Hippocampus Hippocampal complex Memory Food storing Hoarding Caching Birds Passerines Abstract Three families of North American passerines – chickadees, nuthatches and jays – store food. Previous research has shown that memory for the spatial locations of caches is the principal mechanism of cache recovery. It has also been previously shown that the hippocampal complex (hippocampus and area par...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Fruit set in indeterminate plant species largely depends on the balance between source and sink strength. Plants of these species show fluctuations in fruit set during the growing season. It was tested whether differences in fruit sink strength among the cultivars explained the differences in fruit-set patterns. METHODS Capsicum was chosen as a model plant. Six cultivars w...

Fresh pistachio fruit cv. Kalleghochi was harvested from the exterior and interior parts of the tree canopy in four geographical directions. The fruit position in exterior and interior parts of the tree canopy has a significant influence on the number of nuts per ounce, pistachio splitting, hull weight, shell weight, kernel weight, colour indices and total anthocyanin content. Results indicated...

In recent years, studies have been carried on the selection and breeding of melon to reduce its production cost. The F1 seeds this species are usually created by parental lines. Notably, lines separated from each other secure materials. However, there no establishing suitable conditions for storing pollen grains Japanese Cucumis melo L. study, C. were dried at 38 oC temperature, 1.5 hours, whic...

The quality of tomato fruit, from harvest to human consumption, requires a lengthy period for shipping, storing, and marketing. γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is good candidate because it natural substance produced by plants defend themselves against stress conditions. In this study, the effect post-harvest GABA treatments at 0 (control), 5 mM and, 20 on physical biochemical properties polysacchari...

Fleshy fruit is consumed by many wildlife species and is a critical component of forest ecosystems. Because fruit production may change quickly during forest succession, frequent monitoring of fruit biomass may be needed to better understand shifts in wildlife habitat quality. Yet, designing a fruit sampling protocol that is executable on a frequent basis may be difficult, and knowledge of accu...