The range grazing and distance walked for diet selection and nutritive value were studied in close and open range systems at the flowering and seed setting stages during the September and November 2009 respectively in El-khuwei locality (El Rosa). A completely randomized design was used (CRD). Sampling was done by two stage flowering and seed sating stage under protected and open range systems ...

Understanding the regulatory networks coordinating seed development will help to manipulate seed traits, such as protein content and seed weight, in order to increase yield and seed nutritional value of important food crops, such as legumes. Because of the cardinal role of the nucleus in gene expression, sub-proteome analyses of nuclei from developing seeds were conducted, taking advantage of t...

The topology of metabolic networks may provide important insights not only into the metabolic capacity of species, but also into the habitats in which they evolved. Here we introduce the concept of a metabolic network's "seed set"--the set of compounds that, based on the network topology, are exogenously acquired--and provide a methodological framework to computationally infer the seed set of a...

Abstract Seed shattering in naked oat ( Avena nuda ) is a severe problem, resulting significant yield losses. In the present study, seed-shattering rates were characterized set of 177 cultivars and lines. Eight with different studied several morphological physiological traits that may be related to seed at developmental stages. Three types paleas, viz. boat type, defect type flaky identified do...

were isolated.1^ Here we report the production, isolation, structure elucidation, and biological activities of pacidamycins D (1), 4N (2), and 5T (3). A fresh culture of strain NRRL18730 was inoculated into four 250-ml baffled shake flasks, each containing 50 ml of seed medium consisting of glucose monohydrate 1.0%, soluble starch 1.5%, yeast extract 0.5%, casitone 0.5%, CaCO3 0.1% (pH adjusted...

Ten self-fertile commercial sunßowers cultivars were evaluated for seed set with and without exposure to bees. In the Þrst planting, the number of foraging honey bees was smaller than in the second, and seed set for most cultivars did not differ between those bagged to exclude bees and ones that were open pollinated. In the second planting, however, a majority of cultivars had significantly gre...

To understand translational capacity on a genome-wide scale across three developmental stages of immature soybean seed cotyledons, ribosome profiling was performed in combination with RNA sequencing and cluster analysis. Transcripts representing 216 unique genes demonstrated a higher level of translational activity in at least one stage by exhibiting higher translational efficiencies (TEs) in w...

Lysine, which is a limited amino acid in cereals, has a remarkably high content in buckwheat seed proteins. We have analyzed the pattern of 14C lysine incorporation into buckwheat seed polypeptides during the mid-maturation stage of seed development. Based on this approach, an 18 kDa polypeptide could be assigned as being lysine rich.