An experiment was conducted under controlled conditions to study the effect of water extract of leaves, shoots and roots of either Sisymbrium irio L. =SISIR and or Descurainia sophia (L.) Schur =DESSO on the germination and primary growth of barley. A split-split plot experiment in CRD with three replications was used. The main plots were the type of weed: i.e. SISIR and DESSO and the sub-plots...

Background and Objectives: Production and consumption of freshly-cut fruits have been increased in recent decades.  One of the major problems in storage of freshly-cut fruits, the color change, is a result of the oxidative reactions of phenolic compounds by polyphenol oxidases. Various treatments such as coating and refrigeration are used to improve quality and shelf-life of the fresh-cut fruit...

Seed of Descurainia sophia  Webb ex Prantl has been traditionally prescribed as treatment for palpitation, varicose vein, varicocele, constipation, hemorrhoid, skin eruptions, and impotence. To outline a view for further approaches, current work compiled a survey on all relevant clinical properties of this medicament in addition to the traditional reports. To do this, databases as PubMed, Scopu...

Jury Dorin COMANICIU, Siemens Corporate Research Rapporteur Peter HUNTER, Auckland Bioengineering Institute Rapporteur Daniel RUECKERT, Imperial College London Rapporteur Younes BOUDJEMLINE, AP-HP, Necker-Enfants Malades Examinateur Giacomo PONGIGLIONE, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù Examinateur Nicholas AYACHE, INRIA Sophia Antipolis Directeur Xavier PENNEC, INRIA Sophia Antipolis Co-directe...

The mode-locking structure of the sine circle map is investigated using the method of modular smoothing. It is shown that the method leads to a scaling function generated by the Gauss transformation. We speculate about a recursive procedure to obtain increasingly smooth descriptions of the fractal structure based on this method. T HE quasiperiodic transition to chaos in families of maps on the ...

one of the most common methods for conservation of plant genetic resources is their ex situ storage as seed gene banks. seeds that are stored in the gene banks must be regenerated due to exchange and seed deterioration; if they not be regenerated the potential benefits of infrastructure investments for germplasm ex situ conservation may not be attained. prediction of seed longevity is based on ...