,Ricardo Salvatierra-Martínez,Rodrigo Andía-Guardia
The powdery mildew complex (Leveillula taurica and Erysiphe sp.) is one of the major factors limiting tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) production in the Azapa Valley, Chile. This problem is especially severe in the case of protected crops because the options... see more
Carolina Torres,Bernardo A. Latorre,Pedro Undurraga,Ximena Besoain
The Botryosphaeriaceae species have been widely studied and are considered a serious problem to the production of grapes worldwide. To aid in the development of control strategies for these fungi, in vitro experiments were conducted to evaluate the effect... see more
María Valentina Mujica,Roxana Mora,Marlene Rosales,Claudio Sandoval
A vineyard in south-central Chile was surveyed during five growing seasons to analyze the increase over time in the number of plants infected with Grapevine leafroll-associated virus-1, -2 and -3. At the end of the study, GLRaV-3 was found to be the most ... see more
Angel A. Carbonell-Barrachina,Teresa García-Ortuño,Javier Andreu-Rodríguez,María T. Ferrández-García,Manuel Ferrández-Villena,Clara E. Ferrández-García,Angel Calín-Sanchez
Giant reed (Arundo donax L.) is currently one of the greatest invasive threats to Mediterranean-type river ecosystems worldwide and can be easily transformed into a cheap and sustainable material that can be used in the manufacturing of containers for the... see more
Emilia Mariangel,Marjorie Reyes-Diaz,Walter Lobos,Emma Bensch,Heidi Schalchli,Pamela Ibarra
The antioxidant capacity (AC), total anthocyanins (TA) and total phenols (TP) of calafate fruit from four locations in southern Chile (El Blanco, Lonquimay, Mañihuales and Temuco) were determined using both the free radical 2.2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (... see more
María Teresa Pino,Andrea Ávila,Andrea Molina,Zoran Jeknic,Tony H. H. Chen
Cultivated potato crops are sensitive to drought stress, reducing yield and tuber quality when the soil water potential drops to -0.3 MPa. However, drought not only affects plant growth and physiological activity, but this stress also induces biochemical ... see more
Alejandra E. Muñoz,Javier A. Simonetti
Guanaco (Lama guanicoe), the only native ungulate of Tierra del Fuego, uses the forests more extensively after the introduction of sheep. It is presumed that the regeneration of lenga (Nothofagus pumilio) is hampered by guanaco browsing. In this context, ... see more
Suzanne M. Hodgkinson,Felipe Matus,Ignacio F. Lopez
In the semi-extensive farming systems that are used to raise European wild boar in countries such as Chile, the behavior of the animals in paddocks has not been studied and is important for managing the system. The objective of the present study was to de... see more
Burhan Öztürk,Ebubekir Altuntas,Kenan Yildiz,Yakup Ozkan,Onur Saracoglu
Recently, plant growth regulators have been used for various purposes in apples. Methyl jasmonate (MeJA) has significant effects on the physiology, postharvest biology, processing, and chemical composition of apples. In the present study, the effects of M... see more
Jaime Espejo,Marcelo Baeza,Eduardo Ruiz,Freddy Mora,Miguel Gómez,Gloria Montenegro
This report provides information on applying the cleft grafting technique in the species Sophora toromiro (Phil.) Skottsb., focused on its propagation, and contributes to the conservation of the genetic base of this species in the medium and long term. A ... see more
Carol Cabrera,Gloria Montenegro
Bee pollen is a product from beehives that is contained in corbiculae, generally monospecific and is currently considered as a functional food due to its nutritional and medicinal properties. This study investigates the antimicrobial activity of a Chilean... see more