Physiological, biochemical and genetic bases of amaranth (Amaranthus L.) breeding for food and feed purposes (a review) by A. B. Shcherban

“…Of particular value is grain oil saturated with various lipid compounds: squalene, vitamin E, phytosterols, and fatty acids. …”
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Study on genetics of yield component traits under salt stress in two rice crosses raised using honeycomb selection design by C. Yoglakshmi, Rajan Isha Pearl, V. Vengadessan, J. Karthick and S. Thirumeni*

“…Yield components related to grain yield were severely affected by salinity. For the agronomically important traits, precise phenotyping of crop plants is essential under stress where soil heterogeneity is aggravated for genetic analysis and developing improved crop varieties. …”
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Enhanced Image Retrieval Using Multiscale Deep Feature Fusion in Supervised Hashing by Amina Belalia, Kamel Belloulata, Adil Redaoui

“…By leveraging multiscale features from multiple convolutional layers, MDFF-SH ensures the preservation of fine-grained image details while maintaining global semantic integrity, achieving a harmonious balance that enhances retrieval precision and recall. …”
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Microbially Induced Calcium Carbonate Plugging for Enhanced Oil Recovery by Chenpeng Song, Derek Elsworth

“…We fabricate artificial rock cores composed of Ottawa sand with three separate grain-size fractions which represent large (40/60 mesh sand), intermediate (60/80 mesh sand), and small (80/120 mesh sand) pore sizes. …”
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LPG gas sensing performance of the SnO2 thin films influenced by the dielectric and conducting properties by Amit Tanwar, Rashmi Menon, Maya Verma, Sandeep Mahajan, Divya Haridas

“…The decreased conductivity indicates a high concentration of adsorbed oxygen on the surface and grain boundaries, which traps free electrons and lowers the number of charge carriers. …”
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Unified Failure Strength Criterion for Terrace Slope Reinforcement Materials by Xuan Fang, Jie Yang, Jia-Ming Na, Zhen-Yuan Gu

“…When the confining pressure exceeds 1200 kPa, the rate of increase of the strength for LCSG material and other cemented grained materials declines generally. The material strength displays a linear increase with the growth of the cement content. …”
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Influence of permafrost microorganisms on morphophysiological indicators of spring wheat by A. M. Subbotin, M. V. Narushko, N. A. Bome, S. A. Petrov, V. A. Malchevskiy, M. A. Gabdullin

“…Biologically active compounds on the basis of highly efficient strains of bacteria of the genus Bacillus are currently being sought for to increase the yield of grain crops in the North. There is a number of biological products available, including those based on bacteria in the genus Bacillus (Phytosporin-M, Bactofit, Gamair, Integral, and other). …”
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Formation Mechanism of “Large-Area Sweating” Water Seepage from Deep Mine Sandstone Pores by Yanzhi Li, Weiguo Qiao, Yue Wu, Xungang Li, Shuai Zhang, Xiaoli Zhang

“…Taking the deep mine sandstone in the southwest Shandong coal field, where “large-area sweating” seepage occurs, as the study object, this study examined the pore structure, petrological characteristics, physical properties, and grain sizes of the sandstone by analyzing experimental data from thin sections and scanning electron microscopy samples. …”
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Potato protease inhibitors, a functional food material with antioxidant and anticancer potential by Yaotong Liu, Yuanyuan Bian, Yan Bai, Siqi Yu, Yuxuan Tian, Jie Li, Suhong Li, Tuoping Li

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Testcross performance of Striga-resistant maize inbred lines and testers with varying levels of Striga reaction by Degife Zebire, Abebe Menkir, Victor Adetimirin, Wende Mengesha, Meseka Silvestro, Melaku Gedil

“…Results There were significant differences among test crosses for days to silking, days to pollen shedding, ear at harvest, ear aspect, ear per plant, grain yield, Striga damage rating at 8 and 10 weeks after planting (WAP), and Striga count at 8 and 10 WAP. …”
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Annealing-Induced Modifications in Physicochemical and Optoelectronic Properties of Ag-Doped Nanostructured CdS Thin Films by Vidya S. Taur, Rajesh A. Joshi, Ramphal Sharma

