Seeds - Science topic

Seed germination is a crucial stage in the life cycle of plants. It determines their growth and reproduction success. Temperature is one of the most important environmental factors that affect seed germination. This research aimed to estimate the cardinal temperatures and the thermal time requirement for seed germination. The effects of different t...

This research evaluated the agronomic performance through mixed models, and determined the genetic divergence between black oat genotypes. The experiment was carried out at Federal University of Santa Maria, Frederico Westphalen/RS. Fourteen black oat genotypes were evaluated, being 11 lines developed by Breeding Program of University, and three co...

In integrated crop-livestock systems, overseeding annual summer pastures over grain crops can reduce forage shortages in autumn without altering grain production. This study evaluated the influence of pearl millet (Pennisetumglaucum L.) and sudangrass (Sorghum Sudanese) overseeded on a soybean (Glycine Max) crop or no-tillage seeding after soybean...

The peach palm (Bactrisgasipaes) is an important alternative for heart-of-palm extraction, showing precocity, rusticity and high tillering. The seeds of this species are considered recalcitrant making storage for long periods and production of seedlings difficulty. This identified a combination of moisture content of peach palm seeds and temperatur...

Plant extracts effects have been regarded and proven in researches under different applications in agriculture, including seed treatment. The plant extracts effectiveness is attributed to the presence of certain classes of compounds; therefore, studies that aim to identify and quantify these composites, which are present in plant extracts used in a...

The uniformity of seed distribution and sowing speed directly impact crop quality and productivity. This experiment assessed how the position of the sowing monitoring sensor influences the distribution of cotton seeds using a pneumatic meter at different operating speeds. The experiment employed a completely randomized two-factor factorial design o...

This article presents a newly developed modification of the dandelion optimizer (DO). The proposed method is a chaotic algorithmic integrity and modification of the original dandelion optimizer. Dandelion is one of the plants that rely on wind for seed propagation. This article presents the tuning of the power system stabilizer with the method prop...

Ultrashort pulse fiber lasers with multi-GHz repetition rates have recently attracted significant attention in various fields. However, the parameter tunability of multi-GHz ultrashort pulse fiber lasers is inherently limited by their miniaturized design, particularly the central wavelength and transform-limited pulsewidth. To this end, here we pro...

CALL FOR PAPERS - AGRICULTURE (https://www.mdpi.com/si/165847) This Special Issue aims to publish work that covers coffee production technologies; harvest techniques; equipment and procedures used during coffee post-harvest, with special interest on drying and storage methods; sensorial analysis and coffee defects identification.

A high infrared-to-green conversion efficiency laser is demonstrated by extra-cavity frequency-doubling of a master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) laser. The oscillator is a diode-side-pumped acousto-optic Q-switched Nd:YAG laser at 1064 nm with an average output power of 38.2 W and a beam quality factor M² = 1.15, operating at a 2...

In this paper, we experimentally demonstrate a low-power, broadband, and narrow linewidth SBS-FWM OFC with tunable line spacing of 50 to 600 GHz. The SBS-FWM OFC spans a bandwidth of $\approx$ 100 nm over the C $+$ L-band region using $\approx$ 15 dBm pump power. The OFC is obtained by cascaded FWM process in highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF), see...

Sorghum was first domesticated approximately 6000 years ago in the eastern Sahel region of Africa, but our understanding of its agricultural history is uneven due to the paucity of the available archaeobotanical evidence. Despite growing interest in the issue, sorghum response to fire exposure has been little investigated. In this paper, the resist...

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Medulloblastoma is the most common malignant pediatric brain tumor. Histological subclassification and adjuvant therapy have improved prognostication and outcome. Extraneural metastasis remains a poor prognostic factor and subcutaneous seeding is rarely encountered and reported in the pediatric population. We report a 3-year-old child who rapidly p...

Machine learning is an essential tool for crop yield prediction. Crop yield prediction is a challenging task in the agriculture and agronomic field. In crop yield, many factors can impact crop yields such as soil quality, temperature, humidity, quality of the seeds, rainfall, and many more. To give an accurate yield prediction with the right machin...

