• Protecting the unseen majority: Land cover and environmental factors linked with soil bacterial communities and functions in New Zealand 

  Wakelin, S. A.; Forrester, S. T.; Condron, Leo M.; O’Callaghan, M.; Clinton, P.; McDougal, R. L.; Davis, M.; Smaill, S. J.; Addison, S. (New Zealand Ecological Society, 2021)

  The biodiversity in soil ecosystems is simultaneously incredibly rich and poorly described. In countries such as New Zealand, where high endemism in plant species emerged following extended geographical isolation, it is ...

• Transpiration rate of white clover (Trifolium repens L.) cultivars in drying soil 

  Egan, Lucy M.; Hofmann, Rainer; Nichols, S.; Hadipurnomo, Jonathan T.; Hoyos-Villegas, V. (Frontiers Media SA, 2021-03)

  Determining the performance of white clover cultivars under drought conditions is critical in dry climates. However, comparing the differences in cultivar performance requires equivalent soil water content for all plants, ...

• A taxonomically detailed and large-scale view of the factors affecting the distribution and abundance of tree species planted in private gardens of Christchurch city, New Zealand 

  Quan, Wei; Sullivan, Jon J.; Meurk, C. D.; Stewart, Glenn H. (PeerJ, 2021-03-26)

  A city’s planted trees, the great majority of which are in private gardens, play a fundamental role in shaping a city’s wild ecology, ecosystem functioning, and ecosystem services. However, studying tree diversity across ...

• Transcriptome analysis reveals genes involved in thermogenesis in two cold-exposed sheep breeds 

  Jiao, D.; Ji, K.; Liu, H.; Wang, W.; Wu, X.; Zhou, J.; Zhang, Y.; Zhou, Huitong; Hickford, Jonathan G. H.; Degen, A. A.; Yang, G. (MDPI, 2021-03)

  Thermogenesis plays an important role in the survival of sheep exposed to low temperatures; however, little is known about the genetic mechanisms underlying cold adaptation in sheep. We examined 6 Altay (A) and 6 Hu (H) ...

• Quality differences between fresh and dried buckwheat noodles associated with water status and inner structure 

  Wang, Ruibin; Li, M.; Wei, Y.; Guo, B.; Brennan, Margaret A.; Brennan, Charles S. (MDPI, 2021-01)

  Buckwheat noodles are mainly sold in the form of fresh and dried noodles in China. Among the noodles with varied proportions of extruded buckwheat flour (20% to 80%), the cooking or textural qualities of fresh and dried ...

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