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Daikon
Daikon (大根), Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus, the large white Japanese radish; originated Mediterranean–Central Asia, reached Japan 8th century; aokubi type over 90% of Japanese sales; matures in 50–60 days.
Daiming Fan (樊代明)
Daiming Fan (樊代明) is a Chinese gastroenterologist and past president of the Fourth Military Medical University in Xi'an, known for gastric cancer research and leadership of the China Anti-Cancer Association.
Daintree Rainforest
Daintree Rainforest, in far north Queensland, Australia, is the Daintree River valley rainforest within Wet Tropics World Heritage Area and Daintree National Park (CYPAL), jointly managed by Eastern Kuku Yalanji Traditional Owners; noted for ancient Gondwanan plants, cassowaries, and 2026 land handbacks.
Dairy
Dairy: the agricultural sector producing and processing milk from cattle, buffaloes, goats, sheep, and camels. 930 million tonnes produced in 2022; India leads with 22 percent; 150 million households involved.
Dairy and poultry supply management in Canada
Canada's supply management system regulates dairy, poultry, and eggs through production quotas, cost-of-production pricing, and tariff rate quotas, established in the 1970s and supported by the CDC, provincial boards, and all major parties.
Dairy cattle
Dairy cattle are Bos taurus and Bos indicus bred for milk, domesticated from aurochs, with specialized breeds from the late 1800s; top cows yield over 35,000 kg milk yearly.
Dairy farming
Dairy farming: breeding, raising, and managing cattle, buffalo, goats, sheep, and camels for milk. Covers smallholder and commercial systems, lactation physiology, welfare, emissions, and US industry structure.
Dairy farming in Australia
Dairy farming in Australia is the pasture-based raising of cattle for milk, the country's third-largest rural industry, with 3,772 farms producing milk worth $5.966 billion in 2024-25.
Dairy farming in Canada
Dairy farming in Canada, also called the Canadian dairy sector, operates under supply management (quotas, administered prices, TRQs) since 1972; 9,048 farms, 1.38 million cattle, Quebec and Ontario dominate quota, imports exceed exports.
Dairy farming in China
Dairy farming in China is the raising of cattle for milk, transformed within one generation from a million backyard households to large feedlot farms, making China a top four global producer.
Dairy farming in continental Europe
Dairy farming in continental Europe is the commercial keeping of dairy cattle in EU member states, led by Germany, France, Poland, the Netherlands, and Italy, which supply about two thirds of EU milk.
Dairy farming in Ireland
Dairy farming in Ireland is a grass-based, seasonally calving system of about 17,000 family farms, with 2025 exports of dairy products worth a record €7.3 billion.
Dairy farming in Japan
Dairy farming in Japan is the raising of dairy cattle, chiefly Holsteins, for raw milk; it took root in Hokkaido before 1868, which now produces about 57% of national fluid milk.
Dairy farming in Latin America and the Caribbean
Dairy farming in Latin America and the Caribbean is a mostly cattle-based industry of about 3.3 million small producers, led by Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina.
Dairy farming in New Zealand
Dairy farming in New Zealand: pasture-based, export-dominated industry producing 21 billion litres of milk (1.94 billion kg milksolids) in 2024/25 from 4.68 million cows; about 95% exported, Fonterra processes ~77%, sector's largest export earner.
Dairy farming in Pakistan
Dairy farming in Pakistan is based mostly on buffalo milk raised by smallholders, making Pakistan the world's 3rd largest milk producer at about 57 million tonnes.
Dairy farming in Sub-Saharan Africa
Dairy farming in Sub-Saharan Africa is dominated by smallholder systems, 70 percent of the industry in most countries, led by Eastern Africa with Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania predominant.
Dairy farming in the Middle East and North Africa
Dairy farming in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) ranges from desert industrial cow dairies to nomadic sheep and goat flocks, in a region dependent on imported milk.
Dairy farming in the United Kingdom
Dairy farming in the United Kingdom raises dairy cattle for milk, with a 1.8 million-cow herd producing 15.8 billion liters worth £7.0 billion in 2025.
Dairy industry in the United States
The dairy industry in the United States is the world's second-largest cow's milk producer, with 226 billion pounds from about 9.3 million cows on roughly 25,000 farms in 2024.
Dairy manure handling equipment
Dairy manure handling equipment is the machinery and fixed plant a dairy farm uses to collect, transfer, pump, separate, store, and load manure and milking-shed effluent.
Daisho antimicrobial peptide
Daisho peptides (Daisho1/Dso1, formerly IM4; Daisho2/Dso2, formerly IM14) are Drosophila Toll-induced immune peptides, adjacent divergently transcribed genes, required against a subset of filamentous fungi such as Fusarium oxysporum.
Daisuke Kihara
Daisuke Kihara is a Japanese-born computational structural biologist and bioinformatician, a full professor at Purdue University known for deep-learning tools that build atomic protein models from cryo-EM maps.
Daisuke Kohda
Daisuke Kohda is a Japanese structural biologist and professor at Kyushu University's Medical Institute of Bioregulation who determines protein structures by NMR spectroscopy, known for the Tom20 mitochondrial import receptor.
Daisuke Yamamoto
Daisuke Yamamoto (山元 大輔) is a Japanese neurogeneticist and behavior geneticist who cloned fruitless, the gene governing courtship behavior in fruit flies, and is professor emeritus of Tohoku University.
Daisy
Daisy (Bellis perennis), the English or lawn daisy of the daisy family Asteraceae, is a perennial European herb whose white-and-yellow "flower" is actually a capitulum of many ray and disc florets.
Dakotaraptor
Dakotaraptor (Dakotaraptor steini) is a disputed giant dromaeosaurid dinosaur described in 2015 from the Hell Creek Formation of South Dakota, notable for ulnar quill knobs but widely suspected to be a chimeric holotype.
Dalantercept
Dalantercept (ACE-041), an Acceleron Pharma soluble ALK1-Fc ligand trap blocking BMP9/BMP10 angiogenesis signaling, was tested with axitinib in renal cell carcinoma but discontinued in 2017 after its phase 2 DART trial showed no PFS benefit.
Dalapon
Dalapon (2,2-dichloropropanoic acid, CAS 75-99-0) is a systemic organochlorine grass herbicide sold as sodium or magnesium salts (Dowpon, Radapon), translocated to rhizomes, with a 0.2 mg/L US drinking water MCL; US uses cancelled.
Dalbavancin
Dalbavancin, marketed as Dalvance and Xydalba, is a long-acting lipoglycopeptide antibiotic for acute bacterial skin infections, including MRSA, given as one or two weekly infusions.