Background: Olive pomace, as the main by-product of the olive oil industry, is recently recycled as fermentation substrate for enzyme production.Objectives: Actinobacteria isolates were separated from an Algerian soil under olive pomace cultivation and were evaluated for their lignocellulolytic enzymes production.Materials and Methods: Isolates of Actinobacteria were separated from ...

The use of aerial photos taken in a low altitude with UAVs (Unmmaned Aerial Vehicles) is recently becoming a common practice in many areas. The use for agricultural related applications is applied in this study, using a common vegetation index, namely NDVI, to identify areas of large differences in crops grown in order to delineate Management Zones to be eventually used for Precision Agricultur...

Arthropods are part of important functional groups in soil food webs. Recognizing these arthropods and understanding their function in the ecosystem as well as when they are active is essential to understanding their roles. In the present work, the abundance and diversity of soil arthropods is examined in olive groves in the northeast region of Portugal during the spring. Five classes of arthro...

The brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB), Halyomorpha halys Stål, is an invasive species and a polyphagous pest. BMSB feeding activity was suspected to be responsible for olive damage. To evaluate the effect of damage from adults nymphs BMSB, 30 rearing sleeves were positioned in grove, at early stage drupe development. individuals kept 48 h, number olives each sleeve checked weekly, visually asse...

Olive cultivation is affected by a wide range of biotic constraints. Verticillium wilt of olive is one of the most devastating diseases affecting this woody crop, inflicting major economic losses in many areas, particularly within the Mediterranean Basin. Little is known about gene-expression changes during plant infection by Verticillium dahliae of woody plants such as olive. A complete RNA-se...

In this lecture, we study several types of auctions, and we introduce the Envelope Theorem (E.T.) to analyze the payoffs for the auctions. The expected payoff in each case is found to be the expectation of the second highest valuation. The VickreyClarke-Grove (VCG) allocation mechanism is used in a generalized scenario of the auctions, and it produces a dominant strategy with the resulting Nash...