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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Facility•Ottawa, Ontario, Canada•
About: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada is a facility organization based out in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Soil water. The organization has 10921 authors who have published 21332 publications receiving 748193 citations. The organization is also known as: Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food.
Topics: Population, Soil water, Manure, Tillage, Loam
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TL;DR: Larney et al. as discussed by the authors examined mechanisms through which organic amendments affect soil properties (physical, chemical, biological) and described the role of organic amendments in reclamation, with emphasis on amendment types and application rates.
Abstract: Larney, F. J. and Angers, D. A. 2012. The role of organic amendments in soil reclamation: A review. Can. J. Soil Sci. 92: 19–38. A basic tenet of sustainable soil management is that current human activities are not detrimental to future generations. Soils are degraded by natural events (erosion) or industrial activity. A prevalent feature of degraded or disturbed soils is lack of organic matter compared with adjacent undisturbed areas. Organic amendments, such as livestock manure, biosolids, pulp and paper mill by-products, wood residuals and crop residues, are produced in abundance in Canada and could be widely used in soil reclamation. Biosolids production is ∼0.5 Tg yr−1(dry wt.); paper mill sludge generated in the province of Quebec was ∼2 Tg (wet wt.) in 2002. This review paper examines mechanisms through which organic amendments affect soil properties (physical, chemical, biological) and describes the role of organic amendments in reclamation, with emphasis on amendment types and application rates f...
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TL;DR: The results from this study indicate that no one indicator or simple hydrological index is entirely suitable for all environmental systems and pathogens/parasites, even within a common geographic setting.
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TL;DR: This review provides historical perspectives and summarizes key findings in the study of Bacteroidetes bacteria, highlighting a critical shift from sequence-based PUL discovery to systems-based analyses combining reverse genetics, biochemistry, enzymology, and structural biology to precisely illuminate the molecular mechanisms underpinning PUL function.
Abstract: The complex carbohydrates of terrestrial and marine biomass represent a rich nutrient source for free-living and mutualistic microbes alike. The enzymatic saccharification of these diverse substrates is of critical importance for fueling a variety of complex microbial communities, including marine, soil, ruminant, and monogastric microbiota. Consequently, highly specific carbohydrate-active enzymes, recognition proteins, and transporters are enriched in the genomes of certain species and are of critical importance in competitive environments. In Bacteroidetes bacteria, these systems are organized as polysaccharide utilization loci (PULs), which are strictly regulated, colocalized gene clusters that encode enzyme and protein ensembles required for the saccharification of complex carbohydrates. This review provides historical perspectives and summarizes key findings in the study of these systems, highlighting a critical shift from sequence-based PUL discovery to systems-based analyses combining reverse genetics, biochemistry, enzymology, and structural biology to precisely illuminate the molecular mechanisms underpinning PUL function. The ecological implications of dynamic PUL deployment by key species in the human gastrointestinal tract are explored, as well as the wider distribution of these systems in other gut, terrestrial, and marine environments.
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TL;DR: It was found that basic peptides had greater capacity to scavenge hydroxyl radical than acidic or neutral peptides and that hydrophobic peptides contributed more to the antioxidant activities of hydrolysates than the hydrophilic peptides.
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TL;DR: It was the flavonols, not the flavanols, which showed the inhibitory activities against α-glucosidase and pancreatic lipase, thus contributing significantly to the control of blood glucose levels and obesity.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Fereidoon Shahidi | 119 | 951 | 57796 |
Miao Liu | 111 | 993 | 59811 |
Xiang Li | 97 | 1472 | 42301 |
Eviatar Nevo | 95 | 848 | 40066 |
Tim A. McAllister | 85 | 862 | 32409 |
Hubert Kolb | 84 | 420 | 25451 |
Daniel M. Weary | 83 | 437 | 22349 |
Karen A. Beauchemin | 83 | 423 | 22351 |
Nanthi Bolan | 83 | 550 | 31030 |
Oene Oenema | 80 | 361 | 23810 |
Santosh Kumar | 80 | 1196 | 29391 |
Yueming Jiang | 79 | 452 | 20563 |
Denis A. Angers | 76 | 256 | 19321 |
Tong Zhu | 72 | 472 | 18205 |
Christophe Lacroix | 69 | 353 | 15860 |