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Plants from a population of Scabiosa canescens, a locally rare species with a narrow ecological amplitude, were raised under uniform growth conditions to examine the phenotypic effects of one generation selfing and outcrossing. Particular attention was given to direct components of fitness (seedling biomass, rosette leaf number, head number, flower number per head), but two morphological charac...

Hartman, Ronald E. (American Cyanamid Co., Pearl River, N.Y.) and Chester E. Holmlund. Binding of steroids by microorganisms. J. Bacteriol. 84:1254-1259. 1962.-Certain microorganisms, particularly higher fungi, are able to bind steroids. The steroids can be recovered by solvent extraction only after lyophilization of the cultures. There appears to be a relationship between steroid structure and...

For battery-powered electronic products, one way to extend battery life is to use a versatile step-up/step-down DC-DC converter. A new versatile step-up/step-down switched-capacitor-based converter structure is proposed, and its efficiency is analyzed. In the step-down case, the efficiency is the same as, or even better than the efficiency of linear regulators. key words: DC-DC converter, switc...

KITTELSON, P. M. AND S. D. HANDLER (Department of Biology, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN 56082). Genetic diversity in isolated patches of the tallgrass prairie forb, Lithospermum canescens (Boraginaceae). J. Torrey Bot. Soc. 133: 513–518. 2006.—Genetic diversity is not well understood for many species inhabiting isolated, fragmented systems. We evaluated genetic diversity for the mix...

Article history: Received on: 10/11/2016 Accepted on: 11/12/2016 Available online: 27/02/2017 Six fungal species were isolated from Egyptian soil and identified as Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus niger, Penicillium canescens, Penicillium crustosum, Penicillium sp. and Fusarium sp. and were tested for their decolorization activity of direct blue dye (DB). Aspergillus flavus and Penicillium canes...