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    • Frohlich, Michael W.; Sage, Rowan F.; Craven, Lyn A.; Schuster, Sebastian; Gigot, Guillaume; Hilger, Hartmut H.; Akhani, Hossein; Mahdav, Parastoo; Luebert Bruron, Federico José; Weigend, Maximilian; Thulin, Mats; Doyle, Jeff J.; Doyle, Jane L.; Vogan, Patrick; Forrest, Alan; Fulcher, Timothy K.; Devey, Dion S.; Chase, Mark W. (Oxford University Press, 2022)
      We present a phylogenetic analysis using plastid (matK, rbcL) and nuclear (nrITS) DNA for diverse Euploca spp. (formerly Heliotropium section Orthostachys) from the worldwide distribution of a genus and including species ...
    • Salazar Guerrero, Osvaldo; Vargas, Juan; Nájera de Ferrari, Francisco; Seguel Seguel, Oscar; Casanova Pinto, Manuel (Elsevier, 2014)
      The demand for foods in central Chile is increasing and arable land is expanding rapidly onto floodplain soils, which are being cleared for maize cultivation. After harvest, a significant amount of residual nitrogen (N) ...
    • Pinto, Catalina; Reginato Meza, Gabino; Mesa, Kuren; Shinya Moreno, Paulina; Díaz Otazo, Mariana; Infante Espiñeira, Rodrigo (American Society for Horticultural Science, 2016)
      The aims of this study were to characterize the softening rate of the flesh and some physiological parameters of three peach cultivars during the last phase of on-tree development. During two consecutive seasons, labeled ...
    • Morales Salinas, Luis; Ortega Farias, Samuel; Riveros Burgos, Camilo; Neira Roman, Jose; Carrasco Benavides, Marcos; López Olivari, Rafael (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
      Reference evapotranspiration (ETo) has a key role in irrigation scheduling. In this sense, the Hargreaves-Samani equation (HS) is a reliable and widely used method to estimate ETo. The HS equation just requires temperature ...
    • Flores, Patricia; Alvarado, Andrea; Lankin Vega, Gabriela Olga; Lax, Paola; Prodan, Simona; Aballay Espinoza, Erwin (BMC, 2021)
      Background: Steinernema feltiae is an entomopathogenic nematode used in biological control programs with a global distribution. Populations of this species show phenotypic plasticity derived from local adaptation and vary ...
    • Fuentes, Ignacio; Casanova Pinto, Manuel; Seguel Seguel, Oscar; Nájera de Ferrari, Francisco; Salazar Guerrero, Osvaldo (Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIA), 2014)
      Nitrate leaching (NL) is a major concern in agriculture due to its impact on human health and ecosystems. Solute movement through soil is governed by various hydraulic and physical properties that determine water flow. ...
    • Estay, Karinna; Kurzer, Amalie; Guinard, Jean-Xavier (MDPI, 2021)
      This exploratory research focused on the cultural variables involved in children's vegetable consumption, through the analysis of mothers' perceptions, attitudes, and feeding practices regarding their children's intake, ...
    • 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 ...
    • Sobrino, J. A.; Julien, Y.; Morales Salinas, Luis (ELSEVIER, 2006-06)
      Pathfinder AVHHR Land (PAL) database has been used for the retrieval of Land Surface Temperature (LST) over South America, which, along with NDVI parameter, will allow the studying of the evolution of the vegetation between ...
    • Acuña Nelson, Sergio Miguel; Bastías Montes, José Miguel; Cerda Leal, Fabiola Rossana; Parra Flores, Julio Enrique; Aguirre García, Juan; Toledo, Pedro G. (Hindawi, 2020)
      Protein adsorption is influenced by many factors such as temperature, pH, protein size and structure, or surface energy and roughness, among others. Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) and the Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) technique ...
