Species-rich semi-natural grasslands are highly endangered habitats in Central Europe and numerous restoration efforts have been made to compensate for the losses in the last decades. However, some plant species could become more easily established than others. The establishment success of 37 species was analyzed over 6 years at two study sites of a restoration project in Germany where hay tran...

Combine harvesters are widely used worldwide in harvesting many crops, and they have functions that cover the entire process, such as cutting, threshing, separating, cleaning. The threshing drum is core working device of combine harvester plays an influential role rice efficiency, power requirement, seed loss. In this study, two structures threshers (conical-shaped cylindrical-shaped) were test...

The domestication of wheat was instrumental in spawning the civilization of humankind, and it occurred through genetic mutations that gave rise to types with non-fragile rachises, soft glumes, and free-threshing seed. Wild emmer (Triticum turgidum ssp. dicoccoides), the tetraploid AB-genome progenitor of domesticated wheat has genes that confer tenacious glumes (Tg) that underwent genetic mutat...