The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has quickly swept the globe leaving a devastating trail of lost human lives and leading to a public health and economic crisis. With this in mind, prosociality has been heralded as a potential important factor to overcome the negative effects of the pandemic. As such, in this study, we examined the effectiveness of a brief reflexive writing exercise about...
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has quickly swept the globe leaving a devastating trail of lost human lives and leading to a public health and economic crisis. With this in mind, prosociality has been heralded as potential important factor to overcome the negative effects of the pandemic. As such, in this study, we examined the effectiveness of a brief reflexive writing exercise about recent experiences of gratit...
A field survey in Guinea-Bissau revealed the present uses of Moringa and the knowledge of rural populations about its properties in thisWest African country. Also, a market survey in Bissau assessed the moringa products traded there. The species is planted all over the country,mainly as a living fence in homegardens. The leaves are the most commonly used part of the plant, primarily as food and in traditional m...
‘Trincadeira’ and ‘Aragonez’ are two of the most important Vitis vinifera L. cultivars used for red wine production in Portugal. Aiming to obtain a reproducible system for plant genetic transformation, the techniques of particle bombardment and transformation mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens were tested. In both systems putative transformed embryos were selected by continued proliferation on an in vitro me...