446 results match your criteria: "Agrotecnio Center[Affiliation]"
Anim Reprod Sci
January 2025
Agrotecnio Center, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Lleida, Lleida 25198, Spain.
The objectives of this study were: (i) to evaluate the associations between postpartum health disorders, relative increase in walking activity (RIWA) and expression of behavioral estrus intensity captured by pedometers; (ii) to assess associations between RIWA and pregnancy in cows submitted to timed artificial insemination (TAI). Lactating dairy cows (n = 881) were enrolled in the study. Cows were submitted to a 5d TAI protocol with insertion of a progesterone device.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTheriogenology
March 2025
Agrotecnio Center, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Lleida, Lleida, 25198, Spain. Electronic address:
The main objectives of the present study were to determine the effects of presynchronizing with a 1.0 g intravaginal progesterone device (IVPD) and prostaglandin F2α and to assess the effects of re-utilization of IVPD in a 2x2 factorial design, on the ovulatory response to first GnRH, ovarian status at different protocol stages, estrus expression and fertility in beef heifers submitted to a 5d-CO-Synch + Progesterone (P4) protocol. Beef heifers (n = 564) were assigned to 1 of 2 treatments at D-15: Pres5 (n = 283), where heifers received a (IVPD) for 5 days and administration of prostaglandin F2α (25 mg of dinoprost) at D-10; and Control (n = 281), where heifers received no treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Mol Sci
November 2024
Institut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica, (ICAC), 43003 Tarragona, Spain.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Anim Sci
January 2024
Department of Animal Science, Agrotecnio Center, Universitat Lleida, Alcalde Rovira Roure 191, Lleida 25198, Spain.
Insects
September 2024
Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology (IRTA) Agronòms Lleida, Sustainable Vegetal Protection, Av. Alcalde Rovira Roure 191, 25198 Lleida, Spain.
Thrips constitute one of the main nectarine pests, with damage either in flowering or before harvesting (silvering). Several species are associated with damage to flowers, but (Pergande) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) is the main species associated with summer damage in Europe. Tree canopies of nectarine orchards under organic and integrated management were sampled in Lleida and Girona at four key moments of the season (bud burst, full flowering, fruit setting stage, and colorization of the fruit) during 2021 and 2022 to determine the species composition in the area and the damage caused during fruit maturation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSci Total Environ
November 2024
Unit of Ecotoxicology of Air Pollution, Environmental Dept. CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain.
The experiment was conducted in an Open Top Chamber facility located in the Mediterranean basin to investigate how nitrogen (N) fertilization affects the response of wheat to ozone (O) exposure. The study considered the response of Artur Nick, a modern wheat cultivar commonly used in the area, to three O exposure levels (ambient and elevated ambient, +20 and +40 nL L O), and two N fertilization doses (100 and 200 kg ha). Measurements included leaf gas exchange, leaf chlorophyll content, leaf and grain N content, plant growth and yield parameters.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFoods
July 2024
Department of Food Technology, Engineering and Science, University of Lleida, Av. Alcalde Rovira Roure 191, 25198 Lleida, Spain.
Allergies towards gluten and legumes (such as, soybean, peanut, and faba bean) are a global issue and, occasionally, can be fatal. At the same time, an increasing number of households are shifting to plant protein ingredients from these sources, which application and consumption are limited by said food allergies. Children, the elderly, and people with immune diseases are particularly at risk when consuming these plant proteins.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFood Chem
October 2024
Department of Food Technology, Engineering and Science, University of Lleida, Av. Alcalde Rovira Roure 191, 25198 Lleida, Spain; Agrotecnio Center, Av. Alcalde Rovira Roure 191, 25198 Lleida, Spain. Electronic address:
This study explored how co-oleogelator type, concentration, and water addition affect lipid digestion and β-carotene (βC) bioaccessibility in corn oil oleogels. Oleogels containing 0.1% βC, 20% glyceryl stearate (GS), with lecithin (L) or hydrogenated lecithin (HL) (at 0, 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFood Funct
June 2024
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Functional Nutrition, Oxidation and Cardiovascular Diseases Group (NFOC-Salut), Reus, Spain.
