Another question is to what extent the HLA repertoire of the WBC-associated farmers differed from that of earlier groups, for instance, LBK and post-LBK communities. HLA molecules play a key role in adaptive immunity and exhibit exceptional levels of polymorphism, presumably driven by pathogen-...
Soil Data: Soil sensors deployed in the field provide real-time measurements of moisture levels, temperature, nutrient content, and pH [29,30]. This information empowers farmers to tailor irrigation and fertilization strategies to the specific needs of each area within a field. Farmers can reduce...
Poultry farming is one of the most efficient animal husbandry methods and it provides nutritional security to a significant number of the world population. Using modern intensive farming techniques, global production has reached 133.4 mil. t in 2020, with a steady growth each year. Such intensive ...
While mechanical weeding also increases labour requirements, the increase in labour costs has been lower than the associated reduction in herbicide costs, increasing profitability (Iddris et al., 2023). Another set of experiments aims to increase the structural heterogeneity of oil palm monocultures ...
The culture was grown for another 10 h. The effective number of SYN-191 was estimated as 108 CFU/mL for further use. Four groups were used in the pot experiments: CK-JK (control group with healthy soil), 191-JK (treatment group with healthy soil and SYN-191), CK-LZ (control group ...
We therefore decided to test the variation of Δ13C on 32 seeds kept in reducing condition in a muffle oven at a temperature of 200 °C × 4 h and on another 32 that were burned in the same condition but for a longer period of time (12 h) (Supplementary Table S2). ...
The details of this procedure are outlined in Text S2. [24] We applied our optimization procedure separately to six different regions of the world (Figure S2), similar to Ramankutty and Foley [1998]. These six regions were a compromise between selecting small enough regions with similar ...
500 years ago. This discovery helps to resolve a mystery about one of the region’s major events in natural and cultural history, by documenting when rice farming spread into Indonesia, ultimately from a source in mainland China. At the Minanga Sipakko site in Sulawesi, preserved leaf and ...
The change from hunting and gathering to farming was associated with important demographic and cultural changes in different parts of the world. The process involving changes in lifestyle and in material culture, such as the introduction of pottery, has often been referred to as the Neolithic trans...
“… particularly in Scotland, in the uplands, part of the least good land in terms of pasture may have to be given over to afforestation and peatland because of its [carbon] storage potential, but another half of it must stay.” (2019 FG 7). This clear ‘replacement’ statement was me...