Production

Articles

• ’Characteristics of natural, semi-natural and controlled habitats (orchard) and cultural practices affecting the parasitism of Anastrepha fraterculus (fruit fly) in apple orchards in the Parana region. Basis for biological control.’
  3 May 2021

  ’In alternative agricultural production approaches, the agricultural production system is defined as an area large enough to include forests, hedgerows, riparian forests, farmland and other non cultivated agricultural areas. These sytems comprise a diversity of habitats with a large insect diversity, be there neutral to crops, phytophagous or entomophagous, and the presence or not of host plants. Temperate fruit orchards in southern Brazil encurr a serious threat due to the South American (...)

• ’Nutritional characterisation and impact of processing on the nutritional qualities of tropical vegetables: vitamins C and B9, carotenoids, antioxidants’
  3 May 2021

  ’There is lately in Nigeria a decrease in consumption of traditional leafy vegetables, accompagnying increased consumption of imported foods and lack of dietary diversity, leading to increased micronutrient deficiencies. The aim of the project was therefore to evaluate the micronutriment contents of traditional leafy vegetables, some of them growing wild, to identify the most promising source sof micronutrients and have convincing data to promote their (...)

• ’Connecting the biologies of rice disease resistance, drought tolerance and flowering times’
  3 May 2021

  ’Drought tolerance, disease resistance and flowering time are three major traits in crops that are biologically connected. However the molecular connection nodes linking them together are poorly understood. The Riceconnections projects aims at identifying such nodes in the model system involving rice using three approaches: phenotyping under laboratory and field conditions rice mutants, gene expression analysis under combined biological conditions and identifying proteins that are connecting (...)

• Biochemical and structural study of the starch of plantain (Musa paradisiaca L.) during its maturation
  29 April 2022

  Physicochemical, physical and strctural analysis of plantain flour and starch during development (in the week 2 to 8 range) as following:
  mineral analysis
  sioluble sugar analysis by HPAE-PAD
  starch and resistant starch content
  Optical and environmental microscopy analysis
  strcutural analysis by size excluision chromatography
  Differential scanning calorimetry analysis
  RVA profile
  X ray diffraction analysis
  Find enclosed the CR2012-007vGB report including background and (...)

• Connecting the biologies of rice disease resistance, drought tolerance and flowering times
  29 April 2022

  Drought tolerance, disease resistance and flowering time are three major traits in crops that are biologically connected. However the molecular connection nodes linking them together are poorly understood. The Riceconnections projects aims at identifying such nodes in the model system involving rice using three approaches: phenotyping under laboratory and field conditions rice mutants, gene expression analysis under combined biological conditions and identifying proteins that are connecting (...)

• Influence of genotype-environment interaction on mandarin quality
  29 April 2022

  The mandarin quality (color, taste) is highly dependent from genotype and environmental conditions; in tropical conditions, fruits are less colored and more acidic. On the other hand, most of the breeding programs to improve citrus quality are developed in the Mediterranean and little work is done on citrus breeding in the tropical and subtropical regions.