The study determines the sustained and acute effects of a red-fleshed apple (RFA), rich in anthocyanins (ACNs), a white-fleshed apple (WFA) without ACNs, and an infusion from (AI) with an equivalent content of ACNs as RFA, on different cardiometabolic risk biomarkers in hypercholesterolemic subjects. A randomized, parallel study was performed for 6 weeks and two dose-response studies were performed at the baseline and after intervention. At 6 weeks, RFA consumption improved ischemic reactive hyperemia and decreased C-reactive protein and interleukine-6 compared to WFA consumption.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHeliyon
February 2024
Applied Mathematics Consultancy for Environmental Data Analysis - StatEnCo, Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle, Pays Basque, France.
F. the Asian weaver ant, is one of the oil palm plantation's () potential predators, for the invasive bagworm species Walker, but this ant is a nuisance species that irritates plantation workers with their sharp bites. Here we assess the foraging activities (FA) of major workers, identify its inactive times and the existence of supervision, a novelty for social insects.
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January 2024
Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ICA-CSIC), C/Serrano 115 dpdo, 28006 Madrid, Spain.
Natural enemies are an additional component that may interact directly with the plant-virus-vector association, affecting viral dispersion. In our study, we conducted olfactometry assays to explore how single and mixed infections with CMV or/and CABYV modify the attractiveness of to aphid-free and aphid-infested melon plants using two melon genotypes. Subsequently, we investigated the influence of CABYV-infected plants infested by on the parasitism rate and emergence of in a dual-choice assay under greenhouse conditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Plant Sci
January 2024
Department of Agroecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Slagelse, Denmark.
The comeback of wheat stem rust in Europe, caused by f. sp. , and the prevalence of the alternate (sexual) host in local areas have recently regained attention as a potential threat to European wheat production.
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January 2024
Department of Food Technology, Engineering and Science. University of Lleida, Av. Alcalde Rovira Roure 191, 25198, Lleida, Spain.
The influence of co-oleogelators like lecithin or hydrogenated lecithin together with the addition of dispersed water droplets to modulate the microstructure and thus the physical properties of glyceryl stearate (GS)-corn oil oleogels was investigated by thermal profile, microstructure, hardness, and oil binding capacity (OBC). The addition of β-carotene (βC) was also assessed. With lecithin, crystallization and melting temperatures were reduced, resulting in less-ordered crystal networks with a lower hardness and OBC, while with hydrogenated lecithin, the opposite effect was observed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPlants (Basel)
November 2023
Istituto dei Materiali per l'Elettronica e il Magnetismo (IMEM-CNR), Parco Area delle Scienze 37/A, 43124 Parma, Italy.
Monitoring plant growth and development during cultivation to optimize resource use efficiency is crucial to achieve an increased sustainability of agriculture systems and ensure food security. In this study, we compared field monitoring approaches from the macro to micro scale with the aim of developing novel in vivo tools for field phenotyping and advancing the efficiency of drought stress detection at the field level. To this end, we tested different methodologies in the monitoring of tomato growth under different water regimes: (i) micro-scale (inserted in the plant stem) real-time monitoring with an organic electrochemical transistor (OECT)-based sensor, namely a bioristor, that enables continuous monitoring of the plant; (ii) medium-scale (<1 m from the canopy) monitoring through red-green-blue (RGB) low-cost imaging; (iii) macro-scale multispectral and thermal monitoring using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMol Nutr Food Res
January 2024
Laboratory of Epigenetics of Lipid Metabolism, Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados (IMDEA)-Alimentación, CEI UAM+CSIC, Madrid, 28049, Spain.
Scope: Extra virgin olive oil has numerous cardiopreventive effects, largely due to its high content of (poly)phenols such as hydroxytyrosol (HT). However, some animal studies suggest that its excessive consumption may alter systemic lipoprotein metabolism. Because human lipoprotein metabolism differs from that of rodents, this study examines the effects of HT in a humanized mouse model that approximates human lipoprotein metabolism.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSci Adv
November 2023
School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, China.
During summer, plants often experience increased light inputs and high temperatures, two major environmental factors with contrasting effects on thermomorphological traits. The integration of light and temperature signaling to control thermomorphogenesis in plants is critical for their acclimation in such conditions, but the underlying mechanisms remain largely unclear. We found that heat shock transcription factor 1d (HSFA1d) and its homologs are necessary for plant thermomorphogenesis during the day.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPorcine Health Manag
October 2023
Department of Animal Science, University of Lleida - Agrotecnio Center, Lleida, Spain.
Background: Antimicrobial resistance is one of the most important health challenges in humans and animals. Antibiotic susceptibility determination is used to select the most suitable drug to treat animals according to its success probability following the European legislation in force for these drugs. We have studied the antibiotic susceptibility pattern (ASP) of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (APP) and Pasteurella multocida (PM) isolates, collected during the period 2019-2022 in Spain.
