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Fat Duckweed (Lemna gibba) might be much more widespread in Hertfordshire than previously thought
Mashanova, Alla; Espinosa Montiel, Javier; Barrero Sicilia, Cristina (2022-11-01) -
Final Report of Ceres Funding Project 1C1P1
Liu, Bo; Hall, Avice; Wileman, H J (University of Hertfordshire, 2021-07-23)In 2019 the final on-farm validation of the UH prediction system (funded by Ceres, in collaboration with Agri-tech Services) took place on eight participating sites (from six farms) in England and Scotland. The aim of the ... -
Food and the garden city: : Learning from historic experience and influencing contemporary planning practice
Parham, Susan (2021-05-30)The theme of food is central to Ebenezer Howard’s garden city model and today has wider resonances for sustainable placemaking in the context of the climate emergency. This exploration of food and the garden city uses ... -
Food and Welwyn Garden City: prescribing a sociable future?
Parham, Susan (2020-08-08)In 2020 we celebrate the centenary year of the development of Welwyn Garden City. In the light of increasingly urgent food issues globally, this article explores how connections to food have played out in Welwyn Garden ... -
Food Systems Transformation: What's in the Policy Toolbox?
Parsons, Kelly; Barling, David (UKRI Transforming UK Food Systems SPF, 2021-10-15)This report for the ‘Transforming UK Food Systems Programme’ presents an overarching map of policy levers, a simplified categorisation of types of policy lever, and analysis of policy lever interactions, offering a common ... -
Forest School
Harris, Frances (2022-10-06)This review aims to summarise existing research on the forest-based pedagogical approach known as forest school, as developed in the UK. Modelled on the nature kindergartens of northern Europe, forest school is popular in ... -
Freeing Aspergillus fumigatus of Polymycovirus Infection Renders It More Resistant to Competition with Pseudomonas aeruginosa Due to Altered Iron-Acquiring Tactics
Patil, Rutuja H.; Kotta-Loizou, Ioly; Palyzová, Andrea; Pluháček, Tomáš; Coutts, Robert H. A.; Stevens, David A.; Havlíček, Vladimír (2021-06-22)A virus-free (VF) A. fumigatus isolate has been shown to be resistant in competition with Pseudomonas as compared to the isogenic line infected with Aspergillus fumigatus polymycovirus 1 (AfuPmV-1), and this phenotype was ... -
Fungal diversity and metabolomic profiles in GM and isogenic non-GM maize cultivars from Brazil
Marcon Gasperini, Alessandra; Garcia-Cela, Esther; Sulyok, Michael; Medina, A.; Magan, Naresh (2021-02-01)There is little knowledge of the microbial diversity, mycotoxins and associated secondary metabolites in GM maize and isogenic non-GM cultivars (cvs). This study has quantified the microbial populations and dominant fungal ... -
Gaining insight into food, diet practices and nutrition during the early year’s lifespan: Preconception and pregnancy
Whiting, Lisa; Fallaize, Rosalind; McClinchy, Jane; Parsons, Kelly; Fanner, Michael (University of Hertfordshire, 2023-01-17) -
La Garden City, un précedent au service de l'enseignement du projet architectural : Entre théorie et expérimentations
Parham, Susan; Hardy, Matthew; Sadoux, Stéphane; Dubus, Nicolas (Parenthèses, 2022-06-20)The chapter explores how knowledge and understanding of the garden city model and practice expressed in Letchworth and Welwyn Garden Cities can be a foundation for teaching about garden cities within architecture and ... -
Genetic differentiation between and within strains of the saw-toothed grain beetle, Oryzaephilus surinamensis (Coleoptera Silvanidae) at RAPD loci
Brown, R. J.; Malcolm, Colin; Mason, P. L.; Nichols, R. A. (1997-08)Nine strains of Oryzaephilus surinamensis have been kept in laboratory culture for periods ranging from 5 to 30 years (30-180 generations). Two RAPD primers provided sufficient information to separate the strains reliably ... -
Genome expansion of Arabis alpina linked with retrotransposition and reduced symmetric DNA methylation
Willing, Eva Maria; Rawat, Vimal; Mandáková, Terezie; Maumus, Florian; James, Geo Velikkakam; Nordström, Karl J.V.; Becker, Claude; Warthmann, Norman; Chica, Claudia; Szarzynska, Bogna; Zytnicki, Matthias; Albani, Maria C.; Kiefer, Christiane; Bergonzi, Sara; Castaings, Loren; Mateos, Julieta L.; Berns, Markus C.; Bujdoso, Nora; Piofczyk, Thomas; De Lorenzo, Laura; Barrero-Sicilia, Cristina; Mateos, Isabel; Piednoël, Mathieu; Hagmann, Jörg; Chen-Min-Tao, Romy; Iglesias-Fernández, Raquel; Schuster, Stephan C.; Alonso-Blanco, Carlos; Roudier, François; Carbonero, Pilar; Paz-Ares, Javier; Davis, Seth J.; Pecinka, Ales; Quesneville, Hadi; Colot, Vincent; Lysak, Martin A.; Weigel, Detlef; Coupland, George; Schneeberger, Korbinian (2015-02-02)Despite evolutionary conserved mechanisms to silence transposable element activity, there are drastic differences in the abundance of transposable elements even among closely related plant species. We conducted a de novo ... -
