Purpose Current life cycle assessments (LCAs) of milk production often underestimate environmental impacts by overlooking significant greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from drained peatlands. This study applied a novel approach to quantify the contribution of GHG emissions from drained peat soils to the carbon footprint (CF) of milk production in German pre-alpine dairy farms, addressing this critical knowledge gap. Methods Carbo...

Mechanosensation plays a key role in many physiological processes. Despite its importance, high-content methods for studying mechanosignaling at the cell level remain challenging. This article presents an approach to assess mechanosignaling in adherent cells using isotropic mechanical stretch combined with real-time Ca 2+ fluorescence imaging. This method integrates our IsoStretcher platform with image registration, cell segme...

Soil respiration rates ( R s ) were measured in New Zealand dairy grassland. Both season and soil type significantly affected R s . Soil temperature and soil type dominated overall R s . Soil respiration ( R s ), the CO 2 release from root respiration and microbial metabolism, affects global soil carbon storage and cycling. Only few studies have looked at R s in the southern hemisphere, especially regarding the interaction bet...

With SCAview, we present a prompt and comprehensive tool that enables scientists to browse large datasets of the most common spinocerebellar ataxias intuitively and without technical effort. Basic concept is a visualization of data, with a graphical handling and filtering to select and define subgroups and their comparison. Several plot types to visualize all data points resulting from the selected attributes are provided. The...

Variations of strontium isotope ratios ( 87 Sr/ 86 Sr) in river systems are increasingly utilised to geochemically trace origin and movement patterns of migratory fish species. Accretionary calcified structures, such as otoliths, preserve 87 Sr/ 86 Sr signatures of the surrounding water during a fish’s lifetime. In this study, we present 87 Sr/ 86 Sr measurements of water samples and catfish otoliths collected in the estuaries...

Peatlands in the European Union are largely drained for agriculture and emit 25% of the total agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. Drainage-based peatland use has also negative impacts on water quality, drinking water provision and biodiversity. Consequently, key EU environmental policy objectives include the rewetting of all drained peatlands as an essential nature-based solution. Rewetting of peatlands can be combined with...

Selection for multiple traits is a highly challenging task for breeders due to potential unfavorable associations between characters. Fusarium head blight FHB, being one of the most relevant diseases affecting durum wheat frequently shows in this respect an unfavorable correlation with morpho-agronomical traits like plant height (PH) and heading date (HD). In this study, we used a cross-validation scheme to assess the predicti...