Pea (Pisum sativum L.) is a legume valued mainly for its high seed protein content. The content of pea characterized by lysine and low allergenicity. This has made consumers appreciate peas increasingly in recent years, not only their taste, but also nutritional value. An important element cultivation the ability to predict content, even before harvest. aim this research was develop linear non-...

We investigated the efficiency of different kinds of perches in attracting seed disperser-birds and increasing the seed rain in a degraded area located in the northeast region of São Paulo State. We installed seed traps under natural perches (NPs, living trees); simple artificial perches (SAPs) of 3m tall and a crossbar; elaborate artificial perches (EAPs) of 7m tall and three crossbars, and in...

ABSTRACT Seed drying has many advantages, but it can cause irreversible damages, compromising the physiological quality of seeds, especially when they present high water contents. The objective this work was to evaluate effect conditions (inside and outside pod) on cowpea seeds cultivar BRS-Tumucumaque before after storage. A completely randomized experimental design with four replications used...

BACKGROUND Modelling moisture diffusivity of pomegranate cultivars is considered to be a major aspect of the drying process optimization. Its goal is mainly to apply the optimum drying method and conditions in which the final product meets the required standards. Temperature is the major parameter which affects the moisture diffusivity. This parameter is not equal for different cultivars of pom...

This paper presents a new intelligent optimizer based on the relation between trees and their seeds for continuous optimization. The new method is in the field of heuristic and population-based search. The location of trees and seeds on n-dimensional search space corresponds with the possible solution of an optimization problem. One or more seeds are produced from the trees and the better seed ...

In Sri Lanka, mustard (Brassica juncea) is cultivated as a subsidiary crop for the seeds used as a condiment in cooking. In the Indian sub-continent, however, it is an important oilseed crop used as a source of vegetable oil. Mustard has over 45% erucic acid (C22:1) which is unsuitable nutritionally for human consumption. The Brassica oilseed species, B. napus and B. campestris, were developed ...

The mechanisms of seeding and nucleation of Cu nanoclusters onto an ultrathin alumina template supported on Ni3Al(111) has been investigated by means of ab initio calculations. Single Cu ad-atom diffusion on the oxide film is effective at room temperature, allowing preferential occupation of the defective sites of the so-called "dot" structure, where the adsorption is much stronger than in the ...

A temperature pause introduced in a simple single-step thermal decomposition of iron, with the presence of silver seeds formed in the same reaction mixture, gives rise to novel compact heterostructures: brick-like Ag@Fe3O4 core-shell nanoparticles. This novel method is relatively easy to implement, and could contribute to overcome the challenge of obtaining a multifunctional heteroparticle in w...