Various factors cause yield loss of sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) and among them sesame phyllody is a major one. Present field study showed the variable reactivity by sesame phyllody pathogen to insecticides, combination of phytoextract with insecticide and combination of antibiotic with insecticide as seed treatment and foliar spray. Seed treatment...

The usage of naked barley in the food industry is increasing day by day due to its health benefits. As a result, research on breeding naked barley have gained popularity. In these breeding studies, a wide variation in desired traits is needed to achieve higher success in selection. One of the best methods for obtaining genotypic variation, which is...

Solanum paniculatum L. belongs to the Solanaceae family and has the ability to grow and develop under unfavorable environmental conditions such as drought and salt stress, acid soils and soils poor in nutrients. The present work aimed to analyze S. paniculatum seed transcriptome associated with induced tolerance to drought stress by osmopriming. Se...

A number of challenges hinder artificial intelligence (AI) models from effective clinical translation. Foremost among these challenges are: (1) reproducibility or repeatability, which is defined as the ability of a model to make consistent predictions on repeat images from the same patient taken under identical conditions; (2) the presence of clini...

Rice bakanae is a monocyclic disease mainly transmitted through infected seeds from the previous season. However, the overwintering pathogen in the plant debris or soil may also act as a primary inoculum in the next season. When infected seeds are sown, typical symptoms, including elongated growth, yellowing of leaves, and seedling rot, appear in r...

Slow-release fertilizer (SRF) with chitosan (CS) coating as a supply of plant nutrients is an alternative to the efficient use of conventional chemical fertilizers and reduces environmental pollution. However, its potential in woody plants is limited. This study aimed to analyze the effect of SRF on Falcataria moluccana germination and SRF phosphor...

Information regarding additive and dominance properties of gene of the quantitative traits is very important to improve any crops. Five chickpea genotypes were taken as a base material for this study and five different crosses were made between the genotypes to raised F 1 , F 2 and biparental (BIP's) family. Analysis of variance showed significant...

Preserving seed quality during storage involves controlled conditions or seed treatment, with the latter being more practical due to lower expenses. The present study was oriented towards discovering a seed treatment that can keep mungbean seeds free of disease infection and insect attacks for the longest possible time. It was conducted in the seed...

The plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) regulates seed dormancy and germination. Here, we present a protocol for ABA extraction from plant seeds. We describe necessary steps required for preparation and extraction, followed by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) analysis for ABA quantification.

Wheat sowing has the characteristics of wide and short sowing periods, and there are situations in which the suitable sowing period is missed. In order to meet the needs of high-speed sowing, a centrifugal wheat strip seeding device was designed, the principle of which is that rotating parts were mainly composed of centrifugal concave plate and gui...

We present improved estimates of the electric charge that black holes could hold when these are embedded in the ionised plasma within dark matter haloes (or galaxies) in the Universe. We have implemented the spontaneous emission of charges of opposite sign to that of the black hole via athermal Hawking evaporation, including its dependence on black...

It was aimed at the bio-intensive management of Fusarium wilt and Aschochyta blight of Lentil. A consortial microbial formulation UmComb was tried as seed treating agent, soil application, and 3 foliar sprays alone and in combination with each other. Data on percent disease incidence, plant growth and yield attributing parameters were collected and...

Zmiany zawartości D-chiro-inozytolu i jego α-D-galaktozydowych pochodnych podczas wegetacji i desykacji gryki zwyczajnej (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench) Summary. Common buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench) is the only crop that contains D-chiro-inositol (DCI) in significant contents in vegetative tissues and its α-D-galactosyl derivatives in seeds...

This study aimed at comparing the vegetation that emerged from the soil seed bank (SB) of the sector with that of standing vegetation (SV) to investigate if the Erin sector can eventually self-regenerate if the reserve is removed by anthropogenic activity. Twenty sample plots of 20 m-by-20 quadrats were randomly selected within the biosphere reserv...

