Agroecology scholarship spans governance scales and nations, the urban and the rural, and is best understood through the lens of the food system , weaving together production and other system elements . The agroecological food system paradigm is framed by some scholar-activists as standing in direct contrast to the dominant industrial paradigm and the Law…

Tropical soils are high in irons and minerals that have the ability to bind P, preventing leaching, and release it under certain conditions . Recent research has questioned how much of this sequestered P may be available to plants or microbes, or even regulated by large scale ecosystem changes in redox capacity liberating P from mineral…

Due to their strong soil sorption capacity, molecular stability, and hydrophobicity, PAHs interact with nonpolar soil domains such as organic matter and become highly resistant to soil microbial degradation that is the primary removal pathway in contaminated soils . Several  bio-remediation-enhancement technologies have been applied to increase PAH bio-availability and/or soil microbial abundance and activity…

Clade A Type 2C Protein phosphatases are highly conserved negative regulators of the drought signaling pathway in plants . RNAi targeting of Clade A Type 2C Protein Phosphatase homologues in A. thaliana and B. napus started in our lab by Dianne Pater using the Brassica Database . The region targeted by the RNAi is a…

In the GHA, however, the extent of post-drought recovery is unclear. Recent studies suggest drying over GHA may have continued into the 2000s , but the cause of this potential drying and decoupling of precipitation trends in the GHA from those of the Sahel remains unexplored. Previous studies have identified a variety of drivers of…

Through both the CRISPR/Cas may provide a powerful tool for development of HLB resistant citrus vsarieties. The most wide-used applications of CRISPR utilize stable integration of Cas9/sgRNA genes into host plant genomes and subsequently their expression in plant cells produces targeted mutations. For sexually-propagated annual crop plants, the Cas9/sgRNA transgenes can be eliminated from plant genomes…

A great majority of the citrus growers with their orchards located above 1000 meters had inter-cropped citrus with large cardamom . Although, steady progress has been made in terms of infrastructure development to sustain citrus industry in Bhutan, much remains to do in terms of enhancing human capacity of stakeholders with respect to HLB at…

Statistical analysis of quantification data on three or more replicates is advised. Users need to determine how to apply statistical analysis on the data using a separate tool. Benjamini-Hochberg multiple hypothesis test has been used to determine significant regulated PTM peptide groups in 15N metabolic labeled samples . A standardized statistic pipeline for protein quantification is still lacking, particularly…

The ‘processual’ type gardens that I identified as characterizing a number of University Gardens—and to a lesser extent some of the ‘representational’ gardens—fall under this umbrella. Each attempted to build significance around fluid concepts of ecology and process, ideas which are by no means new, but are yet to establish agreed safety lines of communication…

In particular, protein folding is known to occur on the order of microseconds to seconds , while atomistic protein simulation is generally limited to hundreds of nanoseconds due to limited computing resources.The length-scale of atomistic protein simulations is also computationally restricted, allowing only one rCMG2-Fc dimer to be simulated. Despite these limitations, this work shows MD…