21 articles in this issue
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José Manuel García-Gallego,Antonio Chamorro-Mera,María del Mar García-Galán
Research on the place-of-origin effect has proliferated in recent decades, although there are still gaps in this field, especially in relation to the region-of-origin (ROO) and to the influence of certain moderating variables on the effect. The purpose of... see more
Raul Serrano,Nieves García-Casarejos,Salvador Gil-Pareja,Rafael Llorca-Vivero,Vicente Pinilla
The objective of this study was to analyse, from a long-term perspective, the factors determining the process of the internationalisation of the Spanish agrifood industry. The paper concentrates on the empirical verification of the existence of a home mar... see more
Pierre Sans,Ana I. Sanjuán-López
Attitudes towards beef animal welfare (AW) and Willingness to Pay (WTP) for AW certification are investigated among consumers in two Spanish and two French regions located on both sides of the Pyrenees (n=1213). Attitudes were measured through a scale of ... see more
Shlomi N. Calderon-Valdez,Vicente Feliu-Batlle,Raul Rivas-Perez
Juan Carlos López-Linares,Cristóbal Cara-Corpas,Encarnación Ruiz-Ramos,Manuel Moya-Vilar,Eulogio Castro-Galiano,Inmaculada Romero-Pulido
Bioconversion of hemicellulose sugars is essential for increasing fuel ethanol yields from lignocellulosic biomass. We report for the first time with rape straw, bioethanol production from hemicellulose sugars. Rape straw was pretreated at mild conditions... see more
Weifeng Qu,Wenjing Shang,Yanhua Shao,Dandan Wang,Xiuli Yu,Huaibo Song
Accurate segmentation of apple targets is one of the most important problems to be solved in the vision system of apple picking robots. This work aimed to solve the difficulties that background targets often bring to foreground targets segmentation, by fu... see more
José Guerrero-Casado,Antonio J. Carpio,Laura M. Prada,Francisco S. Tortosa
Cover crops are an effective means to reduce soil erosion and to provide food and shelter for wildlife. However, in areas of intensive farming, which are characterised by the scarcity of weed communities, wild herbivores may focus their grazing on cover c... see more
Weigeng Wen,Qibin Yang,Zhenhua Ma,Shigui Jiang,Lihua Qiu,Jianhua Huang,Falin Zhou,Jian G. Qin
The present study compares the efficiency of ovarian maturation and spawning success between wild-caught and pond-reared Penaeus monodon females after unilateral eyestalk ablation. The earliest spawning time after eyestalk ablation was 5.9 days in wild-ca... see more
Juan F. Aller,Marcos C. Abalos,Francisco A. Acuña,Rosana Virgili,Francisco Requena,Andrea K. Cancino
The objectives of this study were to compare the effects of two intravaginal devices (ID) containing the same dose (0.5 g) of progesterone (P4) on subsequent ovarian response, embryo production and circulating P4 concentration profile in llamas (Lama glam... see more
Ana Villar,Marta López-Alonso
This paper presents first data on the udder health status of organic dairy farms in Northern Spain and analyses some management and productive characteristics related to milk production comparing with the conventional sector. Five certified organic farms ... see more
M. Mar Leza,Gregori Lladó,Miguel A. Miranda-Chueca
The present study compared the efficacy of Apivar (a.i. amitraz) and Apiguard (a.i. thymol) in controlling the mite Varroa destructor during spring 2010 and autumn 2011, in the Balearic Islands (Spain). Number of fallen mites (NFM) was counted weekly and ... see more
Thuanny L. Pereira,Anderson Corassa,Cláudia M. Komiyama,Cláudio V. Araújo,Alessandra Kataoka
A total of 168 finishing pigs were used to investigate the effects of gender (barrows and gilts) and transport densities for slaughter (236, 251, and 275 kg/m²) on stress indicators and carcass and pork quality. The animals transported at 251 kg/m² (T251)... see more
Verónica Moset,Olga Piquer,Concepción Cervera,Carlos J. Fernández,Pilar Hernández,Alba Cerisuelo
Forty pigs of 76.8 ± 4.2 kg body weight were fed four different diets varying in ensiled citrus pulp (ECP) inclusion level (0, 50, 100, and 150 g of ECP/kg of diet on dry matter base). The trial lasted 5 weeks. During the last week, faecal samples were ob... see more
Kaushik Pal,Amlan K. Patra,Artabandhu Sahoo
Enteric methane arising due to fermentation of feeds in the rumen contributes substantially to the greenhouse gas emissions. Thus, like evaluation of chemical composition and nutritive values of feeds, methane production potential of each feed should be d... see more
Xuping Feng,Yongqing He,Jia Fang,Zongxiang Fang,Bo Jiang,Maryse Brancourt-Hulmel,Bingsong Zheng,Dean Jiang
Miscanthus and Saccharum are considered excellent candidates for bioenergy feedstock production. A field experiment was conducted in Zhejiang province of China to characterize the phenotypic differences in three species, two of Miscanthus (M. sinensis and... see more
Fatih Kahriman,Cem Ömer Egesel,Eren Zorlu
This study investigated the effects of open- and self-pollination treatments on genetic estimations and kernel biochemical content in a maize diallel experiment. A 7×7 complete reciprocal diallel set (7 parents and 42 hybrids) was used as plant material. ... see more
Natalia Dominguez,Enrique García-Escudero,Izaskun Romero,Ana Benito,Ignacio Martín
An adequate nutritional state of a crop can be kept by means of a well-designed fertilization plan based on the assessment of the nutrient availability throughout the growing season. The objective of this study was to determine the reliability of leaf bla... see more
Horacio Lopez-Corcoles,Antonio Brasa-Ramos,Francisco Montero-Garcia,Miguel Romero-Valverde,Francisco Montero-Riquelme
Phenological studies are important for understanding the influence of climate dynamics on vegetative growth, flowering and fruiting on plants and can be used in many scientific subjects, such as Agronomy, Botany and Plant Biology, but also Climatology as ... see more
Cinta Calvet,Francesc Garcia-Figueres,Paulo Lovato,Amelia Camprubi
Lavender species form the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis and are at the same time highly susceptible to white root rot. In an attempt to evaluate the response of mycorrhizal Lavandula angustifolia L. to Armillaria mellea (Vahl:Fr) P. Kumm in a greenhous... see more
Mohammad N. Elnesr,Abdurrahman A. Alazba
Wetting pattern enhancement is one of the goals of irrigation designers and researchers. In this study, we addressed three techniques (dual-lateral drip, intermittent flow and physical barrier methods) that change the wetting pattern of subsurface d... see more