Rapid establishment of closed canopy cover is a key goal in land reclamation. While re-establishment of understory vegetation is likely to positively contribute to this goal, native herbaceous species are not typically planted on reclaimed sites though it is an alternative to reliance on natural regeneration. The objective of the present study was...

This paper proposes a semi-supervised relation extraction methodology to extract hypernymy (Is-A) relations. We developed a pattern learning-based model based on a "most reliable pattern". After each iteration, the algorithm generates trusted instances of hypernym–hyponym pairs using only a corpus of text and a set of seed instances as the input. S...

Purpose To investigate the efficacy and safety of tyrosine-kinase inhibitor (TKI) combined with iodine-125 seed brachytherapy (TKI-I) versus TKI alone for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) refractory to transarterial chemoembolization (TACE). Methods Data of patients with TACE-refractory HCC who received TKI (sorafenib or lenvatinib) or...

The seed treatment, as well as soil application of imidacloprid 600 FS @ 5 ml/kg + Beauveria bassiana 1.15 WP @ 2 kg /ha, was found most effective against termite (9.34% plant damage) after 110 days of crop sowing, followed by fipronil 5 SC @ 5 ml/ kg + Metarrihizium anisopliae 1.15 WP @ 2 kg/ha (10%) and clothianidin 50 WDG @ 2 g/ kg + Beauveria b...

This study used the process of vacuum impregnation of seeds at the soaking stage. The barley varieties used were Kangoo and Xanadu. The raw material was used for the production of light malt. The effect of vacuum impregnation on the rate of water uptake by the seeds at different temperature conditions, i.e., 12, 14 and 16 • C, was also analyzed. Gr...

In this study, we performed nanopore sequencing of the genome of Paenibacillus amylolyticus strain W018, isolated from the seeds of winter wheat, cv. Bezostaya 100. The genome size is 7.07 Mb, with a GC content of 45.8%, and contains 8,190 genes.

Influence maximization (IM) is the task of finding the most important nodes in order to maximize the spread of influence or information on a network. This task is typically studied on static or temporal networks where the complete topology of the graph is known. In practice, however, the seed nodes must be selected before observing the future evolu...

Bioinoculants are the environmental friendly microorganisms involved in growth and development of Chillies. Growth is measured in terms of increase in biomass and leaf area contributing for maximum dry matter accumulation and crop yield of chillies. The leaf improvement directly increases the leaf area index, leaf area duration, specific leaf weigh...

Chickpea is one of the earliest food legumes essential in the human diet and agricultural systems. Microbe-plant interaction improves the growth and yield of chickpeas. This interaction during seed germination improves the growth and development of the crop. Chickpea seeds were treated with microbes like bacteria, fungi, and their combination and s...

The experiment was conducted on 142-1-e maize unfixed parental line at Bako National Maize Research Center study site for the last three years (2019-2021). The objective of the study was to identify an optimum plant population density and N rate on 142-1-e maize parental line which gave the highest seed producibility and maximum net benefit. The ex...

We introduce two new search strategies to further improve the performance of vegetation evolution (VEGE) for solving continuous optimization problems. Specifically, the first strategy, named the dynamic maturity strategy, allows individuals with better fitness to have a higher probability of generating more seed individuals. Here, all individuals w...

Rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) is one of the most important oil crops in China. Improving the oil production of rapeseed is an important way to ensure the safety of edible oil in China. Oil production is an important index that reflects the quality of rapeseed and is determined by the oil content and yield. Applying nitrogen is an important way to en...

Low-power microwaves increase the stiffness, resilience and β-structuration of different SAPs. This green protocol does not affect SAP biomimetic properties and it can be applied to SAPs previously seeded with living human neural stem cells.

Packaging: After processing and treating are completed, seed are packaged into containers of specified net weight. Packaging or bagging is essentially the last operation in which seed are handled in bulk flow and it makes future operations easier by: 1. Dividing the larger seed mass into units of specified weight which can be marketed easily. 2. Ma...

