Life history traits of wild animals can be strongly influenced, both phenotypically and evolutionarily, by hunting and fishing. However, few studies have quantified fishery selection over long time periods. We used 57 years of catch and escapement data to document the magnitude of and trends in gillnet selection on age and size at maturity of a commercially and biologically important sockeye sa...

Winged beans accumulate abundant field heat following harvest, and their shelf life is shortened if precooling not performed promptly. In the present study, top-suction forced-air (FC) was employed to rapidly remove from pods, its effects on winged bean pod storage quality were assessed. After postharvest FC mean 1/2 time 5.8 min 7/8 14.7 min, which 9.6 times 11.7 faster than room cooling (RC),...

Harvest data often are used to model deer (Odocoileus sp.) population growth and evaluate harvest strategies. Understanding factors that may influence harvest-reporting rates among methods of data collection is important in assessing the reliability of harvest data. Our objectives were to compare deer harvest-reporting rates over a 3-year period between mail-in archery-kill report cards (AKRC) ...

Laurent Augusto (INRA) presented the current state of knowledge on the relationship between forest management policies and the maintenance of soil fertility based on the results of the RESOBIO(1) project (Landmann & Nivet, 2014) which studied the management of harvesting residues and the preservation of soils and biodiversity. Laurent Saint-André (INRA) gave a special presentation on the manage...

456 ENDOSCOPIC-ASSISTED HARVEST OF GRACILIS MUSCLE IN PIGS. A MODEL TO LEARN AND PRACTICE ENDOSCOPIC TECHNIQUES N. Gheţu, Venera Mihaela Iliescu, Daniela-Emanuela Gheţu, V.I. Ilie, V.G. Ilie, M. Ionac, G. Mihalache, D. Pieptu 1. “Gr. T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Center for Simulation and Training in Surgery, Iasi, Romania 2. “Victor Babes” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, ”...

Species of Aspergillus, Penicillium and Alternaria are major contributors to fruit and vegetable decay and to mycotoxin production during various stages of pathogenesis. The mycotoxins most commonly associated with fruits and vegetables and their products are aflatoxins, patulin, ochratoxin A and Alternaria toxins. Naturally occurring aflatoxins are found in fruits of tropical and subtropical r...

in this research, the decay resistance of bagasse-polypropylene composite has been evaluated. the scope of research was to assess the effect of different weight percentages of bagasse (40, 55 and 70%) and coupling agent, (mapp) maleic anhydride grafted polypropylene (0, 4 and 6%) on the fungal decay of the composite. astm d1413-99 modified test method was used to carry out the decay test, trame...

ABSTRACT Selected isolates of Aureobasidium pullulans, Rhodotorula glutinis, and Bacillus subtilis reduced the size and number of lesions on wounded apples caused by the postharvest pathogens Penicillium expansum, Botrytis cinerea, and Pezicula malicorticis. Combinations of the antagonistic microorganisms were applied to apple trees in the field late in the growing season of two consecutive yea...