{"title":"Effect of Modified Leonardite on Growth and Fruit Yield of Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.)","authors":"Junya Singkham, Parichart Ditthakit","doi":"10.18178/joaat.6.4.272-275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/joaat.6.4.272-275","url":null,"abstract":"Leonardite is readily available and high in organic matter. It has potentially positive effect on plant growth and yield. The experiment evaluated the effect of modified leonardite on cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.). Four treatments including untreated control, modified leonardite at the rate of 15.62 t ha, modified leonardite at the rate of 31.25 t ha-1 and modified leonardite at the rate of 46.87 t ha were arranged in a randomized completely block design with four replications. Data were recorded for soil properties after application of modified leonardite, plant height, number of leaves and yield at 10, 20, 30 and 40 days after planting. Modified leonardite applied soils led to increase in organic matter and potassium contents in the soil. Cucumber treated with modified leonardite increased plant height. The application with high rate of modified leonardite had the highest number of leaves at 20 and 30 days after planting. Number of fruits and fresh weight of fruits showed significant response to the high rate of modified leonardite compared with other treatments. Therefore, the application of modified leonardite had positive effect on plant growth and improved production of cucumber plants.","PeriodicalId":222254,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Advanced Agricultural Technologies","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134130957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Patricia Mehner-Karam, C. A. Gutiérrez, Juan M. Casillas Pintor, Miranda Ori-Orlansino, D. A. Perez-DeLaMora, Mariana Ruiz-Morales, Eduardo Gamaliel Hernandez-Martinez
{"title":"Urban Raised Bed Vegetable Garden Designed to Promote Immunonutrition: A Pilot Study","authors":"Patricia Mehner-Karam, C. A. Gutiérrez, Juan M. Casillas Pintor, Miranda Ori-Orlansino, D. A. Perez-DeLaMora, Mariana Ruiz-Morales, Eduardo Gamaliel Hernandez-Martinez","doi":"10.18178/joaat.10.1.1-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/joaat.10.1.1-7","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years urban agriculture practices have been developed to increase the self-production and self-consumption of fresh and varied foods. While food security in cities continues to decline and several diseases become more frequent in city inhabitants, it is important to implement urban gardens as a potential alternative for families to obtain fruits and vegetables to incorporate into their meals, especially when the supply of these is restricted as happened with the lockdown for the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study the design and implementation of a raised bed urban garden to be tested in western neighborhoods of Mexico City was achieved. The project was divided into four stages: (i) design and development of the prototype garden, (ii) selection of the vegetable palette to promote immunonutrition, (iii) production of educational materials for planting and caring for the garden and (iv) validation. The alternative of urban gardens that provide a variety of plant species that are easy to grow in urban microclimates promotes a sustainable culture by taking advantage of new technologies and virtual education (e-learning), which help guarantee their use and permanence.","PeriodicalId":222254,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Advanced Agricultural Technologies","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133111820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis Methods of Common Biological Components in Food Additives","authors":"Wei Huang","doi":"10.18178/joaat.9.2.65-70","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/joaat.9.2.65-70","url":null,"abstract":"The diseases caused by food are defined as the illnesses with which people are infected or threatened by the foods they eat. These diseases are a broad public health issue and cost a lot to individuals and authorities. In this view, food safety should be a big deal for whole world and paid a lot of attention. Analysis of biological components in food additives plays a vital role in the industry since it can detect and quantify all the main components (sugar, nucleic acid, protein and fat) we can find. With the development of technology, a lot of new created approaches such as western blotting, chromatography, RT PCR are applied in this area which shows some advantages over the conventional ones. In addition, the new technology can be further developed in the direction of simplicity and speed in the analysis work. In this review, we attempt to focus on the approaches on the analysis of different biological components and summarize them in a whole glance.","PeriodicalId":222254,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Advanced Agricultural Technologies","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116436733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Antifungal Activity against the Growth of Aflatoxin Producing Fungi from Soil