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    • First report of Erysiphe corylacearum causing powdery mildew on Corylus avellana in Spain 

      Mazzaglia, A.; Drais, M.I.; Turco, S.; Silvestri, C.; Cristofori, V.; Aymami, A.; Casadó, V.; Rovira, M. (New Disease Reports, 2021-09-24) Fructicultura
      In the Mediterranean basin area, powdery mildew disease on hazelnut is commonly caused by Phyllactinia guttata. The disease occurs in late summer-autumn causing limited damage or economic impact. In ...

    • Fruit abundance and trait matching determine diet type and body condition across frugivorous bird populations 

      González-Varo, Juan P.; Onrubia, Alejandro; Pérez-Méndez, Néstor; Tarifa, Rubén; Illera, Juan C. (Oikos, 2021-04-12) Cultius Extensius Sostenibles
      Research on seed‐dispersal mutualisms has been highly unbalanced towards the plants, largely overlooking the fitness effects of fruit resources on frugivorous animals. Moreover, despite morphological ...

    • Climate impact and adaptation to heat and drought stress of regional and global wheat production 

      Pequeno, Diego N.L.; Hernández-Ochoa, Ixel M.; Reynolds, Matthew; Sonder, Kai; MoleroMilan, Anabel; Robertson, Richard D.; Lopes, Marta S.; Xiong, Wei; Kropff, Martin; Asseng, Senthold (Environmental Research Letters (ERL), 2021-05-12) Cultius Extensius Sostenibles
      Wheat (Triticum aestivum) is the most widely grown food crop in the world threatened by future climate change. In this study, we simulated climate change impacts and adaptation strategies for wheat ...

    • Expression analysis of porcine miR-33a/b in liver, adipose tissue and muscle and its potential role in fatty acid metabolism 

      Criado-Mesas, Lourdes; Ballester, Maria; Crespo-Piazuelo, Daniel; Passols, Magí; Castelló, Anna; Sánchez, Armand; Folch, Josep M. (PLoS ONE, 2021-01-26) Genètica i Millora Animal
      mir-33a and mir-33b are co-transcribed with the SREBF2 and SREBF1 transcription factors, respectively. The main role of SREBF1 is the regulation of genes involved in fatty acid metabolism, while SREBF2 ...

    • Protection against reinfection with D614- or G614-SARS-CoV-2 isolates in golden Syrian hamster 

      Brustolin, Marco; Rodon, Jordi; Rodríguez de la Concepción, María Luisa; Ávila-Nieto, Carlos; Cantero, Guillermo; Pérez, Mónica; Te, Nigeer; Noguera-Julián, Marc; Guallar, Víctor; Valencia, Alfonso; Roca, Núria; Izquierdo-Useros, Nuria; Blanco, Julià; Clotet, Bonaventura; Bensaid, Albert; Carrillo, Jorge; Vergara-Alert, Júlia; Segalés, Joaquim (Emerging Microbes and Infections, 2021-04-29) Sanitat Animal
      Reinfections with SARS-CoV-2 have already been documented in humans, although its real incidence is currently unknown. Besides having a great impact on public health, this phenomenon raises the question ...

    • Research priorities to fill knowledge gaps in the control of African swine fever: possible transmission of African swine fever virus by vectors 

      European Food Safety Authority (EFSA); Nielsen, Søren Saxmose; Alvarez, Julio; Bicout, Dominique Joseph; Calistri, Paolo; Depner, Klaus; Drewe, Julian Ashley; Garin-Bastuji, Bruno; Gonzales Rojas, Jose Luis; Schmidt, Christian; Herskin, Mette; Michel, Virginie; Pasquali, Paolo; Roberts, Helen Claire; Sihvonen, Liisa Helena; Spoolder, Hans; Stahl, Karl; Velarde, Antonio; Winckler, Christoph; Blome, Sandra; Boklund, Anette; Bøtner, Anette; Dhollander, Sofie; Rapagnà, Cristina; Van der Stede, Yves; Miranda Chueca, Miguel Angel (EFSA Journal, 2021-06-21) Benestar Animal
      The European Commission requested that EFSA provide study designs for the investigation of four research domains according to major gaps in knowledge identified by EFSA in a report published in 2019: ...

    • Development, nutrition, and rearing practices of relevant catfish species (Siluriformes) at early stages 

      Gisbert, Enric; Luz, Ronald Kennedy; Fernández, Ignacio; Pradhan, Pravata K.; Salhi, Maria; Mozanzadeh, Mansour T.; Kumar, Aditya; Kotzamanis, Yannis; Castro-Ruiz, Diana; Bessonart, Martin; Darias, Maria J. (Reviews in Aquaculture, 2021-06-17) Aqüicultura
      Catfish (Siluriformes) are important species for aquaculture worldwide, with an annual production in 2018 of ca. 6 million t. This review focuses on reassessing larval development, first feeding, and ...

