Juniperus pollen is highly allergenic and is produced in large quantities across Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. The pollen negatively affects human populations adjacent to the trees, and since it can be transported hundreds of kilometers by the wind, it also affects people who are far from the source. Predicting and tracking long-distance transport of pollen is difficult and complex. One para...

To optimize irrigation, agronomists need to modulate crop water productivity (CWP) throughout phenology. We compared regulated deficit irrigation (RDI) and sustained (SDI) in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L. var. Blanoro), expecting RDI during vegetative growth (VG) enhance CWP, as opposed flowering (F) pod-filling (PF) stages. The effects of SDI on grain yield, plant height, weight, caliber, pods ...

Cowpea bean is a common crop quite appreciated in Brazil. However, it known that its low yield depending on soil and climatic conditions. The aim of this research the selection high-performance black-eyed cowpea through GYT biplot analysis. Twelve (12) strains were assessed between 2016 and. study followed randomized complete block design, with four repetitions; two commercial cultivars used as...

Background: Obesity in Canadian adults is showing upward trends. Consumption of whole-grains is one recommendation for the prevention of obesity. Despite the apparent nutritional and energy content differences between whole and refined grains, knowledge relating refined grains to weight gain in Canadian adults is scarce. The aim of this study was to assess the consumption of specific grain-base...

A by-product of experiments designed to map the cosmic microwave background is the recent detection of a new component of foreground Galactic emission. The anomalous foreground at 10–30 GHz, unexplained by traditional emission mechanisms, correlates with 100 m dust emission. We use planetary nebulae (PNs) as astrophysical laboratories to test known radio emission processes and report that in th...

The accumulation of defects, and in particular He bubbles, can have significant implications for the performance of materials exposed to the plasma in magnetic-confinement nuclear fusion reactors. Some of the most promising candidates for deployment into such environments are nanocrystalline materials as the engineering of grain boundary density offers the possibility of tailoring their radiati...

We report a strong correlation between the [CII] 158 μm cooling line and the mid-infrared flux in the 5-10 μm range in a wide variety of star-forming galaxies. The mid-infrared flux is dominated by Aromatic Feature Emission (AFE), which is thought to arise from large polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon molecules or “PAHs” and is generally associated with the smallest interstellar grains. The [CII] ...

The aim of this research was to identify the vegetative and generative characters G16 rice mutants due gamma-ray irradiation. experiment conducted in Saribaye Village, Lingsar District, West Lombok Regency. experimental design used an Augmented Design, using three comparison plants, namely line (parent), Inpago Unram 1 variety, IPB 3S variety. four mutant populations tested were doses 200, 300,...

Field-collected 4th-instar Glyptotendipes paripes larvae from a natural lake in central Florida preferred small-sized (< 0.84-1.99-mm-diam) grains of sand to burrow in and make cases in the laboratory. The larvae buried or formed cases within 3 h of introduction into 120-ml paper cups containing 80 ml tap water and 20 g of the small-diameter sand. When placed in sand with grains of different si...