• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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) ...
• Diagnostic features emerging in near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy for low petroleum hydrocarbon pollution after spectral subtraction 

  Lou, Qijia; Lei, Mei; Wang, Yu; Wang, Shaobin; Guo, Guanghui; Xiong, Wencheng; Jiang, Ying; Ju, Tienan; Zhao, Xiaofeng; Coulon, Frederic (Elsevier, 2024-04-19)

  Diagnostic features in near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) are the foundation of knowledge-based approach of petroleum hydrocarbon determination. However, a significant challenge arises when analyzing samples ...
• Investigating the inoculum dynamics of Cladosporium on the surface of raspberry fruits and in the air 

  Farwell, Lauren Helen; Papp-Rupar, Matevz; Deakin, Greg; Magan, Naresh; Xu, Xiangming (Wiley, 2024-03-21)

  Raspberry production is under threat from the emerging fungal pathogenic genus Cladosporium. We used amplicon-sequencing, coupled with qPCR, to investigate how fruit age, fruit location within a polytunnel, polytunnel ...
• High force compression mode to Shear mode piezoelectric energy harvesting 

  Crawley, Fergus J. E.; Luo, Zhenhua (Elsevier, 2024-04-09)

  This study is to develop structures with the ability to convert a compression force into radial extension or shear force, to increase power output through piezo shear mode. In this work, a piezoceramic-spring system was ...
• Exposure to benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene (BTEX) at Nigeria's petrol stations: a review of current status, challenges and future directions 

  Anigilaje, Emmanuel Ademola; Nasir, Zaheer Ahmad; Walton, Christopher (Frontiers, 2024-03-25)

  Introduction: In Nigeria, because of increasing population, urbanization, industrialization, and auto-mobilization, petrol is the most everyday non-edible commodity, and it is the leading petroleum product traded at the ...
• Label-free analysis of protein biomarkers using pattern-optimized graphene-nanopyramid SERS for rapid diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease 

  Wu, Heping; Duan, Yan; Jiang, Luyue; Cao, Xinhao; Xie, Zhen; Quan, Yi; Ren, Matthew Xinhu; Wu, Shengli; Zhang, Nan; Yang, Zhugen; Zhao, Libo; Jiang, Zhuangde; Zhao, Gang; Ren, Wei; Niu, Gang (American Chemical Society, 2024-04-05)

  The quantitative and highly sensitive detection of biomarkers such as Tau proteins and Aβ polypeptides is considered one of the most effective methods for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Surface-enhanced ...
• The first comprehensive chemical profiling of Vachellia gummifera (Willd.) Kyal. & Boatwr., a plant with medicinal value 

  Kisiriko, Musa; Noleto-Dias, Clarice; Bitchagno, Gabin T. M.; Naboulsi, Imane; Anastasiadi, Maria; Terry, Leon A.; Sobeh, Mansour; Beale, Michael H.; Ward, Jane L. (Wiley, 2024-03-19)

  Vachellia gummifera (Willd.) Kyal. & Boatwr. is a medicinal plant endemic to Morocco that has no documented studies on its chemical composition. In this study, the chemical composition of the water/methanol (4 : 1) extracts ...
• Array analysis on a seawall type of deformable wave energy converters 

  Wei, Yujia; Wang, Chao; Chen, Wenchuang; Huang, Luofeng (Elsevier, 2024-03-24)

  There has been a significant interest in developing Flexible Wave Energy Converters (FlexWECs) that utilise structural deformations to generate electricity and mitigate destructive wave loads to the devices. In the meantime, ...

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