Sequence Analysis of Leuconostoc mesenteroides Bacteriophage 1-A4 Isolated from an Industrial Vegetable Fermentation Z. Lu,* E. Altermann, F. Breidt, and S. Kozyavkin Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia 30144; AgResearch Limited, Grasslands Research Centre, Palmerston North, New Zealand; Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh,...

For some three decades, isotopes have found steadily increasing application in our scientifictechnical world. The extent and the variability of these applications are probably not known to the majority of the people. Actually there are only few areas in scientific research, agriculture, medicine and industrial production which have not benefitted in one way or another from these modern and vers...

Globally, agriculture provides a livelihood for more people than any other industry. Growth in agricultural production and productivity is needed to raise rural incomes, to support the increasing numbers dependent on the industry and to meet the food and raw material needs of the faster growing urban populations. Enhancing agricultural productivity contributes to industrial growth by providing ...

another ultra-rugged, no-nonsense handheld computer from Juniper Systems, the Logan, Utah company that specializes in intuitive field computing solutions for rugged applications such as land survey, natural resources, industrial, agriculture and the like. Initially designed for a Juniper Systems business partner (Carlson Surveyor), the TK6000 is a product as much as a mobile platform for OEM so...

Noriyuki Ishii 1 Biomedical Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Central-6, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8566, Japan 2 Life Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Molecular and Cell Biology Department, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA 3 Department of Biotechnology and Life Science, ...

Raman spectroscopy and surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) have many attributes that make them attractive for field detection of environmental contaminants, industrial process control, as well as materials detection/identification in agriculture, pharmaceuticals, law enforcement/first responders, geology, and archeology. However, portable, robust, inexpensive Raman systems are required f...

INTRODUCTION Products from plants for both the food and non-food sector more than ever before are considered essential to the economy and well being of the EU. The drivers for change include: (1) sustainability of agriculture, the rural economy and industry at large; (2) environmental protection; (3) legislation and cost of non-compliance; (4) public opinion; and (5) international agreements of...

This paper present a .general .paradigm for the development of mixed. man .and robot systems for the .execution of industrial fieldwork operations. The theory covers both animate and .inanimate fieldwork systems and is based upon the idea of behaviour programmable physical.action units and modules. The paper gives examples .of the theory's use to model dynamic systems composed of individual sys...

Classical biotechnology is the science of production of human-useful processes and products under controlled conditions, applying biological agents – microorganisms, plant or animal cells, their exoand endoproducts, e.g. enzymes, etc. (Viesturs et al., 2004). The conventional agriculture or chemistry cannot perform these processes as efficiently or at all. In fact, conventional biotechnology ha...

Department of Pharmacy, Kochi Medical School Hospital, 185-1 Kohasu, Oko, Nankoku, Kochi 783-8505, Japan Department of Biomedical Science, Kochi Medical Graduate School, 185-1 Kohasu, Oko, Nankoku, Kochi 783-8505, Japan Kochi Prefectural Industrial Technology Center, 3992-3 Nunoshida, Kochi, Kochi 781-5101, Japan Faculty of Agriculture, Kochi University, 200 Monobe, Nankoku, Kochi 783-8502, Jap...