• Cultivar differences in the hormonal crosstalk regulating apple fruit development and ripening: Relationship with flavour components and postharvest susceptibility to Penicillium expansum 

  Fernández-Cancelo, Pablo; Echeverria, Gemma; Teixidó, Neus; Alamar, M. Carmen; Giné-Bordonaba, Jordi (Elsevier, 2023-08-17)

  The hormonal interplay during the on-tree development and ripening of three apple cultivars with known differences in their postharvest ripening patterns was studied, at the biochemical and targeted gene expression level, ...
• An eclectic review on dicarboxylic acid production through yeast cell factories and its industrial prominence 

  Kayalvizhi, Ramalingam; Sanjana, Jayacumar; Jacob, Samuel; Kumar, Vinod (Springer, 2024-04-20)

  Dicarboxylic acid (DCA) is a multifaceted chemical intermediate, recoursed to produce many industrially important products such as adhesives, plasticizers, lubricants, polymers, etc. To bypass the shortcomings of the ...
• Enhancing bioremediation efficiency of acidic wetlands contaminated with crude oil. 

  Jumbo, Raphael Butler (Cranfield UniversitySWEE, 2023-03)

  Crude oil exploration and exploitation has significantly impacted the Niger Delta, Nigeria wetlands and its ecosystems. Studies suggest that acidification is ongoing with several acid forming and acid tolerant microbes ...
• Development of efficient data management and analytics tools for Intelligent sanitation network design. 

  Jiang, Yirui (Cranfield UniversitySWEE, 2023-05)

  According to the World Health Organisation, billions of people lack access to basic sanitation facilities and services, resulting in estimated 2.9 million cases of diseases and 95,000 deaths each year. This is because ...
• An agent-based model for improving museum design to enhance visitor experience. 

  Ji, Yijing (Cranfield UniversitySWEE, 2022-11)

  Museum experience is a multi-layered journey including ontological, sensory, intellectual, aesthetic, and social aspects. In recent years, the museum sector has faced a number of challenges in terms of the need to enhance ...
• The loss of soil parent material: detecting and measuring the erosion of saprolite 

  Evans, Daniel L.; Cândido, Bernardo; Coelho, Ricardo M.; De Maria, Isabella C.; de Moraes, Jener F. L.; Eltner, Anette; Martins, Letícia L.; Cantarella, Heitor (MDPI, 2024-04-09)

  Soil parent material is a fundamental natural resource for the generation of new soils. Through weathering processes, soil parent materials provide many of the basic building blocks for soils and have a significant bearing ...
• Techno-economic assessment of bioleaching for metallurgical by-products 

  Tezyapar Kara, Ipek; Wagland, Stuart T.; Coulon, Frederic (Elsevier, 2024-04-20)

  This study focused on the economic feasibility of two potential industrial-scale bioleaching technologies for metal recovery from specific metallurgical by-products, mainly basic oxygen steelmaking dust (BOS-D) and goethite. ...
• Termitaria enhance soil and forest diversity in Deciduous Dipterocarp Forest, Northern Thailand 

  Kaewfoo, Manop; Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh; Marod, Dokrak; Wiwatwittaya, Decha; Baillie, Ian C.; Davies, Stuart J.; Hallett, Stephen H. (Cambridge University Press, 2024-04-16)

  We characterised the soils and vegetation in 15 sets of four quadrats on and around mounds of Macrotermes annandalei (Isoptera, Macrotermitinae) on a plain of deep dystric clay over limestone in Deciduous Dipterocarp Forest ...
• Numerical modelling of bipolar plate in pem fuel cells to analyse the pressure drop in various channels and development of a novel geometry of the bipolar plate. 

  Jayabal, Jayvassanth (Cranfield UniversitySWEE, 2022-09)

  This work centres on comprehending and elevating the performance of Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) hydrogen fuel cells, with a specific emphasis on minimizing pressure drop in the bipolar plate. Fuel cell efficiency ...
• Design and performance analysis of concentrated photovoltaic cooling. 

  Ibrahim, Khalifa Aliyu (Cranfield UniversitySWEE, 2023-01)

  The use of solar energy as a global energy source has increased over the past two decades. Photovoltaic cells, which utilise the sun to generate electricity, are a promising alternative to fossil fuels that contribute ...
• Optimising polyacrylamide (PAM) spray application to mitigate the agronomic effects of Soil Crust. 

