Exotic germplasm refers to crop varieties unadapted to a breeder’s target environment, and is an important resource for crop improvement. Because genetic diversity within elite cultivars of a crop is limited compared to the variability within the species and its relatives worldwide, genes from exotic germplasm can protect the crop against new biotic and abiotic stresses, and may represent uniqu...

Domestication has resulted in selection upon seed traits found in wild populations, yet crop-wild hybrids retain some aspects of both parental phenotypes. Seed fates of germination, dormancy, and mortality can influence the success of crop allele introgression in crop-wild hybrid zones, especially if crop alleles or crop-imparted seed coverings result in out-of-season germination. We performed ...

This paper proposes a web-based Agro-Information System (AIS) prototype that can support farmers with agricultural-related information about a given food crop. Consistency in the application of this information can help in improving crop yield, in controlling crop pests, in crop diseases treatment, and in enhancing the overall crop productivity. A prototype AIS capable of providing possible pes...

This paper proposes a web-based Agro-Information System (AIS) prototype that can support farmers with agricultural-related information about a given food crop. Consistency in the application of this information can help in improving crop yield, in controlling crop pests, in crop diseases treatment, and in enhancing the overall crop productivity. A prototype AIS capable of providing possible pes...

An intensive review of the literatures was made to access the importance of crop rotation for sustainable agriculture in Nepal. Result shows that an appropriate crop sequences improves soil fertility, reduces fertilizer cost, controls soil erosion, makes environment healthy, increases crop yields and develop sustainable crop production in the long run. Based on the study, identification of loca...

This paper proposes a web-based Agro-Information System (AIS) prototype that can support farmers with agricultural-related information about a given food crop. Consistency in the application of this information can help in improving crop yield, in controlling crop pests, in crop diseases treatment, and in enhancing the overall crop productivity. A prototype AIS capable of providing possible pes...

Crop yield is the result of complex interaction among factors of soil, atmosphere, plant genotype, and management practices adopted. These complex interactions of crop with various factors and of factors among themselves make the crop yield modeling a difficult task. Several methods of crop yield forecasting have been developed ranging from purely statistical to agro-meteorological to empirical...

Men tend to be less selective than women when evaluating and pursuing potential romantic partners. The present experiment employed speed-dating procedures to test a novel explanation for this sex difference: The mere act of physically approaching a potential romantic partner (versus being approached), a behavior that is more characteristic of men than of women, increases one’s attraction to tha...

This study showed that in adult Drosophila melanogaster, the type of sugar-either present within the crop lumen or in the bathing solution of the crop-had no effect on crop muscle contraction. What is important, however, is the volume within the crop lumen. Electrophysiological recordings demonstrated that exogenous applications of serotonin on crop muscles increases both the amplitude and the ...

Directional selectivity refers to a neuron’s ability to produce substantially different responses for stimulus motions of different direction. A directionally selective (DS) cell will fire many spikes in response to object motion in one direction (the preferred direction) while responding weakly, if at all, for motion in the opposite (null) direction. This directional “trigger feature” is often...