Feeding by larvae of Heliothis virescens induces cotton, corn and tobacco plants to release blends of volatile organic compounds that differ in constituent proportions from blends released when Helicoverpa zea larvae feed on the same plant species. The same elicitors (and analogs) of plant biosynthesis and release of volatiles, originally identified in oral secretions of Spodoptera exigua larva...

Seven yeast strains isolated from natural substrates of Thailand were found to represent two novel species of Candida, an ascomycetous anamorphic genus. Three strains, ST-233, ST-259 and ST-260, isolated from insect frass and plant leaves were found to represent a single novel species related to Metschnikowia agaves in a tree based on the D1/D2 domain sequences of the 26S rRNA genes. This speci...

the polymeric and non-polymeric petrochemical wastes are environmentally unfavorable materials. we have to found a way to reuse these wastes in a safe manner. in styrene-butadiene rubber (sbr) production plant two major wastes are produced one is a fine rubber powder and the other is recycled n-methyl pyrrolidone (nmp). in high-density polyethylene (hdpe) production plant also a low molecular w...

After summarising very briefly the key features of different model predictions for sparticle masses and their relation with the supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking scales and parameters, I discuss the capabilities of an ee Linear Collider (LC) with √ s ≥ 500 GeV for precision measurements of sparticle properties. Then I focus on the lessons one can learn about the scale and mechanism of SUSY breaking...

This study explores the potential use of frass, larval excrement residue obtained from mealworm rearing, as organic fertilizer for crops. Its high matter content means that its joint application with a biostimulant based on efficient microorganisms, favoring mineralization, is interest. An experiment lettuce plants (Lactuca sativa L.) was conducted two factors and six replicates under greenhous...

Despite the negative impact that many scarab larvae have on agro-ecosystems, very little attention has been paid to their taxonomy. Their often extremely similar morphological characteristics have probably contributed to this impediment, which has also meant that they are very difficult to identify in the field. Molecular methods can overcome this challenge and are particularly useful for the i...

Since its introduction from North America, Dendroctonus valens LeConte has become a destructive forest pest in China. Although gut aerobic bacteria have been investigated and some are implicated in beetle pheromone production, little is known about the abundance and significance of facultative anaerobic bacteria in beetle gut, especially with regards to effects of oxygen on their role in pherom...

We study N = 1 global and local supersymmetric theories with a continuous global U(1)R symmetry. We discuss conditions for supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking and vacuum structures of R-symmetric SUSY models. Especially we find the conditions for R-symmetry breaking and runway vacua in global supersymmetric theories. We introduce explicit R-symmetry breaking terms into such models in global and local...

The concept of duality plays an important role in optimization theory .In this paper, a new method is proposed to find the fuzzy optimal solution of fully fuzzy linear programming problems using breaking point and duality theory. By using the proposed method the fuzzy optimal solution of fully fuzzy linear programming problem with inequality constraints has been obtained. To illustrate the prop...