The number of pods per common bean plant is a primary component of grain yield, which depends on the number of flowers produced and on the flower set. Thus, a larger number of flowers per plant would increase yield. Lines with inflorescences that had a large number of flowers compared to common bean plants now under cultivation were identified. We analyzed the genetic control of this trait and ...

The effect of plastic deformation on the grain boundary surface area per unit volume and edge length per unit volume is examined using two methods. The first by applying homogeneous deformations to tetrakaidecahedra in a variety of orientations and the second by using the principles of stereology. It is shown that the methods produce essentially identical results. It is now possible to calculat...

Grain boundaries in polycrystalline magnesia-doped alumina and yttrium aluminum garnet were classified as growing in area or shrinking in area on the basis of topology and curvature considerations. Measurements of dihedral angles at grain boundary thermal grooves were used to determine that the energies of the growing boundaries are, on average, lower than the energies of the shrinking boundari...

salinity tolerance is a genetically and physiologically complex trait, controlled by quantitative trait loci (qtls). in order to map the qtls associated with agronomic and physiological traits, 149 doubled haploid lines derived from a cross between clipper (salt susceptible) and sahara 3771 (salt tolerant) barley genotypes were evaluated under natural saline-stress and non-stress conditions usi...

We consider numerically unquantized Josephson vortices at asymmetric grain boundaries in YBCO films. The study is focused on the effect of random variations of facets size on the values of fractional flux carried by these vortices. The grain boundaries are treated as Josephson junctions with a critical current density alternating along the junctions with a typical length-scale of order of the f...

this study was performed in year 2010 to evaluate the effect of locality and date of collection on germination and growth of pimpinella aurea dc. seed. the experiment was a factorial one, based upon a completely randomized design of four replications. seeds were collected from three localities in tehran province (tochal, vardavard and lavasanat), at their initial developmental and fully develop...

Magnetic small-angle neutron scattering experiments were performed on nanostructured Fe, Co and Ni samples of varying grain size, produced by inert-gas condensation. The experiments show that the spontaneous spatial magnetic correlations forming in zero-field extend over many individual grains. These correlations depend strongly on grain size. In Fe, they have a minimum at a grain size of aroun...