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September 2023
Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
Agricultural landscapes are constantly changing as farmers adopt new production practices and respond to changing environmental conditions. Some of these changes alter landscape structure with impacts on natural pest control, pesticide use, and conservation of biodiversity. In rice agroecosystems the effect of landscape structure on natural enemies and pest suppression is often poorly understood.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Plant Sci
September 2023
Integrative Crop Ecophysiology Group, Plant Physiology Section, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain and AGROTECNIO (Center for Research in Agrotechnology), Lleida, Spain.
An acceleration of the genetic advances of durum wheat, as a major crop for the Mediterranean region, is required, but phenotyping still represents a bottleneck for breeding. This study aims to define durum wheat ideotypes under Mediterranean conditions by selecting the most suitable phenotypic remote sensing traits among different ones informing on characteristics related with leaf pigments/photosynthetic status, crop water status, and crop growth/green biomass. A set of 24 post-green revolution durum wheat cultivars were assessed in a wide set of 19 environments, accounted as the specific combinations of a range of latitudes in Spain, under different management conditions (water regimes and planting dates), through 3 consecutive years.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Dairy Sci
December 2023
Animal and Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Teagasc, Moorepark, Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland P61C996. Electronic address:
The aims of this study were (1) to evaluate potential associations between genetic traits, postpartum phenotypes, cow factors, and postpartum vaginal discharge score (VDS); and (2) to investigate possible associations between postpartum VDS, plasma progesterone (P4) after first service, and reproductive performance. First- and second-parity (n = 2,842) spring-calving lactating dairy cows from 35 dairy herds were enrolled. Farm visits were performed every 2 wk during the postpartum period and weekly during the breeding period.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMicrobiome
July 2023
Institute for Animal Science and Technology, Universitat Politècnica de València, València, Spain.
Background: Understanding how the host's microbiome shapes phenotypes and participates in the host response to selection is fundamental for evolutionists and animal and plant breeders. Currently, selection for resilience is considered a critical step in improving the sustainability of livestock systems. Environmental variance (V ), the within-individual variance of a trait, has been successfully used as a proxy for animal resilience.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFColloids Surf B Biointerfaces
July 2023
Department of Food Technology, University of Lleida - Agrotecnio Center, Av. Alcalde Rovira Roure 191, 25198, Lleida, Spain. Electronic address:
The present work aimed at studying the in vitro digestion fate of κ-carrageenan (KC) or agar (AG) emulsion gels (EG), and KC oil-filled aerogels (OAG) in terms of their structural changes, lipolysis kinetics and curcumin bioaccessibility. On the one hand, both EG and aerogels showed large (70-200 µm) and heterogeneous particles after gastric conditions, indicating the release of bulk oil and gelled material. Nonetheless, this material release in the stomach phase was lower in the case of EG-AG and OAG-KC compared to EG-KC.
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June 2023
Department of Agroindustry and Food Science, Andalusian Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries Research and Training (IFAPA), Alameda del Obispo, Avda. Menéndez-Pidal, 14004 Córdoba, Spain.
Onion ( L.) and its newly derived product "black onion" are characterised by the presence of compounds with potential bioactivity, particularly organosulfur compounds (OSCs). However, little is known about the metabolism, distribution, and excretion of these compounds as they pass through the gastrointestinal tract.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAntioxidants (Basel)
April 2023
Department of Agroindustry and Food Quality, Andalusian Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries Research and Training (IFAPA), Alameda del Obispo, Avda. Menéndez-Pidal, 14004 Córdoba, Spain.
The consumption of black garlic has been related to a decreased risk of many human diseases due to the presence of phytochemicals such as organosulfur compounds (OSCs). However, information on the metabolization of these compounds in humans is limited. By means of ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with high-resolution mass spectrometry (UHPLC-HRMS), this study aims to determine the OSCs and their metabolites excreted in urine 24 h after an acute intake of 20 g of black garlic by healthy humans.
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April 2023
Department of Food Technology, University of Lleida-Agrotecnio Center, 25198 Lleida, Spain.
In recent years, the trend in the population towards consuming more natural and sustainable foods has increased significantly. This claim has led to the search for new sources of bioactive compounds and extraction methods that have less impact on the environment. Moreover, the formulation of systems to protect these compounds is also focusing on the use of ingredients of natural origin.
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