Low Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC) Energy Crops to Bioenergy and Biofuels—A Review by Mariana Abreu, Luís Silva, Belina Ribeiro, Alice Ferreira, Luís Alves, Susana M. Paixão, Luísa Gouveia, Patrícia Moura, Florbela Carvalheiro, Luís C. Duarte, Ana Luisa Fernando, Alberto Reis, Francisco Gírio

“…The selected energy crops are <i>Cynara cardunculus</i>, <i>Arundo donax</i>, <i>Cannabis sativa</i>, <i>Helianthus tuberosus</i>, <i>Linum usitatissimum</i>, <i>Miscanthus</i> × <i>giganteus</i>, <i>Sorghum bicolor</i>, <i>Panicum virgatum</i>, <i>Acacia dealbata</i>, <i>Pinus pinaster</i>, <i>Paulownia tomentosa</i>, <i>Populus alba</i>, <i>Populus nigra</i>, <i>Salix viminalis,</i> and microalgae cultures. …”
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Exploring the Potential of Heterosis to Improve Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Popcorn Plants by Talles de Oliveira Santos, Antônio Teixeira do Amaral Junior, Rosimeire Barboza Bispo, Wallace de Paula Bernado, Bruna Rohem Simão, Valter Jário de Lima, Marta Simone Mendonça Freitas, Freddy Mora-Poblete, Roberto dos Santos Trindade, Samuel Henrique Kamphorst, Weverton Pereira Rodrigues, Eliemar Campostrini, Flávia Nicácio Viana, Cosme Damião Cruz

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Identifying indigenous practices for cultivation of wild saprophytic mushrooms: responding to the need for sustainable utilization of natural resources by Deborah Wendiro, Alex Paul Wacoo, Graham Wise

“…Also pieces of firewood are chipped off whenever need arises thus providing fuel; secondary decomposers growing on naturally composted grass associated with termites like the Termitomyces sp. known as obunegyere growing in protected sites in gardens, composted cattle manure for Agaricus sp. known as ensyabire in the kraal area where cattle manure is plenty, composted maize cobs for a locally unnamed Agaricus sp. on heaped cobs placed near homesteads; and primary decomposers growing on waste sorghum from brewing the traditional alcoholic drink, muramba for Pleurotus sp. …”
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Selective Interaction of Sugarcane eIF4E with VPgs from Sugarcane Mosaic Pathogens by Zongtao Yang, Meng Dong, Guangyuan Cheng, Shuxian Liu, Hai Zhang, Heyang Shang, Yingshuan Zhou, Guoqiang Huang, Muqing Zhang, Fengji Wang, Jingsheng Xu

“…Sugarcane (<i>Saccharum</i> spp.) production is threatened by mosaic disease caused by <i>Sugarcane mosaic virus</i> (SCMV), <i>Sorghum mosaic virus</i> (SrMV), and <i>Sugarcane streak mosaic virus</i> (SCSMV). …”
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Degradação ruminal e digestibilidade intestinal da proteína bruta de alimentos para bovinos Rumen degradation and intestinal digestibility of crude protein in feeds for cattle by Marcos Inácio Marcondes, Sebastião de Campos Valadares Filho, Edenio Detmann, Rilene Ferreira Diniz Valadares, Luiz Fernando Costa e Silva, Mozart Alves Fonseca

“…Rice meal, babassu meal, wheat and corn germ, ground corn cobs and straw, ground corn cobs, corn, citrus pulp, sorghum, starea and cottonseed meal with 28, 38 and 46% CP, peanut meal, sunflower meal, soybean meal, bean byproduct, corn gluten, soybean grain, dry yeast, corn gluten meal, cacao hulls, coffee hulls, soybean hulls, elephant-grass silage and corn silage were sampled. …”
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Eficiência de utilização da energia alimentar para a produção de bezerros em vacas Nelore e mestiças Efficiency of conversion of feed energy for the production of calves by Nellore... by Carlos Augusto de Alencar Fontes, Vítor Corrêa de Oliveira, João Gomes de Siqueira, Alberto Magno Fernandes, Nivaldo de Faria Sant'Ana, Thiago Vasconcelos Melo

