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The AgShare.Today Resource Centre brings together a collection of resources related to agriculture. These include open access scientific journals and best practice guides that can be used for background reading and to support research initiatives. The AgShare Featured Resource showcases a new document each month that the AgShare team recommends to all members.

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A novel sweet potato potyvirus open reading frame is expressed via polymerase slippage and suppresses RNA silencing

This study investigates the expression of an open reading frame’s pipo and pispo via polymerase slippage in four related sweet potato potyviruses.

Published by: Molecular Plant Pathology, Year: 2016, Pages: 13, File type: External link (1.03 MB)

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The draft genome of whitefly Bemisia tabaci MEAM1, a global crop pest, provides novel insights into virus transmission, host adaptation and insecticide resistance

This paper reports on the 615-Mb high-quality genome sequence of Bemisia tabaci Middle East-Asia Minor 1 (MEAM1), the first genome sequence in the Aleyrodidae family, which contains 15,664 protein-coding genes.

Published by: BMC Biology, Year: 2016, Pages: 15, File type: External link (2,214 KB)

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Metabolite profiling of Dioscorea (yam) species reveals underutilised biodiversity and renewable sources for high-value compounds

This study establishes metabolite-profiling procedures to assess biochemical diversity across species of yams (Dioscorea spp.). It also identifies the potential of foliage material as a renewable source of high-value compounds.

Published by: Scientific Reports, Year: 2016, Pages: 10, File type: External link (1,352 KB)

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A sequence-independent strategy for amplification and characterisation of episomal badnavirus sequences reveals three previously uncharacterised yam badnaviruses

This study evaluated a sequence-independent multiply-primed rolling circle amplification method for selective amplification of episomal Dioscorea bacilliform virus genomes, revealing three previously uncharacterised yam badnaviruses.

Published by: Viruses, Year: 2016, Pages: 22, File type: External link (2,710 KB)

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Response of soil properties and microbial communities to agriculture: implications for primary productivity and soil health indicators

This paper explores how properties directly linked to soil nutritional health, primary productivity and microbial diversity and composition are affected in response to agricultural management across the main biomes of the Earth.

Published by: Frontiers in Plant Science, Year: 2016, Pages: 13, File type: External link (1,854 KB)

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Exposure to various abscission-promoting treatments suggests substantial ERF subfamily transcription factors are involved in the regulation of cassava leaf abscission

Comparative analysis of both ethylene- and water-deficit stress-induced leaf abscission showed that the ERF subfamily functions in the regulation of cassava abscission zone development.

Published by: BMC Genomics, Year: 2016, Pages: 15, File type: External link (1,690 KB)

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Long-term impact of sewage sludge application on soil microbial biomass: an evaluation using meta-analysis

This paper assesses the impact of statutory limits set by the UK Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations on soil microbial biomass carbon across eight years (1997–2005) in sludge-amended soils at nine UK field sites.

Published by: Environmental Pollution, Year: 2016, Pages: 15, File type: External link (1,440 KB)

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Genome-wide identification of cassava R2R3 MYB family genes related to abscission zone separation after environmental stress-induced abscission

In this study, transcriptome analysis was used to identify the R2R3 MYB genes expressed in cassava leaf pulvinus-petiole abscission zones by comparing the R2R3 MYB gene expression profiles of ethylene- and water-deficit stress-induced leaf abscission.

Published by: Scientific Reports, Year: 2016, Pages: 12, File type: External link (2,318 KB)

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Differential response of cassava genotypes to infection by cassava mosaic geminiviruses

This study reports the characterisation of the recovery phenomenon observed in cassava genotypes infected with cassava mosaic disease, known to carry CMD1 (TMS30572), CMD2 (TME3, Oko-iyawo, TME204) and CMD3 (TMS97/2205) type resistance.

Published by: Virus research, Year: 2016, Pages: 13, File type: External link (3,841 KB)

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The new United Nations approach to sustainable development post-2015: findings from four overviews of systematic review on interventions for sustainable development and health

This study aimed to identify interventions that facilitate sustainable development and have had a positive impact on health.

Published by: Rev Panam Salud Publica, Year: 2016, Pages: 10, File type: External link (1.88MB)

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