BACKGROUND Humans have an innate preference for sweet taste, but the degree of liking for sweet foods varies individually. OBJECTIVE The proportion of inherited sweet taste preference was studied. A genome-wide linkage analysis was performed to locate the underlying genetic elements in the genome. DESIGN A total of 146 subjects (32% men, 68% women) aged 18-78 y from 26 Finnish families eval...

Bean thrips (BT), Caliothrips fasciatus (Pergande), is a pest of concern to certain countries that import fresh citrus fruit from California, USA. A series laboratory-scale exploratory fumigations with phosphine at 4.9 ± 0.3 °C (mean 2 SD; x¯±2s) were conducted evaluate the postharvest control adult BT. Models duration–mortality response predicted ca. 99% mortality BT populations when headspace...

DSM-5 has moved autism from the level of subgroups ("apples and oranges") to the prototypical level ("fruit"). But making progress in research, and ultimately improving clinical practice, will require identifying subgroups within the autism spectrum.

In reply to Krueger, we address the issues of lowercase versus uppercase letter strings, words versus pseudowords, repeated letters in the test string, descriptions of orthographic structure, similarity effects, apples and oranges, and interactions of age with other variables.

Detached leaves of Valencia oranges, Citrus sinensis Osbeck, emanated ethylene at markedly higher rates and contained more endogenous ethylene when placed under water stress at 55% relative humidity than when placed in water-saturated air. Water stress induced defoliation from detached branches. Relieving the water stress of such leaves by transfer to a mist chamber resulted in lowering of the ...

The general economic development in Asia has resulted in the reallocation of sweet potato utilization between pig feed and starch processing. In China, which produces 85% of the world’s sweet potato, about 45% is fed to pigs. Vietnam, the second largest world producer, allocates 75% to pig feed since sweet potato cannot compete with cassava as a raw material. Papua, Indonesia, does not occupy a...

intercropping may be helpful manner to increase interception and utilization. the aim of this study was to compare radiation use efficiency and radiation interception in intercropping with sole cropping. an experiment was conducted at the agricultural research station, ferdowsi university of mashhad in the growing season of the year 2008. the experimental treatments were: 1- sole crop of bean 2...