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    • Araya Osses, Daniela; Casanueva, Ana; Román Figueroa, Celián; Uribe Meneses, Juan Manuel; Paneque Corrales, Manuel (Springer, 2020)
      General circulation models (GCMs) allow the analysis of potential changes in the climate system under different emissions scenarios. However, their spatial resolution is too coarse to produce useful climate information for ...
    • Joswig, Julia S.; Wirth, Christian; Schuman, Meredith C.; Kattge, Jens; Reu, Björn; Wright, Ian J.; Sippel, Sebastian D.; Rüger, Nadja; Richter, Ronny; Schaepman, Michael E.; Van Bodegom, Peter M.; Cornelissen, J. H. C.; Díaz, Sandra; Hattingh, Wesley N.; Kramer, Koen; Lens, Frederic; Niinemets, Ülo; Reich, Peter B.; Reichstein, Markus; Römermann, Christine; Schrodt, Franziska; Anand, Madhur; Bahn, Michael; Byun, Chaeho; Campetella, Giandiego; Cerabolini, Bruno E. L.; Craine, Joseph M.; González Melo, Andrés; Gutiérrez Ilabaca, Álvaro Guillermo; He, Tianhua; Higuchi, Pedro; Jactel, Hervé; Kraft, Nathan J. B.; Minden, Vanessa; Onipchenko, Vladimir; Peñuelas, Josep; Pillar, Valério D.; Sosinski, Ênio; Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A.; Weiher, Evan; Mahecha, Miguel D. (Nature, 2022)
      Plant functional traits can predict community assembly and ecosystem functioning and are thus widely used in global models of vegetation dynamics and land–climate feedbacks. Still, we lack a global understanding of how ...
    • Montes, C.; Pérez Quezada, Jorge; Peña Neira, Álvaro; Tonietto, J. (WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2012)
      Background and Aims: Central Chile represents a large area of viticultural potential for high-quality wine production. Although climate has been commonly accepted as one of the main drivers of Chilean viticultural success, ...
    • Cortes, Daniela; Silva Robledo, Herman; Baginsky Guerrero, Cecilia; Morales Salinas, Luis (Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria, 2017)
      Salvia hispanica L., known as chia, is a plant species originally from tropical and subtropical Mesoamerica. It is economically important because its seeds produce omega-3, thus its demand has increased in Chile and ...
    • Haberland Arellano, Julio; Gálvez, Rodrigo (Asce-Amer Soc Civil Engineers, 2015)
    • Vazallo Valleumbrocio, Gina; Medel Maraboli, Marcela; Peña Neira, Álvaro; López Solís, Remigio; Obreque Slier, Elías (Elsevier, 2017)
      The effect of the addition of different commercial enological tannins (CETs) on the characteristics of Carmenere red wine was evaluated. Initially, chemical characterization of eleven CETs was performed using spectrophotometric ...
    • Singer, Alexander; Johst, Karin; Banitz, Thomas; Fowler, Mike; Groeneveld, Jürgen; Gutierrez Ilabaca, Alvaro; Hartig, Florian; Krug, Rainer; Liess, Matthias; Matlack, Glenn; Meyer, Katrin; Pe’er, Guy; Radchuk, Viktoriia; Voinopol Sassu, Ana (Elsevier, 2016)
      tEnvironmental change is expected to shift the geographic range of species and communities. Toestimate the consequences of these shifts for the functioning and stability of ecosystems, reliablepredictions of alterations ...
    • Lembeye, F.; Castellaro Galdámes, Giorgio; Magofke, J. C.; Uribe Muñoz, Héctor (Universidad Austral de Chile, 2014)
      El objetivo del presente trabajo fue calcular índices de selección en ovinos especializados en producción de carne. Se estimaron las ponderaciones económicas relativas de cada característica considerada en el índice de ...
    • Lembeye, F.; Castellaro Galdames, Giorgo; Magofke, J. C.; Uribe Muñoz, Héctor (Universidad Austral de Chile, 2014)
      The aim of this study was to calculate and compare efficiency of four selection indices (IS) in dual purpose sheep. Selection indices were calculated using records of the Merino Precoz sheep flock of the Estación Experimental ...
