White Chilean strawberries (Fragaria chiloensis) are non-climacteric fruits, with an exotic color and aroma. In order to discover genes involved in the development of these fruits, we identified a fragment of a gene encoding a late embryogenesis abundant domain protein, FcLDP1, that was expressed in early stages of fruit development, particularly in receptacles. Hormones play key roles in regul...

Domestic yaks (Bos grunniens) exhibit two major coat color variations: a brown vs. wild-type black pigmentation and a white spotting vs. wild-type solid color pattern. The genetic basis for these variations in color and distribution remains largely unknown and may be complicated by a breeding history involving hybridization between yaks and cattle. Here, we investigated 92 domestic yaks from Ch...

OBJECTIVE To assess dietary intake during pregnancy and postpartum according to skin color. METHODS A longitudinal prospective study was carried out comprising 467 postpartum women aged between 15-45 years in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Southeastern Brazil, in 1999-2001. A food frequency questionnaire was administered at two weeks postpartum (intake covering the pregnancy period) and at six m...

To characterize color values measured by color devices (e.g. scanners, color copiers and color cameras) in a device{independent fashion these values must be transformed to colorimetric tristimulus values. Often it is assumed that RGBs are approximately linearly related to XYZs and so this transformation is determined by least{squares (LS) linear regression. While the LS method is guaranteed to ...

colors as a key element of emotional (sentimental) impacts and interaction with its surrounding, which is the most important visual factor, has had a great importance in the history of art and culture of iran for decades. this key element has shown its importance in several historical monuments and buildings. a large number of color theoreticians believe that colors affect the human beings’ spi...

Auto white-balance plays a very important role in computer vision, and also is a prerequisite of color processing algorithms. For keeping the color constancy in the real-time outdoor environment, a simple and flexible auto white balance algorithm based on the color histogram overlap of the image is presented in this paper. After looking at a numerous images under different illuminance, an essen...

problematic dyes extensively used in different industries such as textile, paper, food, plasticsand cosmetics have undesirable environmental effects. white rot fungi demonstrating effective extracellularenzyme system, which is capable of degrading dyes and various xenobiotics. the aim of this study was tooptimize decolorization of reactive blue 19 (rb19) dye using phanerochaetechrysosporium. a ...

BACKGROUND Congenital sensorineural deafness has been reported frequently in experimental mixed-breed white cats but there is a paucity of data on occurrence of deafness in client-owned pure-breed white cats. OBJECTIVE To describe hearing status in client-owned pure-breed white cats. ANIMALS Eighty-four pure-breed client-owned cats with white coat color of 10 registered breeds presented for...