WHOLE-PLANT WATER USE IN FIELD GROWN GRAPEVINE: SEASONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ON WATER AND CARBON BALANCE

Whole-Plant Water Use in Field Grown Grapevine: Seasonal and Environmental Effects on Water and Carbon Balance

Water scarcity is a main challenge in vineyards sustainability in most of the grapevine areas now and even more in near future due to climatic change perspectives.In consequence, water use efficiency (WUE) measurements are of the highest interest to improve the sustainability of this crop.The vast majority of WUE measurements relays on measurements

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The first blush of tasting: Porcellio scaber isopod and Enchytraeus albidus enchytraeid prefer the leaf litter of invasive over native plant species

The establishment of invasive plants is a very serious gap kad?n ayakkab? threat from an ecological point of view, through decreasing biodiversity and a changing ecosystem, which affect decomposition processes.We carried out no-choice feeding experiments with Porcellio scaber and Enchytraeus albidus individuals.Three different plant species (Acer p

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Garlic attenuates cardiac oxidative stress via activation of PI3K/AKT/Nrf2-Keap1 pathway in fructose-fed diabetic rat.

BackgroundCardiovascular complication due to diabetes has remained a major cause of death.There is an urgent need to intervene the cardiac complications in diabetes by nutritional dc headers integra or pharmacological agents.Thus the present study was designed to find out the effectiveness of garlic on cardiac complications in insulin-resistant dia

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Effectiveness of blood donor questionnaire directed at risk factor for transfusion transmitted infections in Pakistani population

Background: Deferring blood donors who admit to high-risk behavior on questioning are likely to eliminate those in window period for transfusion transmitted infections (TTI).However, many questions have been implemented in some countries as part of donor history questionnaire, based on precautionary principle and not on evidence, and can result in

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Through the eyes of community health workers: what was needed to increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake in the Missouri Southeast region

Public health emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, elucidate the strengths, weaknesses, and significant gaps in infrastructure, compatibility and consistency in communication systems, as well as the quality of collaborative relationships, and provider and workforce capacity.They also expose longstanding patterns of mistrust in the government

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