Animal aggregations promote emergent aquatic plant production at the aquatic–terrestrial interface

Epidemic dynamics at the human-animal interface.

Few infectious diseases are entirely human-specific: Most human pathogens also circulate in animals or else originated in nonhuman hosts. Influenza, plague, and trypanosomiasis are classic examples of zoonotic infections that transmit from animals to humans. The multihost ecology of zoonoses leads to complex dynamics, and analytical tools, such as mathematical modeling, are vital to the develop...

Aquatic plant Azolla as the universal feedstock for biofuel production

BACKGROUND The quest for sustainable production of renewable and cheap biofuels has triggered an intensive search for domestication of the next generation of bioenergy crops. Aquatic plants which can rapidly colonize wetlands are attracting attention because of their ability to grow in wastewaters and produce large amounts of biomass. Representatives of Azolla species are some of the fastest gr...

Plant Reproductive Genomics at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference

Exciting advances in our understanding of plant reproductive biology are being spurred both by new research on established model systems and by the emergence of new models. Moreover, comparative analyses are placing knowledge derived from each of these systems into an evolutionary framework and thus providing insights into the processes responsible for the diversity of forms we see today. The n...

Chipping Away at the Perception/Production Interface

Can interventions to promote animal production ameliorate undernutrition?

The potential of animal-source foods (ASF) to alleviate micronutrient deficiencies is well recognized. How the intake of ASF can be effectively increased is not known, but promoting animal production (AP) is one possible method. We reviewed the impact of interventions promoting AP on nutritional status and on 6 nutrition-related outcomes: production, household income and expenditure, caregiver ...