• Actinobacteria: an underestimated source of potential microbial biocontrol agents against fusarium-related diseases in cultivated crops 

  Djemouai, Nadjette; Meklat, Atika; Yekkour, Amine; Verheecke-Vaessen, Carol (Springer, 2023-07-28)

  Crop infections with Fusarium spp. and associated mycotoxins have devastating economic implications and are a significant limitation to fifteen of the seventeen United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Therefore, it ...
• Modelling the effects of soil organic content and pH on the yield responses of tea to nitrogen fertilizer 

  Giannitsopoulos, Michail L.; Burgess, Paul J.; Sakrabani, Ruben; Holden, Ann; Saini, Helen; Kirui, Charles (Elsevier, 2023-09-08)

  CONTEXT: Sustained high yields of tea rely on the supply of nitrogen (N) from soil reserves, typically maintained by N fertilisation from inorganic or organic sources. OBJECTIVE: This paper describes how soil N ...
• A comprehensive review of pre-and post-treatment approaches to achieve sustainable desalination for different water streams 

  Poirier, Kristofer; Lotfi, Mohsen; Garg, Kapil; Patchigolla, Kumar; Anthony, Edward J.; Faisal, Nadimul Haque; Mulgundmath, Vinay; Sahith, Jai Krishna; Jadhawar, Prashant; Koh, Liam; Morosuk, Tatiana; Al Mhanna, Najah (Elsevier, 2023-09-09)

  Desalination is an energy intensive process requiring adequate pre- and post- treatment. The novelty of this paper is that it jointly reviews the technologies for pre-treatment, desalination and post-treatment and bridges ...
• An integrated approach to control and manage potato black dot disease: a review 

  Sanzo-Miró, Marta; Simms, Daniel M.; Rezwan, Faisal I.; Terry, Leon A.; Alamar, M. Carmen (Springer, 2023-09-15)

  Potato black dot is a foliar and tuber blemish disease that has become an increasingly economic problem in recent years. Black dot is caused by the fungus Colletotrichum coccodes and is characterised by silver/brown lesions ...
• Review of paper-based microfluidic analytical devices for in-field testing of pathogens 

  Li, Wenliang; Ma, Xuanye; Yong, Yang-Chun; Liu, Guozhen; Yang, Zhugen (Elsevier, 2023-09-12)

  Pathogens cause various infectious diseases and high morbidity and mortality which is a global public health threat. The highly sensitive and specific detection is of significant importance for the effective treatment and ...
• Research and policy priorities to address drought and irrigation water resource risks in temperate agriculture 

  Holman, Ian P.; Knox, Jerry W. (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2023-08-15)

  Droughts are a major global natural hazard, creating negative environmental and socio-economic impacts across a broad spectrum of sectors. However, agriculture is often the first sector to be impacted due to prolonged ...
• Spatial transition dynamics of urbanization and Rohingya refugees’ settlements in Bangladesh 

  Islam, Md. Tariqul; Sikder, Sujit Kumar; Charlesworth, Mark; Rabbi, Atta (Elsevier, 2023-08-28)

  Urbanization needs to conceptualize land use policy beyond the city boundaries. It might be explained by exploring complex and interconnected interdependencies in regional key driving factors that can have tele-coupling ...
• Alternate inks for arbuscular mycorrhizal root staining 

  Wilkes, Thomas I. (The Microbiology Society, 2023-08-31)

  Alternate methods for root staining of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi have recently gained more attention for the reduction of hazard exposure to the user. Sheaffer® blue ink has been employed for such an identification ...
• Indicators of suspended sediment transport dynamics in rivers 

  Shin, Jae hun; Grabowski, Robert C.; Holman, Ian P. (IWA Publishing, 2023-07-21)

  Suspended sediment (SS) is a natural component of rivers, but elevated SS concentrations (SSCs) can impact aquatic ecosystems and engineering infrastructures. However, a significant gap remains in predicting SSC dynamics, ...
• Catchment and climatic influences on spatio-temporal variations in suspended sediment transport dynamics in rivers 

  Shin, Jae hun; Grabowski, Robert C.; Holman, Ian P. (IWA Publishing, 2023-08-04)

  Suspended sediment concentration (SSC) is an important attribute for water resources management. However, the interactions between climate and catchment characteristics that control the temporal variability of SSC in rivers ...
• SRAP markers as an alternative tool for Alternaria classification 

  Castañares, Eliana; Dinolfo, Maria Ines; Patriarca, Andrea; Stenglein, Sebastian Alberto (Elsevier, 2023-08-28)

  Alternaria is one of the main fungal contaminants of cereal grains worldwide with the potential to produce mycotoxins hazardous to human and animal health. Many studies have been carried out to characterize Alternaria ...
• Do temperature and moisture conditions impact soil microbiology and aggregate stability? 

