Abstract Background and aims Potato tubers comprise 83% water at harvest, but surprisingly few studies address tuber relations in drying soil. This study to understand whether soil alters fluxes their effect on volume growth. Methods Tuber content growth were investigated every 4 h using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) during re-watering, with leaf gas exchange, potential foliar abscisic acid ...

The summer climate of northern Japan since the last glacial period has likely been determined by atmospheric and oceanic dynamics, such as changes in North Pacific High, position westerlies, Kuroshio Current, Tsushima Warm Current (TWC), East Asian monsoon. However, it is unclear which factor most important. In this study, we analyzed leaf wax δ 13 C δD glycerol dialkyl tetraethers (GDGTs) sedi...

Abstract El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has been recently linked with extratropical Pacific Ocean atmospheric variability. The two key mechanisms connecting the variability of ENSO are heat flux–driven “seasonal footprinting mechanism” (SFM) and ocean dynamics–driven “trade wind charging” (TWC) mechanism. However, their relative contributions to still unknown. Here we present modeling evid...

Investigate Japan/East Sea circulation dynamics in a systematic and progressive fashion using a sequence of increasingly complex ocean models and model-data comparisons. Investigate the impact of upper ocean topographical coupling and isopycnal outcropping on the mean pathways of the major current systems, including those over the continental shelf region. Also, to assess the impact of differen...

Context Heating of meat leads to structural changes reflected in the juiciness and tenderness cooked meat. Aims This study aimed characterise effect prolonged ageing cooking on pork-quality traits. Methods Longissimus lumborum samples from 12 carcasses were aged 3 days (conventional ageing) or 15 (prolonged pork cuboids at 50–80°C for 30 min. Cooking loss, total water content (TWC), Warner–Brat...

The aim of this study was to investigate the difference in the magnitude of muscle damage between maximal eccentric exercises of the elbow flexors (EF) and knee extensors (KE). Twelve sedentary male volunteers participated in the study. Range of motion (ROM), isometric peak torque (IPT), delayed onset of muscle soreness (DOMS), creatine kinase activity (CK), and myoglobin concentration (Mb) wer...