“…Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images represent grain growth and agglomeration upon annealing. Red shift in optical absorbance strength and energy band gap values from 2.28 to 2.14 eV is obtained. …”
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Rapid Identification of Saline–Alkali Stress-Tolerant Peanut Varieties Based on Multimodal Data by Fan Zhang, Longgang Zhao, Tingting Guo, Ziyang Wang, Peng Lou, Juan Li

“…The cultivation of saline–alkali-tolerant peanut (<i>Arachis hypogaea</i> L.) varieties can effectively increase grain yield in saline–alkali land. However, traditional assessment methods are often cumbersome and time consuming. …”
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A Blockchain-Based Trustworthy Access Control Scheme for Medical Data Sharing by Canling Wang, Wei Wu, Fulong Chen, Hong Shu, Ji Zhang, Yuxuan Zhang, Taochun Wang, Dong Xie, Chuanxin Zhao

“…For the purpose to achieve the fine-grained permissions propagation control of medical data in sharing institutions, a trust-based authorization access control mechanism is suggested in this study. …”
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Utilization of Black Cotton Soil Stabilized with Brick Dust-Lime for Pavement Road Construction: An Experimental and Numerical Approach by Damtew Melese, Belete Aymelo, Tewodros Weldesenbet, Alemineh Sorsa

“…These tests were natural moisture content, grain size distribution, X-ray diffraction test, Atterberg limit test, modified compaction, California bearing ratio, and triaxial test. …”
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OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING THE HARMFUL ENTOMOFAUNA FROM WINTER RAPESEED CROPS IN THE CONDITIONS OF CENTRAL OF MOLDAVA, BETWEEN YEARS 2014-2017 by PAULA -LUCELIA URSACHE, ELENA TROTUS, ALEXANDRA -ANDREEA BUBURUZ

“…Of these, 11 species are specific to winter rapeseed crops and 11 species were accidental identified because of the proximity with different agricultural crops (maize. sunflower. grain cereals). The highest abundance was registered by Epicometis hirta Poda species which accounted 914 specimens collected during the analyzed period. …”
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Geoelectric Evaluation of Groundwater Potential: A Case Study of Sabongida-Ora and Environs, Southern Nigeria by FI Chinyem

“…The results showed seven to eight geoeletrical layers with resistivity values ranging from 127Ωm to 767Ωm, 47Ωm to 672Ωm, 70Ωm to 1380Ωm, 4Ωm to 428Ωm and 21Ωm to 400Ωm for the first to eight layers respectively with lithologies consisting of clay, clayey sand and coarse grained sand as indicating in the computed model parameters and geoeletrical section. …”
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Effects of Puddling Types and Rice Establishment Methods on Soil Characteristics and Productivity of Rice in Southern China by Evans Asenso, Zhimin Wang, Tian Kai, Jiuhao Li, Lian Hu

“…The maximum microbial population was found in PD. Rice grain yield showed a higher productivity increase of 7.65 t·ha−2 (31.25%) and 3.93 t·ha−2 (13.91%) for 1H and 2H (1H: 1st harvest and 2H: 2nd harvest), respectively, in PD compared with the lowest of 5.76 t·ha−1 and 3.45 t·ha−1 in 1H and 2H, respectively, under RT. …”
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Adoption and Impact of the Maize Hybrid on the Livelihood of the Maize Growers: Some Policy Insights from Pakistan by Akhter Ali, AbduRahman Beshir Issa, Dil Bahadur Rahut

“…The results from PSM revealed that hybrid maize adopters had higher grain yields in the range of 94–124 kgs per hectare as compared with nonadopters. …”
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Zein patterns as effective markers of valuable agronomic traits in maize by V. V. Sidorova, A. V. Konarev, Yu. A. Kerv

“…On the examples of such agronomic traits as early maturity, explosiveness, and waxiness of maize grain, the possibility of controlling the “inclusion” of these traits in the breeding material with the help of zein markers has been demonstrated. …”
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Scientific support to plant breeding and seed production in Siberia in the XXI century by N. P. Goncharov

“…The agricultural area used in the SFD is about 50 million hectares and accounts for 13 % of the country’s gross grain production. The need for the introduction of modern molecular biological methods, bioengineering and IT technology is demonstrated and discussed. …”
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