“…Diets contained 30:70% (% DM) concentrate to corn or sorghum silages ratio, in the first and second half of the experimental period, respectively. …”
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Assessment of the Suitability of <i>Melilotus officinalis</i> for Phytoremediation of Soil Contaminated with Petroleum Hydrocarbons (TPH and PAH), Zn, Pb and Cd Based on Toxicologi... by Teresa Steliga, Dorota Kluk

“…The performed phytotoxicity tests have indicated variable sensitivity of the tested plants on contaminants occurring in the studied soils, following the sequence: <i>Lepidium sativum</i> < <i>Sorghum saccharatum</i> < <i>Sinapis alba</i>. The sensitivity of toxicological tests was comparable and increased in the order: MARA < Ostracodtoxkit F^TM < Microtox. …”
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Multiple cutting increases forage productivity and enhances legume pasture stability in a rainfed agroecosystem by Tengfei Li, Luxi Peng, Hua Wang, Yu Zhang, Yingxin Wang, Yunxiang Cheng, Fujiang Hou

“…In this study, four forage crops, including Medicago sativa (Ms), Vicia sativa (Vs), Avena sativa (As), and Sorghum Sudangrass (Ss) were evaluated under two harvesting modes, i.e. single harvest and multiple cuttings. …”
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Vícios na estimação da excreção fecal utilizando indicadores internos e óxido crômico em ensaios de digestão com ruminantes Biases in fecal excretion estimation by using internal m... by Emanoel Elzo Leal de Barros, Carlos Augusto de Alencar Fontes, Edenio Detmann, Ricardo Augusto Mendonça Vieira, Lara Toledo Henriques, Alberto Magno Fernandes

“…The animals were fed sorghum silage ad libitum in individual pens. Six sampling schedules were adopted: 16 daily collections, at 1.5 hourly intervals; eight collections made during daylight starting at 7 a.m. at 1.5 hourly intervals; eight collections made at night starting at 7 p.m. at 1.5 hourley intervals; four collections made in the day every three hours; four collections at night every three hours and two collections, at 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. …”
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THE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPANDING THE AREA, PRODUCTION AND SPECIALIZATION OF LEGUME CROPS IN SOME ARAB COUNTRIES by Yosra Idris, S. Makled, M. El-Sadany

“…It is better for Yemen to include the area of sorghum to the area of dry beans, which leads to specialization in it. …”
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A homologous gene of OsREL2/ASP1, ASP-LSL regulates pleiotropic phenotype including long sterile lemma in rice by Tingkai Wu, Asif Ali, Jinhao Wang, Jiahe Song, Yongqiong Fang, Tingting Zhou, Yi Luo, Hongyu Zhang, Xiaoqiong Chen, Yongxiang Liao, Yutong Liu, Peizhou Xu, Xianjun Wu

“…The homology comparison and phylogenetic tree analysis revealed mutation was occurred in a highly conserved domain and had a high degree of similarity in Arabidopsis, corn, and sorghum. The CRISPR/Cas9 mutant line of ASP-LSL produced a similar phenotype as that of asp-lsl. …”
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Antibacterial, antifungal and phytoalexins induction activities of hydrolates of medicinal plants/ <br> Atividades antibacteriana, antifúngica e indutora de fitoalexinas de hidrola... by Maria Eugênia Silva Cruz, Kátia Regina Freitas Schwan-Estrada, Márcio Paulo Czepak, José Renato Stangarlin, Alexandra da Silva Martinez-Franzener, Gilmar Franzener

“…In the phytoalexins assay, sorghum etiolated mesocotyls were used. The antibacterial effect was evaluated on the growth of the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris in liquid nutrient medium and antibiotic (oxytetraciclin 22.5 mg/L + streptomycin 225 mg/L) was used as control treatment. …”
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Integração lavoura e pecuária: o estado da arte e inovações tecnológicas Crop and livestock integration: the state of the art and the near future by Manuel Claudio Motta Macedo

“…Crop-livestock integrated systems (CLIS) have been cultivated with many crops, such as: soybeans, corn, pearl millet, sorghum, cotton, sunflower, etc. and especially perennial tropical grasses asBrachiaria spp, intercropped or not. …”
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Movimento do herbicida imazapyr no perfil de solos tropicais Imazapyr mobility in tropical soil profile by L.E. Firmino, L.D. Tuffi Santos, L.R. Ferreira, F.A. Ferreira, A.L.S. Quirino

