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    • Avenhaus, Ulrike; Cabeza Pérez, Ricardo; Liese, Rebecca; Lingner, Annika; Dittert, Klaus; Salinas Riester, Gabriela; Pommerenke, Claudia; Schulze, Joachim (Frontiers Media January 2016 |Volume 6 | Article 1133, 2016)
      Nitrogenase is an oxygen labile enzyme. Microaerobic conditions within the infected zone of nodules are maintained primarily by an oxygen diffusion barrier (ODB) located in the nodule cortex. Flexibility of the ODB is ...
    • Lobos, German; Mora González, Marcos; Saens, Rodrigo; Muñoz, Tristan; Schnettler, Berta (Soc. Brasileira Fruticultura, 2015)
      The traditional method of net present value (NPV) to analyze the economic profitability of an investment (based on a deterministic approach) does not adequately represent the implicit risk associated with different but ...
    • Aballay Espinoza, Erwin; Vilches, Oscar (PUC, 2015)
      The rootstocks 1103 P, 101-14, K 5BB, SO4, and 3309 were assessed to determine their resistance to the three common Meloidogyne species present in Chilean vineyards, M. ethiopica, the most frequent species, M. hapla and ...
    • Hinojosa, Andrea; Gatica, Isabel; Bustamante, Andrés; Cárdenas, Daniela; Escalona Contreras, Víctor (Wiley & Sons, 2015)
      Minimally processed watercress is an alternative to increase vegetable consumption. However, at almost all stages from field production to processing the vegetables could be contaminated with pathogenic and spoilage bacteria. ...
    • Gutiérrez, Diego R.; Char, Cielo Dolores; Escalona Contreras, Víctor; Chaves, Alicia R.; Rodríguez, Silvia del C. (Wiley & Sons, 2015)
      The effects of UV-C pretreatments (10, 20 and 30 kJ/m(2)), compared with modified atmosphere packaging (MAP), on sensory change, microbial and bioactive profile of minimally processed rocket leaves throughout 12 days at ...
    • Saldivia Pérez, Patricio; Faúndez Yancas, Luis (Universidad de Concepción, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas, 2015)
      Mediante un estudio detallado de las descripciones originales y de los ejemplares tipo, además del análisis de nuevos materiales recolectados, se establece que Aristolochia bridgesii y A. pearcei, entidades hasta ahora ...
    • Escalona Contreras, Víctor; Hinojosa, Andrea; Char, Cielo Dolores; Villena, Paulina; Bustamante, Andrés; Sáenz Hernández, Carmen Luisa (Wiley & Sons, 2015)
      There is an increasing concern about the formation of halogenated compounds when sodium hypochlorite (SH) is used as food sanitizer. This research evaluated the quality of watercress harvested in two seasons treated with ...
    • Scaglione, Davide; Fornasiero, Alice; Pinto, Catalina; Cattonaro, Federica; Spadotto, Alessandro; Infante Espiñeira, Rodrigo; Meneses Alvarado, Claudio; Messina, Rachele; Lain, Orietta; Cipriani, Guido; Testolin, Raffaele (Springer, 2015)
      Kiwifruit breeding still largely relies on phenotypic observation of cross progeny grown in the field to fruiting maturity, without any selection prior to the juvenility being overcome. Developing markers for the selection ...
    • Ríos, Juan Carlos; Robledo, Francisco; Schreiber, Lukas; Zeisler, Viktoria; Lang, Erika; Carrasco, Basilio; Silva, Herman (Elsevier, 2015)
      Fruit cracking is one of the major economic losses in cherry production worldwide. Factors involved in differential tolerance among varieties are unknown. This phenomenon is mainly caused by rainfall during the harvest ...
    • Cabezas, Julián; Galleguillos Torres, Mauricio; Fuentes Espoz, Juan; Pérez, Cecilia; Pérez Quezada, Jorge (ESA, 2015)
      Peatlands are a type of wetland characterized by the accumulation of organic matter, called peat, and are important carbon reservoirs. In areas with poor drainage, human-induced forest fires and logging can produce flooded ...
    • Polanco, Rubén; Pino, Constanza; Besoain, Ximena; Montealegre Andrade, Jaime; Pérez, Luz M. (PUC, 2015)
      The secretion of enzymes involved in biocontrol from the wild T. harzianum strains Th11 and Th12 and the mutants Th11A80.1, Th11C40.1 and Th12A10.1 was studied after their cultivation in the presence of R. solani cell walls ...
    • Morales Salinas, Luis; Acevedo Hinojosa, Edmundo; Castellaro Galdames, Giorgio; Román Osorio, Luis; Morales Inostroza, Jael; Alonso, Máximo F. (PUC, 2015)
      In the past 20 years, different areas of research concerning native and exotic species, herbaceous crops and forest plantations have been oriented toward satisfying domestic, industrial and transportation energy requirements. ...
