Manual de métodos para el estudio de extremófilos

MA. NIEVES TRUJILLO TAPIA RAMON ALBERTO BATISTA GARCIA MARIA EUGENIA HIDALGO LARA ROSA MARIA CAMACHO RUIZ (2023, [Libro])

En un principio, se pensó que si era posible encontrar vida en ambientes con elevada o baja temperatura, con valores de pH muy ácidos o alcalinos o en lugares con baja disponibilidad de agua, alta presión y elevados niveles de salinidad, entonces se podía hallar vida en otros planetas cuyas condiciones fueran similares. Es así como se exploraron los desiertos, glaciares, géiseres, lagos salados, volcanes, ventanas hidrotermales y numerosos lugares extremos. No obstante, el estudio de los ambientes extremos nos ha llevado a la mejor comprensión de la evolución de la vida en la Tierra y a entender las interacciones que se establecen en las comunidades bacterianas para sobrevivir en ambientes hostiles.

Esta publicación, compilada por miembros de la Red Mexicana de Extremófilos (REMEX), se concibió con el propósito de contribuir a la difusión de los procedimientos que la comunidad científica nacional ha desarrollado para el estudio de los ambientes extremos y de los organismos que en estos pueden encontrarse. El manual está organizado en ocho capítulos que abordan temas como: aislamiento, identificación, conservación de microorganismos, extracción, producción, cuantificación, prospección, aplicaciones de sus biomoléculas, así como enfoques bioinformáticos y metagenómicos. Incluye además recomendaciones para buenas prácticas y manejo de residuos. Esta edición busca, además, introducir a investigadores y estudiantes al estudio de la vida en condiciones extremas.

BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA QUÍMICA extremófilos

La ventaja revelada de exportación de la fresa mexicana, su estructura productiva e índices de protección

Karla Anahí Amador García (2008, [Tesis de maestría])

Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Empresariales. Maestría en Ciencias en Comercio Exterior

An interest renovated in the natural foods in the world population that puts more attention in its diet exists and in its health. The strawberry is a fruit appreciated by its color, perfume, flavor and benefits for the health since are an anti-rust one and he/she has high quantities of vitamin C, vitamin B, natural sugar, potassium and iron. According to the Association of Warm Supreme TO. C. the consumption of this fruit has associated with a reduction of the cancer prostático and the reduction of the cholesterol LDL (lipoproteína of low density). There is strawberry readiness during the whole year thanks to the development and implementation of new cultivation techniques and of more resistant varieties to almost all the climates. The sector fresero occupies an important place in the economy of Mexico from half-filled of last century for its national and regional great impact as generator of foreign currencies and of employments.

Existe un interés renovado en los alimentos naturales en la población mundial que pone más atención en su dieta y en su salud. La fresa es una fruta apreciada por su color, perfume, sabor y beneficios para la salud ya que es un antioxidante y tiene elevadas cantidades de vitamina C, vitamina B, azúcar natural, potasio y hierro. Según la Asociación de Calidad Suprema A. C. el consumo de esta fruta se ha asociado con una reducción del cáncer prostático y la reducción del colesterol LDL (lipoproteína de baja densidad). Hay disponibilidad de fresa durante todo el año gracias al desarrollo e implementación de nuevas técnicas de cultivo y de variedades más resistentes a casi todos los climas. El sector fresero ocupa un lugar importante en la economía de México desde mediados del siglo pasado por su gran impacto nacional y regional como generador de divisas y de empleos.

CIENCIAS SOCIALES ININEE-M-2008-0006 Exportación Fresa Ventaja comparativa Competitividad VRE

La historia detrás de Gonolobus caamali (Apocynaceae), endémica de la península de Yucatán

GERMAN CARNEVALI FERNANDEZ CONCHA GUSTAVO ADOLFO ROMERO GONZALEZ José Luis Tapia Muñoz Ivón Mercedes Ramírez Morillo CLAUDIA JANETH RAMIREZ DIAZ William Rolando Cetzal Ix RODRIGO STEFANO DUNO KATYA JEANNETH ROMERO SOLER (2022, [Artículo])

Publicar una especie nueva para la ciencia es siempre una tarea interesante y retadora, sobre todo en los tiempos modernos, donde la comunidad de sistemáticos de plantas y las revistas científicas exigen investigaciones de biología comparada más completas, integrando diferentes fuentes de evidencia (morfológica y molecular), más allá de una simple descripción morfológica. Esta historia comenzó hace más de 15 años y terminó este año, cuando Gonolobus caamali Carnevali & R. Duno (Apocynaceae), fue descrita como una nueva especie para la ciencia. Presentamos aquí algunos detalles de esta especie.

