Putting these numbers into practice will require understanding how management practices affect both bird and CBB densities.The availability of safe, high-quality food for the burgeoning world population continues to be a major challenge in light of the deterioration of natural resources coupled with climate change. To feed the estimated 10 billion people safely and sustainably by …
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The origin of octoploid strawberry has been intensely studied and widely debated
Several additional wild octoploid subspecies have since been used as parents in breeding, creating an admixed population of F. × ananassa individuals with genomes that are mosaics of phylogenetically and demographically diverse progenitor genomes. While several subgenome origin hypotheses have emerged from cytogenetic, phylogenetic, and comparative genetic mapping studies, a complete hypothesis for the origin …
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A set of non-redundant transcripts was generated by merging these multiple assemblies
These results suggest that S. torvum rapidly induces defense responses against A2-O, which inhibits the maturation of A2- O and gall formation. In contrast, A2-J inhibits or evades the induction of defense responses, continues development, and induces gall formation.RNA-seq analysis was performed to understand the differences in transcriptional regulation of the S. torvum response to …
The distance between this location and the center of the plate was measured
This experiment was conducted at least twice. Calculation of the EC50 values for potassium phosphite of each isolate was determined as described in Adaskaveg et al. . Briefly, the EC50 values were determined by fitting regression lines of the natural log-transformed phosphite concentration against the logit-transformed percent inhibition as compared with the control for each …
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The datasets presented in this study can be found in online repositories
Subsequently, the biochemical data from both V7-berries and V9-berries were correlated to the WGCNA modules, and only 2 modules, M21 and M30, displayed substantial correlations with berry polyphenols, containing 5349 and 4559 genes, respectively . The M21 module was positively linked with TAC , but negatively associated with tannins, catechin, and quercetin glycosides . On the contrary, …
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A variety of topics in community ecology have been intensively studied in this model system
New migrants’ short United States experience translates into a less-developed network to assist their mobility and employment. As a result, they hold the worst and lowest-paid jobs, and are usually the last to be hired and the first to be fired as the peak harvest seasons run their course. In Santa Maria’s strawberry harvest, for …
New varieties have been developed to enhance yield and quality attributes
The transfer and extension of ideas and concepts in order to bring new topics under the compass of existing theory has obvious scientific merit . It also has pitfalls. The failings of early “evolutionist” models of social evolution and their archaeological adaptations, as well as social Darwinist interpretations, are well-rehearsed subjects in anthropology. Contemporary anxieties …
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Specimens may also offer insights into more recent effects of global change on crop species
Similarly, a comparison of herbivory damage on herbarium specimens of non-native plants in urban versus rural environments might provide insights into one pathway towards species invasion. Many non-native plant species are introduced into urban areas, and urbanization may provide warm, enemy-free space where they can establish and subsequently expand. Though the role of urbanization in …
We also included ant activity on nest tree and coffee plant height as covariates
Random effects were modeled with plant identity nested within site to account for the block design of the experiment and to control for variation between our sites. To model count data and to correct for over dispersion, we used a Poisson-lognormal model with a log link function by including a per-observation random effect as described above .We modeled …
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Adaptations to water shortages have been investigated at both the plant and field scales
Pleasant esters in red wines include ethyl acetate which has a OAV threshold of 12264 µg•L-1 and is described as fruity and balsamic , as well as isoamyl acetate, described as banana aroma with a OAV threshold of 30 µg•L-1 . In 2020, ethyl acetate was reduced in C0 and D5 wines, shading and reduced …