Antimicrobial resistance has become an imminent concern for public health. As methods for detection and characterization of antimicrobial resistance move from targeted culture and polymerase chain reaction to high throughput metagenomics, appropriate resources for the analysis of large-scale data are required. Currently, antimicrobial resistance databases are tailored to smaller-scale, functional profiling of genes using highly descriptive annotations.

ABSTRACT. Breeding goals in potato programs encompass several important commercial traits such as market aspects (skin color, eye depth, shape), category use (fresh or processed), yield, crop duration, and pest and disease resistance. In light of medium- and long-term changes in trait requirements, breeders rely on a range of wild and commercial germplasm in their efforts to reach the multiple objectives that determine the success of a new variety.

ABSTRACT. Antimicrobial peptides have been considered a new source of biomolecules in several fields of research/innovative applications:they would adjust to an ideal behavior seeking to overcome clinician, microbiological, human-animal-plant-environmental concerns. Antimicrobial peptides can be considered as ancient weapons found in living organisms suggesting they have played a fundamental role in his successful co-evolution with pathogens.

ABSTRACT: Rice is the basis of diet for almost half of the world population, and its culture is one of the strategic agroindustrial production chains in the agribusiness environment, in both economic and social levels. Thus, the comparative analysis between the production chains of rice milled in Rio Grande do Sul (RS), Brazil, and Uruguay was mainly motivated by the interest in knowing the differences in the business environment and public policies that impact the competitiveness of this chain in both study regions.

ABSTRACT. Onion sets (small onion bulblets) may allow seed production with lower costs than the traditional biennial cycle. This research aimed to evaluate the seed-set-seed method for seed production of three onion cultivars grown in Uruguay. Small (16-21 mm) and large (26-31 mm) onion sets were evaluated in combination with four storage periods at 7°C (0, 15, 30 and 45 days) for the cultivars INIA Casera (IC) and Pantanoso del Sauce CRS (PS), and 0 and 30 days for INIA Valenciana (IV).

ABSTRACT. Uruguay is characterized by having an Africanization gradient in its honey bee (Apis mellifera) populations from areas bordering Brazil to the most remote locations. Morphological differences have also been found among Varroa destructor populations from different regions. A possible explanation for these morphological changes in mites could be explained by morphological correlations in the host/parasite A. mellifera/V. destructor system. The objective of the present study was to identify A. mellifera ecotypes in Uruguay and their correlation with V.

Optimal foraging and optimal oviposition are two major forces leading to plant selection by insect females, but the contribution of these forces to the host-selection process has been little studied for sucking herbivores. We studied feeding and oviposition behavior of a global pest, the bronze bug, Thaumastocoris peregrinus Carpintero & Dellape (Heteroptera:Thaumastocoridae), using dualchoice bioassays to evaluate the preference of females between host species, developmental leaf stage, or prior plant exposure to conspecifics.

In 1990, two selection lines of Merino sheep were established for low and high behavioural reactivity (calm and nervous temperament) at the University of Western Australia. Breeding records consistently showed that calm ewes weaned 10% to 19% more lambs than the nervous ewes. We hypothesise that calm ewes could have a higher ovulation rate than nervous ewes and/or calm ewes could have a lower rate of embryo mortality than nervous ewes.

Abstract Over the last decade, Uruguay has expanded and intensified its rainfed crop production. This process has affected beekeeping in several ways:for example, by reducing the space available. This has increased the density of apiaries, the risk of varroosis and acaricide use. Additionally, the dominance of no-tillage crops has increased the frequencies of application and of loads of pesticides in regions where such crops share the land with beekeeping and honey production.