The filamentous fungus Penicillium roqueforti is widely known as the ripening agent of blue-veined cheeses. Additionally, this fungus is able to produce several secondary metabolites, including the meroterpenoid compound mycophenolic acid (MPA). Cheeses ripened with P. roqueforti are usually contaminated with MPA. On the other hand, MPA is a commercially valuable immunosuppressant. However, to ...

The present work aimed to evaluate the osmotic conditioning and shading on the germination and on the initial growth of aroeira seedlings. The seeds were pre-imbibed in solutions with different concentrations of PEG (polyethylene glycol) and KNO3 and incubated at 10°C and 20°C temperatures, during 0 (control), 12 and 24 hours. After these periods, the seeds were dried until they reached the ini...

The low average grain yield (0.7 ton ha(-1)) of tef in Ethiopia is mainly attributed to low soil fertility, and inappropriate tillage and weeds control practices. Despite this, limited scientific information has been documented so far on their interaction effects on tef crop productivity in northern Ethiopia. The objective of this study was to assess the separate and interaction effects of till...

We study bivariate stochastic recurrence equations with triangular matrix coefficients and we characterize the tail behavior of their stationary solutions W=(W1,W2). Recently it has been observed that W1,W2 may exhibit regularly varying tails different indices, which is in contrast to well-known Kesten-type results. However, only partial results have derived. Under typical “Kesten–Goldie” “Grey...

A bstract We consider the Moyal deformation of self-dual gravity. In conformal primary basis, holomorphic collinear limits amplitudes this theory show that it enjoys a perturbatively exact symmetry algebra LW ∧ generalises Lw , loop wedge w 1+ ∞ which appears in

the influence of water deprivation on potted grape (vitis vinifera l.) was investigated. leaf mass area (lma) and biochemical responses, including chlorophyll, total protein, peroxidase activity, soluble carbohydrates, photosynthesis and stomatal conductance were assessed in leaves of ‘sahani’ and ‘bidane sefid’ grape cultivars subjected to progressive drought (soil water potentials of: -0.2, -...

the aim of the present study was to investigate the influence of nozzle configurations on spray drift and explain the influences using several atomization characteristics (length of spray sheet, spray angle, velocity distribution of flow field, fluctuation of velocity, and droplet size). nozzles manufactured by one company (lechler gmbh, germany) were tested by spraying local tap water in a win...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate possible effects two different biostimulant formulations at application regimes and combined or not with mineral fertilizers (e.g., W1–W8, including control treatment (no added)) on yield parameters fruit quality watermelon plants. highest recorded for W5 due formation more fruit. content fat, proteins ash W1, whereas carbohydrates were most abundant...

The Multiagent Planning Architecture (MPA) is a framework for integrating diverse technologies into a system capable of solving complex planning problems. Agents within MPA share well-defined, uniform interface specifications that facilitate integration of new technologies and experimentation with different problem-solving strategies. MPA provides a central repository for storing plan-related i...

In water-in-oil-in-water (W1/O/W2) double emulsions several irreversible instability phenomena lead to changes. Besides diffusive processes, coalescence of droplets is the main cause structural emulsions, inner can coalesce with each other (W1–W1 coalescence), be released via (W1–W2 coalescence) and oil (O–O coalescence). Which pathways contributes most failure emulsion structure cannot determi...