Today’s complex distributed systems call for novel methods for modeling, design and implementation. The “active museum” being developed within the PEACH project is an example of such a system. In order to model the system, a new pattern called Implicit Organization was defined that supports the coordination requirements of the agents that compose the system. This pattern was applied within the ...

Peach (Prunus persica) is one of the most popular stone fruits worldwide. Next generation sequencing (NGS) has facilitated genome and transcriptome analyses of several stone fruit trees. In this study, we conducted de novo transcriptome analyses of two peach cultivars grown in Korea. Leaves of two cultivars, referred to as Jangtaek and Mibaek, were harvested and used for library preparation. Th...

This study compares the functional language performance of Tamil-speaking children (n = 30) who received a cochlear implant (CI) before 2 years of age (earlier implanted group: EIG) and between 3 and 4 years of age (later implanted group: LIG). Everyday functional language of children was evaluated by interviewing parents using the adapted Parents' Evaluation of Aural/Oral Performance of Childr...

To further study the characteristics of peach codon usage, this analyzed usage biases and patterns genome, based on statistical calculations related GC content, effective number codons (ENC) relative synonymous (RSCU) from 26 873 coding sequences. The results showed that there were obvious in peach, 4 out 61 (UCA, ACA, GCA GAA) defined as optimal codons, all which end with Adenine at third posi...

BACKGROUND In Italy, the nsLTP (Pru p 3) has been identified as the most frequent cause of food allergy and anaphylaxis. In order to estimate the risk assessment in peach allergy, we investigated the presence of correlations between the levels of sIgE to Pru p 3 with the severity of the clinical symptoms in two Pru p 3 positive populations from two different areas of Italy. METHODS 133 consec...

G. Guzmán, B.A. Latorre, R. Torres, and W.F. Wilcox. 2007. Relative susceptibility of peach rootstocks to crown gall and Phytophthora root and crown rot in Chile. Cien. Inv. Agr. 34(1):31-40. Crown gall (Agrobacterium tumefaciens) and Phytophthora root and crown rot (PRCR), caused by P. cryptogea, are two major limiting factors affecting peach (Prunus persica) production in Chile. At present, N...

Northern-blot hybridization and low-scale sequencing have revealed that plants infected by viroids, non-protein-coding RNA replicons, accumulate 21-24 nt viroid-derived small RNAs (vd-sRNAs) similar to the small interfering RNAs, the hallmarks of RNA silencing. These results strongly support that viroids are elicitors and targets of the RNA silencing machinery of their hosts. Low-scale sequenci...

BACKGROUND Replant disease often occurs when certain crops are "replanted" in a soil that had previously supported the same or similar plant species. This disease typically leads to reductions in plant growth, crop yields, and production duration, and its etiology remains ill-defined. The objective of this study was to identify microorganisms associated with peach replant disease symptoms at a ...

The peach (Prunus persica L. Batsch) is the third most important fruit crop grown commercially after apple and pear in the temperate zones of world with total production of 20.0 million MT (USDA, 2016). In India, peach cultivation is confined to the warm temperate and sub-tropical parts of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Uttrakhand, parts of Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. I...