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Crop Diseases and Food Insecurity in Africa: A Hindu Perspective
Africa as a continent has been grappling with a number of calamities. These have left a devastation not just to her environment but to the...
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Religious Perspectives on Climate Change and Food Security in Ghana
There has been a global journey toward ending poverty and inequalities while protecting the earth as captured in the Sustainable Development Goals...
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Catholicism, Climate Change and Pests in Africa
The threat posed by insect pests is one of the major challenges to food production in Africa. By feeding on plant tissues and transmitting viral...
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Application of Mutagenesis and Genome Editing in Crop Plants
Mutagenesis and genome editing has emerged as a substitute to traditional plant breeding and transgenics for crop improvement and hence ensure...
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Improvement in Fruit Crop Plants Through Mutation Breeding for Sustainable Development
Fruit crops are an important entity of the agriculture sector that plays a significant role in global nutritional health and food security. It has...
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Application of Somaclonal Variation in Crop Improvements
Advances in tissue culture methods have made the micropropagation of plants a viable option to regenerate plantlets in large quantities, which...
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Haploid System in Mutation Breeding
During a century since the discovery of the first haploid in Datura stramonium in 1923, doubled haploids (DH) have played a critical role in...
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Mutagenesis Breeding for Drought-Tolerance and Improvement of Oil and Seed Quality in Oilseed Crops: Case of Rapeseed and Sesame
Nowadays, world food security is more and more threatened by the extreme events caused by climate change associated with the increasing population....
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Development of Improved Landraces in Agriculture for Rural Development
Landraces serve as reservoirs of genetic diversity, contributing to the enrichment of biodiversity and the preservation and stabilization of...
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Application of Mutagenesis in Food Production and Sustainable Development
Induced mutations play an important role in increasing the genetic diversity of desirable traits in various edible and agricultural plants. It is...
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Mutagenesis—A Tool for Improving Rice Landraces
Rice is an important staple food for half of the world’s population. Development of high yielding varieties and large-scale cultivation of these...
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Use of Gamma Rays in Crop Improvement
Induced mutation mimics the natural process of spontaneous mutation, which is the main working force behind the evolution of living beings. Among...
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Genome Editing Based CRISPR System in Crop Improvement
The primary objective of sustainable agriculture is to rise food production in order to ensure global food security. However, various environmental...
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Genetic Improvement of Rural Landraces Through Mutation Research
Rural landraces are heterogeneous cultivars possessing valuable, unique characteristics, and are widely adapted to specific eco-geographical areas....
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Epidemiology of Production Diseases
Prevention and control of production diseases requires a profound knowledge on the epidemiology of the respective disease or disease complex. The...
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Respiratory Diseases in Pigs
Respiratory diseases cause significant issues in pigs worldwide. Welfare concerns, disease burden, decreased production, and low worker morale can...
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Displacement of the Abomasum
Abomasal displacements are one of the most common abdominal conditions affecting production dairy cattle. The abomasum can displace to the left side...
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Breeding for Metabolic Robustness and Longevity in Dairy Cows
The relevance of longevity among the traits in dairy cattle for which genetic improvements are desirable is undisputed as welfare and economic...
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Societal Attitudes Towards Animal Welfare and Livestock Production Diseases
Farm animal health and welfare are important topics amongst global conversations and strategies surrounding food security and sustainability,...
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Tail Biting in Pigs
Tail biting in pigs is an abnormal behavior with multi-factorial origin, causing wounds, infections, partial or total losses of the tail, and even...