1178 papers
This systematic review and meta-analysis of 27 studies demonstrates that supplementing small ruminants with yeast direct-fed microbes, particularly live *Saccharomyces cerevisiae* at low doses, significantly enhances growth performance, nutrient digestibility, and carcass traits while reducing cooking loss.
This study reveals that water deficit is the dominant constraint overriding sulfur deficiency effects on pea growth and nutrient uptake during vegetative development, while highlighting complementary adaptive strategies in drought-sensitive (root plasticity) and drought-resilient (enhanced nodulation) genotypes that offer valuable traits for breeding stress-resilient varieties.
This study demonstrates that pulsed electric field (PEF) pretreatment at 20 pulses significantly enhances the drying efficiency and preserves the quality of squid undergoing hot-air-assisted radio frequency drying by creating a porous microstructure, outperforming both brining and ethanol dehydration methods.
Based on survey data from 650 Chinese banana farmers, this study reveals that while organic fertilizer application initially increases carbon emissions, it ultimately enhances soil fertility and farmer income through quality-driven price premiums, suggesting that differentiated policies and carbon-sink mechanisms are needed to maximize its synergistic ecological and economic benefits.
This study integrates ethnobotanical data from Liguria and Piedmont to demonstrate that the erosion of foraging knowledge threatens the in-situ conservation of crop wild relatives, arguing that ethnobotanical surveys should be routinely incorporated into national inventories of plant genetic resources.
This study demonstrates that older organic cacao agroforestry systems in the eastern Brazilian Amazon significantly improve soil chemical quality and nutrient cycling compared to younger systems, highlighting their potential for sustainable land management and ecological restoration in nutrient-poor tropical soils.
This study found that supplementing broiler chicken diets with Aloe vera gel at levels up to 10.0 mL via drinking water did not significantly improve overall growth performance or survival rates, but higher inclusion levels were associated with a selective reduction in specific leg-quarter carcass weights without affecting total carcass yield.
This paper presents and evaluates a modular, portable pipeline that integrates soil moisture forecasting with irrigation decision support, demonstrating high advisory accuracy and low latency across diverse agricultural sites while revealing that the predictive advantage of machine learning models over persistence baselines is context-dependent and not universally statistically significant.
This study demonstrates that while seed-applied insecticides effectively control fall armyworm, specific chemical combinations significantly reduce the survival and reproductive success of the zoophytophagous predator *Podisus nigrispinus*, thereby potentially compromising natural pest suppression in sorghum fields.
A field study in Northern India comparing five pest management strategies found that while a chemically intensive module most effectively reduced onion thrips populations, an adaptable IPM module offered a superior balance by achieving moderate pest control with significantly less harm to beneficial predator populations like spiders and coccinellids.