  Arpano, Silvia (Cranfield UniversitySWEE, 2022-07)

  The Leafy greens industry provides micronutrient-rich fresh produce at an affordable price. To meet the demand, multiple short crop cycles per year are seeded and harvested, for example, the summer spinach cycle can be ...
• Influence of bioremediation on the chemical and nutritional composition of produce from crude oil-polluted sites. 

  Odukoya, Johnson Oluwaseun (Cranfield UniversitySWEE, 2015-12)

  The influence of crude oil-contaminated and remediated sites on agrifood production is not clearly understood. To address this knowledge gap, the research was divided into two stages involving: (1) assessment of the ...
• Global exports draining local water resources: land concentration, food exports and water grabbing in the Ica Valley (Peru) 

  Pronti, A.; Zegarra, E.; Rey Vicario, Dolores; Graves, Anil (Elsevier, 2024-02-07)

  The agro-export boom is threatening the sustainability of water resources in many regions around the world. This is the case of the Ica valley in Peru, where in the last decades traditional agriculture has been replaced ...
• Biohydrogen production and quantitative determination of monosaccharide production using hyperthermophilic anaerobic fermentation of corn stover 

  Rupani, Parveen Fatemeh; Sakrabani, Ruben; Sadaqat, Beenish; Shao, Weilan (MDPI, 2024-04-04)

  Second-generation biofuels from lignocellulosic biomass remain critical and require several challenges due to lignin compounds’ inefficient degradation and recalcitrate characteristics. In this regard, this study focuses ...
• Reducing food loss and waste contributes to energy, economic and environmental sustainability 

  Gage, Ewan; Wang, Xinfang; Xu, Bing; Foster, Alan; Evans, Judith; Terry, Leon A.; Falagán, Natalia (Elsevier, 2024-04-09)

  Food loss and waste (FLW) reduction presents a major opportunity for enhancing the sustainability and resilience of the food supply chain. However, the lack of evidence regarding the scale and origins of FLW hinder ...
• Modelling the impacts of climate change on the sustainability of rainfed and irrigated maize in Pakistan 

  Dahri, Shahzad Hussain; Shaikh, Irfan Ahmed; Talpur, Mashooque Ali; Mangrio, Munir Ahmed; Dahri, Zakir Hussain; Hoogenboom, Gerrit; Knox, Jerry W. (Elsevier, 2024-04-05)

  Maize is a globally significant food crop but its future sustainability under rainfed conditions is at risk due to climate change and increased climate uncertainty. In Pakistan most maize is rainfed but there is increasing ...
• A review of the migration mechanisms of microplastics in terrestrial environments 

  Yu, Hui; Zhang, Weiqing; Zheng, Lixia; Li, Tong; Hai, Chunxing; Wang, Yong; Lyu, Tao (Korean Society of Environmental Engineering, 2024-02-28)

  Microplastic (MP) release into the terrestrial environment has occurred since humans started manufacturing and using plastics. These tiny plastic particles can be found in various media, including the atmosphere, soil, ...
• Biomonitoring for workplace exposure to copper and its compounds is currently not interpretable 

  Bevan, Ruth; Levy, Len (Elsevier, 2024-03-26)

  This paper sets out to explore the requirements needed to recommend a useable and reliable biomonitoring system for occupational exposure to copper and its inorganic compounds. Whilst workplace environmental monitoring of ...
• Going Platinum: The European Journal of Soil Science at 75 

  Dungait, Jennifer A. J.; Evans, Daniel L.; Farrell, Mark; He, Hailong; Heuvelink, Gerard B. M.; Schmidt, Olaf (Wiley, 2024-03-31)

  The European Journal of Soil Science (EJSS) is published by Wiley on behalf of the British Society of Soil Science (BSSS) to fulfil its original mission to ‘publish an annual publication’. The Journal for Soil Science ...
• From brew to table: unleashing the potential of spent grains protein 

  Ahuja, Vishal; Chauhan, Shikha; Yang, Yung-Hun; Bhatia, Shashi Kant; Kumar, Vinod (Elsevier, 2024-03-27)

  United Nations and Upcycled Food Association have suggested the possible use of food processing residues and waste materials to improve food quality as well as overcome hunger and malnutrition. Brewer's spent grains (BSG) ...

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