application of edible coating as a way of prolonging the shelf-life of perishable fruits and vegetables is promising. two plum cultivars (stanley and giant) were treated with 1% chitosan and then stored at 0-1oc and relative humidity of 90±5% for 40 days. changes in weight loss, respiration rate, fruit firmness, soluble solid content, titrable acidity, ph, ascorbic acid as well as decay rate we...

M. PLUM Mathematisches Institut I, Universität Karlsruhe, Kaiserstrasse 12, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany [Received on 10 December 2002; revised on 12 January 2004] It is well known that routine methods of computing the spectrum of a self-adjoint operator often lead to spurious eigenvalues in a gap between two parts of the essential spectrum. We provide a geometrical explanation for a numerical me...

The potential of using compact discs as high throughput screening platforms for DNA microarraying is discussed and applied to discriminate genetic variations of Plum pox virus.

The composition of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) extracted with aqueous phenol from a virulent English plum isolate of Pseudomonas syringae pv. morsprunorum varied according to the partial pressure of oxygen (pO2) in the culture medium at the time of harvest. When pO2 was low, the organism grew slowly and produced smooth LPS bearing rhamnan sidechains. As pO2 was raised, the rate of growth increased...

Plum rains and typhoons are important weather systems in the Taiwan region. They can cause huge economic losses, but they are also considered as important water resources as they strike Taiwan annually and fill the reservoirs around the island. There are many meteorological sensors available for investigating the characteristics of weather and climate systems. Recently, the use of GPS as an alt...