24 articles in this issue
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Marta García,Ángeles Alonso,María Luisa Tello,Marta de la Poza,Natalia Villalobos,Rocío Lansac,Paloma Melgarejo,Manuel Laínez
Among other functions, the INIA is involved in national and international cooperation in the field of agri-food research. The process of identifying and classifying gaps in our knowledge forms an essential part of this effort. This article describes that ... see more
José J. Cáceres-Hernández,Gloria Martín-Rodríguez
Weekly series of agricultural prices usually exhibit seasonal variations and the stationarity of these variations should be taken into account to analyse price relationships. However, unit root tests at seasonal frequencies are unlikely to have good power... see more
Luis Montero-Vicente,Carmen Escribá-Pérez,Amparo Baviera-Puig,Juan Buitrago-Vera
In-depth knowledge of consumers' perceptions of value is considered a critical success factor in today’s competitive market. There is very little information about the perception that consumers have of rabbit meat compared to other types of meat (mainly b... see more
Kamran Almasieh,Amin Zoratipour,Kazem Negaresh,Khalil Delfan-Hasanzadeh
Climate change resulting from increased greenhouse gases affects the distribution of weeds by commonly expanding and shifting their future distribution. In this study, habitat distribution of Behbahanian Knapweed (Centaurea pabotii) was modelled as an end... see more
Jose M. Alvarez,Claudio Pasian,Rattan Lal,Rafael Lopez-Nuñez,Manuel Fernández
Identifying options of climate change mitigation is of global interest to researchers. Whereas wide range of techniques of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and carbon sequestration have been studied in row crops and forest systems, little research ... see more
Eva C. J. Almeida,Paulo L. S. Carneiro,Ronaldo V. Farias Filho,Lorena A. Nunes,Carlos H. M. Malhado,Thereza C. B. S. C. Bittencourt
Natives ducks are birds that require little handling and are resistant to many diseases that affect chickens. Thus, they adapt to low-input farming conditions, which contributes to the food security of small farmers. Although they exhibit potential for gr... see more
Pedro B. C. Correia,Erica E. Baron,Krishna Pavani,José Pacheco-Lima,Sofia Lopes,Helder Nunes,Joana Lourenço,Selma Furnas,Joaquim F. M. da Silva
To study Lidia cow reproductive apparatus traits, a total of 90 organs were collected after slaughtering the cows from different Bos taurus breeds: (i) Lidia cattle breed - Brava dos Açores population (n=10) and Domecq lineage (n=11); (ii) Holstein Friesi... see more
Lucía Martínez-Fresneda,Milagros C. Esteso,Adolfo Toledano-Díaz,Cristina Castaño,Rosario Velázquez,Antonio López-Sebastián,Paloma Prieto,Francisco A. García-Vázquez,Julian Santiago-Moreno
Sperm cryopreservation protocols are not well defined in many wild species such as the mouflon. The aim was to study the effect of different concentrations of EY on mouflon epididymal sperm cryosurvival. Samples were collected by the flushing method and c... see more
Luciana Foppa,Fabiana R. Caldara,Rafael de Moura,Simone P. Machado,Irenilza A. Nääs,Rodrigo G. Garcia,Liliane M. P. Gonçalves,Geyssane F. de Oliveira
The objective of this research was to evaluate the effect of environmental enrichment on the behavior of pigs in nursery and growth phases. (i) Ninety animals (females, 65 days, 25 kg) were divided into three treatments (T1- Pen enriched with objects made... see more
Zahia Amanzougarene,Susana Yuste,Antonio de Vega,Manuel Fondevila
The effect of phenolic compounds and protein matrix on microbial fermentation of three sorghum grains (S1, S2 and S3) were studied in vitro. Total phenolics and total tannins concentration (g/kg dry matter, DM) were 1.5 and 0.2 for S1, 19.3 and 8.1 for S2... see more
Emma Serrano,M. José Humada,Irma Caro,Ibán Vázquez,Ana M. Olaizola,Helena Resano,Sergio Soto,Javier Mateo
This study investigates the effect on performance, carcass and meat characteristics of increasing the forage level in the diet of fattening Tudanca young bulls using silage as the forage source as compared with a conventional ad libitum straw plus concent... see more
