The objective of this study was to determine the effect of Verticillium dahliae Kleb. on cotton yield and fiber technological properties, relationships among to disease and seed cotton yield, fiber yield and fiber technological properties and also determine susceptible and tolerant cotton varieties. The study was conducted in the Southeastern Anatolia Agricultural Research Institute’s exper...

Almost all of the general facts about abelian varieties which we use without comment or refer to as "well known" are due to WEIL, and the references for them are [12] and [3]. Let k be a field, k its algebraic closure, and A an abelian variety defined over k, of dimension g. For each integer m > 1, let A m denote the group of elements aeA(k) such that ma=O. Let l be a prime number different fro...

A symposium on a revolutionary method in neurobiology and the role of creative research environments Anders Björklund and Olle Lindvall are professors at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Lund. They have both participated significantly in the development of basic and clinical neurobiological sciences at the University of Lund. In 2000 they jointly received the prestigious Söderberg p...

Ever since the arrival of the tomato to Spain in the 16th century, great diversification of the crop has taken place, giving rise to a rich collection of varietal types. The ‘Comunidad Valenciana’, with its deep-rooted agricultural tradition, is one of the Spanish regions with the greatest diversity in traditional tomato varieties, characterised by their local adaptation and high fruit quality....

genetic diversity of five improved varieties (kaysari, kadi, ranger, mesmir, sea-river) and seven iranian landraces (gharayonje, amozeynadin, rahnani, tazekand, shazand, hamedani, yazdi) of alfalfa were assessed using esterase (est), peroxidase (pox), glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase (got) and malate dehydrogerase (mdh). got and mdh were monomorphic, whereas est and pox showed polymorphic ba...

The paper presents smallholder farmers' perceptions on attributes of bread wheat varietiesbased on primary data collected from 524 households in four major wheat growing areas ofEthiopia. The results indicated high value of attainment indices for improved varieties comparedto landraces, which shows how the demanded attributes are embodied more in improved ones.Grain yield and yellow and stem ru...

In this expository paper, we survey the various approaches to compactifying moduli stacks of polarized abelian varieties. To motivate the different approaches to compactifying, we first discuss three different points of view of the moduli stacks themselves. Then we explain how each point of view leads to a different compactification. Throughout we emphasize maximal degenerations which capture m...

For our study of Faltings’ heights on abelian varieties over number fields, it will be convenient if we can compactify the “moduli space” of g-dimensional abelian varieties (over Z) such that the universal abelian scheme extends to a semi-abelian scheme over the compactification. The reason for this wish is that ideally we’d like to set up a theory for which the Faltings height of an abelian va...

1 Algebraic Groups 7 1.1 Group Varieties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.2 Restriction of Scalars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1.3 Algebraic Groups over a Nonalgebraically Closed Field K . . . . . . . . . . . 13 1.4 Structure of Algebraic Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 1.5 Topologizing G(R...