    • Franck Berger, Nicolás; Muñoz Aravena, Víctor (Ediciones Antumapu, 2014)
      La publicación entrega datos sobre el trabajo realizado por el Centro de Estudios de Zonas Áridas de la Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas de la Universidad de Chile, para la instalación de especies que sean resistentes ...
    • González, Roberto H. (Ediciones Antumapu, 2015)
      La polilla europea de la vid, Lobesia botrana (Denis & Schiffermüller), es considerada como la plaga más importante de la uva vinífera en la zona europea mediterránea. Se detectó hace ocho años en Chile y ha logrado ...
    • Calderón, Gabriela; Garrido Salinas, Marco; Acevedo Hinojosa, Edmundo (Sociedad de Biología Chile, 2015)
      Prosopis tamarugo Phil. is a legume tree native to the Atacama Desert, Chile. Tamarugo has physiological characteristics that are highly adapted to extreme life conditions in the Pampa del Tamarugal. Null precipitation ...
    • Aedo, Jorge E.; Maldonado, Jonathan; Aballai, Víctor; Estrada, Juan M.; Bastías Molina, Macarena; Meneses Alvarado, Claudio; Gallardo Escarate, Cristian; Silva, Herman; Molina, Alfredo; Valdés, Juan A. (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Background: Fish reared under intensive conditions are repeatedly exposed to stress, which negatively impacts growth. Although most fish follow a conserved pattern of stress response, with increased concentrations of ...
    • Mattar Bader, Cristián; Durán Alarcón, Claudio; Jiménez Muñoz, Juan; Santamaría Artigas, Andrés; Olivera Guera, Luis; Sobrino, José (Taylor & Francis, 2015)
      This paper presents the Global Atmospheric Profiles derived from Reanalysis Information (GAPRI) database, which was designed for earth surface temperature retrieval. GAPRI is a comprehensive compilation of selected atmospheric ...
    • Pinto, Cibele T.; Ponzoni, Flavio J.; Barrientos, C.; Mattar Bader, Cristián; Santamaría Artigas, A.; Castro, Ruy M. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2015)
      The application of Earth observation sensor data in quantitative approaches calls on the conversion of original digital numbers to radiometric quantities such as radiance or reflectance. This conversion depends on the ...
    • Goettsch, Bárbara; Faúndez Yancas, Luis; Guerrero Martín, Pablo; Duffy, James P.; Frances, Anne; Hernández, Héctor M.; Inger, Richard; Pollock, Caroline; Schipper, Jan; Superina, Mariella; Taylor, Nigel P.; Tognelli, Marcelo; Abba, Agustín M.; Arias, Salvador; Arreola-Nava, Hilda; Baker, Marc A.; Bárcenas, Rolando T.; Barrios, Duniel; Braun, Pierre; Butterworth, Charles A.; Búrquez, Alberto; Caceres, Fátima; Chazaro-Basañez, Miguel; Corral-Díaz, Rafael; Valle Perea, Mario del; Demaio, Pablo H.; Duarte de Barros, Williams; Durán, Rafael; Faúndez Yancas, Luis; Felger, Richard S.; Fitz-Maurice, Betty; Fitz-Maurice, Walter; Gann, George; Gómez-Hinostrosa, Carlos; Gonzáles-Torres, Luis; Patrick Griffith, M.; Guerrero, Pablo; Hammel, Barry; Heil, Kenneth; Hernández-Oria, José; Hoffmann, Michael; Ishiki Ishihara, Mario; Kiesling, Roberto; Larocca, João; León-de la Luz, José; Loaiza S., Christian; Lowry, Martin; Machado, Marlon; Majure, Lucas; Martínez Ávalos, José; Martorell, Carlos; Maschinski, Joyce; Méndez, Eduardo; Mittermeier, Russell; Nassar, Jafet; Negrón-Ortiz, Vivian; Oakley, Luis; Ortega-Baes, Pablo; Pin Ferreira, Ana Beatriz; Pinkava, Donald; Porter, J. Mark; Puente-Martinez, Raul; Roque Gamarra, José; Pérez, Patricio; Sánchez Martínez, Emiliano; Smith, Martin; Sotomayor M. del C., J. Manuel; Stuart, Simon; Tapia Muñoz, José; Terrazas, Teresa; Terry, Martin; Trevisson, Marcelo; Valverde, Teresa; Van Devender, Thomas; Véliz-Pérez, Mario Esteban; Walter, Helmut E.; Wyatt, Sarah; Zappi, Daniela; Zavala-Hurtado, J. Alejandro; Gaston, Kevin (Nature, 2015)
      A high proportion of plant species is predicted to be threatened with extinction in the near future. However, the threat status of only a small number has been evaluated compared with key animal groups, rendering the ...
    • Aballay Espinoza, Erwin; Merino, Carlos (Elsevier, 2015)
      Plant-parasitic nematodes are the most important group of root pathogens affecting vineyards for fresh fruit and wine production in Chile. Due to the low efficacy of presently available nematicides and their high variability ...