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Curing of Cocoa Beans: Fine-Scale Monitoring of the Starter Cultures Applied and Metabolomics of the Fermentation and Drying Steps
(Frontiers Media, 2021-01-11)
Starter culture-initiated cocoa fermentation processes can be applied to improve the quality of cured cocoa beans. However, an accurate monitoring of the microbial strains inoculated in fresh cocoa pulp-bean mass to assess ...
A Combined Metagenomics and Metatranscriptomics Approach to Unravel Costa Rican Cocoa Box Fermentation Processes Reveals Yet Unreported Microbial Species and Functionalities
(Frontiers Media, 2021-02-16)
Cocoa fermentation is the first step in the post-harvest processing chain of cocoa and is important for the removal of the cocoa pulp surrounding the beans and the development of flavor and color precursors. In the present ...
Comportamento do consumidor português de vinho biológico
(Editora Átomo, 2020-05-19)
Embora nos últimos anos o vinho biológico tenha evoluído de forma positiva na produção e
no consumo, devido a uma maior preocupação e consciência ambiental e com a saúde, continua a ser
uma atividade económica em Portugal ...
Reverse Taxonomy for Elucidating Diversity of Insect-Associated Nematodes: A Case Study with Termites
(Public Library of Science, 2012-08-28)
Background: The molecular operational taxonomic unit (MOTU) has recently been applied to microbial and microscopic animal biodiversity surveys. However, in many cases, some of the MOTUs cannot be definitively tied to any ...
A NEW SPECIES OF NEMATODE, SCLERORHABDITIS NEOTROPICALIS SP.N. (RHABDITIDA), ASSOCIATED WITH AZTECA ANTS IN CECROPIA OBTUSIFOLIA
(Nematropica, 2012-06)
Sclerorhabditis neotropicalis sp. n. is described and illustrated. It can be distinguished by its body length (515-560 μm in females and 363-455 μm in males), lip region with crown-shaped lips, having acute three acute ...
Micromorfología de los foliolos de pejibaye Bactris gasipaes (Arecaceae) var. Diamantes-10
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 2016-07-01)
Bactris gasipaes is widely cultivated for the consumption of palm hearts and fruits. The present work describes the micro morphological characteristics of leaflets from adult plants of B. gasipaes, thornless ...
Turmoil at Turrialba Volcano (Costa Rica): Degassing and eruptive processes inferred from high-frequency gas monitoring
(Wiley, 2016-08-28)
Eruptive activity at Turrialba Volcano (Costa Rica) has escalated significantly since 2014, causing airport and school closures in the capital city of San José. Whether or not new magma is involved in the current unrest ...
Biomass dynamics of Erythrina lanceolata as influenced by shoot-pruning intensity in Costa Rica
(Springer, 2003)
Pruning of agroforestry trees, while reducing shade of the crops, usually reduces both biomass production and nitrogen fixation. Short pruning cycles are often not sustainable on the long run, because tree production ...
Free-living nematodes from nature reserves in Costa Rica. 4. Cephalobina
(Brill, 2003)
Four species of Cephalobina: Geraldius bakeri, Diastolaimus croca, Trualaimus culeatus and Tricirronema tentaculatum are described and illustrated on the basis of material collected in Costa Rica. A scanning electron ...
Checklist of the vascular flora of Reserva Biológica San Luis, Costa Rica
(Pensoft, 2016-03-21)
The Reserva Biológica San Luis is a small protected area located on the Pacific side of the Cordillera de Tilarán, northwestern Costa Rica, with a forest transitioning between the basal and premontane floras according to ...