In this study Illumina MiSeq was performed to investigate microbial diversity in soil, leaves, grape, grape juice and wine. A total of 1,043,102 fungal Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) reads and 2,422,188 high quality bacterial 16S rDNA sequences were used for taxonomic classification, revealed five fungal and eight bacterial phyla. At the genus level, the dominant fungi were Ascomycota, Sorda...

This work deals with the manufacture of new bio-based materials for building insulation from viticulture by-products, and potato starch. Four types aggregates were used separately: grape pomace, stalks, skins, crushed stalks. The starch/aggregate mass ratio was set at 20% samples obtained characterized in terms density, thermal conductivity, compressive bending strength, sound absorption coeffi...

Retrotransposon-based molecular markers are powerful molecular tools. However, these markers are not readily available due to the difficulty in obtaining species-specific retrotransposon primers. Although recent techniques enabling the rapid isolation of retrotransposon sequences have facilitated primer development, this process nonetheless remains time-consuming and costly. Therefore, research...

We overview the GRAPE (GRAvity piPE) project. The goal of the GRAPE project is to accelerate the astrophysical N -body simulations. Since almost all computing time is spent for the evaluation of the gravitational force between particles, we can greatly accelerate many N -body simulations by developing a specialized hardware for the force calculation. In 1989, the first such hardware, GRAPE-1, w...

Alcohol is fundamental to the character of wine, yet too much can put a wine off-balance. A wine is regarded to be well balanced if its alcoholic strength, acidity, sweetness, fruitiness and tannin structure complement each other so that no single component dominates on the palate. Balancing a wine's positive fruit flavours with the optimal absolute and relative concentration of alcohol can be ...