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Identifying critical factors for implementing good agricultural practice
2009
En este artículo se presenta la identificación de los factores críticos (FC) que afectan la implantación de un programa de buenas prácticas agrícolas (BPA) en productores de café y frutas del departamento del Huila, en Colombia, mediante la realización de un análisis factorial exploratorio utilizando como método de factorización el análisis de componentes principales (ACP); las matrices de datos se construyeron con los resultados de la aplicación de sendos instrumentos con estructura definida en las dos poblaciones objeto de estudio, el instrumento Starbucks C.A.F.E. Practices -para pequeños caficultores en el caso de los productores de café- y EUREPGAP V2.1 Oct.2004 - Checklist-listado de …
Factors Affecting Polyphenol Biosynthesis in Wild and Field Grown St. John’s Wort (Hypericum perforatum L. Hypericaceae/Guttiferae)
2009
The increasing diffusion of herbal products is posing new questions: why are products so often different in their composition and efficacy? Which approach is more suitable to increase the biochemical productivity of medicinal plants with large-scale, low-cost solutions? Can the phytochemical profile of a medicinal plant be modulated in order to increase the accumulation of its most valuable constituents? Will polyphenol-rich medicinal crops ever be traded as commodities? Providing a proactive answer to such questions is an extremely hard task, due to the large number of variables involved: intraspecific chemodiversity, plant breeding, ontogenetic stage, post-harvest handling, biotic and abi…