    • Pfeiffer Jakob, Marco; Haberland Arellano, Julio; Kremer F., Cristian; Seguel Seguel, Oscar (SOC CHILENA CIENCIA SUELO, 2008)
      The following study compared two field methods and one laboratory method to measure saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks) in the saturated phase of soil, all evaluated in a clayey loam soil with three replicates. The two ...
    • Vera, Leonardo; Parra, Juan C.; Morales Salinas, Luis; Mattar Bader, Cristián; Jorquera Fontena, Emilio (2010)
      The ability to estimate soil temperature (Ts) from satellite information is highly useful, since this is one of the main input variables in various models designed for estimating biophysical parameters. A comparative ...
    • García Gómez, Beatriz; Razi, Mitra; Salazar, Juan A.; Prudencio, Angela S.; Ruiz, David; Dondini, Luca; Martínez Gómez, Pedro (Springer, 2018)
      Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) are genome domains located in both coding and non-coding regions in eukaryotic genomes. Although SSRs are often characterized by low polymorphism, their DNA-flanking sequences could be a ...
    • Díaz Gómez, Roberto; López Solís, Remigio; Obreque Slier, Elías; Toledo Araya, Héctor (Elsevier, 2013)
      The antimicrobial effect of gallic acid and catechin on Helicobacter pylori cultures was investigated. The antimicrobial effect was evaluated by measuring the absorbance of liquid culture media at 600 nm, by an agar-well ...
    • Izquierdo Hernándeza, Alfredo; Peña Neira, Álvaro; López Solís, Remigio; Obreque Slier, Elías (Taylor & Francis, 2016)
      Although numerous methods have been used to extract polyphenols from vegetal sources, these procedures have been rarely compared directly. Herein, four maceration and extraction methods for phenolics from Carmenere (Vitis ...
    • Koepke, Tyson; Schaeffer, Scott; Harper, Artemus; Dicenta, Federico; Edwards, Mark; Henry, Robert J.; Møller, Birger L.; Meisel, Lee; Oraguzie, Nnadozie; Silva Ascencio, Herman; Sánchez Pérez, Raquel; Dhingra, Amit (2013)
      Prunus is an economically important genus with a wide range of physiological and biological variability. Using the peach genome as a reference, sequencing reads from four almond accessions and one sweet cherry cultivar ...
    • Araneda, Cristián; Díaz, Nelson F.; Gómez, Gilda; López, María Eugenia; Iturra, Patricia (Sociedade Brasileira de Genética, 2012)
      Spawning time in salmonids is a sex-limited quantitative trait that can be modified by selection. In rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), various quantitative trait loci (QTL) that affect the expression of this trait have ...
    • Obreque Slier, Elías; Peña Neira, Álvaro; López Solís, Remigio; Zamora Marín, Fernando; Da Silva, Jorge M. Ricardo; Laureano, Olga (2010)
      The phenolic composition of skins and seeds from Vitis vinifera L. cv. Carme´n ere and Cabernet Sauvignon grapes during ripening was evaluated by high-performance liquid chromatography-diode array detection and ...
    • Ruiz, Karina B.; Rapparini, Francesca; Bertazza, Gianpaolo; Silva, Herman; Torrigiani, Patrizia; Biondi, Stefania (Elsevier, 2017)
      To further our understanding of the mechanisms governing salt stress responses and adaptation in halophytes, we explored morphological, metabolic, and gene expression responses to high salinity in quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa ...
    • Cáceres Mella, Alejandro; Peña Neira, Álvaro; Narváez Bastías, Jaime; Jara Campos, Carla; López Solís, Remigio; Canals, Joan Miquel (International Journal of Food Science and Technology, Institute of Food Science and Technology, 2013)
      The concentration of proanthocyanidins from twenty red wines from cv. Cabernet Sauvignon, five ros e wines from cv. Cabernet Sauvignon and five white wines from cv. Sauvignon Blanc was quantified using four analytical ...
    • Schwartz, M.; Maldonado, Y.; Luchsinger Lagos, Luis; Lizana, L. A.; Kern Falcón, Werther (International Society for Horticultural Science, 2018)
      In the last 10 years, Peru has increased planting areas and exports volume on 'Hass' avocado becoming an emerging important factor in the international market. In those conditions, it has started to compete with Chile, the ...