CRC for Sheep Industry Innovation and the University of New England, Armidale, NSW 1 Department of Agriculture and Food of Western Australia, South Perth, Western Australia, 6151, Australia Institute of Agriculture, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, 6009, Australia School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia 6150, Austr...

The successful development of modern agricultural industries in most regions of South Australia could not have been achieved without the discovery and correction of trace element deficiencies in crops, pastures, horticultural tree and vegetable crops, plantation forests and livestock. Over the past eight decades, the low trace element status of many SA agricultural soils has been demonstrated r...

Cow and calf performance was determined in a 2-yr, 2 x 2 factorial, grazing experiment using Coastal or Tifton 85 (T85) replicated Bermudagrass pastures (4 pastures each; each pasture 4.86 ha), without or with aeschynomene creep-grazing paddocks (n = 4, 0.202 ha each, planted in May of each year, 13.44 kg/ha). On June 10, 2004, and June 8, 2005, 96 winter-calving beef "tester" cows and their ca...

Background: Infant simulator-based programmes seek to prevent teenage pregnancy. They are utilised in western and developing countries but, despite growing popularity, there is no published evidence of their long-term impact. The aim of this trial was to investigate the effect of such a programme, the Virtual Infant Parenting (VIP) Programme, on the pregnancy outcomes of birth and induced abort...

Abstract. The clearing of trees and native vegetation over the past 160 years has caused deep drainage to groundwater in the Broken Plains area. Predictions are that continuing recharge will bring the water-table to within 2 metres of the surface over the next 30 years. This will lead to water-logging and dryland salinity. A solution is to introduce deep-rooted perennial species such as lucerne...

High doses of nitrogen (N) fertiliser input on permanent pastures are crucial in terms N surplus and losses. Quantitative analyses the response plant functional traits (PFT) driving crop growth rate (CGR) under low lacking frequently defoliated pastures. This study aimed to understand significance PFTs for productivity uptake grasslands by measuring dynamics tiller density (TD), weight (TW), le...

Land use changes strongly impact soil functions, particularly microbial biomass diversity and activity. We hypothesized that the catabolic respiration response of the microbial biomass would differ depending on land use and that these differences would be consistent at the landscape scale. In the present study, we analyzed the catabolic response profile of the soil microbial biomass through sub...

9 1 Division of Neonatology, the Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital 10 Medical Center, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio 11 2 Department of Pediatrics, Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC), School of 12 Oncology and Developmental Biology (GROW), P. Debeyelaan 25, 6229 HX 13 Maastricht, the Netherlands 14 3 School of Women’s and Infants Health,...

Bruce S. Gardiner, Sarah L. Thompson, Jennifer P. Ngo, David W. Smith, Amany Abdelkader, Brad R. S. Broughton, John F. Bertram, and Roger G. Evans School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia; Department of Physiology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; Department of Pharmacology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; and De...