The use of a microorganism or its secretions to prevent plant disease offers an attractive alternative or supplement to synthetic fungicides for the management of plant disease. A strain BS062 was selected based on the inhibitory effect of mycelial growth of Botrytis cinerea, a major causal fungus of postharvest root rots in ginseng and gray mold disease in strawberry. The strain BS062 was clos...

Sweet chestnut fruits are popular commercialized as fresh or processed ready-to-eat products. The major post-harvest problems associated with stored fungal rots, which cause losses in fruit quality. aims of this work were to determine the incidence, abundance and diversity rots fungi three varieties (Longal, Judia Martaínha) Portugal, collected from an industrial plant, identify stages storage ...

The word “pumpkin” is derived from the Latin word pepo, which is a botanical term for fruit with a hard rind and fleshy interior. The commonly used scientific name for pumpkins is Cucurbita pepo. But some other cucurbits, such as Cucurbita moschata (e.g., ‘Dickenson’ and ‘Libby Select’, known as processing pumpkin) (Figure 1, B) and Cucurbita maxima, which are winter squash, are also known as p...

In this paper, we describe a different approach to the proof of the nonexistence of homogeneous rotation symmetric bent functions. As a result, we obtain some new results which support the conjecture made in this journal, i.e., there are no homogeneous rotation symmetric bent functions of degree > 2. Also we characterize homogeneous degree 2 rotation symmetric bent functions by using GCD of pol...

The heritability of thorax length in the cactophilic Drosophila buzzatii was determined for flies from each of 10 rotting cactus cladodes. For each rot, emerging flies were used as parents of progeny reared in the laboratory. The methods used were full sib analysis with the parents mated assortatively and also offspring-parent regression. From this, heritabilities were measured for the laborato...

Here we introduce a class of linear operators called recursive orthogonal transforms (ROTs) that allow a natural implementation on a distributed control network. We derive conditions under which ROTs can be used to represent SO(n) for n¿4. We propose a paradigm for distributed feedback control based on plant matrix diagonalization. To nd an ROT suitable for this task, we derive a gradient ow on...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The bio-conversion of plant lignocellulose to glucose is an key component of second generation biofuel production, but the resistance of lignin to breakdown is a major obstacle in this process. Filamentous fungi possess the unique ability to decompose the aromatic lignin polymers using enzymes encoded by divergent gene families. White-rot fungi are the primary lignin-d...

Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) peel and sumac (Rhus coriaria L.) fruit and leaf extracts were chemically characterized and their ability to inhibit table grape (cv. Italia) rots caused by Botrytis cinerea was evaluated on artificially inoculated berries. Different extraction methods were applied and extracts were characterized through Ultra Fast High Performance Liquid Chromatography coupled ...

Liao, C. H., and Wells, J. M. 1987. Association of pectolytic strains of Xanthomonas campestris with soft rots of fruits and vegetables at retail markets. Phytopathology 77:-418-422. Five strains of pectolytic, yellow-pigmented bacteria were isolated from xanthomonads might represent an unusual cluster of X. campestris that rotted specimens of tomato, bell pepper, cucumber, and papaya collected...

In a hot strip mill, the strip is cooled by spraying water from top and bottom on the RunOut Table (ROT), before the strip is coiled. The desired mechanical properties and metallurgical structure of the strip is achieved by controIling the cooling rate and temperature of the strip on the ROT. This paper describea a novel real time simulator for ROTs. The simulator has been implemented in parall...