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Impact of rising temperatures during dormancy on key yield components in almond
(Scientia Horticulturae, 2025-11-28)Agriculture must adapt to the effects of climate change, with temperatures expected to rise in the coming de cades. Deciduous fruit trees rely heavily on temperature regimes during dormancy, requiring ... -
Industry stakeholders attitudes and beliefs about tail biting and docking in pigs – A case study in Switzerland and Spain
(Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 2025-12-31)Background Tail docking is still widely used in major European pig-producing countries despite efforts to ban it. The present study aimed to understand the attitudes and beliefs of pig farming professionals ... -
Unveiling the global urban virome through wastewater metagenomics
(Nature Communications, 2025-11-28)Understanding global viral dynamics is critical for public health. Traditional surveillance focuses on individual pathogens and symptomatic cases, which may miss asymptomatic infections or newly emerging ... -
Geographics and bacterial networks differently shape the acquired and latent global sewage resistomes
(Nature Communications, 2025-11-21)Antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) have rapidly emerged and spread globally, but the pathways driving their spread remain poorly understood. We analyzed 1240 sewage samples from 351 cities across 111 ... -
Chilling and heat requirements of apple cultivars: Future perspectives in a global climate change context
(Scientia Horticulturae, 2025-04-28)Climate change is affecting fruit tree dormancy progression around the world. Temperature increase during winter could hinder the attainment of the climatic requirements that are needed to have a correct ... -
First UASS drift curves for agroforestry scenarios in Spain
(Crop Protection, 2025-02-10)Unmanned aerial spraying systems (UASS) allow the agricultural sector to execute precision spraying of plant protection products (PPPs). However, scientific knowledge regarding the spray drift generated ... -
Spontaneous generation of diverse recombinant prion strains: sulfated glycan cofactors facilitate strain emergence but do not determine specific strain properties
(Acta Neuropathologica Communications, 2025-12-03)Significant advances over the last two decades in the study of in vitro prion formation and propagation have revealed that distinct cofactors can facilitate or induce spontaneous prion misfolding. This, ... -
Long-term assessment of morphological and chemical diversity of landrace and bred almond cultivars for industrial applications
(Scientia Horticulturae, 2026-01-06)Almonds exhibit extensive genetic and phenotypic diversity, enabling their use across a wide range of applications. This diversity underscores the importance of evaluating almond germplasm for morphological, ... -
Deciphering host–pathogen dynamics in Mytilus galloprovincialis: immune responses to multiple infections with bacterial isolates from bivalve mortality outbreaks
(Fish and Shellfish Immunology, 2025-12-08)Bivalve aquaculture is facing several challenges due to disease outbreaks, that are often multifactorial and polymicrobial. Increasing evidence shows that initial infection by primary pathogens, or ... -
Individual Segmentation of Intertwined Apple Trees in a Row via Prompt Engineering
(Sensors, 2025-07-31)Computer vision is of wide interest to perform the phenotyping of horticultural crops such as apple trees at high throughput. In orchards specially constructed for variety testing or breeding programs, ... -
Understanding Flower Frost Tolerance in Almond (Prunus dulcis): The Role of Phenology, Cultivar and Sugars Content
(Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science, 2025-06-23)Freezing temperatures during the flower and fruitlet stages are considered one of the most limiting factors for almond cultivation. Understanding the minimum temperature that reproductive organs can ... -
The role of sandy environment in enhancing growth, cognition and reproduction in cultured Senegalese sole (Solea senegalensis) females Open Access
(Royal Society Open Science, 2026-01-28)Physical enrichment improves fish welfare and reduces negative traits in captivity. Senegalese sole (Solea senegalensis), a key species in European aquaculture, is often raised in intensive fiberglass ... -
Auxospore fine structure and development in the surirelloid diatom Campylodiscus cf. neofastuosus (Bacillariophyta)
(Journal of Phycology, 2025-09-26)The development of the auxospore is reported in the surirelloid diatom Campylodiscus cf. neofastuosus. As in most pennate diatoms, growth of the auxospore is accompanied and constrained by the formation ... -
Revisiting Chilean gorgonians (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae): taxonomic clarification and molecular phylogeny of Leptogorgia chilensis and Phycogorgia fucata
(Systematics and Biodiversity, 2025-12-15)Most biodiversity studies of eastern Pacific octocorals have focused on the tropical shallow waters from Mexico to Peru, and more recently, on those off Chile. The first description of a Chilean octocoral ... -
Metagenomic survey reveals Volzhskoe tick virus in Hyalomma ticks for the first time in western Europe, North-Eastern Spain
(One Health, 2025-12-04)Ticks are reservoirs and vectors of several emerging arboviruses, yet their associated virome remains poorly characterized. Using meta-transcriptomic sequencing, we surveyed Hyalomma marginatum and ... -
Nanoscale phycology
(Journal of Phycology, 2025-12-21)In 1980, the Sixth Symposium on Recent and Fossil Diatoms was held in Budapest, Hungary. It was the first opportunity many of us had to meet our colleagues from behind the “Iron Curtain” and an early ... -
Synaptic proteome diversity is shaped by the levels of glutamate receptors and their regulatory proteins
(Nature Communications, 2025-11-25)Synapses formed by equivalent pairs of pre- and postsynaptic neurons have similar electrophysiological characteristics, belonging to the same type. However, these are generally confined to microscopic ... -
Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes as Physical Drivers of Chromosome Instability and Inflammatory Responses
(Small Structures, 2025-12-04)Multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) are widely used in industry; however, exposure to these fiber-like structures has beenassociated with acute and chronic toxicological effects. Upon inhalation, human ... -
From genomes to hologenomes: integrating host and microbiome data for complex trait prediction in livestock and aquaculture
(Frontiers in Animal Science, 2026-01-26)Over recent decades, global livestock and aquaculture systems have significantly increased protein production, largely driven by advancements in nutrition, health management, and selective breeding ... -
Diatoms and macroinvertebrates show distinct metacommunity assembly patterns in temporary rivers
(Aquatic Sciences, 2025-12-10)Environmental and spatial filtering are key drivers of metacommunity assembly in streams. Their relative importance may depend on factors such as network connectivity or species’ dispersal abilities. ...