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Agricultural greenhouse gas emissions reduced by agri-environment schemes on improved grassland and grazed by intensive beef cattle
Warner, Douglas; Green, Andrew; Tzilivakis, John; Lewis, Kathleen (2012)The alteration of land use and management practices under agri-environment schemes may impact agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. Scheme agreements require modifications to, for example, the location of livestock during ... -
Arable crop disease control, climate change and food security
Fitt, Bruce D.L.; Evans, Neal; Gladders, P.; Hughes, David; Jeger, M.J.; Turner, J.A.; West, Jon S. (Association of Applied Biologists, 2011)Global food security is threatened by crop diseases that account for average yield losses of 16%. Climate change is exacerbating threats to food security in much of the world, emphasising the need to increase food production ... -
Are organic slug pellets really safe?
Lewis, Kathleen (2012)Scientific support to the article given -
Bayesian estimation of the true prevalence of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis infection in Cypriot dairy sheep and goat flocks
Liapi, M.; Leontides, L.; Kostoulas, P.; Botsaris, G.; Iacovou, Y.; Rees, C.; Georgiou, K.; Smith, G.C.; Naseby, D.C. (2011)We estimated the prevalence of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) infected sheep and goats, older than 2 years, reared in the region effectively controlled by the Government of the Republic of Cyprus, in ... -
Bio-Pesticides DataBase (BPDB)
Health & Human Sciences Research Institute; School of Life and Medical Sciences; Department of Human and Environmental Sciences; Geography, Environment and Agriculture; Agriculture and Environment Research Unit; Agriculture, Food and Veterinary Sciences; Agriculture; Lewis, Kathleen; Tzilivakis, John; Green, Andrew; Warner, Douglas (University of Hertfordshire, 2011) -
Bureaucratic control of irrigation and labour in late-imperial China: the uses of administrative cartography in the Miju catchment, Yunnan. : Mapping the Miju River
Crook, Darren; Elvin, Mark (2013-12)The sequence of twelve woodblock maps presented here from the mid-nineteenth-century gazetteer for the department of Dengchuan in southwest China shows the Miju river and the irrigation system that lay at the heart of its ... -
Carbon accounting tools : Are they fit for purpose in the context of arable farming?
Lewis, Kathleen; Green, Andrew; Warner, Douglas; Tzilivakis, John (2013)The agricultural sector contributes 9% towards total UK greenhouse gas emissions and so may offer significant potential as a sector to help meet national and international emission reduction targets. In order to help farmers ... -
Climate change increases risk of fusarium ear blight on wheat in central China
Zhang, Xu; Halder, Julia; White, Rodger P.; Hughes, David; Ye, Z.; Wang, Changgui; Xu, R.; Gan, B.; Fitt, Bruce D.L. (2014-04-11)To estimate potential impact of climate change on wheat fusarium ear blight, simulated weather for the A1B climate change scenario was imported into a model for estimating fusarium ear blight in central China. In this work, ... -
Comparative biology of different plant pathogens to estimate effects of climate change on crop diseases in Europe
West, Jon S.; Townsend, J.A.; Stevens, M.; Fitt, Bruce D.L. (2012-05)This review describes environmental factors that influence severity of crop disease epidemics, especially in the UK and north-west Europe, in order to assess the effects of climate change on crop growth and yield and ... -
A comparision of GHG emissions from UK field crop production under selected arable systems with reference to disease control
Carlton, Robert R.; West, Jon S.; Smith, Pete; Fitt, Bruce D.L. (2012)Crop disease not only threatens global food security by reducing crop production at a time of growing demand, but also contributes to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by reducing efficiency of N fertiliser use and farm ... -
A comparison of carbon accounting tools and an evaluation of their potential for greenhouse gas mitigation
Green, Andrew; Warner, Douglas; Tzilivakis, John; Lewis, Kathleen (2013-10)This paper presents the findings of a study that compared a number of carbon accounting tools suitable for European farm businesses, including CALM, IMPACCT, CPlan, COOL and others promoted by retailers, the aim being to ... -
Conservation and divergence of autonomous pathway genes in the flowering regulatory network of Beta vulgaris
Abou-Elwafa, Salah F.; Buettner, Bianca; Chia, Tansy; Schulze-Buxloh, Gretel; Hohmann, Uwe; Mutasa-Gottgens, Euphemia; Jung, Christian; Mueller, Andreas E. (2011-06)The transition from vegetative growth to reproductive development is a complex process that requires an integrated response to multiple environmental cues and endogenous signals. In Arabidopsis thaliana, which has a ... -
Co‐inoculation timing affects the interspecific interactions between phoma stem canker pathogens Leptosphaeria maculans and Leptosphaeria biglobosa
Bingol, Evren; Qi, Aiming; Karandeni‐Dewage, Chinthani; Ritchie, Faye; Fitt, Bruce D. L.; Huang, Yong‐Ju (2023-11-11)BACKGROUND: Phoma stem canker is an economically important disease of oilseed rape, caused by two co‐existing fungal pathogen species, Leptosphaeria maculans (Plenodomus lingam) and Leptosphaeria biglobosa (Plenodomus ... -
Cuticle Surface Coat of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes
Davies, Keith G.; Curtis, Rosane H. C. (ANNUAL REVIEWS, 2011)The surface coat (SC) of the plant-parasitic nematode cuticle is an understudied area of current research, even though it likely plays key roles in both nematode-plant and nematode-microbe interactions. Although in several ... -
Dynamics of Food Value Chains: Resilience, Fairness and Sustainability
Barling, David; Samoggia, Antonella; Olafsdottir, Gudrun (2022-05-18) -
The effects of different ages and dosages on the plasma disposition and hair concentration profile of ivermectin following pour-on administration in goats
Gokbulut, C.; Cirak, V. Y.; Senlik, B.; Aksit, D.; McKellar, Quintin (2011)The effects of different ages and dosages on the plasma disposition and hair degradation of ivermectin (IVM) were investigated following pour-on administration in goats. Twenty-eight female Saanen goats allocated into two ... -
Effects of disease control by fungicides on greenhouse gas emissions by UK arable crop production
Hughes, David J.; West, Jon S.; Atkins, Simon D.; Gladders, Peter; Jeger, Michael J.; Fitt, Bruce D.L. (2011-09)Background: The UK government has published plans to reduce UK agriculture's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. At the same time, the goal of global food security requires an increase in arable crop yields. Foliar disease ... -
Effects of fungicide on growth of Leptosphaeria maculans and L. biglobosa in relation to development of phoma stem canker on oilseed rape (Brassica napus)
Huang, Y. J.; Hood, J. R.; Eckert, M. R.; Stonard, J. F.; Cools, H. J.; King, G. J.; Rossall, S.; Ashworth, M.; Fitt, Bruce D.L. (2011-08)Controlled-environment and field experiments were done to investigate effects of the fungicide Punch C (flusilazole plus carbendazim) on growth of Leptosphaeria maculans and L. biglobosa in oilseed rape. In controlled-environment ... -
Effects of R gene-mediated resistance in Brassica napus (oilseed rape) on asexual and sexual sporulation of Pyrenopeziza brassicae (light leaf spot)
Boys, Emily F.; Roques, Susan; West, Jon S.; Werner, C. Peter; King, G. J.; Dyer, Paul S.; Fitt, Bruce D.L. (2012-05-09)The phenotype of the R gene-mediated resistance derived from oilseed rape (Brassica napus) cv. Imola against the light leaf spot plant pathogen, Pyrenopeziza brassicae, was caracterized. Using a doubled haploid B. napus ...