Exotic germplasm, that is, germplasm without commercial applicability, can broaden the genetic base in upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). The objectives of this study were to determine combining ability and identify parents from exotic germplasm for breeding. Twelve regionally adapted exotic germplasm lines were crossed with one cultivar and three elite germplasm lines in a North Carolina D...

We tested, in an olfactometer, whether or not Tribolium castaneumHerbst (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) responds preferentially to the volatiles that emanate from the fungi associated with cotton [Gossypium hirsutum L. (Malvaceae)] seed over those that emanate from cereals, because cereals are usually portrayed as the primary resources of these beetles. Pairwise comparisons were conducted between c...

The effects of soil type, irrigation, and population density of Rotylenchulus reniformis on cotton were evaluated in a two-year microplot experiment. Six soil types, Fuquay sand, Norfolk sandy loam, Portsmouth loamy sand, Muck, Cecil sandy loam, and Cecil sandy clay, were arranged in randomized complete blocks with five replications. Each block had numerous plots previously inoculated with R. r...

Five cotton cultivars were crossed in a complete diallel to study the inheritance of different polygenic traits. Genotypic differences were found to be significant (P<0.01) for all the characters. Adequacy tests disclosed that data of all the parameters were fully adequate for genetic analysis except bolls per plant, staple length, fibre strength, and fibre fineness, which was partially or not ...

In R-parity violating supersymmetry a gaugino can be produced at HERA by the t-channel exchange of a selectron between the beam positron or electron and an initial quark from the beam proton. In the generic MSSM model the gaugino can decay in a cascade into two quarks and an (anti)lepton. For this model a search in the e±-channel has been performed with the ZEUS detector using combined e±p-data...

A 2-yr field study was conducted during 2007 and 2008 at Stoneville, MS, to determine the effect of twin-row (two rows 38 cm apart on 102-cm beds) and single-row (on 102-cm beds) patterns and glyphosate POST applications with and without fluometuron + S-metolachlor PRE on cotton canopy closure, weed control, and lint yield in two cultivars (‘DP117B2RF’, early maturity, hairy leaf; ‘DP164B2RF’, ...

humerus. On the 23rd of March he was brought under tke influence of chloroform, and excision of the joint being out of the question, the arm was amputated at its middle third. The edge of the flaps having been fastened together in the usual way, a strip of lint, soaked in carbolic acid and oil, was applied to them, and another piece of lint which had been similarly treated was then placed over ...

In [5] Raghavarao showed that if n = 2 (mod 4) and A is a {O, 1, -1} matrix satisfying AAt = (n 1) In. then n 1 = a2 b2 for a, b integers. In [4] van Lint and Seidel giving a proof modeled on a proof of the Witt cancellation theorem, proved more generally that if n is as above and A is a rational matrix satisfying AAt = kIn then k = q12 + q22 (q1, q2 E Q, the rational numbers). Consequently, if...

The image of lint containing foreign fiber features that the background (cotton fiber) is homogeneous and has a normal gray-level distribution; the object (foreign fiber) is smaller, darker than the background but its gray-level distributes is a wide range. In this paper, a Background Estimation Thresholding(BET) method is presented to segment the objects from such kind of images. The segmented...

Various methods have been used to obtain improvements of the Goppa lower bound for the minimum distance of an algebraic geometric code. The main methods divide into two categories and all but a few of the known bounds are special cases of either the Lundell-McCullough floor bound or the Beelen order bound. The exceptions are recent improvements of the floor bound by Güneri-Stichtenoth-Taskin, a...