INTRODUCTION: The annual volume of sweet cherries shipped from the Pacific Northwest has risen dramatically to over 80,000 tons over the last five years. There has also been a major expansion in varieties. While Bing, the traditional variety, remains dominant, new varieties have been planted to lengthen the harvest season. The top varieties in terms of volume shipped are: Bing, Lapins, Sweethea...

The great amount of text produced every day in the Web turned it as one of the main sources for obtaining linguistic corpora, that are further analyzed with Natural Language Processing techniques. On a global scale, languages such as Portuguese —official in 9 countries— appear on the Web in several varieties, with lexical, morphological and syntactic (among others) differences. Besides, a unifi...

Identification and registration of new rice varieties are very important to be free from environmental effects and using molecular markers that are more reliable. The objectives of this study were, first, the identification and distinction of 40 rice varieties consisting of local varieties of Iran, improved varieties, and IRRI varieties using PIC, and discriminating power, second, cluster analy...

Classically, G. Fano proved that the family of (smooth, anticanonically embedded) Fano 3-dimensional varieties is bounded, and moreover provided their classification, later completed by V.A. Iskovskikh, S. Mukai and S. Mori. For singular Fano varieties with log terminal singularities, there are two basic boundedness conjectures: Index Boundedness and the much stronger ǫ-lt Boundedness. The ǫ-lt...

Almost all of the general facts about abelian varieties which we use without comment or refer to as "well known" are due to WEIL, and the references for them are [12] and [3]. Let k be a field, k its algebraic closure, and A an abelian variety defined over k, of dimension g. For each integer m > 1, let A m denote the group of elements aeA(k) such that ma=O. Let l be a prime number different fro...

Given a curve of genus 3 with an unramified double cover, we give an explicit description of the associated Prym-variety. We also describe how an unramified double cover of a non-hyperelliptic genus 3 curve can be embedded in the jacobian of a curve of genus 2 over its field of definition and how this can be used to do Chabautyand Brauer-Manin type calculations for curves of genus 5 with an unr...

A total of 18 rainfed upland New Rice for Africa (NERICA) varieties were categorized as the heavy panicle and low tillering types and early heading, in compared with 32 different varieties. These chromosome components were clarified using 243 SSR markers which showed polymorphism among NERICA varieties and their parents, CG 14 (O. glaberrima Steud.) and one of the recurrent parents, WAB-56-104 ...

monogerm and multigerm seed varieties are used in sugar beet cultivation. singling is inevitable and mechanization almost impossible when multigerm seed varieties are used. for this and for some other reasons, economically sound and fully mechanized cultivation of sugar beet calls for the use of monogerm seed varieties. throughout europe, only monogerm varieties are used in sugar beet productio...

Race Ug99 of the fungus Puccinia graminis tritici that causes stem or black rust disease on wheat was first detected in Uganda in 1998. Seven races belonging to the Ug99 lineage are now known and have spread to various wheat-growing countries in the eastern African highlands, as well as Zimbabwe, South Africa, Sudan, Yemen, and Iran. Because of the susceptibility of 90% of the wheat varieties g...

during past few years, the cupressus arizonica has been abundantly planted in tehran, causing a significant increase of allergic diseases from the middle of winter to the beginning of spring. the aim of this study was the comparison of pollen protein content in two major varieties of c. arizonica planted in tehran, including c. arizonica var. arizonica and c. arizonica var. glabra , in order to...