ASCLEPIADOIDEAE EXTINCION MEXICO NOVEDAD TAXONOMICA YUCATAN BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA BIOLOGÍA VEGETAL (BOTÁNICA) TAXONOMÍA VEGETAL TAXONOMÍA VEGETAL

Testing innovations for adoption of newer and more adapted maize varieties

Michael Ndegwa Pieter Rutsaert Jason Donovan Jordan Chamberlin (2023, [Objeto de congreso])

Changing Production Conditions Genetic Innovations Maize Hybrids CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA TESTING MAIZE VARIETIES YIELDS FARMERS EXPERIMENTATION

Emotions and social representations of distance education in university students from Chihuahua during the Covid-19 pandemic

Alejandro Mendoza Abraham Sifuentes (2024, [Artículo, Artículo])

This article analyzes the social representations that university students developed during the period of confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly regarding their decision to continue their studies despite the challenges posed by the closure of educational institutions. The study is based on the situation in the northwest region of Chihuahua, encompassing at least 10 municipalities. This study utilized a mixed descriptive research approach, involving a survey comprising 69 items. The survey was conducted in the spring of 2021 among 313 students from five different academic programs within the Multidisciplinary Division of the UACJ in Nuevo Casas Grandes. Findings revealed that students, during the pandemic, had negative experiences with long distance education, primarily due to issues such as emotional management, time management skills, and poor technological access. These challenges resulted in negative emotions, although students did not perceive a decline in academic performance or disruptions in interactions with teachers or peers.

educación superior confinamiento representaciones sociales experiencias HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA CONDUCTA HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA CONDUCTA higher education confinement social representations experiences

Association of specific expansins with growth in maize leaves is maintained under environmental, genetic, and developmental sources of variation

Francois Tardieu (2007, [Artículo])

Environmental Stimuli Expansins CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA CELLS CROPS GENETIC ENGINEERING PROTEINS TISSUE EPIDERMIS ZEA MAYS

Mulch application as the overarching factor explaining increase in soil organic carbon stocks under conservation agriculture in two 8-year-old experiments in Zimbabwe

Regis Chikowo Christian Thierfelder Marc Corbeels (2024, [Artículo])

Conservation agriculture (CA), combining reduced or no tillage, permanent soil cover, and improved rotations, is often promoted as a climate-smart practice. However, our understanding of the impact of CA and its respective three principles on top- and subsoil organic carbon stocks in the low-input cropping systems of sub-Saharan Africa is rather limited. This study was conducted at two long-term experimental sites established in Zimbabwe in 2013. The soil types were abruptic Lixisols at Domboshava Training Centre (DTC) and xanthic Ferralsol at the University of Zimbabwe farm (UZF). The following six treatments, which were replicated four times, were investigated: conventional tillage (CT), conventional tillage with rotation (CTR), no tillage (NT), no tillage with mulch (NTM), no tillage with rotation (NTR), and no tillage with mulch and rotation (NTMR). Maize (Zea mays L.) was the main crop, and treatments with rotation included cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp.). The soil organic carbon (SOC) concentration and soil bulk density were determined for samples taken from depths of 0–5, 5–10, 10–15, 15–20, 20–30, 30–40, 40–50, 50–75 and 75–100 cm. Cumulative organic inputs to the soil were also estimated for all treatments. SOC stocks at equivalent soil mass were significantly (p<0.05) higher in the NTM, NTR and NTMR treatments compared with the NT and CT treatments in the top 5 cm and top 10 cm layers at UZF, while SOC stocks were only significantly higher in the NTM and NTMR treatments compared with the NT and CT treatments in the top 5 cm at DTC. NT alone had a slightly negative impact on the top SOC stocks. Cumulative SOC stocks were not significantly different between treatments when considering the whole 100 cm soil profile. Our results show the overarching role of crop residue mulching in CA cropping systems with respect to enhancing SOC stocks but also that this effect is limited to the topsoil. The highest cumulative organic carbon inputs to the soil were observed in NTM treatments at the two sites, and this could probably explain the positive effect on SOC stocks. Moreover, our results show that the combination of at least two CA principles including mulch is required to increase SOC stocks in these low-nitrogen-input cropping systems.

CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA SOIL ORGANIC CARBON CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE EXPERIMENTATION CROP MANAGEMENT

Diluted density. Urban planning in the Monterrey Metropolitan Area

Sheila Ferniza Quiroz Jesús Manuel Fitch Osuna (2021, [Artículo, Artículo])

The Monterrey Metropolitan Area (mma) in Northern Mexico has had an expansive and dispersed growth in recent decades. In 35 years, the city doubled its population and grew 8 times in territory (Secretariat for Sustainable Development, 2020). As a mitigation measure and with the objective of repopulating the areas within the city, urban regulations have been promoted that allow higher density and building potentials in some municipalities; however, the efforts are isolated and without metropolitan coordination. What are the urban regulation guidelines in the municipalities of the mma? How dense are its municipalities? Where are located the densest areas of the city? The objective of this research is to establish the current state of local regulation regarding urban development and to map the housing density to identify the locations with the lowest and highest density at the mma. The gross density at the Ageb scale is mapped for the 18 municipalities of the mma through the QGis software; data from the Inegi 2020 National Population and Housing Census is used. It is found that the peripheral municipalities of recent incorporation to the mma, unlike those of greater urbanization, lack urban development plans, and that most of the municipalities do not have updated regulations based on the current laws. The areas with the highest density are located in the peripheral municipalities, associated with the construction of low-income mass housing, and those with the lowest density in interior municipalities in areas of higher socioeconomic status, diluting the small efforts of densification in the city.

density urban sprawl urban planning densidad expansión urbana planeación urbana HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA CONDUCTA HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA CONDUCTA

Socio-spatial segregation of socio-environmental assets of public green spaces in the city of Durango, Mexico

Carlos Alejandro Custodio González Tania Ortiz Patricia Catalina Medina Pérez (2024, [Artículo, Artículo])

The current development model's accumulation logic has resulted in the emergence and consolidation of social processes like segregation, leading to differentiated access and availability of urban goods and services among social groups based on socioeconomic, ethnic, or societal standing. The current development model's accumulation logic has resulted in the emergence and consolidation of social processes like segregation, leading to differentiated access and availability of urban goods and services among social groups based on socioeconomic, ethnic, or societal standing. This disparity impacts employment levels, educational performance, urban decay, and environmental degradation. In this context, the article aims to examine the socio-spatial segregation in the access to socio-environmental amenities provided by public green spaces (EVP) in a medium-sized city, specifically Durango, Mexico. The analysis utilizes spatial analysis and statistical methods that involve five variables associated with EVPs: surface area, percentage, number, density, and the socioeconomic level of the population. A spatial pattern of segregation was identified through these variables, resulting in four clusters that impact how the city of Durango is inhabited, produced, reproduced, lived, and constructed.

sociospatial exclusion public space spatial autocorrelation spatial patterns spatial justice exclusión socioespacial espacio público autocorrelación espacial patrones espaciales justicia espacial CIENCIAS SOCIALES CIENCIAS SOCIALES

Conflictos hídricos: lecciones para el presente

ADRIAN PEDROZO ACUÑA (2021, [Artículo])

doi.org/10.24850/b-imta-perspectivas-2021-02

La magnitud y el número de conflictos hídricos que se están registrando en todo el mundo señalan la necesidad de utilizar el conocimiento de punta y la capacidad tecnológica y social de las instituciones de investigación para asistir a todas las personas atrapadas en conflictos hídricos. En México, tan solo el año pasado, fuimos testigos de conflictos hídricos en la cuenca del río Bravo por los volúmenes de agua compartidos en una cuenca por diversos usuarios. Estas son tan solo unas facetas de la realidad de los conflictos hídricos que se están presentando en el mundo y, sin duda, constituyen un indicador de la necesidad de nuevos paradigmas para la gestión del agua, ya que es imposible continuar aceptando el gran impacto que estas tensiones generan sobre las vidas de millones de personas y ecosistemas que dependen de los flujos de agua. Estos conflictos tienen su origen en la desecación de ríos, la sobreexplotación de acuíferos y, desde luego, la falta de atención a dimensiones sociales, como la equidad y la justicia.

Conflictos por agua Gestión del agua Explotación de recursos naturales INGENIERÍA Y TECNOLOGÍA