Optimising Artificial Moss Growth for Environmental Studies in the Mediterranean Area by Zulema Varela, Carlos Real, Cristina Branquinho, Teresa Afonso do Paço, Ricardo Cruz de Carvalho

“…The study concludes that the culture of moss artificially in the organic gardening substrate without fertilisers is feasible and could be of great help for further use in environmental projects to restore degraded ecosystems or to facilitate urban green spaces in the Mediterranean area. …”
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The application of [D-Tle6,ProNHEt9]mGnRH (Lecirelin) with the dopaminergic inhibitor metoclopramide to stimulate ovulation in African catfish (Clarias gariepinus) by E. Brzuska, J. Kouřil, J. Adamek, Z. Stupka, V. Bekh

“…It was proved that the weight of eggs expressed either in grams or as a percentage of a female's weight was significantly related to the body weight of a female (P ≤ 0.01 and P ≤ 0.05, respectively), as well as the percentage of fertilised eggs and the percentage of living embryos after 28 hours of incubation (P ≤ 0.05 and P ≤ 0.05, respectively). …”
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Zoysia Soil-Less Green Roof’s Performance: A Life Cycle Assessment by Muscas Desirée, Frota De Albuquerque Landi Fabiana, Fabiani Claudia, Grohmann David, Rocchi Lucia

“…In this lightweight green roof, the growing medium is replaced by recycled felt layers, filtration is guaranteed by geotextile, and a closed-loop sub-irrigation system fertilises the pre-growth lawn placed on the top. The extremely low weight of this system suggests an optimal use in building retrofitting scenarios, but its environmental implication was not known. …”
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Heritability and Genetic Parameters for Semen Traits in Australian Sheep by Marnie J. Hodge, Sally J. Rindfleish, Sara de las Heras-Saldana, Cyril P. Stephen, Sameer D. Pant

“…Currently, artificial breeding programs in sheep place relatively little emphasis on ram-side factors, such as the fertilising potential of an ejaculate, which may contribute to variability in conception outcomes. …”
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Bias in sex ratios and polyandry rate in reproduction of Leptinotarsa decemlineata by Vladimíra Sedláková, Jitka Stará, Daniela Čílová, Martina Melounová, Jakub Vašek, Pavel Vejl, Petr Doležal, František Kocourek, Ervín Hausvater, Petr Sedlák

“…Sex ratios during egg-hatching and a frequency of polyandry in single-female families were analysed to clarify the reproduction strategy of CPB, which was still known only in fragments. 1296 just hatching 1st instar CPB larvae were collected from 19 single-female families, of which 13 were random families collected from potato fields and 6 were families produced by laboratory farming of naturally fertilised females. All larvae were analysed to detect a sex using a qPCR-based method and to detect polymorphisms in genotypes of 9 microsatellite (SSR) markers. …”
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Resistance and resilience of soil fluorescein diacetate activity against abiotic stress by VISHWANATH VISHWANATH, SARVENDRA KUMAR, T J PURAKAYASTHA, S P DATTA, ROSIN K G, P MAHAPATRA, S K SINHA

“…To accomplish this, soil samples (0-15 cm depth) were collected from seven treatments (control, 100% N, 100% NP, 100% NPK, 100% NPK+ handweeding, 100% NPK+FYM and 100% NPK+lime) from soybean crop under long-term fertiliser experiment (LTFE) at Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi (2018). …”
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Scale-up of a peroxide-based pig slurry additive for gaseous emission reduction and downstream value retention by Stephen Nolan, Dermot Hughes, Camilla E. Thorn, Ruairi Friel, Vincent O'Flaherty

“…Pig slurry is an agricultural residue with potential for utilisation as organic fertiliser and biomethane feedstock. That potential value is typically diminished via greenhouse and ammonia gaseous losses during temporary storage, an issue further exacerbated by the global warming, pollutant and malodorous nature of those compounds. …”
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Post-harvest indexes and colour parameters from arugula-beet intercropping under green manuring and population density by Vitor Abel da Silva Lino, Francisco Bezerra Neto, Elizângela Cabral dos Santos, Natan Medeiros Guerra, Francisca Karla Kelly da Silva Lino, Jéssica Paloma Pinheiro da Silva

“…Arugula showed the best post-harvest indexes when fertilised with green manure biomass amounts of 20, 20 and 65 t ha-1 at a population density of 1,000,000 plants ha-1, while beet showed the best indices with green manure amounts of 65, 41, 36 and 40 t ha-1 with an arugula density of 1,000,000 plants ha-1. …”
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A Novel Hybrid Membrane Process Coupled with Freeze Concentration for Phosphorus Recovery from Cheese Whey by Ipan Hidayat, Lidia Paredes, Pablo M. Binder, Nagore Guerra-Gorostegi, Mabel Mora, Sergio Ponsá, Darren L. Oatley-Radcliffe, Laia Llenas

“…The ever-increasing demand for phosphorus fertilisers for securing global food production, coupled with finite phosphate rock reserves, is one of the emerging problems in the world. …”
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Injected Anhydrous Ammonia Is More Effective Than Broadcast Urea as a Source of Nitrogen for Drill Seeded Rice by Elsayed Naeem, Taher Abd El-Megeed, Yasmin Emadeldin, Asmaa M. Abushady, Mohamed Abdelrahman

