CONSUMER PREFERENCES FOR GERANIUM FLOWER COLOR AND LEAF VARIEGATION

Flower Variegation in Hybrids between NICOTIANA TABACUM and N. OTOPHORA.

HE fate of genes and chromosomes following interspecific gene transfer Tdeserves detailed study. Genes of one species often can be introduced into another without evident changes of their action and with little effect upon their stability. ANDERSON'S (1949) widely known work on introgression after interspecific hybridization could not have been successful had he been dealing with unstable genet...

Consumer Preferences for Mass Customization

Increasingly, firms adopt mass customization, which allows consumers to customize products by self-selecting their most preferred composition of the product for a predefined set of modules. For example, PC vendors such as Dell allow customers to customize their PC by choosing the type of processor, memory size, monitor, etc. However, how such firms configure the mass customization process deter...

Flower color preferences of insects and livestock: effects on Gentiana lutea reproductive success

Angiosperms diversification was primarily driven by pollinator agents, but non-pollinator agents also promoted floral evolution. Gentiana lutea shows pollinator driven flower color variation in NW Spain. We test whether insect herbivores and livestock, which frequently feed in G.lutea, play a role in G. lutea flower color variation, by answering the following questions: (i) Do insect herbivores...

Flower color preferences of insects and cattle: effects on Gentiana lutea reproductive success

Integration of Color Features and Artificial Neural Networks for In-field Recognition of Saffron Flower

ABSTRACT-Manual harvesting of saffron as a laborious and exhausting job; it not only raises production costs, but also reduces the quality due to contaminations. Saffron quality could be enhanced if automated harvesting is substituted. As the main step towards designing a saffron harvester robot, an appropriate algorithm was developed in this study based on image processing techniques to recogn...