BACKGROUND AND AIMS Repair of damage to DNA of seed embryos sustained during long periods of quiescence under dry desert conditions is important for subsequent germination. The possibility that repair of embryo DNA can be facilitated by small amounts of water derived from dew temporarily captured at night by pectinaceous surface pellicles was tested. These pellicles are secreted during early se...

Compared with bulk soil, rhizosphere has different properties because of the existence root mucilage, which affects physical, chemical, and microbial processes. The slow response to changes in water potential buffers content leads be wetter than soil during drying. By affecting connectivity liquid gas phases, mucilage can also influence solute transport diffusion. Overview literature previous m...

Abstract Aims High viscosity, low surface tension and hydrophobicity are specific properties of maize root mucilage which contribute to modulate the spatial configuration liquid phase in soil pores. Several processes rhizosphere, particularly nutrient absorption, exudation microbial activity, may cause strong temporal variations chemistry solution rhizosphere. Although physical have been repeat...

strawberries have a very thin layer coating that easily disappears and are perishables a lot pre-harvest as such nearly 30 to 40 percent of strawberry fruits will be wasted at interval between harvest and consumption. in this study have been investigated the effect of using psyllium mucilage (plantago psyllium) in concentrations of 6.25, 12.5 and 25 ml/l as well as arabic gum and arjan as edibl...

feel that the results we show, particularly in Figure 6, are on much more complex examples and that we have processed much larger number of buildings than reported in the previous literature ([5], [2], and [9]). We feel that our method has advantage over monocular systems such as ([5]) due to its ability to infer 3-D more directly and of having several views to validate the hypotheses. We feel ...