The concept of “one health” is gaining strength at a global scale. The term summarizes a notion that has been known for more than a century: human and animal health are interdependent and linked to the ecosystems in which they coexist. In the International Year of Plant Health (2020), it is crucial that the agricultural sciences call attention for the need to consider the health...
Controlling lepidopteran pests in soybean in Uruguay usually involves the application of chemical insecticides with risks to health and the environment. As part of an inundative biological control program using Trichogramma pretiosum, a plot trial at three sites located in the department of Soriano (Uruguay), in the 2019-2020 growing season, compared this conventional practice...
Eucalyptus dunnii Maiden produces good quality cellulose pulp, showing good frost tolerance. However, in Uruguay, it needs more than six years to reach the reproductive stage. Genome duplication was proposed as a strategy to obtain useful variability. The application of mitosis inhibitors for chromosomal duplication, in explants growing in vitro, was evaluated. Two antimitotic...
Potato is considered a staple food in the world and its production is limited by the presence of bacterial wilt (bw) disease caused by Ralstonia solanacearum. Host resistance is the most sustainable and cost-effective strategy to manage bw, although resistant commercial potato cultivars are not yet available. Our group incorporated the efr receptor of Arabidopsis thaliana (atefr...
The allelopathic action can be verified by the presence of phytotoxic substances, molecules that are directed to the agribusiness sector. The objective of this study was to evaluate the chemical composition of the methanolic extracts from Colletotrichum dianesei and Xylaria sp., and phytotoxic potential on Lactuca sativa. The fungi were grown in Sabouraud liquid medium...
Colombia is recognized as an important agricultural producer of pineapple and flowers. One of the most significant phytosanitary problems of these crops is pathogenic nematodes and it is necessary to find biocontrol alternatives for their management. This study evaluated the effect of Purpureocillium sp., strain UdeA0106, over the number of nematodes. Soil from pineapple and...
The aim of this work was to isolate and characterize, based on microbiological as well as molecular markers, bacteria within nodules of three native trees species from South America: Poecilanthe parviflora Benth (Lapachillo), Vachellia caven (Molina) Seigler & Ebinger (Espinillo), and Enterolobium contortisiliquum (Vell.) Morong (Timbó). In line with this, we isolated and...
EditorialREDBIO's contribution to the region and the worldLa contribución de la REDBIO a la región y el mundoA contribuição da REDBIO para a região e o mundoR. L. Chanhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-3264-0008 R. L. ChanIt is an honor to have been invited to write this article and even a greater honor to have received the prestigious REDBIO medal. For both, I am very grateful to the...
The instruments for the protection and conservation of natural resources (such as protected areas) constitute paradigmatically cases of land use and territorial planning. Likewise, the processes of application of these instruments imply conflicts and differences in power and degrees of affectation between different local actors. The study of sociological systems underlines the...
The transformations that have occurred in recent years in Uruguay have challenged the State to find adequate tools for the application of policies and differentiated support to family farmers. One strategy has been the promotion of associative processes, promoted with ministerial programs from the General Directorate of Rural Development (dgdr), and from the National Institute of...
The Rural Development Committees (rdc) have been used to involve local actors in the design and implementation of public policies that relate to rural development. As institutional and organizative innovations, these new spaces are currently in progress and it is relevant to contribute to their operation assessment. The objective of this particular article is to contribute to get...
Barley is an important crop in Uruguay, sown mainly through contracts with malting companies, with quality requirements for malting that do not contemplate the maximum residue limits (mrls) of fungicides established by official bodies. Farmers present heterogeneity in organizational and productive aspects, generating different incentives for decision-making. The objective of this...
Agroecology appears as the main alternative to think of new more diversified and sustainable production systems that respect natural resources. Starting from experiences of community processes of social development in rural areas, privileging collective reflection on ways of doing things and identifying those shortcomings, we reflect here on co-innovation as a methodology for...
The development of the Uruguayan family farming production, and specifically of the livestock sector, has been raised as a priority in public policies, reconciling economic and social objectives. Livestock breeding continues to be one of the most important activities within the agriculture sector, but its productivity still shows an important gap in relation to potential, as a...
This article presents results of the participatory action research Project “Co-innovation for the sustainable development of the family cattle raising in the Sierras del Este”. The project is financed by the National Institute of Agricultural Research and is implemented by the Agriculture College (Social Sciences Department) and the Agricultural Plan Institute (Extension Agency...
Innovation thinking in agricultural social studies has gone through different stages during the last half century. The analyzes have been enriched from a narrow vision based on the farmer conceived as a technology adopter towards integral approaches that interweave social and technical dimensions in systemic processes. This review examines social science contributions addressing...
Innovation thinking in agricultural social studies has gone through different stages during the last half century. The analyzes have been enriched from a narrow vision based on the farmer conceived as a technology adopter towards integral approaches that interweave social and technical dimensions in systemic processes. This review examines social science contributions addressing...
The experience presented in this article is part of the strengthening work of the Rural Development Board (mdr) of Tacuarembó (Uruguay), one of the actions through which the “institutional relationship” dimension was approached. The hypothesis was that any progress in terms of Rural Development implies, among other things, the recognition of the actors present in the territory...
Barley is an important crop in Uruguay, sown mainly through contracts with malting companies, with quality requirements for malting that do not contemplate the maximum residue limits (mrls) of fungicides established by official bodies. Farmers present heterogeneity in organizational and productive aspects, generating different incentives for decision-making. The objective of this...
The experience presented in this article is part of the strengthening work of the Rural Development Board (mdr) of Tacuarembó (Uruguay), one of the actions through which the “institutional relationship” dimension was approached. The hypothesis was that any progress in terms of Rural Development implies, among other things, the recognition of the actors present in the territory...
The development of the Uruguayan family farming production, and specifically of the livestock sector, has been raised as a priority in public policies, reconciling economic and social objectives. Livestock breeding continues to be one of the most important activities within the agriculture sector, but its productivity still shows an important gap in relation to potential, as a...
This article analyses how two environmental “good enough-governance” approaches in climate change vulnerable areas in Argentine (Pampa biome) and Brazilian (Amazon biome) municipalities have the potential of contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals 12 (responsible consumption and production), 13 (climate action), 15 (life on land), 16 (Peace, Justice...
Fungal diseases in wheat crops (Triticum aestivum) cause significant yield and quality grain losses worldwide. The increase in the crop production area under no-tillage and environmental changes has favored residue-borne fungal survival and, therefore, disease development. Field trials were carried out at the beginning of anthesis on wheat crops (state z61), in order to evaluate...
Cattle and sheep systems in Uruguay and worldwide are challenged to reduce their environmental footprint while increasing efficiency and production. To achieve this challenge, user-friendly tools are needed that can translate research findings into practical information that could improve decision making by farmers and advise different stakeholders. Despite this, there are a...
Faecal egg count (fec) is used in sheep to decide when to drench. It is also used in genetic evaluations, in which case fec should be recorded when the parasite burden is large enough so that variation among animals can be expressed. Another requisite is that the fraction of animals with zero fec should be below 0.1. In order to decide the appropriate moment for drenching, or fec...