For those less familiar with the Apprenticeship, it is a six month, full-time organic training for up to 38 apprentices from around the world. The roots of the program extend to the arrival of Alan Chadwick at UCSC 40 years ago, when he and a group of student “apprentices” created the Student Garden Project . Apprentices …
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Pore space is where soil air is located and where plant roots actually grow
Jardineand Sampson were quickly elevated from “special agents” to permanent positions in the Forest Service, becoming “the two pioneers in national forest-range research” . Jardine was promoted to Inspector of Grazing in charge of the new Office of Grazing Studies in 1910, overseeing range research and directing the monumental task of “range reconnaissance” throughout the …
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No immediate outlier was determined during the variation of the ethanol prices
Due to the low concentration of resveratrol specified within the Japanese knotweed rhizome used to simulate the base case model, approximately 6,000 kg of Japanese knotweed rhizomes is needed per batch. While ethanol is widely used across the simulated facility, a large quantity of ethanol at an approximate 1:1 ratio is required during the extraction …
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All three main subspecies of X. fastidiosa are able to infect C. arabica to some degree
A total of 6,236 SNPs were detected as being significantly associated with the host Vitis using the Bonferroni correction for multiple hypothesis testing with p-values <0.05. However, this still does not exclude the possibility of significance via phylogenetic proximity across the tree. Given the few clades of Vitis-associated bacteria, this dataset did not offer the …
Other insights into host range have been made in terms of plant immunological studies
While there are three distinctive subspecies of X. fastidiosa, and it would be desirable to be able to use those subspecies for management decisions, so far the subspecies have not been found to have sufficient resolution to define host range or to infer risk . Understanding the molecular basis of plant host specificity in X. …
Declining precipitation in the B1 and A2 scenarios inhibited Pc growth
Alleviation of thermal limitations on Pc growth rates increased the predicted Pc risk in an 470 000 km2 area for the high emissions scenario with a projected mean increase of 0.08. For the low emissions scenario, Pc risks increase over a 390 000 km2 area for the low emissions scenario, with an average 0.05 increase …
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Arguing against this possibility are 2 additional pieces of information
They contrast markedly with the mean estimate of / 0.02 with an upper bound of 0.06 obtained for the non-IHR group . Recombination in clade A. As noted earlier, Nunney et al. proposed that the two clades A and B in the X. fastidiosa subsp. multiplex tree of Parker et al. corresponded to isolates that had been subject …
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Mosses were separated to species and lichens to genera
We included all structurally intact moss and lichen tissue in the live biomass category. This was determined by tugging gently on the brown part of the moss or lichen ramet; the part that broke off was determined to be litter. Large samples were chopped into small pieces, mixed, and then subsampled for fresh and dry …
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The graham cracker cookies and oatmeal bars were prepared with minimal thermal treatment
One metric especially stands out —positive predictive value for D. melanogaster was nearly 95% . In other words, given that an 11-day egg-laying segment of this species is classified as terminal, there is nearly a 95% chance that this classification is correct. The value of this performance metric in this fruit fly species contrasts to that for …
It is safe to say that we achieved the goal for this phase of the project
The division of cultures into those with shorter incubation times and longer ones persists across the CLR transformation, though the magnitude of the differences decreases . Notably, the results here, which should mathematically represent trends that are valid in Euclidean space, also correspond to trends from the PCA analysis of the relative abundances still in …
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