Effect of a Bowman-Birk proteinase inhibitor from Phaseolus coccineus on Hypothenemus hampei gut proteinases in vitro     

de Azevedo Pereira R  Valencia-Jiménez A  Magalhães CP  Prates MV  Melo JA  de Lima LM  de Sales MP  Tempel Nakasu EY  da Silva MC  Grossi-de-Sá MF 《Journal of agricultural and food chemistry》2007,55(26):10714-10719

The coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari), is an important devastating coffee pest worldwide. Both trypsin and chymotrypsin enzyme activities from H. hampei larval midgut can be inactivated by proteinaceous enzyme-inhibitors. A serine proteinase inhibitor belonging to the Bowman-Birk class was purified from a wild accession of Phaseolus coccineus L. seeds. The inhibitor (PcBBI1) is a cysteine-rich protein that is heat-stable at alkaline pH. MALDI-TOF/MS analysis showed that PcBBI1 occurs in seeds as a monomer (8689 Da) or dimer (17,378 Da). Using in vitro inhibition assays, it was found that PcBBI1 has a high inhibitory activity against H. hampei trypsin-like enzymes, bovine pancreatic chymotrypsin, and trypsin. According to this, PcBBI1 could be a promising tool to make genetically modified coffee with resistance to coffee berry borer.  相似文献   

Agroforestry systems recover tree carbon stock faster than natural succession in Eastern Amazon,Brazil     

Cardozo  Ernesto Gómez  Celentano  Danielle  Rousseau  Guillaume Xavier  Silva  Hulda Rocha e  Muchavisoy  Henry Mavisoy  Gehring  Christoph 《Agroforestry Systems》2022,96(5-6):941-956

Agroforestry Systems - The potential of agroforestry systems (AFS) for atmospheric carbon sequestration in degraded tropical lands is of key interest for climate change and rural development...  相似文献   

The interspecific variation of plant traits in brassicas engenders stronger aphid suppression than the intraspecific variation of single plant trait     

Silva  Jos&#; Hiago C.  Saldanha  Alan V.  Carvalho  Rayana M. R.  Machado  Carolina F. M.  Flausino  Bruno F.  Antonio  Adilson C.  Gontijo  Lessando M. 《Journal of pest science》2022,95(2):723-734

Journal of Pest Science - Increasing either inter- or intraspecific plant diversity has shown the potential to engender bottom-up and top-down effects upon herbivorous pests. Nonetheless, because...  相似文献   

Litter production and nutrient deposition from native woody species in the Brazilian semi-arid region     

Primo  Anacláudia Alves  Araújo  Maria Diana Melo  Silva  Karla da Fonseca  Silva  Ludmyla Araújo  Pereira  Graziella de Andrade Carvalho  Fernandes  Francisco Éden Paiva  Pompeu  Roberto Cláudio Fernandes Franco  Natale  William  de Souza  Henrique Antunes 《Agroforestry Systems》2021,95(8):1459-1464

Agroforestry Systems - The use of native trees in agroecosystems is a promising way to increase litter deposition and nutrient cycling and foster the recovery of degraded areas, especially in...  相似文献   

Carbon dynamics in small tropical catchments under preserved forest and cacao agroforestry systems     

da Costa  Eline Nayara Dantas  de Souza  Jéssica Carneiro  Pereira  Marilane Andrade  de Souza  Marcelo F. Landim  de Souza  Weber F. Landim  da Silva  Daniela Mariano Lopes 《Agroforestry Systems》2021,95(8):1647-1659

Agroforestry Systems - Inland waters such as streams that receive carbon from terrestrial landscapes usually have a net heterotrophic metabolism and emit significant amounts of CO2 to the...  相似文献   

Variable-rate seeding in soybean according to soil attributes related to grain yield     

da Silva  Eder Eujácio  Baio  Fabio Henrique Rojo  Teodoro  Larissa Pereira Ribeiro  Campos  Cid Naudi Silva  Plaster  Octávio Barbosa  Teodoro  Paulo Eduardo 《Precision Agriculture》2022,23(1):35-51

