El objetivo de esta investigación fue determinar los cambios en propiedades estructurales un Andisol, como respuesta a la incorporación rastrojo avena (Avena sativa) entre postcosecha y pre-siembra, con tres equipos mecánicos. Los empleados para fueron: Púas (P), Discos (D), Patas Doble Alternados (PD). La unidad experimental cada caso 1 ha una parcela control (C) 0,25 ha, sin incorporación. Pa...

Aims: this study sought to assess the reproductive performance of sows inseminated with sperm treated homeopathic medicines. Materials and methods: semen 2 sexually mature boars age 18 months Pietrain Duroc cross-bred similar genetic were chosen, as well 125 sows. Sixteen samples collected standardized through evaluation. Three preparations a placebo (control) tested on (n=31/32 per group): Ave...

Intact spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) leaf peroxisomes were supplied with glycolate and one to three of the amino acids serine, glutamate, and alanine, and the amount of the respective alpha-keto acids formed in glyoxylate transamination was assayed. At 1 millimolar glycolate and 1 millimolar each of the three amino acids in combination, the transamination reaction reached saturation; reduction...

This paper reports an effect of indole-3-acetic acid on cell membrane potentials. Solutions with increasing IAA concentrations (from 109 to 10-7 M) make membrane potentials of coleop-tile cells more negative. This effect of IAA, which occurs at concentrations that also stimulate tissue elongation, was found inadvertently in the course of an experiment on the effect of IAA on cell wall potential...

Shoots, roots, and seeds of corn (Zea mays L., cv. Michigan 500), oats (Avena sativa L., cv. Au Sable), and peas (Pisum sativum L., cv. Wando) were analyzed for their superoxide dismutase content using a photochemical assay system consisting of methionine, riboflavin, and p-nitro blue tetrazolium. The enzyme is present in the shoots, roots, and seeds of the three species. On a dry weight basis,...

Phytochrome A (phyA) is a red/far-red (FR) light photoreceptor responsible for initiating numerous light-mediated plant growth and developmental responses, especially in FR light-enriched environments. We previously showed that the first 70 amino acids of the polypeptide contain at least two regions with potentially opposite functions (E.T. Jordan, J.R. Cherry, J.M. Walker, R.D. Vierstra [1996]...

A trial was conducted to evaluate the effect of different cereals on the performance, gut mucosa, and microbiota of weanling pigs with or without previous access to creep feed during lactation. A total of 108 newly weaned pigs (7.4 kg BW; 26 d of age; half with and half without creep feed) were used. Piglets were distributed by BW into 36 pens according to a 2 × 6 factorial arrangement of treat...

The crown is the below ground portion of the stem of a grass which contains meristematic cells that give rise to new shoots and roots following winter. To better understand mechanisms of survival from freezing, a histological analysis was performed on rye, wheat, barley and oat plants that had been frozen, thawed and allowed to resume growth under controlled conditions. Extensive tissue disrupt...

The effector protein NIP1 from the barley (Hordeum vulgare) pathogen Rhynchosporium secalis specifically induces the synthesis of defense-related proteins in cultivars of barley expressing the complementary resistance gene, Rrs1. In addition, it stimulates the activity of the barley plasma membrane H(+)-ATPase in a genotype-unspecific manner and it induces necrotic lesions in leaf tissues of ba...