A5079068266- Pasture and Agricultural Systems
- Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
- Marine and fisheries research
- Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species
- Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Protease and Inhibitor Mechanisms
- Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
Florida Orthopaedic Institute
2025
University of South Florida
2025
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
2013-2023
Agriculture and Food
2016-2023
University of Arizona
2019-2021
Queen Mary University of London
2013-2020
William Harvey Research Institute
2013-2020
University of Münster
2008-2020
Plant (United States)
2019
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
2001-2017
Parasitoid Wasp Genomes wasps, which prey on and reproduce in host insect species, play important roles plant herbivore interactions, may provide valuable tools the biological control of pest species. The Nasonia Genome Working Group (p. 343 ; see news story by Pennisi ) presents genome three very closely related species: vitripennis, N. giraulti , longicornis . findings document rapid evolution between a endosymbiont that can cause nuclear-cytoplasmic incompatibilities affect speciation.
Agricultural modeling has long suffered from fragmentation in model implementation. Many models are developed, there is much redundancy, often poorly coupled, component re-use rare, and it frequently difficult to apply generate real solutions for the agricultural sector. To improve this situation, we argue that an open, self-sustained, committed community required co-develop associated data tools as a common resource. Such can benefit recent developments information communications technology...
Simulation models are extensively used to predict agricultural productivity and greenhouse gas emissions. However, the uncertainties of (reduced) model ensemble simulations have not been assessed systematically for variables affecting food security climate change mitigation, within multi-species contexts. We report an international comparison benchmarking exercise, showing potential multi-model ensembles nitrous oxide (N2 O) emissions wheat, maize, rice temperate grasslands. Using a...
The existing mathematical methods for estimating botanical composition of an animal's diet from the concentrations plant alkanes in herbage and faecal samples all have significant limitations. These include need arbitrary selection a subset use calculations, loss information, or generation negative estimates components when more than two species are present. We present new algorithm solving problem, which overcomes these difficulties is rapid to compute. This (known as non-negative least...
Diazinon, an organophosphate pesticide, had a sublethal effect on the olfactory system of mature male Atlantic salmon parr. The responses parr to prostaglandin F 2a (PGF ) were studied after exposure epithelium different concentrations Diazinon in water. Electrophysiological recordings from indicated that this significantly reduced at nominal as low 1.0μg l −1 and threshold detection was 10‐fold 2.0 μg 1 . Mature exposed for period 120 h (nominal 0.3, 0.8, 1.7, 2.7, 5.6, 13, 28 45 also...
A central concern of the Grain & Graze research, development and extension program has been improving management feedbase on mixed farms through addressing ‘feed gaps’ – times year during which supply forage is insufficient to meet livestock demand. In this review, we use available data pasture growth quality, supplemented by modelling results, describe characteristic timing feed gaps across Australian cereal-livestock zone. Feedbase interventions studied have mainly addressed side...
Growing cereal crops for the dual-purposes (DP) of livestock forage during early vegetative stages and harvesting grain at maturity has been practised decades. It follows that scientific experiments using DP are nearly as old. A survey more than 270 crop revealed average effect defoliation on yield (GY) was −7 ± 25% (range –35 to 75%). In light these results, first purpose this review assess how alternative grazing management regimes affected production GY. Management techniques in order...
Improving the water-limited yield of dryland crops and farming systems has been an underpinning objective research within Australian grains industry since concept was defined in 1970s. Recent slowing productivity growth stimulated a search for new sources improvement, but few previous investments have targeted on national scale. In 2008, established 5-year, AU$17.6 million, Water Use Efficiency (WUE) Initiative, which challenged growers researchers to lift WUE grain-based production by 10%....
Abstract Russell, I. C., Aprahamian, M. W., Barry, J., Davidson, Fiske, P., Ibbotson, A. T., Kennedy, R. Maclean, J. Moore, A., Otero, Potter, E. C. E., and Todd, D. 2012. The influence of the freshwater environment biological characteristics Atlantic salmon smolts on their subsequent marine survival. – ICES Journal Marine Science, 69: 1563–1573. have declined markedly in past 20–30 years throughout range. Much focus for this decline has been increased mortality during phase life cycle....
The wealth of available genomic data presents an unrivaled opportunity to study the molecular basis evolution. Studies on gene family expansions and site-dependent analyses have already helped establish important insights into how proteins facilitate adaptation. However, efforts conduct full-scale cross-genomic comparisons between species are challenged by both growing amounts inherent difficulty in accurately inferring homology deeply rooted species. Proteins, comparison, evolve means...
Growing evidence suggests a close association of plaque angiogenesis with atherosclerotic formation and progression, an important role matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) in atherosclerosis. We attempted to investigate the functional involvements MMP8 angiogenesis. Knockdown human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HuVECs) MMP-8 shRNA lentivirus resulted decrease vitro capillary-like network formation, cell proliferation migration, impaired its capacity vivo Less nuclear accumulation β-catenin...