    • Lordan, Jaume; Reginato Meza, Gabino; Lakso, Alan N.; Francescatto, Poliana; Robinson, Terence L. (Elsevier B.V., 2019)
      Apple trees produce many more flower clusters than needed for a full crop, but natural early season flower and fruitlet abscission drastically reduce the final fruit number. Natural fruit abscission varies significantly ...
    • Silva Candia, Paola; Pinheiro, Ana C.; Rodríguez, Lorena; Figueroa, Victoria; Baginsky Guerrero, Cecilia (2016)
      Currently phytosterols are added to processed foods, which increase their cost and therefore limits its use. This manuscript aims to identify foods that are a natural source of phytosterols, as well as analyze how the ...
    • Sepúlveda, María de los Ángeles; Hidalgo, Marcela; Araya, Juan; Casanova Pinto, Manuel Antonio; Muñoz, Cristiana; Doetterl, Sebastián; Wasner, Daniel; Colpaert, Ben; Bodé, Samuel; Boeckx, Pascal; Zagal, Erick (Elsevier, 2021)
      The role of soil in the global carbon cycle and carbon-climate feedback mechanisms has attracted considerable interest in recent decades. Consequently, development of simple, rapid, and inexpensive methods to support the ...
    • Julien, Yves; Sobrino, José; Mattar Bader, Cristián; Jiménez Muñoz, Juan (IEEE, 2015)
      The Meteosat Second Generation-Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (MSG-SEVIRI) instrument provides observations of half the globe every 15 min, at low spatial resolution. These data are an invaluable tool to ...
    • Aballay Espinoza, Erwin; Prodan, S.; Zamorano Carrasco, Alan; Castaneda Alvarez, C. (Springer, 2017)
      The action of metabolites and exoenzymes from rhizobacteria on different plant-parasitic nematodes has an influence on the nematicidal efficacy of the microbe. Seven rhizobacteria, divided into two bacterial groups, were ...
    • Rivera, Lucía; Aballay Espinoza, Erwin (INST INVESTIGACIONES AGROPECUARIAS, CENTRO REGIONAL DE INVESTIGACION QUILAMAPU, 2008-12)
      Five organic soil amendments were evaluated for their nematicide effect on root-knot Meloidogyne ethiopica Whitehead, 1968, on potted Vitis vinifera L. var. Chardonnay plants. The amendments included two immature ...
    • Salazar, Osvaldo; Casanova Pinto, Manuel; Najera, Francisco; Contreras, Américo; Tapia, Yasna (Springer, 2020)
      The main aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of the maize-cover crop rotation (Zm-cc) in the soil net nitrogen mineralisation (NNM) by measuring in situ NNM incubation in the upper soil (0-25 cm) during spring-summer ...
    • Oh, Changhwan; Philippe, Marc; Mcloughlin, Stephen; Woo, Jusun; Leppe, Marcelo; Torres González, Teresa; Park, Tae-Yoon S; Choi, Han-Gu (Wiley, 2020)
      Ten embedded fossil logs sampled in situ from the middle Eocene volcano-sedimentary rocks close to Suffield Point in the Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, Antarctica, are assigned to Protopodocarpoxylon araucarioides ...
    • Aloisi, Iris; Parrotta, Luigi; Ruiz, Karina B.; Landi, Claudia; Bini, Luca; Cai, Giampiero; Biondi, Stefania; Del Duca, Stefano (Frontiers Media, 2016)
      Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Wild) is an ancient Andean seed-producing crop well known for its exceptional nutritional properties and resistance to adverse environmental conditions, such as salinity and drought. Seed storage ...
    • Correa, José; Mamani, Maribel; Muñoz Espinoza, Claudia; González Agüero, Mauricio; Defilippi, Bruno G.; Campos Vargas, Reinaldo; Pinto, Manuel; Hinrichsen, Patricio (American Society for Enology and Viticulture, 2016-04)
      Berry firmness is one of the most important quality traits in table grape production and, consequently, a key aspect for table grape breeding programs. To identify the genes determining the berry firmness in grapes, a ...