Seed development is dependent on nutrients, such as a source of carbon, supplied by the parent plant. It remains largely unknown how these nutrients are distributed to zygotic and maternal tissues to coordinate storage of reserve compounds and development of protective tissues like seed coat. Here we show that phosphorylation of TRANSPARENT TESTA GLABRA1 (TTG1) is regulated by SHAGGY-like kinas...

Durian seed is an agricultural biomass waste of durian fruit. It can be a natural plant source of non-starch polysaccharide gum with potential functional properties. The main goal of the present study was to investigate the effect of chemical extraction variables (i.e., the decolouring time, soaking temperature and soaking time) on the physicochemical properties of durian seed gum. The physicoc...

The effect of water availability on water relations of 11-year-old loblolly pine stands was studied over two growing seasons in material from two contrasting seed sources. Increasing soil water availability via irrigation increased transpiration rate, and maximum daily transpiration rate on irrigated plots was similar for both seasons, reaching values of 4.3 mm day(-)(1). Irrigation also change...

An equation is derived for the TG43 geometry function, G(r,theta), of a linear brachytherapy source in terms of its active length. This equation is validated by comparison to published values. It is then used to calculate values of the geometry function for the Model 200 (103)Pd seed, which is a segmented linear source.

Ajlatoxin contamination of cottonseedfrom bolls damaged by the pink bollworm (PB W) ,Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders) , was comparedwith contamination ofcottonseedfrom undamaged bolls. Test bolls for comparative studies were collectedfrom similar positions on 25 plants in each ofthree harvests during a single season. Cottonseedproduced in PBW-damaged bolls were the predominant source ofajlat...

We initiate a study of randomness condensers for sources that are efficiently samplable but may depend on the seed of the condenser. That is, we seek functions Cond : {0, 1}×{0, 1} → {0, 1} such that if we choose a random seed S ← {0, 1}, and a source X = A(S) is generated by a randomized circuit A of size t such that X has minentropy at least k given S, then Cond(X;S) should have min-entropy a...

Understanding developmental processes, especially in non-model crop plants, is extremely important in order to unravel unique mechanisms regulating development. Chickpea (C. arietinum L.) seeds are especially valued for their high carbohydrate and protein content. Therefore, in order to elucidate the mechanisms underlying seed development in chickpea, deep sequencing of transcriptomes from four...

Pea enation mosaic virus (PEMV) is an important virus disease of pea. International movement of commercial pea cultivars and germplasm can be problematic due to uncertainty about seed transmission of the viruses responsible for the disease. Whether PEMV is seedborne was assessed by collecting developing seed from infected plants and determining the relative concentrations of the PEMV-1 and PEMV...

Purpose: Recently a new design of a 125 I brachytherapy source was introduced for interstitial seed implants, particularly for prostate seed implants. This new source is the EchoSeedTMModel 6733 125 I brachytherapy source. Due to the differences in source design and manufacturing process from one new source to the next, their dosimetric parameters should be determined according to the American ...

1 At local spatial scales, species richness tends to fall as productivity rises. Most explanations have focused on increased extinction, but, instead, we test experimentally whether increased soil fertility reduces recruitment. Specifically, we test whether variation in recruitment is due to source limitation, germination limitation or establishment limitation, and how litter accumulation and s...