Abstract One of the most important traits that plant breeders aim to improve is grain yield which a highly quantitative trait controlled by various agro-morphological traits. Twelve morphological such as Germination Percentage, Days Spike Emergence, Plant Height, Length, Awn Tillers/Plant, Leaf Angle, Seeds/Spike, Thickness, 1000-Grain Weight, Harvest Index and Maturity have been considered ind...

Species of the Heteropogon-Themeda clade are ecologically important grasses distributed across tropics, including widespread species, such as pantropical H. contortus and T. triandra, range-restricted species ritchiei anathera. Here, we examine habitat preferences grassland/savanna wetland by describing bioclimatic niche characteristics, characterizing functional traits, investigating evolution...

TaGW2 is an orthologue of rice gene OsGW2, which encodes E3 RING ubiquitin ligase and controls the grain size in rice. In wheat, three copies of TaGW2 have been identified and mapped on wheat homoeologous group 6 viz. TaGW2-6A, TaGW2-6B and TaGW2-6D. In the present study, using as many as 207 Indian wheat genotypes, we identified four SNPs including two novel SNPs (SNP-988 and SNP-494) in the p...

In this paper, we propose the concept of Manifold of Facial Expression based on the observation that images of a subject’s facial expressions define a smooth manifold in the high dimensional image space. Such a manifold representation can provide a unified framework for facial expression analysis. We first apply Active Wavelet Networks (AWN) on the image sequences for facial feature localizatio...

The filaree (Erodium cicutarium), a small, flowering plant related to geraniums, possesses a unique seed dispersal mechanism: the plant can fling its seeds up to half a meter away; and the seeds can bury themselves by drilling into the ground, twisting and untwisting in response to changes in humidity. These feats are accomplished using awns, helical bristles of dead but hygroscopically active ...

1 In this study, we conducted comparative transcriptome analysis between homozygous dominant 2 parent and heterozygous F1 hybrid with homozygous recessive parent in qualitative trait study of 3 common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Two sets of near-isogenic lines (NILs) were used: one set of 4 NILs carrying powdery mildew resistance and susceptible Pm2 alleles, the other set of NILs carrying 5 d...

We have successfully adapted and extended the automatic Multilingual, Interoperable Named Entity Lexicon approach to Arabic, using Arabic WordNet (AWN) and Arabic Wikipedia (AWK). First, we extract AWN’s instantiable nouns and identify the corresponding categories and hyponym subcategories in AWK. Then, we exploit Wikipedia inter-lingual links to locate correspondences between articles in ten d...