Cottonseed is a rich source of high quality protein, but its value as an animal feed is limited by gossypol, a toxic polyphenolic compound contained in glands located throughout the plant. This compound helps protect the plant from pests. Totally glandless varieties have been developed, but not adopted as these plants are left vulnerable to pests. This study describes a breeding strategy to dec...

Using natural regen,eration can be risky, however. A good example is from the Southwide Southern Pine Seed Source Study (SSPSSS), iongleaf phase, established in the early 1950’s (Wells and Wakeley 1970). The stands and trees from which seed was collected were carefully chosen to be representative of the genetic resource of the area. One of the seed sources, from southeastern Louisiana performed...

Deferne, J.L. and D. W. Pate, 1996. Hemp seed oil: A source of valuable essential fatty acids. Journal of the International Hemp Association 3(1): 1, 4-7. Interest in Cannabis has largely focused on its content of psychoactive substances (cannabinoids) or its potential industrial use as a source of cellulose fibre. While the whole seed has long been used as a source of food, its potential healt...

The raffinose family oligosaccharides (RFOs) are a group of soluble galactosyl derivatives which include raffinose and stachyose thought to play a number of roles in plant development. They are providing a source of rapidly metabolizable carbohydrate during germination. In contrast to their potential for promoting germination, RFOs represent anti-nutritional units for monogastric animals when c...

Self-amplifying spontaneous radiation free-electron lasers, such as the LCLS or the European X-FEL, rely on the incoherent, spontaneous radiation as the seed for the amplifying process. Though this method overcomes the need for an external seed source one drawback is the incoherence of the effective seed signal. The FEL process allows for a natural growth of the coherence because the radiation ...

This paper describes LIMSI participation to the WMT’17 shared task on Bandit Learning. The method we propose to adapt a seed system trained on out-domain data to a new, unknown domain relies on two components. First, we use a linear regression model to exploit the weak and partial feedback the system receives by learning to predict the reward a translation hypothesis will get. This model can th...

this research was investigated to study relationship among seed yield, seed yield components and morphological traits and their direct and indirect effects on seed yield of 100 safflower genotypes in two water environments (normal and drought stress) at research farm of isfahan university of technology during 2012. seed yield had positive correlation with number of head per plant, seed per head...

For millennia, seeds have been freely available to use for farming and plant breeding without restriction. Within the past century, however, intellectual property rights (IPRs) have threatened this tradition. In response, a movement has emerged to counter the trend toward increasing consolidation of control and ownership of plant germplasm. One effort, the Open Source Seed Initiative (OSSI, www...

We construct a strong extractor against quantum storage that works for every min-entropy k, has logarithmic seed length, and outputs Ω(k) bits, provided that the quantum adversary has at most βk qubits of memory, for any β < 1 2 . The construction works by first condensing the source (with minimal entropy-loss) and then applying an extractor that works well against quantum adversaries when the ...

Most plants synthesise proteins in their organs of reproduction and propagation, such as seeds of gymnosperms and angiosperms. Storage proteins are usually located in two tissues. In dicotyledonous plants they may be located in the diploid cotyledons (exalbuminous}, in the triploid endosperm (albuminous) or, occasionally, in both tissues. In monocotyledonous cereals they are primarily located i...