The combining ability analysis using Line × Tester model was conducted in chickpea to know the general and specific combining ability of the distingushing parents and their crosses, respectively and to select best material for further breeding programme and generation advanceme- nt. Two genetically diverse testers viz., JAKI-9218 and ICCV-2 as females and 8 males viz., HC-5, ICC-506, PKV Harita...

An alternative means by which to examine the importance of assimilates supply to flower and pod formation is to analyze the relationships of leaf area index (LAI), above-ground dry matter (ADM), leaf area duration (LAD) and crop growth rate (CGR) around flowering with flower number and pod/flower ratio. For this objective, an experiment was conducted at Agricultural Research Station of Gonbad, ...

The number of pods per plant and the number of seeds per pod are the most variable yield components in winter oilseed rape (WOSR). The production of a seed is the combination of several physiological processes, namely formation of ovules and pollen grains, fertilization of the ovules and development of young embryos, any problem in these processes may result in seed abortion or pod abortion. Bo...

A three-dimensional (3-D) modal analysis of an excited circular jet with Reynolds number of 9500 is conducted using proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) and a highspeed 3-D flow visualization system. Large sets of 3-D data are acquired in the near field before the end of the potential core and the transition region of the jet. POD is used to objectively characterize and classify the 3-D images...

Zeatin metabolites were isolated from seedcoats and pod tissues of Phaseolus vulgaris and P. lunatus. The differences observed previously between P. vulgaris and P. lunatus embryos, i.e. the formation of O-ribosyl derivatives in the former and O-glucosyl derivatives in the latter, could also be detected in seedcoats, although the levels of these metabolites were much lower and there was a conco...

The accumulation of misfolded cytosolic or aggregation-prone proteins leads to cellular stress. To protect the cell, damaged or aggregated proteins are actively sequestered in two newly discovered quality control compartments, JUNQ and IPOD, which are highly conserved in evolution.

In this work, we present a reduced-order model for nonlinear cross-diffusion problem from population dynamics, the Shigesada-Kawasaki-Teramoto (SKT) equation with Lotka-Volterra kinetics. The finite-difference discretization of SKT in space results system linear--quadratic ordinary differential equations (ODEs). reduced order (ROM) has same linear-quadratic structure as full (FOM). Using ROM, s...

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Traditionally, proprioception has been assessed with a passive model, in which an external apparatus moves a body segment. Recently, protocols have been developed based on active movements, which are more representative of functional activities. However, even these approaches require expensive testing equipment and the necessity of a visit to a research lab, as there are no commercially availab...

Genotypic variation in N efficiency defined as high grain yield under limited nitrogen (N) supply of winter oilseed-rape line-cultivars has been predominantly attributed to N uptake efficiency (NUPT) through maintained N uptake during reproductive growth related to functional stay-green. For investigating the role of stay-green, N retranslocation and N uptake during the reproductive phase for g...