conclusions chlorine-stressed cells of v. parahaemolyticus were more susceptible to adverse conditions than the non-stressed ones. pathogenic and non-pathogenic strains showed the same survival characteristics under the adverse conditions. these results should be considered in the development of food preservation measures. results findings of the current study revealed that the normal cells of ...

One of the possible ways to ensure future food needs of an increasing world population involves the better water use through the development of crop varieties which need less water and are more tolerant to drought. In order to study the response of twenty landraces of bread wheat to drought stress, an experiment was conducted in a randomized complete block design with three replications under t...

Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy is a robust method for macromolecular analysis and differentiation of microorganisms. However, most studies are performed in controlled conditions and it is unclear whether this tool is appropriate for the identification of eukaryotic microalgae species from variable environments. In order to address this, nine closely-related species of marine an...

This paper considers the optimal control problem of minimizing control effort subject to multiple performance constraints on output covariance matrices Yi of the form Yi ≤ Y i, where Y i is given. The contributions of this paper are a set of conditions that characterize global optimality, and an iterative algorithm for finding a solution to the optimality conditions. This iterative algorithm is...

Drought is an important yield-reducing factor for corn and soya bean which are the two major crops in the Delaware, Maryland and Virginia (Delmarva) region of the United States. Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp.) is primarily grown in drier regions of the world where it is one of the most drought-resistant food legumes. Field experiments were conducted in which 10 genetically diverse cowpea ge...

SVANTE JANSON Abstract. Consider a sum ∑N 1 Yi of random variables conditioned on a given value of the sum ∑N 1 Xi of some other variables, where Xi and Yi are dependent but the pairs (Xi, Yi) form an i.i.d. sequence. We consider here the case when each Xi is discrete. We prove, for a triangular array ((Xni, Yni)) of such pairs satisfying certain conditions, both convergence of the distribution...

This study determined the population structure and genome-wide marker-trait association of agronomic traits of wheat for drought-tolerance breeding. Ninety-three diverse bread wheat genotypes were genotyped using the Diversity Arrays Technology sequencing (DArTseq) protocol. The number of days-to-heading (DTH), number of days-to-maturity (DTM), plant height (PHT), spike length (SPL), number of ...