Usages et impacts des espèces arborescentes dans les exploitations cacaoyères de l’Indénié-Djuablin, Côte d’Ivoire by Ménéké Distel Kougbo, François Malan Djah, Amadou Lamine Diop, Sylvie Konan Amenan, Mathieu Dogba

“…The timber like Tiama (Entandrophragma angolense), Bété (Mansonia altissima) and Iroko (Milicia excelsa) is valued for the excellent shade that is beneficial to young cocoa trees and the improvement of soil fertility while medicinal plants like Emien (Alstonia boonei), Ilomba (Pycnanthus angolensis) and Akpi (Ricinodendron heudelotii) are perceived as creating excessive shade and as potential hosts of crop pests. …”
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Mycoremediation of pesticide-contaminated soil: A review by Pujiati, Fatimah, Ramadhan Rico, Ni’matuzahroh

“…Using indigenous fungi in bioremediation reduces pesticide toxicity, supports sustainable agriculture, maintains soil fertility, and prevents biomagnification. This review examines recent studies on fungi in degrading pesticide-contaminated land and provides scientific evidence supporting mycoremediation as a solution for soil contamination.…”
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Erratic Male Meiosis Resulting in 2n Pollen Grain Formation in a 4x Cytotype (2n=28) of Ranunculus laetus Wall. ex Royle by Puneet Kumar, Vijay Kumar Singhal

“…These restitution nuclei resulted into dyads and triads which subsequently produced two types of apparently fertile pollen grains. On the basis of size, the two types of pollen grains were categorized as n (normal reduced) and 2n (unreduced, 1.5-times larger than the n pollen grains). …”
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Prospects of Organic Farming in Bhutan: A SWOT Analysis by Sonam Tashi, Kesang Wangchuk

“…Threats included (i) increasing incidences of pests and diseases, (ii) decline in sources of organic manure, and (iii) limited sources of organic manures and fertilizers.…”
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Infertility and Adenomyosis by Sebastiano Campo, Vincenzo Campo, Giuseppe Benagiano

“…Today, new imaging techniques have enabled a noninvasive diagnosis at a much earlier time and a number of single-case or small series reports have appeared showing that medical, surgical, or combined treatment can restore fertility in women with adenomyosis, an indirect proof of an association. …”
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Unintended Pregnancy among Pregnant Women in Ghana: Prevalence and Predictors by Samuel H. Nyarko

“…Unintended pregnancy is seen as the key concept for better understanding the fertility and the unmet need for family planning of populations. …”
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Endometrial Stromal Nodule: A Rarity and a Pathological Challenge by Camilla Skovvang Borg, Peter Humaidan, Hanne Noer, Huda Galib Majeed

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Darwinian dynamics of a juvenile-adult model by J. M. Cushing, Simon Maccracken Stump

“…We study this dynamic dichotomy in an evolutionary settingby assuming adult fertility and juvenile survival are functions of aphenotypic trait $u$ subject to Darwinian evolution. …”
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Dialetics and Structural Organization in the Ẹ̀bìbì Festival Performances of the Ẹ̀pẹ́ People in Lagos State, Nigeria by Babatunde Olanrewaju Adebua, Mobolanle Ebunoluwa Sotunsa

“…Color codes are symbolically white for cleansing, green for fertility, brown for earth and red for positive energy. …”
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Sharing soil knowledge of the Congolese coastal plains within international research partnerships by Lydie-Stella Koutika

“…In recent decades, nature-based approaches such as afforestation have been implemented to sustain productivity, conserve natural forests, and improve soil fertility. Other goals of this approach are mitigating climate change and biodiversity loss and restoring degraded lands in contributing to the sustainable development goals (SDGs) of the United Nations Agenda 2030. …”
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Percentage of consanguinity in Murrah buffalos in the Zulia state of Venezuela by José Raúl Pérez-González, Néstor Simón Montiel-Urdaneta

“…Increased F can have positive effects but has many adverse effects, such as decreased fertility, increased embryonic losses and fetal death, decreased growth rates, decreased milk and meat production, and decreased milk and meat quality. …”
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Yield gap decomposition: quantifying factors limiting soybean yield in Southern Africa by John Okoth Omondi, Mazvita Sheila Chiduwa, Stephen Kyei-Boahen, Patricia Masikati, Isaiah Nyagumbo

“…Abstract Soybean production in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is increasing as its demand for food, feed, cash, and soil fertility improvement soars. Yet, the difference between the smallholder farmers’ yield and either the attainable or the potential is large. …”
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SOIL COMPACTION AND ITS IMPACT ON SOIL PROPERTIES, MICROBIOME, GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION AND PLANT ROOT GROWTH by Poonam Bhatt, Prashant Raj Giri, Balchisu Napari

“…Soil compaction jeopardizes the soil microbiome’s role in nutrient cycling and plant productivity, disrupting soil fertility, carbon storage, and greenhouse gas emissions. …”
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Dissecting the sterility phenotype in gene edited Drosophila suzukii pgSIT males by Avery D. Witherbee, Stephanie Gamez

“…To further characterize sterile pgSIT males, we evaluated their fertility capacity, lack of mature sperm, and ability to induce a mating refractory period in D. suzukii wildtype females. …”
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Old Nick Crossed the Mississippi: The Figure of the Devil in Late Cold War Era Novels of the American West by Michael Walonen

“…Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian (1985), on the other hand, attributes Mephistophelean attributes (among others) to its antagonist Judge Holden as a means of dramatizing how barbarity, destruction, and expenditure are inexorably intertwined with the values and goals of civilization, while Ishmael Reed’s Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down (1969) reconfigures and repurposes the devil figure, drawing on the cultural valences of pagan male fertility figures and the Africana traditions he elsewhere conceptualizes as “neo-hoodoo” to wage a counter-cultural attack upon the pillars of American and Western Christian society.…”
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Exploring Farmers’ Perception and Constraints on the Adoption of Small-Scale Irrigation in Hulet Eju Enesie District, North-Western Ethiopia by Getasew Daru, Sinkie Alemu

“…Whereas, production cost (0.85), skill requirements (0.74), and declining soil fertility (0.65) were strongly perceived as relative disadvantage attributes of irrigation. …”
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Machine learning-based prediction of soil organic matter via smartphone by Qingying Gao, Yi Chen, Hui Zhang, Jingjing Chen, Liang Wang

“…Color is an important property of soil that indicates soil composition and fertility. Soil organic matter (SOM) of darker color soils, which have rich humus and minerals, is higher than others such as red soils. …”
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A Unique Source for Innovative Longitudinal Research: The POPLINK Database by Annika Westberg, Elisabeth Engberg, Sören Edvinsson

“…POPLINK allows for a large array of longitudinal studies, such as social mobility, migration, fertility, mortality, civil status, kinship relations, diseases, disability and causes of death. …”
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Enhanced Adsorption Performance of Biochar Derived from Palm Empty Fruit Bunches for Wastewater Treatment by Febrina Wetri, Awaluddin Amir, Saryono Saryono, Helwani Zuchra, Suraya Nabella, Abdillah Nuryasin, Sirlyana

“…Biochar technology is expanding due to its benefits in enhancing soil fertility, improving soil structure, increasing crop yields, and improving crop conditions (Gai et al., 2014; Ahmad et al., 2014). …”
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Yield Response of Faba Bean to Lime, NPSB, and Rhizobium Inoculation in Kiremu District, Western Ethiopia by Dereje Geleta, Getachew Bekele

“…Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) is one of the most important winter legume crops for human consumption as a green or dried, fresh, or canned. Low soil fertility and acidity are the major constraints of faba bean production in Ethiopia. …”
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