Ahmed H. Daader,Adham A. Al-Sagheer,Hassan A. Gabr,Elham A. Abd El-Moniem
The current study was performed to evaluate the effects of the dietary inclusion of extra virgin olive oil (EVOO), betaine (BET), lemongrass essential oil (LGEO), gallic acid (GA), vitamin C (VC) and vitamin E (VE) on different body temperature traits and... see more
Evandro F. Cardoso,Juarez L. Donzele,Rita-Flávia M. O. Donzele,Érika M. Figueiredo,Cândida P. F. Azevedo,Bruna L. Sufiate
The purpose of this study was to determine the non-phytate phosphorus (nPP) requirement for male broiler subjected to two calcium supply regimens from 8 to 21 d of age, based on performance and bone mineralization. Birds were distributed in a complete ran... see more
Oguzhan Caliskan,Safder Bayazit,Muruvvet Ilgin,Nesrin Karatas,Ali Ergul
Abundant wild and cultivated fig germplasm can be found in Turkey, a center of diversity for figs; however, many of these valuable genetic resources have not yet been identified or characterized using molecular markers. In the present study, microsatellit... see more
Márcia Carvalho,Manuela Matos,Valdemar Carnide
Vaccinium crops offer a variety of benefits for human health due their high levels of antioxidants. Genetic diversity between two Vaccinium species (sixteen cultivars of Vaccinium corymbosum and three wild populations of Vaccinium myrtillus) were evaluate... see more
Saad Farouk,Sally A. Arafa
Salinity is a global issue threatening land productivity and food production. The present study aimed to examine the role of sodium nitroprusside (SNP) on the alleviation of NaCl stress on different parameters of canola (Brassica napus L.) plant growth, y... see more
Milan Mirosavljevic,Vojislava Momcilovic,Srbislav Dencic,Sanja Mikic,Dragana Trkulja,Novo Pržulj
Climate significantly affects cropping systems across Europe. Knowledge of the variability in grain number per unit area and grain weight across different growing seasons and its association with grain yield is important for further improving small grain ... see more
Alice Albertini,Sónia A. P. Santos,Fátima Martins,José A. Pereira,Teresa Lino-Neto,Ruggero Petacchi,Paula Baptista
Pest control service provided by natural enemies of Bactrocera oleae, the key pest of the olive tree, is nowadays recognized as fundamental. B. oleae has developed resistance to common insecticides, and negative effects both on consumers’ health and non-t... see more
Laura Elvira-González,Caterina Carpino,Ana Alfaro-Fernández,María I. Font-San Ambrosio,Rosa Peiró,Luis Rubio,Luis Galipienso
Southern tomato virus (STV) is a double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) virus belonging to genus Amalgavirus (family Amalgamaviridae). STV has been detected in tomato plants showing different symptoms although it has not been demonstrated that STV is the causal agen... see more
David A. J. Teulon,Melanie M. Davidson,Mette Nielsen,Ruth Butler,Dolores Bosch,Jordi Riudavets,Cristina Castañé
Non-pheromone semiochemicals or allelochemicals (kairomones, synomones, allomones) are often derived from, or are similar to, host plant odours and depending on their use, these semiochemicals may have to compete with the same or similar odours emanating ... see more
Zhibin Guo,Hui Liu,Keke Hua,Daozhong Wang,Chuanlong He
Soil pH and organic matter are important factors influencing phosphorus (P) fertilizer use efficiency. Long-term crop straw incorporation alters soil pH and soil organic matter. To explore the influence of crop straw incorporation on P fertilizer use effi... see more
Yahui Liu,Shumei Zhou,Jianping Sun,Xiuping Wang,Zaijian Yuan
The effects of drip irrigation (DI) with fresh water (FW) and brackish water (BW) on saline-alkali soil improvement were compared under treatments of five amendment combinations. The experiment was designed using the orthogonal test method and performed u... see more
María R. Conesa,José M. de la Rosa,J. Pablo Fernández-Trujillo,Rafael Domingo,Alejandro Pérez-Pastor
Two experiments were conducted on a commercial farm of late ‘Fortune’ mandarin trees in order to know the response of regulated deficit irrigation (RDI), mainly applied during the most harmful ripening stages, on plant water relations, yield and fruit qua... see more