According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), “aquaculture, probably the fastest growing food-producing sector, now accounts for nearly 50 percent of the world's food fish” [1]. However, production is hampered by unpredictable mortalities that may be due to the negative interactions between fish and pathogenic bacteria. Intensive fish farming has resulted in a problematic growth ...

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1 Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Department of Agriculture, Crop Production and Rural Environment, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, Department of Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Institute of Ap...

1 Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Citrus Research and Education Center, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL 33850 USA 2 Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6430 USA 3 Department of Plant Pathology, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel 4 Laboratory of Plant Patholog...

BACKGROUND Recently, a relationship between obesity and schizophrenia has been reported. The prediction of resting energy expenditure (REE) is important to determine the energy expenditure of patients with schizophrenia. However, there is a lack of research concerning the most accurate REE predictive equations among Asian patients with schizophrenia. The purpose of the study reported here was t...

The European Search Catalogue for Plant Genetic Resources, EURISCO, provides information about 1.8 million crop plant accessions preserved by almost 400 institutes in Europe and beyond. EURISCO is being maintained on behalf of the European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources. It is based on a network of National Inventories of 43 member countries and represents an important effort...

Land degradation and soil erosion threaten agricultural productivity, food security and environmental sustainability. Because formation of new soil takes place over a period of thousands of years, in human terms it is essentially a finite resource. Human activity has accelerated erosion rates through inappropriate land management practices, most importantly soil sealing, deforestation and inten...

The world population is expected to reach 9.1 billion by year 2050 says FAO (World Food and Agriculture Organization) and to feed this population food production should be increased by at least 70%. Developing countries have to double their food production. The traditional methods of farming and ever decreasing farm labour availability is making agriculture economically unviable and inefficient...

The Neolithic transition from hunting and gathering to sedentary agriculture, which made possible the rapid technological progress that ultimately led to the Industrial Revolution, is one of the most important events in thousands of years of humankind’s economic development. In this paper we present theory and evidence showing that geography and biogeography exerted decisive influence on the lo...