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The presence of chemical contaminants in food has received considerable media attention due to consumers’ increasing demands for safe, nutritious and high quality food. The issue is controversial and complicated, and scientific findings regarding chemical contaminants in foods are often misinterp...

Acute ruminal acidosis is a metabolic disease that affects livestock. It is produced by high intake of highly fermentable carbohydrates, which decreases the pH of the ruminal fluid, and generates local and systemic inflammatory manifestations. In experimentally induced cattle with acute ruminal a...

Acidosis ruminal aguda es una enfermedad metabólica que afecta al ganado. Se produce por ingesta elevada de carbohidratos altamente fermentables, lo cual disminuye el pH del líquido ruminal, y genera manifestaciones inflamatorias locales y sistémicas en el organismo. En bovinos inducidos experime...

Actualmente existe un aumento en los trabajos de investigación relacionados al desarrollo de técnicas de reproducción asistida en el gato doméstico con el propósito de implementar estas técnicas en especies de felinos amenazados. La güiña (Leopardus guigna) es una especie endémica de Chile, clasi...

The ornamental plant industry grows year after year and some estimates predict that this market will reach 30 to 60 billion dollars in 2020. This industry has a strong focus on novelty, continuously developing new varieties and introducing species with exotic origins. In this sense Chile has an e...

Introducción: las menores ganancias en el rendimiento de trigo durante de los últimos 20 años predicen una futura crisis alimentaria. Aun así, el rendimiento es considerado clave para enfrentar los futuros desafíos. Entender los componentes numéricos (número y peso de los granos) y fisiológicos (...

Chile´s native forests are one of the world´s 25 priority conservation ecoregions due to their high levels of endemism. These forests have been strongly disturbed by human activities in the past, which has resulted in high levels of deforestation and forest degradation. In Chile, 70% of forests a...

Ten unexplored and pristine mires along the Baker and Pascua River Basins in Aysén, Chilean Patagonia, were examined, generating information about their origin, hydrology, geomorphology, stratigraphy, ecology, and carbon and water storage capacities. Eight mire types ecologically differentiable, ...