Grasses have developed a wide range of morphological and physiological mechanisms to resist herbivory. For instance, they accumulate silicon (Si) in tissue, as physical defence, associate symbiotically with foliar Epichloë-endophytes that provide chemical defence via antiherbivore alkaloids. Recent evidence showed some increase Si forage grasses; however, whether this impacts insect herbivores ...

This paper illustrates the main results of a spatio-temporal interpolation process PM10 concentrations at daily resolution using set 410 monitoring sites, distributed throughout Italian territory, for year 2015. The is based on Bayesian hierarchical model where spatial-component represented through Stochastic Partial Differential Equation (SPDE) approach with lag-1 temporal autoregressive compo...

To investigate the mechanism of interaction of gramicidin S-like antimicrobial peptides with biological membranes, a series of five decameric cyclic cationic beta-sheet-beta-turn peptides with all possible combinations of aromatic D-amino acids, Cyclo(Val-Lys-Leu-D-Ar1-Pro-Val-Lys-Leu-D-Ar2-Pro) (Ar identical with Phe, Tyr, Trp), were synthesized. Conformations of these cyclic peptides were com...

Demand for producing quality software has rapidly increased during the last few years. This is leading to increase in development of machine learning methods for exploring data sets, which can be used in constructing models for predicting quality attributes such as fault proneness, maintenance effort, testing effort, productivity and reliability. This paper examines and compares logistic regres...

difficult to assure within block homogeneity. Plots close together may be more similar than distant ones. Spatial Multienvironment Trials (MET) are used to make cultivar recomvariability refers to the tendency of genotype responses, mendations about genotypes in plant breeding programs. Because of the presence of genotype environment interaction, METs are ususuch as yield trends, to follow the ...

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