33 articles in this issue
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Tiziana de-Magistris,Azucena Gracia,Luis-Miguel Albisu
Research on wine consumers’ preferences has largely been explored in the academic literature and the importance of wine attributes has been measured by rating or ranking scales. However, the most recent literature on wine preferences has applied the best-... see more
Lenin Vera-Montenegro,Amparo Baviera-Puig,Jose-Maria Garcia-Alvarez-Coque
Ensuring that the post-harvest process yields good quality cocoa is a relevant research question. However, the literature currently lacks detailed studies of producers’ criteria for post-harvest technology selection. There is therefore a need for research... see more
Ahmed Yangui,Montserrat Costa-Font,Jose M. Gil
Methods that account for preference heterogeneity have received a significant amount of attention in recent literature. Most of them have focused on preference heterogeneity around the mean of the random parameters, which has been specified as a function ... see more
M. Mar Garcia-Galan,Alejandro del Moral-Agúndez,Clementina Galera-Casquet
Designations of origin (DOs) are commercial brands of wide use in the agro-food sector. Its use in Spain has taken place for more than three decades and although wineries managers have incorporated these new forms of protection, little is known about thei... see more
Ahmed I. Al-Amoud,Mohamed A. Mattar,Mohamed I. Ateia
The effects of water temperature and structural parameters of a labyrinth emitter on drip irrigation hydraulic performance were investigated. The inside structural parameters of the trapezoidal labyrinth emitter include path width (W) and length (L), trap... see more
Cruz Garcerá,Enrique Moltó,Patricia Chueca
Models to relate the observed coverage on artificial collectors used in field tests (water-sensitive paper, WSP) and in laboratory bioassays of citrus pests (pieces of polyvinyl chloride sheets, PVC) with product deposition are described. Different soluti... see more
Antonio Martinez-Cob,Jose M. Faci,Olga Blanco,Eva T. Medina,Kosana Suvocarev
This paper evaluates the feasibility of using pyranometers for continuous estimation of ground cover fraction (GCF) at remote, unattended sites. Photographical techniques were used for measuring GCF (GCFref) at a table grape vineyard grown under a net. Da... see more
Yosvel E. Olivet,Victor Sanchez-Giron,Jose Luis Hernanz
The area devoted to growing tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) in the province of Granma, Cuba, accounted for nearly 2600 ha in the year 1997, which represented the 4% of the total tobacco plantation area on the island in that year. Tobacco is tillage-intensi... see more
Rosa M. Canals,Leticia San-Emeterio,Salud Sanchez-Marquez,Igor Ruiz de los Mozos,Pablo Pujol,Iñigo Zabalgogeazcoa
The sedge Carex brevicollis is a common component of semi-natural grasslands and forests in temperate mountains of Central and Southern Europe. The consumption of this species causes a severe toxicity to livestock, associated to high plant concentrations ... see more
Maria P. Simoes,Anabela F. Belo,Carla Pinto-Cruz,Anacleto C. Pinheiro
The combined impact of soil tillage intensification and expansion of olive farming is resulting in soil degradation and biodiversity decline. We hypothesized that, instead of tilling, mowing to control the natural vegetation in spring can increase biodive... see more
M. Mar Guerrero,Pedro Guirao,M. Carmen Martinez-Lluch,Julio C. Tello,Alfredo Lacasa
The aim was to confirm the depressive effect on pepper plants grown in non-disinfected soils and to ascertain the possible specificity of fatigue with the goal of establishing strategies for disinfecting soils with a broad spectrum of fumigants. Soil samp... see more
Shoja Jafari,Ali Hashemi,Reza Darvishzadeh,Ghader Manafiazar
Genetic parameters of production and reproduction traits were estimated using 39,926 records from 5,860 individual progenies of 163 sires and 1,558 dams. The data were collected at Makuie Sheep Breeding and Raising Station (Maku, Iran) from 1989 through 2... see more
F. Ismael Fernandez-Sanchez,Monica Barrio-Lopez,Luis A. Quintela-Arias,Juan J. Becerra-Gonzalez,Ana I. Peña-Martinez,Daniel Martinez-Bello,Pedro J. Garcia-Herradon,Carlos C. Perez-Marín
The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of endometrial cytology and metabolic profiles for selection of donor cows in embryo transfer programmes. For this purpose, 69 clinically healthy Holstein cows were enrolled in the study. At the start of the s... see more
Marek W. Kmiec,Wioleta Grzelak,Anna M. Majewska
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), which are present in the encoding part of the genes responsible for important breeding functions, exert an influence on the cattle’s phenotype since their function is to regulate the genes expression. In this study ... see more
Eider Salazar,Eduardo Berriatua,Marta Perez,Belen Marín,Cristina Acín,Inmaculada Martín-Burriel,Ramsés Reina,Damian de Andrés,Beatriz Amorena,Juan José Badiola,Lluís Luján
The relationship between Visna/maedi virus (VMV) antibody status and scrapie genetic resistance of 10,611 Rasa Aragonesa sheep from 17 flocks in Aragón (Spain) was investigated. The fifteen most common PRNP gene haplotypes and genotypes were identified an... see more
Argimiro Daza,Ana I. Rey,Celia Lopez-Carrasco,Clemente J. Lopez-Bote
The effect of gender (entire males vs females) on growth performance, carcass traits and meat and fat quality of Avileña-Negra Ibérica calves, fattened under free range conditions and supplemented with concentrate, were investigated. The average daily gai... see more
