in order to evaluate the effect of sulphur fertilizer and nitrogen split application on yield and its components of sunflower (helianthus annuus l .),an experiment was carried out at the research field of birjand faculty of agriculture in 2008 as factorial in complete randomized block design with three replicates.the treatments were sulphur fertilizer in four levels ( 0 , 200 , 400 and 800 kg/h...

Currently, there is no economical way to produce large quantities of F1 hybrid soybean seed in the USA. One of the fundamental requirements for hybrid seed production is the availability of a stable male-sterile, femalefertile system. However, the more challenging barrier is the efficient transfer of pollen from the male parent to the female parent. This could potentially be achieved through po...

Bootstrapping has recently become the focus of much attention in natural language processing to reduce labeling cost. In bootstrapping, unlabeled instances can be harvested from the initial labeled “seed” set. The selected seed set affects accuracy, but how to select a good seed set is not yet clear. Thus, an “iterative seeding” framework is proposed for bootstrapping to reduce its labeling cos...

The task of event trigger labeling is typically addressed in the standard supervised setting: triggers for each target event type are annotated as training data, based on annotation guidelines. We propose an alternative approach, which takes the example trigger terms mentioned in the guidelines as seeds, and then applies an eventindependent similarity-based classifier for trigger labeling. This...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The oleaginous legume Pongamia pinnata is a rapidly growing and economically important tree. The seeds are used increasingly as feedstock for biodiesel production, with the protein-rich residue providing valuable supplement to farm animal diets. However, little is known about seed development and the characteristics of germination. We therefore studied morphological, protein...

We describe and evaluate a new method of automatic seed word selection for unsupervised sentiment classification of product reviews in Chinese. The whole method is unsupervised and does not require any annotated training data; it only requires information about commonly occurring negations and adverbials. Unsupervised techniques are promising for this task since they avoid problems of domain-de...

Free abscisic acid (ABA) in integuments, nucellus, endosperm, and embryo was determined throughout seed development of peach (Prunus persica L. cv Springcrest). Quantification of ABA was performed using combined high performance liquid chromatography-radioimmunoassay based on a monoclonal antibody raised against free (S)-ABA. In the integuments and endosperm, ABA concentration remained constant...

Developing Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) seeds and embryos represent a complex set of cell layers and tissues that mediate the transport and partitioning of carbohydrates, amino acids, hormones, and signaling molecules from the terminal end of the funicular phloem to and between these seed tissues and eventually to the growing embryo. This article provides a detailed analysis of the sympla...

In gynodioecious species, male-steriles (termed "females" hereafter) usually exhibit some reproductive advantage over hermaphrodites that allow them to compensate for the loss of male reproductive function. This compensation can result from higher fecundity, vegetative outperformance, and/or lower inbreeding depression. In this study we compared vegetative and reproductive parameters of female ...