‘O'Rourke’ Fig

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Figs and fig wasps

The current project builds on previous grants under the Darwin Initiative that focused on Nepal's flora, a key one of which dealt with plant information and technology transfer, run by the Natural History Museum in London. But the current project is much more ambitious. Although only funded for three years at present, the team hopes funds will be made available for the estimated 15 years it wil...

Problems Identifying Fig Varieties

Figs are one of the oldest known crops. The identification of different varieties is clouded and confused because of this long history. Efforts were made at various times to describe an accurate system for identifying varieties, with limited success.

The fig issue

Figs are remarkable not only for their unusual fruits, quite distinct from any other, but also for their relationship with a group of wasps in which different species pollinate different fig species. The relationship is symbiotic, as the figs are pollinated by the wasps but the insects lay their eggs in some of the flowers that form a food source for the larvae. Tucson, describe the association...

Fig: Automatic Fingerprint Generation

Fingerprinting is a widely used technique among the networking and security communities for identifying different implementations of the same piece of networking software running on a remote host. A fingerprint is essentially a set of queries and a classification function that can be applied on the responses to the queries in order to classify the software into classes. So far, identifying fing...