Background The role of trypanocidal therapy in patients with established Chagas’ cardiomyopathy
is unproven. Methods We conducted a prospective, multicenter, randomized study …

Potato is the most important non-grain crop in the world. Therefore, understanding the potential
impacts of climate change on potato production is critical for future global food security. …

New types of phenotyping tools generate large amounts of data on many aspects of plant
physiology and morphology with high spatial and temporal resolution. These new phenotyping …

Spatial arrangement of soil pores determines soil structure and is important to model soil
processes. Geometric properties of individual pores can be estimated from thin sections, but …

A potato crop multimodel assessment was conducted to quantify variation among models
and evaluate responses to climate change. Nine modeling groups simulated agronomic and …

High-altitude ecosystems shelter important reserves of biodiversity, water provision and soil
organic carbon (SOC) stocks. Climate change, agricultural encroachment, overgrazing, and …

Maintenance of leaf greenness under drought stress is generally considered a positive trait
as it indicates reduced chlorophyll degradation. This is particularly relevant at the end of the …

Multiple regression analysis of 1999 farm survey data from the Peruvian Altiplano finds that
natural resource sustainability is not correlated with poverty; rather it varies by management …

Partial root-zone drying (PRD) is an irrigation technique which has shown increased water
use efficiency (WUE) without yield reductions in potato and other crops. However, questions …

Many crop models have been developed for potato, and a few for sweet potato, and yam.
More than 30 potato models, two sweet potato models, and three yam models are described in …