Actinobacteria","authors":"K. Wongsariya, C. Thawai","doi":"10.18178/joaat.6.3.200-204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/joaat.6.3.200-204","url":null,"abstract":"—Aflatoxins are one of the highly concerning fungal toxins, which can cause the serious problems to human and animal health such as hepatotoxicity, teratogenicity, and immunotoxicity. Aspergillus flavus is the potential aflatoxin producer and it has usually been isolated from aflatoxin-contaminated crops. The biological compounds with the outstanding antifungal activity for inhibiting the growth of aflatoxin producing fungi still require. This experiment was attempt to isolate antifungal producing actinomycete from soil. Thirty isolates of soil actinobacteria were tested for an ability to inhibit the growth of A. flavus IMI 242684 using dual culture test and agar well diffusion assay. Primary screening results from dual culture test showed that 6 isolates of actinobacteria, N39Wh, N44Cr, N38Gr, LP14Wh, N13Gy, and N42Wh exhibited antifungal activity against the growth of A. flavus and with percent inhibition in the range of 21.42 to 42.85% then, their activity were confirmed by agar well diffusion assay. The freeze-dried supernatant from isolate N39Wh at concentration of 250 mg/mL showed the strongest antifungal activity with inhibitory zone of 17.25 mm followed by isolate N44Cr, LP14Wh, N38Gr, N13Gy, and N42Wh which produced the inhibition zone at 14.31 mm, 13.71mm, 13.50mm, 11.53mm, and 10.15mm, respectively.","PeriodicalId":222254,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Advanced Agricultural Technologies","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128421853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of AI-based System for Classification of Objects in Farms Using Deep Learning by Chainer and a Template-Matching Based Detection Method","authors":"Shinji Kawakura, R. Shibasaki","doi":"10.18178/joaat.6.3.175-179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/joaat.6.3.175-179","url":null,"abstract":"—It has generally been difficult for agri-system developers to identify diverse objects automatically and accurately before the harvesting without touching something dangerous (e.g., poisonous creatures, toxic substances). Such objects could include harvestings for sale, stems, leaves, artificial stiff frames, unnecessary weeds, agri-tools, and creatures, especially in Japanese traditional small-medium sized, insufficiently trimmed (messed) farmlands. Scientists, agri-managers, and workers have been trying to solve these problems. On the other side, researchers have been advancing robot systems, mainly based on automatic machines for harvesting and pulling up weeds utilizing visual-data analysis systems. These studies have captured a significant amount of visual data, identified objects with short time delay. However, previous products have not yet met these requirements. We have considered the achievements of recent technologies to develop and test new systems. The purpose of this research is proving the utility of this visual-data analysis system by classifying and outputting datasets from an AI-based image system that obtained field pictures in outdoor farmlands. We then apply Chainer for deep learning, and focus on computing methodologies relating to template-matching and deep learning to classify the captured objects. The presented sets of results confirm the utility of the methodologies to some extent.","PeriodicalId":222254,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Advanced Agricultural Technologies","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132996687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Human Capital and Technology Change of Chinese Agriculture","authors":"Zhijun Li","doi":"10.18178/joaat.6.2.96-100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/joaat.6.2.96-100","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":222254,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Advanced Agricultural Technologies","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126961572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Outi Ruusunen, M. Jalli, L. Jauhiainen, M. Ruusunen, K. Leiviskä
{"title":"Data Analysis in Moving Windows for Optimizing Barley Net Blotch Prediction","authors":"Outi Ruusunen, M. Jalli, L. Jauhiainen, M. Ruusunen, K. Leiviskä","doi":"10.18178/JOAAT.7.2.38-42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/JOAAT.7.2.38-42","url":null,"abstract":"—In modern agriculture, the pesticides and the need to decrease their use is under discussion. Optimization methods and modelling tools are important research areas in this context. In this paper, data analysis, feature generation and selection in moving windows have been utilized for the evaluation of net blotch risk in barley. Two different datasets: The open data from the Finnish Meteorological Institute and the historical observation of the net blotch severity in different fields in Finland are combined with feature generation techniques. T-test is then applied to select the most statistically suitable features for prediction the net blotch risk from weather measurements. Analysis proceeds in moving data windows to indicate the most informative time period to predict the risk of net blotch during the growing season. Results show that the selection of the proper time instance and the length of data window may enhance strongly the potential performance of prediction methods for risk analysis on plant disease. 