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Welcome to the AgShare.Today Resource Centre

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.

Methods matter: a meta‐regression on the determinants of willingness‐to‐pay studies on biofortified foods

This review presents a meta‐analysis of consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for biofortified foods, either developed through conventional breeding or using genetic modification technology.

Published by: Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences, Year: 2016, Pages: 13, File type: External link (488 KB)

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Using a plant health system framework to assess plant clinic performance in Uganda

This paper applies a plant health system framework to assess plant clinic performance, using Uganda as a case study.

Published by: Food Security, Year: 2016, Pages: 15, File type: External link (690 KB)

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Two novel DNAs that enhance symptoms and overcome CMD2 resistance to cassava mosaic disease

This study reports the discovery of two novel DNA sequences, designated SEGS-1 and SEGS-2 (for sequences enhancing geminivirus symptoms), that enhance symptoms and break resistance to cassava mosaic disease.

Published by: Journal of Virology, Year: 2016, Pages: 14, File type: External link (6 MB)

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Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of the WRKY gene family in cassava

In this study, 85 WRKY genes were identified from the cassava genome and classified into three groups according to conserved WRKY domains and zinc-finger structure.

Published by: Frontiers in Plant Science, Year: 2016, Pages: 18, File type: External link (5.8 MB)

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RevBayes Bayesian phylogenetic inference using graphical models and an interactive model-specification language

This study developed a new open-source software package, RevBayes, to allow users to explore new models for Bayesian inference of phylogeny.

Published by: Oxford University Press, Year: 2016, Pages: 11, File type: External link (1,028 KB)

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Suicide among agricultural, forestry and fishery workers: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis

This review aimed to quantify suicide risk among agricultural, forestry and fishery workers and study potential variations of risk within this population.

Published by: Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health, Year: 2016, Pages: 14, File type: External link (494 KB)

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Variability in P1 gene redefines phylogenetic relationships among Cassava brown streak viruses (Ipomovirus; Potyviradae)

This poster was presented at the World Congress on Root and Tuber Crops in Nanning China in October 2015 by Willard Mbewe

Published by: Cassava Diagnostics Project, Year: 2015, Pages: 1, File type: PDF (3,912 KB)

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How to give a science flash talk

This guide provides advice on how to give an effective three minute scientific presentation.

Published by: SciDev.Net, Year: 2015, Pages: 8, File type: PDF (692 KB)

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Malawi: livelihood zones map

This map, published in July 2015, displays the different livelihood zones in Malawi.

Published by: Famine Early Warning Systems Network, Year: 2015, Pages: 1, File type: External link (1,395 KB)

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Analyses of twelve new whole genome sequences of cassava brown streak viruses and Ugandan cassava brown streak viruses from East Africa

This research uncovered twelve new whole genomes, including seven of Cassava brown streak virus and five of Ugandan cassava brown streak virus.

Published by: PLOS One, Year: 2015, File type: External link

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