  Dowdeswell-Downey, Emily; Grabowski, Robert C.; Rickson, R. Jane (Springer, 2023-08-29)

  Purpose: Studies predicting the impacts of climate change on erosion have considered numerous variables, such as rainfall erosivity and vegetation cover, but have not considered potential changes in soil erodibility. ...
• Simulation of a floating solar farm in waves with a novel sun-tracking system 

  Wei, Yujia; Ou, Binjian; Wang, Junxian; Yang, Liang; Luo, Zhenhua; Jain, Sagar; Hetharia, Wolter; Riyadi, Soegeng; Utama, IKAP; Huang, Luofeng (IOP Publishing, 2023-08-09)

  The awareness of the energy and climate crisis has accelerated the development of renewable energy sources. Photovoltaic (PV) solar power plants harvest clean solar energy and convert it to electricity, which will be one ...
• Hydrogen supply chain and refuelling network design: assessment of alternative scenarios for the long-haul road freight in the UK 

  Raeesi, Ramin; Searle, Christa; Balta-Ozkan, Nazmiye; Marsiliani, Laura; Tian, Mi; Greening, Philip (Elsevier, 2023-05-05)

  Shifting from fossil fuels to clean alternative fuel options such as hydrogen is an essential step in decarbonising the road freight transport sector and facilitating an efficient transition towards zero-emissions goods ...
• Research on the dynamic response of a steel catenary riser in the touchdown zone under pigging conditions 

  Zhu, Xiaoxiao; Fu, Yunlei; Wang, Yutao; Wang, Lulu; Lao, Liyun (MDPI, 2023-08-06)

  A periodic pigging operation performed to clean off sediment and provide operators with detailed health information for a pipeline is mandatorily required. The research on pigging-induced issues for the steel catenary riser ...
• An approach to evaluating the impact of contaminants on flux deposition in gas turbines 

  Mori, Stefano; Mendil, Mathilde; Wells, Jonathan; Chapman, Neil; Simms, Nigel; Wells, Roger; Sumner, Joy (Springer, 2023-08-18)

  Gas turbines are a key part of many countries’ power generation portfolios, but components such as blades can suffer from hot corrosion attack, which can decrease component lifetimes. Corrosion is driven by impurity levels ...
• Direct numerical simulation of packed and monolith syngas catalytic combustors for micro electrical mechanical systems 

  Bazooyar, Bahamin; Zhu, Mingming; Manovic, Vasilije; Nabavi, Ali (Elsevier, 2023-08-19)

  In this work, a catalytic combustor for micro electrical mechanical system for syngas was designed and analysed using Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) in conjunction with finite rate chemistry. The effect of catalyst ...
• Membrane-assisted reactive crystallisation for the recovery of dissolved phosphorus in vivianite form from liquid effluents 

  Jiménez-Robles, R.; Martínez-Soria, V.; Izquierdo Sanchis, M.; Chen, Lo-I; Le Corre Pidou, Kristell; McAdam, Ewan (Elsevier, 2023-08-21)

  Novel membrane crystallisation processes resolve the mixing challenge on conventional crystallisers, by providing fixed interfacial area over which supersaturation is controlled for nucleation. Moreover, the membrane surface ...
• Low-temperature chemical looping oxidation of hydrogen for space heating 

  Güleç, Fatih; Okolie, Jude A.; Clough, Peter T.; Erdogan, Ahmet; Meredith, Will; Snape, Colin E. (Elsevier, 2023-08-02)

  Chemical looping combustion (CLC) is an advanced combustion process in which the combustion reaction splits into two parts; in the first reaction metal oxides are used as oxygen suppliers for fuel combustion and then in ...
• Using machine learning to expound energy poverty in the global south: understanding and predicting access to cooking with clean energy 

  Mukelabai, M. D.; Wijayantha, Upul K. G.; Blanchard, R. E. (Elsevier, 2023-08-03)

  Efforts towards achieving high access to cooking with clean energy have not been transformative due to a limited understanding of the clean-energy drivers and a lack of evidence-based clean-energy policy recommendations. ...

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