Most strawberry plants have white flowers and red fruit. We developed a new selection with pink fruit, named it G23. Basic phenotypic data were recorded over years of observation experimentation the flower crown diameter, petal color, rate fruit set, as well skin flesh seed color attachment status, weight shape, soluble solids contents, firmness. found that G23 bloomed stable produced consisten...

There is a major research effort throughout the world to modify grapevines so that viticultural practices can be economically mechanized while maintaining or improving yield and quality. To use machines successfully for shoot positioning, pruning, harvesting, and other grape production operations, trellis systems must be devised and shoots positioned to accommodate precise mechanical movement (...

Jennifer Vines This is the fi rst of 12 Correspondence pieces in this issue that are in response to an important PLoS Medicine Research Article: Auvert B, Taljaard D, Lagarde E, Sobngwi-Tambekou J, Sitta R, et al. (2005) Randomized, controlled intervention trial of male circumcision for reduction of HIV infection risk: The ANRS 1265 trial. PLoS Med 2(11): e298. Readers wishing to add their own ...

On the basis of the antennal characters, the entire eye, and the tuft of pleural hair on the prothorax, Schedl (1962:85) erected the genus Nemopagiocerus for his Eupagiocerus nevermanni. This species and the two described below as new were studied in the field, and all three species were compared to the type of dentipes Blandford All three species breed in the pith of woody vines where they hav...

Studying changes in partitioning of dry matter and nonstructural carbohydrates (NSC) content both aboveground underground perennial tissues drought-affected grapevines could provide insights into plant response carbon allocation strategies during stress periods. The analysis soluble NSC starch leaf petioles, due to their role hydraulic segmentation, should also be considered. In the present res...

Habitat fragmentation increases seed dispersal limitation across the landscape and may also affect subsequent demographic stages such as seedling establishment. Thus, the development of adequate plans for forest restoration requires an understanding of mechanisms by which fragmentation hampers seed delivery to deforested areas and knowledge of how fragmentation affects the relationship between ...

BACKGROUND A critical analysis was made of cucurbit descriptions in Dioscorides' De Materia Medica, Columella's De Re Rustica and Pliny's Historia Naturalis, works on medicine, agriculture and natural science of the 1st century ce, as well as the Mishna and Tosefta, compilations of rabbinic law derived from the same time period together with cucurbit images dating from antiquity including paint...

fw2.2 is a quantitative trait locus responsible for approximately 30% of the difference in fruit size between large, domesticated tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) and their small-fruited wild relatives. The gene underlying this quantitative trait locus was cloned recently and shown to be associated with altered cell division in ovaries (Frary et al., 2000). However, it was not known whe...