This paper investigates the phenomenon of phosphorus (P) escaping and its influence on the growth of InP crystal by in-suit liquid-encapsulated Czochralski (LEC) method. It was found that when the seed was inserted into the InP melt to start crystal growth, P bubbles appeared on the melt surface near the edge of the crucible and moved from the edge...

Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is an effective method for precise layer‐wise growth of thin‐film materials and has allowed for substantial progress in a variety of fields. Advances in the technique have instigated high‐level interpretations of the relationship between nanostructure architecture and performance. An inherent part in the ALD of films i...

ASRB NET QUESTION SEED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

An experiment was conducted during Rabi 2011-12 and 2012-13 at Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture & Technology, Kanpur to find out the response of different levels of zinc and iron on seed quality, yield and seed quality attributing characters of wheat cv. K-9162 (Gangotri) in Factorial Randomized Block Design with three replications. F...

A field experiment was conducted during 2002 at CCS University, Meerut to study the effect of environmental factors and seasons on field emergence, growth and seed yield in Six inbreds/OPVs: CM135, CM136, CM137, CM138, CM500, CM600 and two single crosses: CM202xCM111 & CM400xCM300 were evaluated for five characters namely, field emergence, rate of...

An experiment was conducted in RBD with three replications to find out the effect of integrated nutrient management in popular variety of pea, Azad Pea-3. The result revealed that application of vermicompost @2.5 tonnes ha-1 + ½ dose of NPK kg ha-1 resulted significantly maximum field emergence (24.18 sqm-1 area), days to 50 per cent flowering (30....

In last few years, chaotic maps are being used extensively by the researchers to build image cryptosystems. This paper proposes a novel Hybrid chaotic map, and discusses the implementation of an image encryption method that uses an existing Sine–Cosine (SC) chaotic map, and the proposed novel Hybrid chaotic map. The proposed image encryption method...

Application of a broad-spectrum post-emergence herbicide is a promising weed management option for chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). So, the goal of this experiment was to find out how much and when to use topramezone to control weeds in chickpea. The experiment was designed in RBD of ten treatments, viz. two different doses of topramezone 20.6 and 25...

Resumen El amaranto y la quinoa, al igual que otros cereales, pueden emplearse para la obtención de productos con gran valor nutricional. Actualmente, son considerados alimentos básicos en la canasta familiar de los habitantes de las zonas andinas, esto ha conllevado a la necesidad de promover el desarrollo sostenible de sus cultivos. Por ello, el...

Increase in dose of Metarhizium anisoplea from 2kg/ha to3 kg/ha decreased the BPH counts at 7 days after spraying. This was on par with Thiomethoxam. Similar beneficial effect was also noticed on the seed yield of paddy. Sparaying of Metarhizium anisoplea @ 2.5 kg/ha recorded significantly higher seed yield of paddy (8060 kg/ha) over Metarhizium an...

The present investigation was undertaken to study the "Effect of priming treatments on germination and vegetative performance of seedlings in Red Sandalwood (Pterocarpus santalinus Linn. f.)" was carried out in the nursery of College of Forestry, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar 2021-23. The experiment was laid out in Co...

Objective: This study aimed to describe a methodology that involves obtaining a temporal scale in days, along with the technical information necessary to obtain maximum vigor of Pochota fendleri seedlings when sown in containers and/or Gerbox boxes, as well as their quality. Method: The experimental design was completely randomized, with four repli...

The main function of harvesting is the cutting, picking, or digging of mature crop seeds, fruits, stalks, leaves, root parts, or the whole plant [...]

In the context of linear stability analysis, considering unsteady base flows is notoriously difficult. A generalisation of modal linear stability analysis, allowing for arbitrarily unsteady base flows over a finite time, is therefore required. The recently developed optimally time-dependent (OTD) modes form a projection basis for the tangent space....

Mee (Madhuca longifolia (Koenig) J.F. Macb. var. longifolia) is a salient economic tree spread throughout the subtropical region of the Indian subcontinent. Its seed constituents have distinctive chemical properties and thus extracted fat have distinctive nutritional and functional characteristics. This seed fat is edible and can Meet the fat requi...

