The success of a rice breeding program in developing salt tolerant varieties depends on genetic variation and the salt stress response of adapted and donor rice germplasm. In this study, we used a combination of morphological and physiological traits in multivariate analyses to elucidate the phenotypic and genetic variation in salinity tolerance of 30 Southern USA rice genotypes, along with 19 ...

The quality of seedcane used by cane growers in South Africa has not reached the standards necessary to contain the spread of diseases and maintain varietal purity. Since the formation of Local Pest and Disease Control (LP & DC) Committees in 1982, a number of grower groups have established formal seedcane schemes to try to improve the quality ofseedcane. Six schemes are described. Each scheme ...

Varietal Thiols in Wine: Discovery, Analysis and Applications Aur elie Roland, R emi Schneider,* Alain Razungles, and Florine Cavelier* Interloire, 12 rue Etienne Pallu, BP 1921, 37019 Tours Cedex 01, France UMR 1083 Sciences pour l’!nologie, INRA, SupAgro, Universit e Montpellier I, 34060 Montpellier Cedex 01, France Institut Franc ) ais de la Vigne et du Vin, at UMR 1083 Sciences pour l’!nolo...

The aim of this study was to compare the susceptibility oats Fusarium langsethiae infection, as measured by combined HT-2 and T-2 mycotoxin concentration (HT2 + T2) in harvested oat grain samples. Over 10 years (2004–2013), samples from single replicates each UK Recommended List trial were analyzed for T-2. For spring oats, there small but statistically significant differences between varieties...

Oryza sativa or Asian cultivated rice is one of the major cereal grass species domesticated for human food use during the Neolithic. Domestication of this species from the wild grass Oryza rufipogon was accompanied by changes in several traits, including seed shattering, percent seed set, tillering, grain weight, and flowering time. Quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping has identified three ge...

The antioxidant activity and the phenolic and α-tocopherol content of 10 Northern Italian mono- and multi-varietal extra virgin olive oils (EVOOs), after early and late olive harvests, was analyzed. A hierarchical cluster analysis was used to evaluate sample similarity. Secoiridoids (SIDs), lignans and flavonoids were the most abundant phenolic compounds identified. The organic Casaliva (among ...

Analyses of key odorous polyfunctional volatile thiols in wines (3-mercaptohexanol (3-MH), 3-mercaptohexylacetate (3-MHA), and 4-mercapto-4-methyl-2-pentanone (4-MMP)) are challenging due to their high reactivity and ultra-trace concentrations, especially when using conventional gas-chromatography electron impact mass spectrometry (GC-EI-MS). We describe a method in which thiols are converted t...

Genotyping-by-Sequencing (GBS) is an excellent tool for characterising genetic variation between plant genomes. To date, its use has been reported only for genotyping of single individuals. However, there are many applications where resolving allele frequencies within populations on a genome-wide scale would be very powerful, examples include the breeding of outbreeding species, varietal protec...