Sara Temperan,Jose M. Lorenzo,Bernardino Dominguez Castiñeiras,Inmaculada Franco,Javier Carballo
Carcass and meat quality traits were studied in 36 Celta pigs (a breed native from NW of Spain) reared for 16 months in an extensive regime and slaughtered at a live weight of around 170 kg. The effect of partially or totally replacing commercial compound... see more
Rafael A. Palladino,Michael O´Donovan,David A. Kenny
The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of level of pre-grazing herbage mass (HM) and daily herbage allowance (DHA) on the fatty acid (FA) intake and composition of ruminal content of grazing dairy cows. Four rumen fistulated Holstein-Fr... see more
M. Belen Linares,M. Rocío Teruel,Macarena Egea,Carmen M. Villodre,Fuensanta Hernández-Ruipérez,Josefa Madrid,M. Dolores Garrido
The use of alternative raw materials like crude glycerine in animal feed to reduce final costs could be of interest as the sector seeks to increase its competitiveness. The aims of the present work were to evaluate the effect of crude glycerine on back-fa... see more
Paloma Gomez-de-Travecedo,Francisco P. Caravaca,Pedro Gonzalez-Redondo
This study investigates, in red-legged partridge (Alectoris rufa), the effects of the time to change from incubation to hatching temperature on egg weight loss, hatchability, chick weight at hatch, incubation length, and development stage at embryonic mor... see more
Nirmala Sehrawat,Kangila V. Bhat,Akito Kaga,Norihiko Tomooka,Mukesh Yadav,Pawan K. Jaiwal
Thirty eight novel microsatellite markers (SSRs) specific to candidate genes involved in salt tolerance were developed for detection of genetic variations in 12 mungbean genotypes variably adapted to salt stress. A 100 out of 124 putative alleles were fou... see more
Farooq A. Sheikh,Sashi Banga,Surindar S. Banga
Brassica carinata (BBCC, 2n=34) has still to emerge as a major oilseed crop owing to poor agronomic attributes like long stature, long maturity duration and low seed yield. The restricted amount of genetic variability available in natural B. carinata nece... see more
Zahra Nemati,Mohsen Mardi,Parastoo Majidian,Mehrshad Zeinalabedini,Seyed M. Pirseyedi,Moheb Bahadori
Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) which contains exceptional anti-cancer properties is presently the world's most expensive spice. Iran is known as the original habitat of Crocus L. and a significant source of high-quality cultivated saffron production and expo... see more
Mohamed O. Fouad,Abdellatif Essahibi,Laila Benhiba,Ahmed Qaddoury
Olive trees are often subjected to a long dry season with low water availability which induces oxidative stress. The present study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of native Rhizophagus manihotis (Rma) and non-native Funneliformis mosseae (Fmo)... see more
Maite Edo-Roca,Antoni Sanchez-Ortiz,Montserrat Nadal,Miriam Lampreave,Josep Valls
Seed procyanidin composition of Vitis vinifera L. var. 'Carignan' and 'Grenache' was analyzed to assess the impact of vintage climatology, plant vigor and bunch variability on the quality of grapes. This study was carried out over 2007 and 2008 vintages i... see more
Fatemeh Hassanzadeh Davarani,Saeed Rezaee,Seyed B. Mahmoudi,Peyman Norouzi,Mohammad R. Safarnejad,Hossein Safarpour
The plasmodiophorid Polymyxa betae is considered as the only natural transmitting agent of Beet necrotic yellow vein virus (BNYVV), the most devastating agent of sugar beet fields throughout the world. To evaluate for the first time the genetic diversity ... see more
Joao R. S. Lopes,Blanca B. Landa,Alberto Fereres
The emergence of a rapid-spreading olive disease associated with Xylella fastidiosa in southern Italy represents a high risk to susceptible crops in other countries of the Mediterranean basin, if insect vectors occur in the region. The goal of this study ... see more
Zhibin Guo,Keke Hua,Jing Wang,Xisheng Guo,Chuanlong He,Daozhong Wang
To explore the effects of different fertilization regimes on soil organic matter (SOM) sequestration in a winter-soybean/corn rotation, a long-term field experiment was conducted in Anhui, China, from 1982 to 2011. There were six treatments, as follows: (... see more
Jose M. Quintero,Santiago Enamorado,Jose L. Mas,Jose M. Abril,Oliva Polvillo,Antonio Delgado
Phosphogypsum (PG) is a by-product of the P fertilizer industry usually valorised as amendment for acidic and sodic soils. This work was aimed to study the effects of PG on nutrient uptake by industrial tomato plants in an originally sodic soil. A complet... see more
Hamed Ebrahimian,Mohammad R. Keshavarz,Enrique Playán
Surface fertigation is a common choice when it comes to applying fertilizers in surface irrigated crops. The inherent complexity of the concepts and equations governing surface fertigation has made this technique a challenging research issue in the past d... see more
M. Teresa Carrillo-Cobo,Emilio Camacho-Poyato,Pilar Montesinos,Juan A. Rodríguez Díaz
The high energy requirements and the rising costs highlight the need to reduce the energy dependence of the irrigation sector. Alternative management strategies have been developed to reduce the energy consumption of the irrigated areas and to improve the... see more
Sofiane Ouazaa,Javier Burguete,M. Pilar Paniagua,Raquel Salvador,Nery Zapata
Ballistic simulation of the spray sprinkler for self-propelled irrigation machines requires the incorporation of the effect of the jet impact with the deflecting plate. The kinetic energy losses produced by the jet impact with the spray plate were experim... see more