Lagan Tregaskis, Paula; Devaney, Ryan; Smyth, Victoria J.(MDPI, 2021-02-03)
Avian nephritis virus (ANV) is classified in the Avastroviridae family with disease associations
with nephritis, uneven flock growth and runting stunting syndrome (RSS) in chicken and turkey
flocks, and other avian ...
As global pig health diseases, porcine respiratory disease complex (PRDC) and porcine
circovirus-associated disease (PCVAD) generate substantial economic losses despite
pigs been vaccinated against the primary causative ...
Background: Bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) and border disease virus
(BDV) can cause significant health problems in ruminants and economic
impacts for farmers. The aim of this study was to evaluate pestivirus exposure ...
Camp Montoro, Jordi; Boyle, Laura Ann; Sola-Oriol, David; Muns, Ramon; Gasa, Josep; Garcia Manzanilla, Edgar(Springer Science and Business Media, 2021-01-06)
Background: Low space allowance (SA) and mixing may result in reduced growth performance (GP) and animal
welfare issues because of adverse social behaviours directed to pen mates. This could be exacerbated in pens ...
Phytopathogens have beleaguered the island of Ireland since the 19th century great famine caused by the potato blight
oomycete, Phytophthora infestans and in recent times by cohorts of serious bacterial wilt diseases such ...
Balta, Igori; Linton, W. Mark R.; Pinkerton, Laurette; Kelly, Carmel A.; Stef, Lavinia; Pet, Ioan; Stef, Ducu; Criste, Adriana; Gundogdu, Ozan; Corcionivoschi, Nicolae(Elsevier, 2020-11-13)
The increased resistance of campylobacters to antibiotics required the identification and isolation of novel antimicrobials able to inhibit its virulence, to cause less or no resistance and display no host toxicity. Acquiring ...
Grass endophytes have been shown to confer enhanced environmental resilience to symbiont cultivars with reports of modified growth. If inoculating with an endophyte (E+) made an accession morphologically distinct from its ...
Rao, Juluri R.; Nelson, David W.V.A.; Fleming, Colin Craig; Martin, Trevor J.G.(Europa Publishing, 2020-09-04)
Cut flower Matthiola incana were raised by local commercial cultivators in a polytunnel. The field soil beds were either left uncovered as normal or covered with polythene sheets (except a hole for plant plug space). ...
Jack, Claire; Ashfield, Austen; Adenuga, Adewale; Mullan, Conall(Wiley, on behalf of the Agricultural Economics Society and the European Association of Agricultural Economists, 2020-10)
Family farm businesses throughout Europe are facing new economic, environmental and social challenges. In order to deliver a more resilient primary agriculture sector national and regional governments are identifying ...
Angioloni, Simone; Jack, Claire; McCarry, Ronan(Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2020)
Agriculture is one of the most hazardous sectors in terms of occupational injuries resulting in 29 more working days being lost. This paper employs a dataset of 7,500 Northern Irish farms 30 over the period 2015-2019 to ...
Huson, Kathryn M.; Atcheson, Erwan; Oliver, Nicola A.M.; Best, Philip; Barley, Jason; Hanna, Robert E.B.; McNeilly, Tom N.; Fang, Yongxiang; Haldenby, Sam; Paterson, Steve; Robinson, Mark W.(The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc., 2020-10-20)
Paramphistomosis, caused by the rumen fluke, Calicophoron daubneyi, is a parasitic infection of ruminant livestock which has seen a rapid rise in prevalence throughout Western Europe in recent years. Following ingestion ...
Campbell, Emma; Menzies, Frazer D.; Byrne, Andrew W.; Porter, Siobhán; McCormick, Carl M.; McBride, Kathryn R.; Scantlebury, D. Michael; Reid, Neil(Elsevier, 2020-09-30)
Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) can be spread between and among cattle and wildlife hosts e.g. European badger
(Meles meles). The majority of cattle in the UK and Ireland are grazed during the summer, potentially exposing
them ...
Rutherford, Naomi; Gordon, Alan Wesley; Arnott, Gareth; Lively, Francis(MDPI, 2020-10-19)
The aim of this study was to evaluate the e ect of production system on the health,
performance, carcass characteristics, and meat quality of autumn born (AB) and spring born (SB)
Holstein bulls. The study involved a ...
This study determined farm management factors associated with long-duration bovine tuberculosis (bTB) breakdowns disclosed in the period 23 May 2016 to 21 May 2018; a study area not previously subject to investigation in ...
Introduction/Study Description
VectorNet [1] is a joint initiative of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), which started in May 2014. The project ...
Stevenson, Philip C.; Bidartondo, Martin I.; Blackhall-Miles, Robert; Cavagnaro, Timothy R.; Cooper, Amanda; Geslin, Benoit; Koch, Hauke; Lee, Mark A.; Moat, Justin; O'Hanlon, Richard; Sjöman, Henrik; Sofo, Adriano; Stara, Kalliopi; Suz, Laura M.(Wiley, 2020-09-29)
Trees are a foundation for biodiversity in urban ecosystems and therefore must be able to withstand global change and biological challenges over decades and even centuries to prevent urban ecosystems from deteriorating. ...
A new monitoring programme on the Lough Neagh catchment has documented a high incidence of river lamprey, Lampetra fluviatilis L., predation on Atlantic salmon smolts, Salmo salar L.,. In total 470 smolts were examined ...
This article presents managed honey bee colony loss rates over winter 2018/19 resulting from using the standardised
COLOSS questionnaire in 35 countries (31 in Europe). In total, 28,629 beekeepers supplying valid loss ...
Vinblastine and vincristine are two important anti-cancer drugs that are synthesized by the Terpenoid Indole Alkaloids (TIAs) pathway in periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus). The major challenge in the pharmaceutical industry ...