Seed dispersal fundamentally influences plant population and community dynamics but is difficult to quantify directly. Consequently, models are frequently used to describe the seed shadow (the seed deposition pattern of a plant population). For vertebrate-dispersed plants, animal behavior is known to influence seed shadows but is poorly integrated in seed dispersal models. Here, we illustrate a...

In many countries, farmer saved seed (FSS) competes directly with a highly regulated commercial industry that sells certified seed. Opponents to the use FSS argue it reduces royalty income for plant breeders and is inferior in quality, which farm profitability. We because farmers have knowledge about field history quality of seed, they can make profit enhancing decisions use, or not FSS. also s...

The apparent viscosity (pseudoplastic viscosity) of mucilage of leucaena seed gum was calculated, based on flow curves, obtamed With multiple point viscometer. Attempts were made to correlate the various rheological properties, describIng the_ overall flow behaviOur of gum, with their concentrations. The relationship between N(exponential constant) and concentration was found to be a zero order...

Limited seed or pollen dispersal enhances spatial genetic relatedness between individuals (fine-scale spatial genetic structure, FSGS), which usually decreases as a function of physical distance. However, such isotropic pattern of FSGS may not always occur when spatially asymmetric processes, for instance, wind direction during dispersal, are considered in wind-pollinated and -dispersed plants....

The output supply and input demand are closely interlinked to each other. Therefore, any change in input and output prices affect the input demand and output supply simultaneously. The present study used cross sectional cum time series data of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra state for cotton crop for the ten years from 1999-00 to 2008-09 were collected from the Agricultural Prices and costs Sche...

With the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, restoration of damaged ecosystems is turning into a global movement. Restoration actions that are not based science and an understanding ecosystem function can thwart desired outcomes at best cause further damage to worst. often includes revegetation using seed. Where we source seed for make difference species establishment, outcomes, rec...

objective(s): this study aimed to develop drugs from natural sources to overcome the side effects of many of synthetic drugs. methanol extracts of both pericarp and seeds of pleiogynium solandri were used to investigate antioxidant, hepatoprotective, and renal function protective, analgesic, and anti-inflammatory effects and to determine the chemical composition of the extract responsible for b...

This paper presents a new object-based segmentation technique which exploits a large temporal context in order to get coherent and robust segmentation results. The segmentation process is seen as a problem of minimization of an energy function. This energy function takes into account a data attach term and spatial and temporal regularization terms. The proposed technique used to minimize this e...