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    • 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 ...
    • Schnettler, Berta; Pardo, Susana; Miranda, Horacio; Lobos, Germán; Mora González, Marcos; Adasme, Cristian (Univ Zulia, Facultad Ciencias Veterinarias, 2015)
      Considering the negative contribution of the food sector to climate change, a survey was conducted with 400 people in Temuco (Araucanía Region, Chile) to distinguish the preferences for different types of cheese, with ...
    • Mestanza, Camilo; Riegel, Ricardo; Silva Ascencio, Herman; Vásquez, Santiago C. (PUCV, 2015)
      Background: Currently, the technology called Clearfield (R) is used in the development of crops resistant to herbicides that inhibit the enzyme acetohydroxy acid synthase (AHAS, EC 2.2.1.6). AHAS is the first enzyme of the ...
    • Corradini, Fabio; Nájera de Ferrari, Francisco; Casanova Pinto, Manuel; Tapia, Yasna; Singh, Ranvir; do Salazar, Osval (Springer, 2015)
      There are concerns about the impact of maize cultivation with high applications of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) on water quality in surface waters in Mediterranean Central Chile. This study estimated the contribution ...
    • Correa, J.; Ravest, G.; Laborie, D.; Mamani, M.; Torres, E.; Muñoz Schick, Carlos; Pinto, M.; Hinrichsen, P. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
      Background and Aims: Bioactive gibberellins are commonly applied to increase the size of berries in seedless tablegrapes. The genetic determinants for the response of berry size to gibberellic acid (GA3) were investigated ...
    • Esterio Grez, Marcela; Araneda, M. J.; Román, A.; Pizarro, L.; Copier, Ch.; Auger Saavedra, Jaime (Amer. Phytopathological Soc., 2015)
    • Silveira Gómez, Ana; Baeza Ramírez, Alexia Andrea; Escalona Contreras, Víctor (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
      The combined effects of ultraviolet (UV) light C (0.34 to 20.13 kJ/l2) and superatmospheric O2 (>85%) packaging on the respiration rate, atmospheric composition, microbiological growth and nutritional quality of fresh-cut ...
    • Adasme Berríos, Cristian; Sánchez, Mercedes; Jara Rojas, Roberto; Engler, Alejandra; Rodríguez, Marcelo; Mora González, Marcos (Univ Nacional Cuyo, Fac Ciencias Agrarias, 2015)
      The demand for organic fruits and vegetables (F&V) is growing worldwide, creating market opportunities for developing countries as major suppliers. However, most export-oriented developing countries such as Chile have an ...
    • Pinto, Catalina; Reginato Meza, Gabino; Shinya, Paulina; Mesa Juliani, Karen Fernanda; Díaz, Mariana; Atenas, Catalina; Infante Espiñeira, Rodrigo (Elsevier, 2015)
      The aim of this research was to develop an objective method to determine the best harvest date for nonmelting peach cultivars. For this purpose the absorbance of chlorophyll (IAD) on the skin of ‘Andes Du-1’, ‘Loadel’ ...
    • Raab, Nicolás; Meza, Francisco Javier; Franck Berger, Nicolás; Bambach, Nicolás (Elsevier, 2015)
      Canopy conductance (g(c)) is the main controller of plant-atmospheric interaction and a key element in understanding how plants cope with drought. Empirical g(c) models provide a good inference as to how environmental ...
    • Covarrubias Peña, José Ignacio; Rombolà, Adamo Domenico (Springer, 2015)
      In many important viticultural areas of the Mediterranean basin, plants often face prolonged periods of scarce iron (Fe) availability in the soil. The objective of the present work was to perform a comparative analysis of ...
    • Quiroz Espinoza, Madelaine; Varnero Moreno, María Teresa (Inst Investigaciones Agropecuarias, 2015)
      Pig slurry as a fertilizer source has been extensively used in agriculture; however, in order to reduce the risks of contaminating the water supplies given its high level of N sources, it is important to understand the N ...
    • López Olivari, Rafael; Ortega Farías, Samuel; Morales, Luis; Valdés, Héctor (Inst Investigaciones Agropecuarias, 2015)
      The use of actual evapotranspiration (ETa) models requires an appropriate parameterization of the available energy, where the net radiation (R-n) is the most important component. Thus, a study was carried out to calibrate ...
    • Haberland Arellano, Julio; Gálvez, Rodrigo (Asce-Amer Soc Civil Engineers, 2015)
    • Díaz, Oscar Pablo; Arcos, Rafael; Tapia, Yasna; Pastene, Rubén; Vélez, Dínoraz; Devesa, Vicenta; Montoro, Rosa; Aguilera, Valeska; Becerra, Miriam (MDPI AG, 2015)
      The aim of this study was to estimate both the contribution of drinking water and food (raw and cooked) to the total (t-As) and inorganic (i-As) arsenic intake and the exposure of inhabitants of Socaire, a rural village ...
    • Salazar Guerrero, Osvaldo; Rojas, Claudia; Avendaño, Fernando; Realini, Piero; Nájera de Ferrari, Francisco; Tapia Fernández, Yasna (Springer, 2015)
      Vegetated buffer strips (BS) can help prevent nitrogen (N) losses from fields by subsurface lateral flow, thus protecting water resources. The purpose of this study was to determine if narrow BS would effectively remove ...
    • Gainza, Felipe; Opazo, Ismael; Guajardo, Verónica; Meza, Pablo; Ortiz, Mauricio; Pinochet, Jorge; Muñoz, Carlos (Inst Investigaciones Agropecuarias, 2015)
      The current global agricultural challenges imply the need to generate new technologies and farming systems. In this context, rootstocks are an essential component in modern agriculture. Most currently used are those clonally ...
    • Neira, José; Ortiz, Mauricio; Morales, Luis; Acevedo Hinojosa, Edmundo (Inst Investigaciones Agropecuarias, 2015)
      Oxygen is an important element for plant growth. Reducing its concentration in the soil affects plant physiological processes such as nutrient and water uptake as well as respiration, the redox potential of soil elements ...