In January 2002 the Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and Food published its findings. This report had been preceded by similar considerations of future agriculture and land use by the devolved assemblies of Wales, ...

Chromatographic separation of the 50% aqueous EtOH extract of the leaves of the African medicinal tree Baphia nitida resulted in isolation of 10 iminosugars. The plant contained 2R,5R-dihydroxymethyl-3R,4R-dihydroxypyrrolidine ...

A central dogma in immunology is that antibody specificity is a function of the variable (V) region. However serological analysis of IgG(1), IgG(2a), and IgG(2b) switch variants of murine monoclonal antibody (mAb) 3E5 ...

Background: The enzyme polyphenol oxidase (PPO) reduces the extent of proteolysis and lipolysis within red clover fed to ruminants. PPO catalyses the conversion of phenols to quinones, which can react with nucleophilic ...

Achieving and maintaining high herd health and welfare status and low veterinary medicine inputs are important aims in organic livestock farming. Therefore, an on-farm intervention study (CORE Organic ANIPLAN) was conducted ...

Many studies have demonstrated influences of climatic variation on a variety of ecological processes, however, its impact on the potent evolutionary force of sexual selection has largely been ignored. The intensity of ...

In the UK the funding mechanism for moorland restoration is implemented primarily through agri-environment schemes, yet comparatively little is known of the nutritional consequences of selecting diets from semi-natural ...

The rationale for this book is based on an appreciation of the fact that all insects are profoundly influenced by their surroundings. Generally the interactions between insect pests, their host plants, and their natural ...

In this study the impact of senescence and harvest time in Miscanthuson the quality of fast pyrolysis liquid (bio-oil) was investigated. Bio-oil was produced using a 1 kg h-1 fast pyrolysis reactor to obtain a quantity of ...