Aquaculture at sea
...f marine animals are valuable for very different reasons: for example, some contain anti-viral, antibacterial or anti-carcinogenic substances, or they produce substances in their body or armor that...
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Plant health
ILVO uses specific techniques to detect bacteria, fungi, insects, mites, nematodes, and viruses.
Gut health
...o indicate causality (cause-effect). The importance and role of the gut microbiota (all the bacteria present in the gut) is gradually becoming clear. Our diet co-determines the composition ...
Nitrogen
...ental compartments such as soil, water and air. Eventually, it is converted back to nitrogen gas by bacteria. This process is called the nitrogen cycle. Relatively recently in historical te...
Methane emissions in livestock farming (enteric emissions)
... hydrogen gas (H2). To maintain optimal rumen fermentation, this H2 must be removed. Methanogenic bacteria take care of this. They bind the H2 with CO2 to form CH4 and H2O. The methane gas leaves t...
Food: Food safety
...sms associated with food. Major foodborne pathogens include protozoa, viruses (e.g. norovirus), and bacteria such as Campylobacter, Salmonella, Listeria monocytogenes, and shiga-toxin-producing Esc...
Alternatives to castration of piglets
...taging behavior in the sow. The remainder is stored in fatty tissue. Skatol and indol are formed by bacteria in the large intestine in both female and (castrated) male pigs, but the presence of and...
Biodiversity in and on the sea floor
...ger than 1 mm), meiobenthos (smaller than 1 mm) and microbenthos (single-celled organisms such as bacteria and diatoms). The most common species groups for macrobenthos include bristle worms, bival...