Kernel processing increases starch digestibility in whole-plant corn silage (WPCS). Corn silage processing score (CSPS), the percentage of starch passing through a 4.75-mm sieve, is widely used to assess degree of kernel breakage in WPCS. However, the geometric mean particle size (GMPS) of the kernel-fraction that passes through the 4.75-mm sieve has not been well described. Therefore, the obje...

In a recent Letter [1], Rigamonti et al. claim that the bootstrap kernel (BSK) [2] of time dependent density functional theory does not yield reliable absorption spectra and that their kernel, to which they refer as the revised bootstrap (RBO) kernel, leads to significantly improved spectra. In this Comment we demonstrate that these claims are overstated and that these authors were unfortunatel...

Kazakhstan has very rich walnut genetic resources; however there is no ongoing walnut breeding program. Kazakhstan government has several projects in cooperation with Russia, USA, Bulgaria, Czech Republic and Poland for plant breeding purposes. In the present research walnut genetic resources originated from Jabağıl, Tulkıbas, Sayram, Lenger, and Botanical Garden of International Hodja Ahmet Ye...

a kernel $j$ of a digraph $d$ is an independent set of vertices of $d$ such that for every vertex $w,in,v(d),setminus,j$ there exists an arc from $w$ to a vertex in $j.$in this paper, among other results, a characterization of $2$-regular circulant digraph having a kernel is obtained. this characterization is a partial solution to the following problem: characterize circulant digraphs which hav...

In this study, morphological characteristics as well as ten of Simple Sequence Repeat (SSRs) loci were used to analyze the genetic diversity and relationships among 12 natural populations of Persian walnut (Juglans regia L.) in northern and western regions of Iran. The results showed that there was a high level of genetic diversity among the walnuts, both in terms of their SSRs loci as well as ...

this investigation was carried out in safiabad agricultural research center (dezful-iran) for two years in order to introduce adapted pecan cultivars in subtropical regions of iran. gratex, peruque, comanche, 10j, wichita, mohawk, mahan, stuart, graking, choctaw, apache, 6m and 3j cultivars were evaluated for some of their morphological and phenological characteristics. among cultivars evaluate...