Multi-trait selection is very helpful in plant breeding programs. This technique can select genotypes for specific traits. Yield performance of maize hybrids is influenced by genotype-by-environment interactions (GEIs). This requires multi-environmental testing to identify superior hybrids. The aims of this study were to: (1) select maize hybrids w...

Rifleman (tītitipounamu, Acanthisitta chloris) is one of two surviving species in the family Acanthisittidae (New Zealand wrens), and is considered to be almost entirely insectivorous. The few observations of food items other than invertebrates consumed by riflemen include birds in South Westland feeding on fruit of Raukaua edgerleyi (raukawa) and...

Realistic fluid flow problems often require that Lagrangian tracers are deployed in a sparse or very-sparse manner, such as for oceanic and atmospheric flows where large-scale motion needs characterisation. Data sparsity represents a significant issue in Lagrangian analysis, especially for data-driven methods that rely heavily on large datasets. We...

Effect of lettuce seed pelleting with plant growth-promoting bacteria on seed quality and bacterial viability after storage. Abstract Storage of seeds pelleted with plant growth-promoting microbes affects their quality, shelf life and viability of bacteria in controlled conditions. After 6-12 months of storage, it was found that the seeds pelleted...

MADS-box transcription factors play important roles in many organisms. These transcription factors are involved in processes such as the formation of the flower organ structure and the seed development of plants. Ginkgo biloba has two genome versions (version 2019 and version 2021), and there is no analysis or comparison of the MADS-box gene family...

Background: Selection of a suitable planting time is one of the key factors for obtaining a desirable rice grain yield. This study focuses on the effect of planting date on the key agronomic traits and provides useful information of an optimal planting window to maximize grain yield of Bangabandhu dhan100 in the cold-prone Rangpur region, Banglades...

This work aimed to evaluate the toxic effects of ibuprofen at environmentally relevant (0.02 and 0.20 mg/L-1) and non-relevant (600 mg/L-1) concentrations on the plant model Triticum aestivum (wheat). The seeds were exposed to different concentrations and the percentage of germination (PG%), the germination speed index (IVG) and the length of the r...

Annotation This article describes the effect of various biostimulants on the quality indicators of crotalaria in the cultivation of the non�traditional leguminous plant Crotalaria juncea in the conditions of the meadow gray soils of Jizzakh region. In order to obtain a high and high-quality grain yield from Crotalaria, it is sown at the rate of 14...

Three different stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) configurations in perfluorooctane were experimentally compared to achieve the ultimate compression of ~1.1 ns pulses from a commercially available Nd:YAG mini-laser. These schemes contained either a focusing lens and a plane feedback mirror, a spherical mirror, or variable pulse splitting to pro...

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The effect of barley seed extracts on the corrosion of carbon steel in 1M hydrochloric acid at different temperatures was investigated from the perspective of their potential use as green inhibitors in the cleaning and descaling processes in heat exchangers. A 50% ethanol/water (vol) solution was used for extraction. Two extraction methods were use...

Human brain is characterized by extremely sparse extracellular matrix (ECM). Despite its low abundance, the significance of brain ECM in both physiological and pathological conditions should not be underestimated. Brain metastasis is a serious complication of cancer, and recent findings highlighted the contribution of ECM in brain metastasis develo...

This booklet contains information about seed science and technology basics and detailed treatise of 30 spp. of medicinal values of seeds, required for plantation establishments.

This paper describes a postgraduate training programme in child and adolescent mental health (CAMH) in Nigeria. It explains the background, curriculum development, teaching, evaluation and outcomes. By its 10th year the programme had trained 166 CAMH professionals from 14 African countries. Many of the graduates are running clinical CAMH services i...

Flow over orography can be investigated through stationary gravity waves, i.e. those whose speed exactly opposes, and therefore cancels, that of the airstream in which they are embedded. They give rise to persistent zones of ascent and descent, which modulate precipitation patterns and contribute to large accumulations, e.g. through the well-known...