“…Anhydrous ammonia is a cheaper source of nitrogen (N) fertiliser than granular urea for rice production, but it is not widely used in developing countries. …”
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Immobilisation of anaerobic digestate supplied nitrogen into soil microbial biomass is dependent on lability of high organic carbon materials additives by Christina van Midden, Jim Harris, Liz Shaw, Tom Sizmur, Hayden Morgan, Mark Pawlett

“…Anaerobic digestate is a nutrient rich slurry by-product derived from biogas production, often used as a fertiliser due to its high nitrogen content. However, nitrogen losses from its application can lead to environmental pollution. …”
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Genetic Mapping of Genotype-by-Ploidy Effects in <i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i> by Cris L. Wijnen, Frank F. M. Becker, Andries A. Okkersen, C. Bastiaan de Snoo, Martin P. Boer, Fred A. van Eeuwijk, Erik Wijnker, Joost J. B. Keurentjes

“…Because Arabidopsis haploids can be self-fertilised to give rise to homozygous doubled haploids, the same genotypes can be phenotyped at both the haploid and diploid ploidy level. …”
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epg5 knockout leads to the impairment of reproductive success and courtship behaviour in a zebrafish model of autophagy-related diseases by Camilla M. Fontana, Lisa Locatello, Patrizia Sabatelli, Nicola Facchinello, Elisa Lidron, Francesca Maradonna, Oliana Carnevali, Maria B. Rasotto, Luisa Dalla Valle

“…The spermatogenesis and the ability to produce fertilising ejaculates were not drastically impaired in our mutant males, whereas we observed a reduction of their courtship behaviour that might contribute to explain their lower overall reproductive success. …”
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Unveiling a Recycling-Sourced Mineral-Biocellulose Fibre Composite for Use in Combustion-Generated NO<i>_x</i> Mitigation Forming Plant Nutrient: Meeting Sustainability D... by Patrick Gane, Katarina Dimić-Mišić, Nemanja Barać, Monireh Imani, Djordje Janaćković, Petar Uskoković, Ernest Barceló

“…After use, the nitrate-rich CaCO₃-cellulose-based filter was proposed to be mulched into a run-off resistant soil fertiliser and micronutrient suitable, e.g., for renewable forestry within the circular economy. …”
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Effect of Composting Ashes from Biomass Combustion on Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Content by Paweł Cwalina, Małgorzata Krasowska, Marzena Ewa Smolewska, Kinga Koziak

“…The work presents the results of the content of 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the created composts, followed by an analysis of the toxicity, mutagenicity, and carcinogenicity of the created fertilisers. Based on the results obtained, a positive impact of the composting process on the reduction in PAHs contained in ash was found. …”
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Building Farming Resilience to Climate Change: Upland Crop Production in Northwest Cambodia by Van Touch, De Li Liu, Robert John Martin, Jeannette Fiona Scott, Annette Cowie, Daniel K. Y. Tan

“…On-farm adaptation options such as modifying sowing windows, including legumes in crop rotations and additional fertiliser application are likely to substantially minimise risks from climatic impacts, and increase and sustain returns. …”
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Glutathione S-Transferases Play a Crucial Role in Mitochondrial Function, Plasma Membrane Stability and Oxidative Regulation of Mammalian Sperm by Marc Llavanera, Ariadna Delgado-Bermúdez, Samuel Olives, Yentel Mateo-Otero, Sandra Recuero, Sergi Bonet, Beatriz Fernández-Fuertes, Marc Yeste, Isabel Barranco

“…Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) are essential sperm antioxidant enzymes involved in cell protection against oxidative stress and toxic chemicals, preserving sperm function and fertilising ability. Artificial insemination (AI) in pigs is commonly carried out through the use of liquid-stored semen at 17 &#176;C, which not only reduces sperm metabolic activity but also sperm quality and AI-farrowing rates within the 72 h of storage. …”
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Organic acids promote phosphorus release from Mollisols with different organic matter contents by Xiaoyan Yang, Chuandong Zhang, Haiping Gu, Xiangwei Chen, Erhui Guo

“…Here, a biochemically produced humic acid and P fertiliser were added to the soil to modify the content of the soil organic matter (SOM) and soil P, respectively. …”
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A GEO-VISUAL ANALYTICS APPROACH TO BIOLOGICAL SHEPHERDING: MODELLING ANIMAL MOVEMENTS AND IMPACTS by K. K. Benke, F. Sheth, K. Betteridge, C. J. Pettit, J.-P. Aurambout

“…The combination of biological shepherding with geo-visual analytics (geo-spatial data analysis with visualisation) provides a framework for improving landscape design and supports research in grazing behaviour in variable landscapes, heat stress avoidance behaviour during summer months, and modelling excreta distributions (with respect to nitrogen emissions and nitrogen return for fertilising the paddock). Nitrogen losses due to excreta are mainly in the form of gaseous emissions to the atmosphere and leaching into the groundwater. …”
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Barriers and enablers of crop varietal replacement and adoption among smallholder farmers as influenced by gender: the case of sweetpotato in Katakwi district, Uganda by Irene Bayiyana, Irene Bayiyana, Julius Juma Okello, Sarah Lubega Mayanja, Mariam Nakitto, Stella Namazzi, Florence Osaru, Sylvester Ojwang, Kelvin Mashisia Shikuku, Carl-Johan Lagerkvist

“…Sweetpotato is climate smart crop, grown with limited external inputs (fertilisers, pesticides, less labour) making it an attractive crop for resource-constrained smallholder farmers. …”
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