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Assessing the energy trap of industrial agriculture in North America and Europe: 82 balances from 1830 to 2012
Early energy analyses of agriculture revealed that behind higher labor and land productivity of industrial farming, there was a decrease in energy...
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Predictions of rhizosphere microbiome dynamics with a genome-informed and trait-based energy budget model
Soil microbiomes are highly diverse, and to improve their representation in biogeochemical models, microbial genome data can be leveraged to infer...
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Soil water availability modulates the response of grapevine leaf gas exchange and PSII traits to a simulated heat wave
Background and aimsA better understanding of plant carbon assimilation, water status and photosystem performance responses to combined heat and...
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Plant Respiration and Global Climatic Changes
AbstractThe review summarizes current notions about biochemical, physiological, and molecular mechanisms underlying the response of respiratory...
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Material Flows in Socioeconomic System
This chapter aims to introduce the relationship between human and the environment, the concept of material, the concept and influence of material... -
Primary Producers
The main primary producers of sandy beaches are unicellular algae usually hidden by their microscopic size but sometimes reaching high density in... -
Threats and Impacts
Sandy beaches are under increasing human pressure worldwide, and those from Brazil are on the frontlines of acute and chronic disturbances. The high... -
Wie viel Kreislauf ist möglich?
Manche Denkschulen der Circular Economy formulieren in ihren Konzepten eine Vision, in der sich Stoffe kontinuierlich in Kreisläufen bewegen, sodass... -
Generation and physiological characterization of genome-edited Nicotiana benthamiana plants containing zeaxanthin as the only leaf xanthophyll
Main conclusionSimultaneous genome editing of the two homeologous
LCYe andZEP genes ofNicotiana benthamiana results in plants in which all... -
Comparative modeling of fluorescence and P700 induction kinetics for alga Scenedesmus sp. obliques and cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Role of state 2–state 1 transitions and redox state of plastoquinone pool
The model of thylakoid membrane system (T-M model) (Belyaeva et al. Photosynth Res 2019, 140:1–19) has been improved in order to analyze the...
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Small Papillae Regulated by
SPD25 are Critical for Balancing Photosynthetic CO2 Assimilation and Water Loss in RiceBackgroundThe leaf epidermis plays an important role in the transmission of light and the regulation of water and gas exchange, which influences the...
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Vertebrate Biodiversity
Sandy beaches are home to a great diversity of vertebrates occupying its wide range of unique habitats. Fishes, birds, sea turtles, and marine... -
Towards the Development of a Conceptual Framework of BioCities
This introductory chapter will evaluate how we have reached the current point in the history of world urbanity, its relationship with nature, and why... -
The Contribution of Landscape Ecology to Regionalization, Modelling, and Managing in Hydrology: Proposed Approach in the Context of Argentina
Purpose of ReviewIn this paper, I show three concrete examples in which the holistic approach of Landscape Ecology contributes to (i) the definition...
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Ecosystem Services
The ecosystem services concept represents the benefits provided by nature to people. This concept has been increasingly applied through the past two... -
Model quantification of the light-induced thylakoid membrane processes in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 in vivo and after exposure to radioactive irradiation
Measurements of OJIP–SMT patterns of fluorescence induction (FI) in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 ( Synechocystis ) cells on a time scale up to several...
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Cellular oxidative damage and impairment on the photosynthetic apparatus caused by Asian Soybean Rust on soybeans are alleviated by nickel
One of the most severe diseases affecting soybean is the Asian Soybean Rust (ASR) caused by Phakopsora pachyrhizi H. Sydow & P. Sydow. The oxidative...
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Inevitability and Prospects of the Use of the “Green Farming” Strategy by Humanity
AbstractThe article presents the physical substantiation of the basic laws of ecology of B. Commoner. It is shown that the evolution of dissipative...
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Evolution of Agricultural Technologies: from “Gray” to “Green”
AbstractThe evolution of agricultural technologies in the development of human civilization is considered. Based on this example, it is shown that a...
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Humic substances and plant abiotic stress adaptation
BackgroundTraditional agriculture is on the front line of climate change, being most impacted by the increase in the intensity and frequency of...