1","PeriodicalId":222254,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Advanced Agricultural Technologies","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122079634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessment of Methane Emissions from Dairy Cattle Production in Selected Case Studies in Thailand","authors":"P. Thu, N. Am-in, S. Kittipongvises","doi":"10.18178/joaat.10.1.30-35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/joaat.10.1.30-35","url":null,"abstract":"Thailand’s agriculture sector both cultivation and livestock has played a vital role in driving economic growth. Globally, livestock production is estimated to contribute about 18% of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. Despite its importance, there is a relative lack of research on GHGs assessment in livestock sector in Thailand. The aim of this research was to estimate GHGs emissions from dairy cattle production in selected farm cases in Saraburi and Ratchaburi provinces of Thailand. The 2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC guidelines for national greenhouse gas inventories was applied in this research. Methane (CH4) emissions from the enteric fermentation and manure management from dairy cattle farms in Saraburi and Ratchaburi are in the range of 2.73 – kg 15.67 kg CO2 eq. Methane emission from enteric fermentation was higher than those from manure management. Therefore, it is necessary for farm managers and related stakeholders to properly manage and focus on the feedstuffs and herd managements including genetic systems and farms to lower methane emissions.","PeriodicalId":222254,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Advanced Agricultural Technologies","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123608814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Application of Electrolyzed Water as Food Sanitizer","authors":"Zi-Yang He","doi":"10.18178/joaat.8.2.46-59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/joaat.8.2.46-59","url":null,"abstract":"Uncontrolled growth of microorganism in foodstuff pose a severe challenge to the food industry, as it could lead to food spoilage, or even foodborne disease if the microorganism is pathogenic. To deal with these threats, sanitizers have been widely applied in food industry. During the last two decades, Electrolyzed Water (EW) has been found to be a promising new sanitizer for food industry, as it is more environmentally friendly compared to conventional chlorine-based disinfectants. This paper reviews the recent progress on the application of EW as a food sanitizer. EW was produced by the electrolysis of diluted NaCl (or HCl) solution and could be classified into several subgroups (acid EW, slightly EW, neutral EW, alkaline EW, low concentration EW) based on their pH and available chlorine concentration. The efficacy of using EW to inhibit the growth of several most important microorganism of food safety concern were proven by numerous studies. Besides, the application of EW has been seldomly associated with detrimental effects on the nutritional and sensory proprieties of food. However, its antimicrobial potency was affected by factors such as pH, temperature, storage time, and organic matters.","PeriodicalId":222254,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Advanced Agricultural Technologies","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125635269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessment of Toxicological Effects of Di-n-butyl phthalate to a Cereal Crop (Hordeum vulgare L.)","authors":"A. Kumari, R. Kaur, Ritika Sharma, R. Kaur","doi":"10.18178/joaat.6.1.20-26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/joaat.6.1.20-26","url":null,"abstract":"— Phthalates have been declared as emerging environmental pollutants and their wide array of applications made them ubiquitous in almost all of the environmental matrices. However, a number of studies have focused on phthalates induced toxicity in animal experimental models, while limited attention has been given to phthalates induced toxicity to cereal crops. Therefore, the present study investigates the phytotoxic responses of exogenous exposure of di-n-butyl phthalate (DBP) in a cereal crop i.e. barley. The barley was exposed to different concentrations of DBP viz . 0, 25, 50, 100, 200, 400, 800 and 1600 mg/L for 7 days under controlled conditions. The exposure of DBP significantly altered different biochemical indices of barley seedlings which are attributed to the disturbance of normal physiological mechanisms of seedlings. It was observed that the barley seedlings were affected adversely in response to DBP stress. The exposure of DBP showed the stimulatory effect on carbohydrate, malondialdehyde (MDA), proline and hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) content of seedlings. The study also revealed that the roots were more sensitive to DBP stress than shoots of barley seedlings.","PeriodicalId":222254,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Advanced Agricultural Technologies","volume":"05 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130268874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}