Individual grain weight is a major yield component in wheat. To provide a comprehensive understanding of grain weight determination, the carpel size at anthesis, grain dry matter accumulation, grain water uptake and loss, grain morphological expansion, and final grain weight at different positions within spikelets were investigated in a recombinant inbred line mapping population of bread wheat ...

High-resolution electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) was used to examine the grain structure in long rods of ultrafine-grain (UFG) commercial-purity titanium produced for medical implants. The UFG material was obtained by equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) using a Conform scheme followed by rod drawing. The microstructure was found to be bimodal consisting of relatively coarse elongated g...

This paper summarises six studies undertaken by the Sheep CRC to elucidate certain aspects of confinement feeding of sheep. A review of confinement feeding highlighted the variability of growth rate and feed conversion of sheep and revealed that little is known about the use of sorghum for feeding sheep. The review indicated that the main factors responsible for variation of growth rate and fee...

2. Antic M, Lautenschlager S, Itin PH. Eosinophilic fasciitis 30 years after what do we really know? Report of 11 patients and review of the literature. Dermatology. 2006;213: 93--101. 3. Serrano-Grau P, Mascaró-Galy JM, Iranzo P. Desarrollo de fascitis eosinofílica tras la ingesta de simvastatina. Actas Dermosifiliogr. 2008;99:420--1. 4. Fonseca E. Manifestaciones cutáneas del síndrome tóxico ...

The effects of non-saline soils with low, medium and high salinity, (EC = I, 7, 10 and 18 decisiemens per meter, respectively) on ion content and proline, were studied in different organs of  two colza (Brassica napus L.) cultivars, namely, PF 7045.91 and Hyola 401, in pot culture conditions and also the efficiency of comparing these changes were used as a tool for this study. Plants were grown...

Plastic film mulching (PM) is widely utilized for maize production in China. However, the effect of PM on the grain yield of crops has not been established, and the biochemical mechanism underlying the increase or decrease in grain yield under PM is not yet understood. Grain filling markedly affects the grain yield. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of PM on maize grain...

There is little consensus about how natural (e.g. productivity, disturbance) and anthropogenic (e.g. invasive species, habitat destruction) ecological drivers influence biodiversity. Here, we show that when sampling is standardised by area (species density) or individuals (rarefied species richness), the measured effect sizes depend critically on the spatial grain and extent of sampling, as wel...