Elderflowers are used in products as either fresh or, more commonly, as dry flowers and as either whole or homogenized flowers . Therefore, each of these parameters were evaluated resulting in the following types of samples: fresh whole flowers ; dry whole flowers ; fresh homogenized flowers ; dry homogenized flowers . Phenolic compounds were …
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Cover-crop treatments had no effect on soil nutrients in the rows
The most significant impacts of the vineyard floor treatments were of the cover-crop treatments on soil parameters in the middles. Soil organic matter in cover-cropped middles was higher than in bare middles each year . Cover crops affected key soil nutrients in the middles; for instance, cover crops greatly reduced nitrate-nitrogen , and to a lesser extent, …
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We confirmed the expression of five GRBaV genes in ripening red-skinned berries
Because of their limited protein-coding capacities, geminiviruses rely heavily on host cellular machinery and interact with an assortment of plant proteins and pathways to promote infection . Although three of these genes have been assigned putative functions in viral DNA replication and coat formation , their specific functions in pathogenesis are yet to be elucidated. …
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Vials were put on ice and refrigerated at 4°C for at least 24 hours before further processing
The site’s location on the flat, valley bottom of a river floodplain also means that its topography, while typical of other vineyard sites per se, created conditions that limit soil depth, drainage and decomposition. As such, the physical conditions examined here may differ significantly from more hilly regions in California, such as Sonoma and Mendocino …
A significant share of farms do not have formal documentation of property rights
The models all use community fixed effects and, for simplicity, have farm size entering linearly.The estimated coefficients from models 1 – 5 are largely consistent. They indicate a strong inverse relationship between farm size and frontier TFP and that the frontier is increasing over time, reflecting positive technical change. The coefficients on inputs are positive …
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Most radar applications occur in forestry and are being operated from satellites or airplanes
Plant morphology is more than an attribute affecting plant organization, it is also dynamic. Developmentally, morphology reveals itself over the lifetime of a plant through varying rates of cell division, cell expansion, and anisotropic growth . Response to changes in environmental conditions further modulate the above mentioned parameters. Development is genetically programmed and driven by biochemical …
Our analysis captures all workers hired by farm employers
EDD regularly obtains data on farmworkers and wages paid when employers pay unemployment insurance taxes. Employers who pay more than $100 in quarterly wages are required to register with the EDD and pay taxes of up to 6% on the first $7,000 of each worker’s earnings to cover the cost of unemployment insurance benefits for …
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Nutritional requirements in cell culture remain unclear for many cell lines from aquatic organisms
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 …
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 …