“…After this stage, columns were sectioned every 5 cm of depth. Sorghum bicolor was sowed as bioindicator on each portion and after 20 days of sowing, dry matter of the above ground tissue was evaluated. …”
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Evaluation of Yield and Quality Forage in Intercropping Tepary Bean (Phaseolus acutifolus L. Gray) and Millet Cultivars by Somayeh Badakhshan, Mahdiyeh Amiri-Nejad, Enayat Allah Tohidi-Nejad, Bahareh parsamotlagh

“…In evaluating the benefits of sorghum and bean mung bean intercropping, the researchers reported more than one relative yield total in all intercropping treatments (Shaker- Koohi et al., 2014).   …”
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Avaliação dos níveis de zeólita em dietas para suínos em fase de crescimento e terminação Evaluation of zeolite levels in diets for swine in the growing and finishing phases by Gabriel Cipriano Rocha, Juarez Lopes Donzele, Rita Flávia Miranda de Oliveira, Francisco Carlos de Oliveira Silva, Charles Kiefer, Paulo César Brustolini, Cinthia Maria Carlos Pereira, Leandro Alebrante

“…Eighty-four barrows from commercial hybrids of high genetic potential for meat deposition, with initial weight of 30.34±1.14 kg were distributed in randomized blocks design, with seven levels of adsorbent (0.0-0.0; 1.0-0.5; 1.0-1.0; 2.0-1.0; 2.0-2.0; 3.0-1.5; 3.0-3.0, respectively, on growing and finishing phases), six replicates with two animals per pen, which was considered the experimental unit. Sorghum was used as naturally contaminated source of mycotoxins. …”
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Feed supplementation during the last third of gestation: effects on ewes and lambs up to weaning/ <br> Suplementação alimentar de ovelhas no terço final da gestação: desempenho de... by Rinaldo Masato Mori, Elzânia Sales Pereira, Ivone Yurika Mizubuti, Marco Antonio da Rocha, Leandro das Dores Ferreira da Silva, Edson Luis de Azambuja Ribeiro, José Moura Filho

“…Animals were maintained on Coastcross pasture and received 2.0 kg of sorghum silage every day. The collected data from ewes were: Weights at beginning of the breeding season, at the beginning of supplementation and at lambing; from lambs it was collected weights at birth and at every 14 days up to weaning. …”
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Aproximación a la filogenia de Spodoptera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) con el uso de un fragmento del gen de la citocromo oxidasa I (COI) Approach to Spodoptera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae... by Clara Inés Saldamando, Edna Judith Marquez

“…For this, a total of 102 S. frugiperda larvae were obtained at random in corn, cotton, rice, grass and sorghum, during late 2006 and early 2009, from Colombia. …”
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Identification of QTLs and critical genes related to sugarcane mosaic disease resistance by Guilong Lu, Guilong Lu, Zhoutao Wang, Yong-Bao Pan, Qibin Wu, Wei Cheng, Fu Xu, Shunbin Dai, Boyu Li, Youxiong Que, Liping Xu

“…The mosaic disease symptoms of these progenies, with ROC22 as the control, were surveyed by natural infection under 11 different environmental conditions in the field and by artificial infections with a mixed sugarcane mosaic virus (SCMV) and sorghum mosaic virus (SrMV) inoculum. Analysis of consolidated survey data enabled the identification of 29 immune, 55 highly resistant, 70 moderately resistant, 62 susceptible, and 40 highly susceptible progenies. …”
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Carcass characteristics of small and medium-frame Aberdeen Angus young steers=Características da carcaça de novilhos super jovens Aberdeen Angus de biótipos pequeno e médio by Lucas Braido Pereira, Leandro da Silva Freitas, João Restle, Ivan Luis Brondani, Miguelangelo Ziegler Arboitte, Gilmar dos Santos Cardoso

“…The feed consisted of sorghum silage and concentrate at 60:40 ratio of dry matter during the first 63 days and 50:50 afterward. …”
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