    • Several geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase isoforms supply metabolic substrates for carotenoid biosynthesis in tomato 

      Barja, M. Victoria; Ezquerro, Miguel; Beretta, Stefano; Diretto, Gianfranco; Florez-Sarasa, Igor; Feixes, Elisenda; Fiore, Alessia; Karlova, Rumyana; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Beekwilder, Jules; Rodríguez-Concepción, Manuel (New Phytologist, 2021-02-16) Genòmica i Biotecnologia
      Geranylgeranyl diphosphate (GGPP) produced by GGPP synthase (GGPPS) serves as a precursor for many plastidial isoprenoids, including carotenoids. Phytoene synthase (PSY) converts GGPP into phytoene, the ...

    • A domestication-associated gene, CsLH, encodes a phytochrome B protein that regulates hypocotyl elongation in cucumber 

      Liu, Bin; Weng, Jinyang; Guan, Dailu; Zhang, Yan; Niu, Qingliang; López-Juez, Enrique; Lai, Yungsong; Garcia-Mas, Jordi; Huang, Danfeng (Molecular Horticulture, 2021-06-16) Genòmica i Biotecnologia
      Plant height is an important agronomic trait; tall plants are prone to collapse (lodging) and are unsuitable for high-density planting (Li et al., 2020). During the Green Revolution, a multitude of genes ...

    • Identification of Plitidepsin as Potent Inhibitor of SARS-CoV-2-Induced Cytopathic Effect After a Drug Repurposing Screen 

      Rodon, Jordi; Muñoz-Basagoit, Jordana; Perez-Zsolt, Daniel; Noguera-Julian, Marc; Paredes, Roger; Mateu, Lourdes; Quiñones, Carles; Perez, Carles; Erkizia, Itziar; Blanco, Ignacio; Valencia, Alfonso; Guallar, Víctor; Carrillo, Jorge; Blanco, Julià; Segalés, Joaquim; Clotet, Bonaventura; Vergara-Alert, Júlia; Izquierdo-Useros, Nuria (Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021-03-25) Sanitat Animal
      There is an urgent need to identify therapeutics for the treatment of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Although different antivirals are given for the clinical management of SARS-CoV-2 infection, ...

    • Scientific Opinion on the assessment of the control measures for category A diseases of Animal Health Law: Foot and Mouth Disease 

      EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW); Nielsen, Søren Saxmose; Alvarez, Julio; Bicout, Dominique Joseph; Calistri, Paolo; Canali, Elisabetta; Drewe, Julian Ashley; Garin-Bastuji, Bruno; Gonzales Rojas, José Luis; Gortázar Schmidt, Christian; Herskin, Mette; Michel, Virginie; Miranda Chueca, Miguel Ángel; Padalino, Barbara; Pasquali, Paolo; Sihvonen, Liisa Helena; Spoolder, Hans; Ståhl, Karl; Velarde, Antonio; Viltrop, Arvo; Winckler, Christoph; De Clercq, Kris; Gubbins, Simon; Klement, Eyal; Stegeman, Jan Arend; Antoniou, Sotiria-Eleni; Aznar, Inma; Broglia, Alessandro; Papanikolaou, Alexandra; Van der Stede, Yves; Zancanaro, Gabriele; Roberts, Helen Clare (EFSA Journal, 2021-06-08) Benestar Animal
      EFSA received a mandate from the European Commission to assess the effectiveness of some of the control measures against diseases included in the Category A list according to Regulation (EU) 2016/429 ...

    • Increasing breast milk betaine modulates Akkermansia abundance in mammalian neonates and improves long-term metabolic health 

      Ribo, Silvia; Sánchez-Infantes, David; Martinez-Guino, Laura; García-Mantrana, Izaskun; Ramon-Krauel, Marta; Tondo, Mireia; Arning, Erland; Nofrarías, Miquel; Osorio-Conles, Óscar; Fernández-Pérez, Antonio; González-Torres, Pedro; Cebrià, Judith; Gavaldà-Navarro, Aleix; Chenoll, Empar; Isganaitis, Elvira; Villarroya, Francesc; Vallejo, Mario; Segalés, Joaquim; Jiménez-Chillarón, Josep C.; Bottiglieri, Teodoro; Demerath, Ellen W.; Fields, David A.; Collado, María Carmen; Lerin, Carles (Science Translational Medicine, 2021-03-31) Sanitat Animal
      Accelerated postnatal growth is a potentially modifiable risk factor for future obesity. To study how specific breast milk components contribute to early growth and obesity risk, we quantified one-carbon ...

