Dry seeds of seven winter wheat varieties and one line were exposed by gamma-rays and chemical mutagens to determine their effect on plant grows and development. Next parameters have been investigated – plant survival, pollen fertility, components of yield structure. Informative value by mutation depression evaluation of all parameters has been developed. The most informative parameters for mut...

Accurate excited-state quantum chemical calculations on 2-thiouracil, employing large active spaces and up to quadruple-ζ quality basis sets in multistate complete active space perturbation theory calculations, are reported. The results suggest that the main relaxation path for 2-thiouracil after photoexcitation should be S2 → S1 → T2 → T1, and that this relaxation occurs on a subpicosecond tim...

Tamoxifen (ICI 46,474), the trans isomer of a substituted triphenylethylene, was discovered in the fertility program at Imperial Chemical Industries, Pharmaceuticals Division, Cheshire, England. The plan was to use tamoxifen to regulate fertility, but this failed and interest refocused outside the company for applications to treat breast cancer. The initial application of the nonsteroidal antie...

Plants have physical and chemical mechanisms for defense from attack by animals. Phytochemical defenses that protect plants from attack by insects include antifeedants, insecticides, and insect growth regulators. Phytochemical options exist by which plants can modulate the fertility of the other major group of plant predators, vertebrate herbivores, and thereby reduce cumulative attacks by thos...

Let S2 be the 2-dimensional unit sphere and let Jα denote the nonlinear functional on the Sobolev space H1,2(S2) defined by Jα(u) = α 4 ∫