The vase life of cut flowers and foliage is often shortened by vascular occlusions that constrict vase solution supply. Reduction in stem conductivity is typically caused by blockage of cut stem ends and xylem conduits by microbes, physiological plugging, and disruption of water columns in xylem vessels by cavitations and air emboli. Cut flower and foliage longevity can be greatly affected by t...

Abstract:Minimumdisconnecting cuts of connected graphs provide fundamental information about the connectivity structure of the graph. Spectral methods are well-known as stable and efficient means of finding good solutions to the balanced minimum cut problem. In this paper we generalise the standard balanced bisection problem for static graphs to a new “dynamic balanced bisection problem”, in wh...

This study was carried out to investigate the effect of differentpreservative solutions to improve the keeping quality of tuberose (Polianthes tuberosa cv. Single). These preservative solutions (treatments) were: T1= 2% sucrose + 200 mg/l AgNO3, T2= 2% sucrose + 200 mg/l AgNO3 + 25 mg/l citric acid, T3= 2% sucrose + 300 mg/l HQS, T4 = 2% sucrose + 300 mg/l HQS+ 25 mg/l citric acid, T5= 2% sucro...

The image segmentation problem is to delineate, or segment, a salient feature in an image. As such, this is a bipartition problem with the goal of separating the foreground from the background. An NP-hard optimization problem, the Normalized Cut problem, is often used as a model for image segmentation. The common approach for solving the normalized cut problem is the spectral method which gener...

In carnation, vase life is shortened due to ethylene and water stress, resulting in petal curling, browning, wilting symptoms. Preservative solutions are used prolong the of cut flowers world, natural substances with antimicrobial properties have been preferred as preservatives recent years. It thought that benefiting from plant wastes will be beneficial for both flower industry waste managemen...