Preliminary Report on Selection and Breeding of Honeybees for Alfalfa Pollen Collection

effects of first language on second language writing-a preliminary contrastive rhetoric study of farsi and english

to explore the idea the investingation proposed, aimed at finding whether the performances of the population of iranians students studying english in an efl context are consistent in l1 and l2 writing taks and whether there is a cross-linguistic transfer in this respect. in this regard the subjects were instructed to write four compositions-two in english and two in farsi-which consisted of an ...

Selection for Self-fertility and Self-fertility in Alfalfa as a Tool for Breeding Strategy Assessment

Session 4 Conventional and Novel Methodologies for Plant Improvement ABSTRACT Cultivar development in alfalfa relies on heterosis, that has been mainly exploited by intercrossing selected clones from diverse gemplasm sources; an alternative way was proposed, based on developing double cross cultivars obtained by crossing clones selected for self-sterility, propagated by somatic seed. A differen...

Preliminary Investigations into Ontology-Based Collection Selection

This article tackles the collection selection problem from the query side. Queries are enhanced by mapping them to subjects in an ontology; the associated subject classification terms are then employed to retrieve collections. An experimental comparison was performed with the state of the art ReDDE system, which relies on estimates of collection size to rank collections. Although the research i...

Preliminary comparison of lidocaine and xylazine as caudal epidural anesthesia for embryo collection in cows

Applied Genetics and Genomics in Alfalfa Breeding

Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.), a perennial and outcrossing species, is a widely planted forage legume for hay, pasture and silage throughout the world. Currently, alfalfa breeding relies on recurrent phenotypic selection, but alternatives incorporating molecular marker assisted breeding could enhance genetic gain per unit time and per unit cost, and accelerate alfalfa improvement. Many major qua...