Precision Agriculture - Defining the ideal soybean stand is essential for obtaining maximum grain yield. As a hypothesis of the work, it was questioned whether it is possible to vary seeding...  相似文献   

Fish feed can show genotoxic damage     

Ota  Erika do Carmo  Cardoso  Claudia Andrea Lima  Inoue  Luis Antonio Kioshi Aoki  Zanon  Ricardo Basso  Silva  Tarcila Souza de Castro 《Fish physiology and biochemistry》2022,48(3):735-748

Fish Physiology and Biochemistry - The present study was carried out to evaluate the genotoxic potential of nutritional quality of feed, using erythrocytic nuclear abnormalities assay in Nile...  相似文献   

Use of geographical information systems as a tool for predicting fish yield in tropical reservoirs: case study on Sri Lankan reservoirs     

S. S. De Silva  U. S. Amarasinghe  & C. Nissanka  W. A. D. D. Wijesooriya  & M. J. J. Fernando 《Fisheries Management and Ecology》2001,8(1):47-60

Use of geographical information systems (GIS) in inland fisheries has hitherto been essentially restricted to site evaluation for aquaculture development and assessment of limnological changes in time and space in individual water bodies. The present GIS study was conducted on the land-use pattern of the catchments of nine reservoirs in Sri Lanka, for which detailed fishery data, viz. yield, fishing intensity, landing size of major constituent species, together with selected limnological data such as conductivity and chlorophyll- a , were available. Potential statistical relationships (linear, curvilinear, exponential and second-order polynomial) of fish yield ( FY , in kg ha⁻¹ yr⁻¹) to different land-use patterns, such as forest cover ( FC , in km²) and shrub-land ( SL , in km²), either singly, or in combination, and/or the ratio of each land type to reservoir area ( RA in km²) and reservoir capacity ( RC in km³), were explored. Highly significant relationships were evident between FY to the ratio of SL and/or FC + SL to RA and/or RC . Similarly, the above land-use types to RA and RC ratios were significantly related to limnological features of the reservoirs. The relationships of FY to various parameters obtained in this study were much better correlated than those relationships of FY to limnological and biological parameters used in yield prediction in tropical and temperate lacustrine waters previously.  相似文献   

Role of probiotics on the immunity of Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus: a review     

do Carmo Alves  Angélica Priscila  Peconick  Ana Paula  da Silva Cerozi  Brunno  Possebon Cyrino  José Eurico 《Aquaculture International》2022,30(4):1905-1929

The development and intensification of Nile tilapia farming systems has happened together with ever increased use of antibiotics and therapeutants. Research on the use of probiotics has come along as alternative to routine use of antibiotics in fish diets. The manipulation of the gut microbiota through dietary probiotic inclusion targeting improved growth rate and disease resistance has been investigated in many farmed fish species. However, mechanisms underlying modulation of fish immune response remains unclear. This review summarizes and discuss recent findings in the role of probiotics on the immunity of Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus addressing available information regarding immunological parameters such as phagocytic activity, lysozyme, respiratory burst activity, antioxidant enzymes, complement system as well as immune-related gene expression, in the aim to foster research efforts on effective strategies for the successful use of probiotics in the tilapia farming industry.

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Performance and meat quality of broiler chickens that are fed diets supplemented with Agaricus brasiliensis mushrooms     

João Borges Guimarães  Éder Clementino dos Santos  Eustáquio Souza Dias  Antônio Gilberto Bertechini  Carla Luiza da Silva Ávila  Francesca Silva Dias 《Tropical animal health and production》2014,46(8):1509-1514

This trial was performed to study the use of the mushroom Agaricus brasiliensis as an alternative additive to antimicrobial growth promoters in broiler chicken diets and to assess the quality of the broiler chicken breast meat of birds that are fed diets containing this fungus. Thus, 595 1-day-old chicks were reared in reused poultry litter without anticoccidial and antimicrobial additives. The results showed that a concentration of 1.6 g mushrooms/kg diet was ideal for these birds because it provided better bird performance. When the birds’ immune system organs were analyzed, it was found that the addition of both mushrooms influenced the immune system organs of these broiler chickens. Adding A. brasiliensis to broiler chicken diets did not compromise breast meat quality.  相似文献