Tadić, Đorđe (Date of defense: 2020-11-04)
The discovery of antibiotics (ABs) and their mass production brought a revolution in medicine worldwide during the middle of the XX century. Infectious diseases with high morbidity and mortality suddenly ...
García Mendívil, Helio Adán (Date of defense: 2019-10-29)
Watermelon, Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus, and eggplant, Solanum melongena, are two major crops commonly grafted onto resistant rootstocks for controlling soilborne diseases. However, there are currently ...
Cerqueira, Francisco Diogo de Almeida (Date of defense: 2020-06-08)
Antibiotic (AB) Resistance is an increasing global problem for public health, with multi-resistant bacteria persisting and spreading not only in clinical settings but also in the environment. One of the ...
Recasens Gracia, Francisco Javier (Date of defense: 2020-09-16)
Urban agriculture is defined, as the agricultural and livestock activities that are carried out within or around cities. FAO's definition includes those services offered by agrarian activity that benefit ...
Girón Rojas, Emma Cecilia (Date of defense: 2020-09-10)
The importance for the good management of the waste increases day by day, due to the increase of the generation of waste .Composting is one of the most used treatments in the management of the organic ...
Margenat Mas, Anna Maria (Date of defense: 2018-11-27)
Peri-urban agriculture carries out environmental, social and economic functions and services to the nearby urban areas. Nonetheless, most of these fields are impacted with organic and inorganic contaminants ...
Sans Molins, Sílvia (Date of defense: 2019-10-31)
Sensory and nutritional quality are key elements for consumers, providing added value to agri-food products. However, there is a general perception that horticultural products have lost their quality, ...
Dong, Xiaoyun (Date of defense: 2016-05-25)
G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the largest membrane protein superfamily encoded by the human genome and represent the largest class of drug targets for a wide range of pathological conditions. ...
Expósito Creo, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2021-02-05)
Plant resistance through grafting susceptible scions onto resistant rootstocks is an effective measure to supress root-knot nematode (RKN) populations and to reduce crop yield losses. However, the ...
Poli, Elena (Date of defense: 2016-04-26)
This research project intends to investigate empirically the potentials of Social Capital to act as a mechanism to improve the performance of India's small-holder agriculture. The study employs both a ...