The survey results also indicate that the program contributed to the alumni’s efforts by providing skills, knowledge, and confidence as well as confirming and shaping values and career goals. Blending hands-on and classroom education on a wide variety of food systems topics, combined with the Apprenticeship’s residential structure, appears to play a major role in …
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Root morphology and metabolism are affected by abiotic and biotic factors
On the following days however, when exchange sites at the lower part of the stem were assumingly saturated and the amount of radio-Sr in the feed declined due to solution topping and dilution, “wash out” of radio-Sr was demonstrated by negative rates at the lower stem detectors with positive rates at the upper parts indicating …
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The RYMV open reading frame 2 was highly expressed in transgenic rice
Viral resistance using RNA homology-dependent silencing has been successfully engineered into many plant systems. Single or multiple viral-derived transgenes can be expressed in plants leading to RNA homology-dependent silencing and subsequent viral resistance. The use of this transgenic technology may be particularly effective in thwarting viral diseases where little or no genetic resistance has been …
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Current manufacturing systems have already produced over 200 tools and parts in the ISS
However, recent growth strategies in this industry suggest that the private sector have leaned towards M&A-focused approaches4 rather than in-house research initiatives. The previous decade of the private sector was composed mainly of NewSpace companies developing end products and technologies for organic growth.The rise of space-focused investment funds and venture capital arms of traditional aerospace companies not …
Daily rainfall in excess of the soil infiltration capacity is accounted for as run off by HYDRUS
Gels were made from independent root tip preparations from three different batches of plants. In-gel digestion, sample preparation, MALDI TOF and MALDI TOF-TOF peptide mass fingerprint and database searching was carried out as described in detail elsewhere. Statistical significance was tested with a t-Student test . A 2-fold change in spot signal intensity between treatments …
Arrangements for administering environmental impact requirements vary from State to State
The CAA of 1990 acts as an insurance policy that California continue meeting the goals established in the CCAA. However, the California program will meet the federal requirements by default.Although NEPA regulates many actions, it does little to address proposed projects on a Statewide or local level. Consequently, California and thirteen other States have enacted …
All land-use systems showed much higher C mineralization rates in the topsoil than subsoil horizons
The high base saturation under horticultural land uses as compared to < 23% for the pine forest and tea plantation soils is associated with the presence of soluble salts derived from lime, horse manure and Kfertilizer application. These soluble salts derived from the agricultural amendments are beneficial to soil fertility as they can be readily taken up by roots …
Sink tissues had very little changes of 14C in starch under stress
Source and sink tissues therefore partitioned carbon into starch differently in response to abiotic stress . Source leaf showed reduced 14C partitioning into starch at MD under both mild and severe salinity and osmotic stress, and at ED under severe stress only.Since the plants were labeled 5 h after the stress treatment, the 14C flux into starch …
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The geographic diversity of California has led to broad evolution in native plants
However, the number of invasive plants with horticultural origin is high, making it critically important to natural resource managers, ecologists and policymakers to predict which newly introduced species pose the greatest risk of escape and invasion.California has approximately 3,400 species of native plants, of which 24% are found only in the state . However, California …
We used rotated principal components analysis to split the GHA into two sub-regions
Recently, a number of studies suggested that increased SSTs in the STIO may cause large-scale changes in atmospheric circulation and divert important moisture transports away from the GHA, altering previous relationships between regional circulation and precipitation . In an analysis of boreal spring , Williams and Funk found that higher SSTs in the STIO have driven …