California edges towards farming drug-producing rice

Rice Production in California

Several reasons contributed to the low success of early trials, including varieties that were not adapted to the soils, climatic conditions and photoperiod of the region. Most of the trials were carried out in the Delta, where the night temperatures were too low for the varieties used. In additions, the Delta soils were very fertile, while the varieties tested were bred to produce an adequate y...

Silica-Cemented Terrace Edges, Central California Coast

counties (Torrent et al., 1980), and in soils formed in late The morphologic development of soils on marine terraces is a function of terrace age and geomorphic evolution. In this study, inter­ relationships between terrace landscape evolution and pedogenic sil­ ica cementation were investigated. Soil morphology, micromorphol­ ogy, selective dissolution, penetration resistance, and hydraulic co...

Towards Producing

First-order logic models of security for cryptographicprotocols, based on variants of the Dolev-Yao model, arenow well-established tools. Given that we have checked agiven security protocol π using a given first-order prover,how hard is it to extract a formally checkable proof of it,as required in, e.g., common criteria at evaluation level 7?We demonstrate that this is s...

Milling Quality of California Medium-grain Rice

California’s medium-grain rice industry experiences a wide range of head rice yield (HRY). Average moisture of a representative paddy rice sample is the commercially used predictor of optimum harvest date to achieve high HRY. A two-year field study demonstrated that average rice moisture alone is not an adequate predictor of HRY. The history of rice moisture caused by varying meteorological con...

Spectinomycin-resistant penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae--California.