Genomic evidence for genes encoding leucine-rich repeat receptors linked to resistance against the eukaryotic extra- and intracellular Brassica napus pathogens Leptosphaeria maculans and Plasmodiophora brassicae
Stotz, Henrik; Pascoe, Harvey; Parham, Haddadi; Fitt, Bruce; Mashanova, Alla; Kukol, Andreas; Larkan, Nicholas; Hossein, Borhan (2018-06-01)Genes coding for nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (LRR) receptors (NLRs) control resistance against intracellular (cell-penetrating) pathogens. However, evidence for a role of genes coding for proteins with LRR domains ... -
Getting there: learning from engagement practice on convivial urbanism to develop productive urban landscapes
Parham, Susan; Edwards, Ferne; Mandersheid, Maximillian (2022-07-11)In this paper presented to the International Association of Landscape Ecology conference in Warsaw (July 2022) we reflect on peri-urban food focused initiatives broadly framed around sustainable, convivial urbanism, which ... -
A global compilation of diatom silica oxygen isotope records from lake sediment – trends and implications for climate reconstruction
Meister, P.; Alexandre, A.; Bailey, H.; Barker, P.; Biskaborn, B. K.; Broadman, E.; Cartier, R.; Chapligin, B.; Couapel, M.; Dean, J. R.; Diekmann, B.; Harding, P.; Henderson, A. C. G.; Hernandez, A.; Herzschuh, U.; Kostrova, S. S.; Lacey, J.; Leng, M. J.; Lücke, A.; Mackay, A. W.; Magyari, E. K.; Narancic, B.; Porchier, C.; Rosqvist, G.; Shemesh, A.; Sonzogni, C.; Swann, G. E. A.; Sylvestre, F.; Meyer, H. (2024-02-26)Oxygen isotopes in biogenic silica (δ 18OBSi) from lake sediments allow for quantitative reconstruction of past hydroclimate and proxy-model comparison in terrestrial environments. The signals of individual records have ... -
Global patterns in genomic diversity underpinning the evolution of insecticide resistance in the aphid crop pest Myzus persicae
Singh, Kumar Saurabh; Cordeiro, Erick M. G.; Troczka, Bartlomiej J.; Pym, Adam; Mackisack, Joanna; Mathers, Thomas C.; Duarte, Ana; Legeai, Fabrice; Robin, Stéphanie; Bielza, Pablo; Burrack, Hannah J.; Charaabi, Kamel; Denholm, Ian; Figueroa, Christian C.; ffrench-Constant, Richard H.; Jander, Georg; Margaritopoulos, John T.; Mazzoni, Emanuele; Nauen, Ralf; Ramírez, Claudio C.; Ren, Guangwei; Stepanyan, Ilona; Umina, Paul A.; Voronova, Nina V.; Vontas, John; Williamson, Martin S.; Wilson, Alex C. C.; Xi-Wu, Gao; Youn, Young-Nam; Zimmer, Christoph T.; Simon, Jean-Christophe; Hayward, Alex; Bass, Chris (2021-07-07)Abstract: The aphid Myzus persicae is a destructive agricultural pest that displays an exceptional ability to develop resistance to both natural and synthetic insecticides. To investigate the evolution of resistance in ... -
Growth Kinetic Parameters and Prediction of Growth and Zearalenone and Deoxynivalenol Production Boundaries by Three Fusarium asiaticum Strains Isolated from Wheat
Garcia-Cela, Esther; Verheecke-Vaessen, Carol; Ósk-Jónsdóttir, Inga; Lawson, Rita; Magan, Naresh (2022-10-25)Fusarium species can cause head blight of cereals worldwide. This is accompanied by impacts on yield and contamination of grains with mycotoxins. Regulations, with maximum limits, exist for the relevant Fusarium mycotoxins ... -
Heart Rate Recovery Assessed by Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease: Relationship with Prognosis
Dewar, Amy; Kass, Lindsy; Stephens, Robert C. M.; Tetlow, Nicholas; Desai, Terun (2023-03-07)Background: The use of exercise testing has expanded in recent decades and there is a wealth of information examining the prognostic significance of exercise variables, such as peak oxygen consumption or ventilatory measures ... -
Heterogeneity of cell membrane structure studied by single molecule tracking
Mashanov, Gregory; Nenasheva, Tatiana; Mashanova, Alla; Lape, Remigijus; Birdsall, Nigel; Sivilotti, Lucia; Molloy, Justin (2021-12-01)Heterogeneity in cell membrane structure, typified by microdomains with different biophysical and biochemical properties, is thought to impact on a variety of cell functions. Integral membrane proteins act as nanometre-sized ... -
Hexapeptides from mammalian inhibitory hormone hunt activate and inactivate nematode reproduction
Hart, John E.; Mohan, Sharad; Davies, Keith G.; Ferneyhough, Ben; Clarke, Iain J.; Hunt, John A.; Shnyder, Steve D.; Mundy, Christopher R.; Howlett, David R.; Newton, Russell P. (2022-12-01)Background: Biopurification has been used to disclose an evolutionarily conserved inhibitory reproductive hormone involved in tissue mass determination. A (rat) bioassay-guided physicochemical fractionation using ovine ...