marker analysis suggests that it is also closely related to perennial ryegrass, Lolium perenne L. (Xu and Sleper, Meadow fescue (Festuca pratensis Huds.) is a pasture grass that 1994). It hybridizes readily with both perennial and Italhas been little used in North America since the introduction of its higher yielding relative, tall fescue (F. arundinacea Schreb.). The ian ryegrass, L. multiflor...

Regulations that govern the social and environmental impacts of global firms and markets without state enforcement are a relatively new dimension of global business regulation. The growth of such voluntary “civil regulations” reflects both the expansion of legitimate authority in the global economy outside the state and the increasing use of alternative regulatory instruments to govern firms, i...

donor of the A genome of P. pratense, perhaps after tetraploidization to P. commutatum, while the diploid Cultivated timothy (Phleum pratense L.) is an important grass for P. bertolonii (turf timothy) is the most likely donor of hay production in temperate North America. It is under utilized in the B genome of P. pratense (Cai and Bullen, 1991; management-intensive rotational grazing systems be...

An adverse uterine environment is thought to program blood pressure (BP) later in life, most likely due to fetal under-nutrition. This study examines the relationships between adult systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP), birth weight, and maternal nutritional status and dietary intake during pregnancy. This study draws on a large sample (n=1632) of Filipino young adul...

OBJECTIVE— Obesity and increases in body weight in adults are considered to be among the most important risk factors for type 2 diabetes. Low birth weight is also associated with a higher diabetes incidence. We aimed to examine to what extent the evolution of body shape, from childhood to adulthood is related to incident diabetes in late adulthood. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS— E3N is a cohort s...