    • Inheritance of spheroid body and plastid in the raphid diatom Epithemia (Bacillariophyta) during sexual reproduction 

      Kamakura, Shiho; Mann, David G.; Nakamura, Noriaki; Sato, Shinya (Phycologia, 2021-04-21) Aigües Marines i Continentals
      Diatoms belonging to the family Epithemiaceae have endosymbiont ‘spheroid bodies’, which have received attention as a model to provide new insights into the early stages of organelle evolution. Uniparental ...

    • Parasitic copepods Caligus lacustris (Copepoda: Caligidae) on the rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss in cage aquaculture: morphology, population demography, and first insights into phylogenetic relationships 

      Parshukov, Aleksey; Vlasenko, Pavel; Simonov, Evgeniy; Ieshko, Evgeny; Burdukovskaya, Tatyana; Anikieva, Larisa; Kashinskaya, Elena; Andree, Karl B.; Solovyev, Mikhail (Parasitology Research, 2021-06-17) Aqüicultura
      Herein, data on rainbow trout infections with the copepod Caligus lacustris in cage aquaculture on Lake Ladoga is presented. Caligus lacustris (n = 127 ex.) were collected from a farm in Lake Ladoga ...

    • Phospholipids improve the performance, physiological, antioxidative responses and, lpl and igf1 gene expressions in juvenile stellate sturgeon (Acipenser stellatus) 

      Jafari, Fatemeh; Noori, Farzaneh; Agh, Naser; Estevez, Alicia; Ghasemi, Ahmad; Alcaraz, Carles; Gisbert, Enric (Aquaculture, 2021-04-21) Aigües Marines i Continentals; Aqüicultura
      The effects of dietary phospholipids (PL) on the performance of juvenile stellate sturgeon (Acipenser stellatus) was evaluated in terms of growth and feed efficiency parameters, muscle and liver fatty ...

    • Neoplastic lesions in domestic pigs detected at slaughter: literature review and a 20-year review (1998–2018) of carcass inspection in Catalonia 

      Morey-Matamalas, Antonia; Vidal, Enric; Martínez, Jorge; Alomar, Jaume; Ramis, Antonio; Marco, Alberto; Domingo, Mariano; Segalés, Joaquim (Porcine Health Management, 2021-04-07) Sanitat Animal
      Background: The present paper reviews the occurrence of neoplasms in swine and presents a case series of 56 tumors submitted to the Slaughterhouse Support Network (Servei de Suport a Escorxadors [SESC] ...

    • Exploratory field study on the effects of porcine circovirus 2 (PCV-2) sow vaccination at different physiological stages mimicking blanket vaccination 

      Pleguezuelos, Patricia; Sibila, Marina; Cuadrado, Raúl; López-Jiménez, Rosa; Pérez, Diego; Huerta, Eva; Llorens, Anna M.; Núñez, José Ignacio; Segalés, Joaquim; López-Soria, Sergio (Porcine Health Management, 2021-04-26) Sanitat Animal
      Background: The objective of the present study was to explore the benefits of Porcine circovirus 2 (PCV-2) blanket vaccination in a sow herd on productive parameters, PCV-2 infection and immune status ...

    • Advances in Hazelnut (Corylus avellana L.) Rootstocks Worldwide 

      Rovira, Mercè (Horticulturae, 2021-08-26) Fructicultura
      Studies on hazelnut (Corylus avellana L.) rootstocks have been limited to date. However, the use of vigorous, non-suckering rootstocks for this species could increase the cost-effectiveness of orchards ...

    • Varietal authentication of virgin olive oil: Proving the efficiency of sesquiterpene fingerprinting for Mediterranean Arbequina oils 

      Torres-Cobos, Berta; Quintanilla-Casas, Beatriz; Romero, Agustí; Ninot, Antonia; Alonso-Salces, Rosa M.; Gallina-Toschi, Tullia; Bendini, Alessandra; Guardiola, Francesc; Tres, Alba; Vichi, Stefania (Food Control, 2021-04-28) Fructicultura
      Virgin olive oil (VOO) is a highly appreciated product fundamental in the Mediterranean diet. Since its sensory attributes are greatly influenced by the olive cultivar, the varietal authentication of ...

    • Effect of processing smoked salmon on contaminant contents 

      Cunha, Sara C.; Siminel, D.; Guàrdia, Maria Dolors; de Alda, Miren López; López-Garcia, Ester; Muñoz, Israel; Ferreira, R.; Eljarrat, Ethel; Fernandes, José O. (Food and Chemical Toxicology, 2021-05-17) Qualitat i Tecnologia Alimentària
      The influence of the type of smoking process (natural/liquid; hot/cold) and salt (NaCl or KCl) on the levels of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in ...