The intention of the new European legislation on rooting materials for pigs is to improve the welfare of pigs. The question is: which materials are suitable rooting materials for pigs? To answer this question the motivation for exploration in pigs is elucidated and the needs of the pigs in this context are discussed. The effects of different materials on the behaviour of pigs are listed and the...

Eucalyptus globulus Labill. has been used in Spain for decades as a cellulose source for the paper and textile industry. Since 1997, Sniace group has tested new provenances and families from 29 different Eucalyptus species to explore their capacity for biomass and bioenergy production. Plus trees for growth, wood quality, rooting capacity and tolerance to Mycosphaerella sp have been identified ...

A micropropagation protocol based on axillary bud proliferation has been developed from mature Lagerstromia parviflora adult tree. Nodal segments cultured on woody plant medium supplemented with 5.0 microl. BAP and 0.25 microm IAA gave maximum (86.9%) morphogenetic response. Proliferated shoots (10.7 per explants) were elongated to 3.9 cm within 6 weeks. In vitro produced micro-shoots were subj...

The influence of two carbon sources, sorbitol and sucrose on In vitro shoot proliferation and rooting of peach rootstock GF 677 was compared at 15, 30, 45 and 60 g l concentrations. The highest number of shoots per proliferated explant, usable shoots and shoots having maximum fresh weight were obtained on sorbitol at 30 g l. GF 677 does not seem to be an efficient utilizer of sucrose for In vit...

Many proposed self-stabilizing algorithms require an exponential number of moves before stabilizing on a global solution, including some rooting algorithms for tree networks [1, 2, 3]. These results are vastly improved upon in [5] with tree rooting algorithms that require only O(n3 + n2 · ch) moves, where n is the number of nodes in the network and ch is the highest initial value of a variable....

This paper will present an enhancement technique based upon splitting -rooting method in wavelet domain. Wavelets transform concentrate most of the energy in the approximation coefficient. In splitting signal, a twodimensional image is represented uniquely by a set of onedimensional signal, which carries the spectral information of the image at frequency points of specific sets. Using splitting...

Phenolic compounds, which are known to regulate root formation, are found abundantly in difficult-toroot Protea cynaroides stem cuttings. In this study, analysis of total phenol content was carried out on blanched and unblanched cuttings to observe its fluctuation throughout the entire rooting period (120 days) and establish its relationship with root formation. Results showed that blanching si...

Here, efficient plantlet regeneration via somatic embryogenesis from Panax quinquefolium hairy roots was reported. Callus development was optimal on MS medium containing 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (1 mg l) and -naphthalene acetic acid (1 mg l). After a 4-week growth, calli were transferred onto MS medium with different combinations of plant growth regulators (PGRs). The highest embryogenesi...

In order to simultaneously sharpen image details and attenuate noise, we propose to combine the recent blockmatching and 3D Þltering (BM3D) denoising approach, based on 3D transform-domain collaborative Þltering, with alpha-rooting, a transform-domain sharpening technique. The BM3D exploits grouping of similar image blocks into 3D arrays (groups) on which collaborative Þltering (by hard-thresho...