15 Fatty acid oxidation (FAO) is essential for oocyte maturation in mice. The objective of this 16 experiment was to determine the effect of etomoxir (a FAO inhibitor; 100 μM), carnitine (1 17 mM), and palmitic acid (1 or 100 μM) during maturation on metabolism and gene expression of 18 the oocyte and cumulus cells, and subsequent embryo development in the mouse. Carnitine 19 significantly incr...

The correlations between intramyocellular lipid (IMCL), decreased fatty acid oxidation (FAO), and insulin resistance have led to the hypothesis that impaired FAO causes accumulation of lipotoxic intermediates that inhibit muscle insulin signaling. Using a skeletal muscle-specific carnitine palmitoyltransferase-1 KO model, we show that prolonged and severe mitochondrial FAO inhibition results in...

During activation, T cells undergo metabolic reprogramming, which imprints distinct functional fates. We determined that on PD-1 ligation, activated T cells are unable to engage in glycolysis or amino acid metabolism but have an increased rate of fatty acid β-oxidation (FAO). PD-1 promotes FAO of endogenous lipids by increasing expression of CPT1A, and inducing lipolysis as indicated by elevati...

Knowing crop water uptake each day is useful for developing irrigation scheduling. Many technologies have been used to estimate daily use. Sap flow one of the that measure through stem a plant and uptake. sensor an effective direct method measuring use, but it relatively expensive requires frequent maintenance. Therefore, alternative methods, such as evapotranspiration based on FAO 56 Penman-Mo...

This study was performed to test three methods based on the FAO-56 ‘‘dual’’ crop coefficient approach to estimate actual evapotranspiration (AET) for winter wheat under different irrigation treatments in the semi-arid region of Tensift Al Haouz, Marrakech (center of Morocco). The three methods differ in the calculation of the basal crop coefficient (Kcb) and the fraction of soil surface covered...

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The pyfao56 software package is a Python-based implementation of (1) the American Society Civil Engineers (ASCE) Standardized Reference Evapotranspiration Equation and (2) Food Agricultural Organization United Nations (FAO) Irrigation Drainage Paper No. 56 (FAO-56) dual crop coefficient methodology. was initially developed to support water use estimation irrigation scheduling for field research...

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Traditionally, potatoes are a central component of warm meals in many European countries (Wandel et al. 2001; FAO, 2004). In an analysis from the EPIC study (n 13 031 men and 22 924 women) including data from ten European countries (Greece, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, The Netherlands, UK, Denmark, Sweden and Norway), potatoes contributed on average 7 % to the total carbohydrates consumed, bu...