Summnary. Participation of phytochrome 'is evident in the nyctinastic responise of leaves of Albizzia julibrissin (silk-tree), Albizzia lophantha, Leucaena glauca, Poinciana gilliesi and Calliandra inequilatera; closure of excised pairs of pinnules upon darkening is rapid following red illumination and slow following far-red. Under good conditions the difiference is obvious within 10 minutes. T...

The first full scale sensor featuring fast read-out with integrated zero-suppression, called MIMOSA-26 [1], was manufactured in 2008/2009 in a 0.35 μm CMOS technology based on a standard, low resistivity, epitaxial layer. More recently, high resistivity epitaxial layers became available, reducing the thermal diffusion of the signal charges, for the benefit of the SNR and thus the radiation tole...

The effects on silage composition of ensiling perennial ryegrass (PRG) with three commercial tannins (mimosa, myrabolam and quebracho tannins) were assessed (Experiment 1). The effects on silage composition and mobile bag disappearance of DM, nitrogen and true protein of the addition of these tannins or a combination of tannin plus formic acid, formaldehyde alone, formic acid alone, or a combin...

Reclamation of copper contaminated sites using forest species may be an efficient alternative to reduce the negative impact. The aim of this study was to quantify the growth and evaluate the quality of seedlings of native species at different doses of copper in the soil. The experimental design was completely randomized, with seven replications in a factorial arrangement (3×9), using three indi...

Molecule optimization is a fundamental task for accelerating drug discovery, with the goal of generating new valid molecules that maximize multiple properties while maintaining similarity to input molecule. Existing generative models and reinforcement learning approaches made initial success, but still face difficulties in simultaneously optimizing properties. To address such challenges, we pro...

Contact with plants can cause phototoxic or rarely photoallergic reactions. Phototoxic dermatitis (photophytodermatitis) occurs after contact or ingestion of plants containing furocumarins i.e. psoralens and followed by sun exposure. Skin lesions develop usually after 24-48 hours with erythema, bulla formation, itch or pain, followed by a long lasting hyperpigmentation. Furocumarins can be line...

Aqueous and methanol extract of two medicinal plants of Caesalpinia sappan L. and Mimosa pudica L. were evaluated for their antimicrobial activities against Staphylococcus aureus NCIM 5021, Bacillus subtilis NCIM 2010, Escherichia coli NCIM 2118, Pseudomonous aeruginosa NCIM 5029, Klebsiella pneumoniae NCIM 2707, Proteus vulgaris NCIM 2027, Candida albicans NCIM 3102 and Aspergillus niger NCIM ...