Publications
Chosen filters:
Chosen filters:
Oracle selection provides insight into how far off practice is from Utopia in plant breeding Ghent University
Plant selection for nest building by western lowland gorillas in Cameroon. Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp Ghent University
We examined 834 nests built by western lowland gorillas in Cameroon between July 2008 and July 2011 to identify the plant species used in their construction. Preference for each plant species for nesting was assessed using a 'preference index' calculated by combining information on the occurrence of each species in the forest and in the nests. Forty-six plant species representing about 15 % of the total number of species in the forest and 26 % ...
Sustainable waste-to-energy plant site selection by a hybrid method of geographic information system and evidential reasoning : a case study Guilan province Ghent University
A new hybrid method of utilizing Evidential Reasoning (ER) approach and Geographic Information System (GIS) was applied to find the optimum location of a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) incineration plant in Guilan province. According to guidelines and prevailing conditions, thirteen criteria were analyzed and divided to three main sections of environmental, social and economic categories. Most of the data in the study were obtained from local ...
Nanoparticle treatment of maize analyzed through the metatranscriptome: compromised nitrogen cycling, possible phytopathogen selection, and plant hormesis Hasselt University
Background The beneficial use of nanoparticle silver or nanosilver may be confounded when its potent antimicrobial properties impact non-target members of natural microbiomes such as those present in soil or the plant rhizosphere. Agricultural soils are a likely sink for nanosilver due to its presence in agrochemicals and land-applied biosolids, but a complete assessment of nanosilver's effects on this environment is lacking because the impact ...
Selection of miRNA reference genes for plant defence studies in rice (Oryza sativa) Ghent University
Oracle selection provides insight into how far off practice is from Utopia in plant breeding Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre Ghent University
Since the introduction of genomic selection in plant breeding, high genetic gains have been realized in different plant breeding programs. Various methods based on genomic estimated breeding values (GEBVs) for selecting parental lines that maximize the genetic gain as well as methods for improving the predictive performance of genomic selection have been proposed. Unfortunately, it remains difficult to measure to what extent these methods really ...
Multi-criteria-based plant species selection for gully and riverbank stabilization in a sub-humid tropical area KU Leuven
Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Selection of appropriate plant species for rehabilitation of degraded lands while fulfilling socio-economic interests of local communities is one of the decision-making challenges. This research was undertaken to select multipurpose trees, shrubs and grasses to stabilize degraded lands in the Gilgel Gibe catchment of Southwest Ethiopia, situated in the sub-humid tropics. Two multi-criteria decision ...
Significance and impotence: towards a balanced view of the null and the alternative hypotheses in marker selection for plant breeding Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
The isolation of DNA markers that are linked to interesting genes helps plant breeders to select parent plants that transmit useful traits to future generations. Such `marker-assisted breeding and selection' heavily leans on statistical testing of associations between markers and a well-chosen trait. Statistical association analysis is guided by classical p-values or the false discovery rate and thus relies predominantly on the null hypothesis. ...
Selection mosaics in a plant bacteria mutualism: The genetic structure of Rhizobium leguminosarum nodulating Vicia cracca in different nitrogen environments KU Leuven
Leguminose plant species are able to acquire nitrogen (N) through the interaction with N fixing bacteria of the genus Rhizobium, offering a clear fitness advantage over plant competitors, particularly under N limiting conditions. In the last 50 years anthropogenic eutrophication has strongly increased available soil N through atmospheric deposition and fertilizer runoff. Because eutrophication shows spatial variation, geographical selection ...