Experiments were conducted to study the plant growth and tuber yield of the seed potato collected from PVY and PLRV infected plants. The seed potatoes were graded as under size (<28 mm), A grade ( 28-40 mm), B grade (41-55 mm) and over size (>55 mm) which were planted following RCBD in the field. Third generation seed potatoes of Diamant variety were used. The incidence of viruses was confirmed...

The problem of optimizing influence diffusion in a network has applications in areas such as marketing, disease control, social media analytics, and more. In all cases, an initial set of influencers are chosen so as to optimize influence propagation. While a lot of research has been devoted to the influence maximization problem, most solutions proposed to date apply on directed networks, consid...

The problem of optimizing influence diffusion in a network has applications in areas such as marketing, disease control, social media analytics, and more. In all cases, an initial set of influencers are chosen so as to optimize influence propagation. While a lot of research has been devoted to the influence maximization problem, most solutions proposed to date apply on directed networks, consid...

In flowering plants, maternal seed integument encloses the embryo and the endosperm, which are both derived from double fertilization. Although the development of these three components must be coordinated, we have limited knowledge of mechanisms involved in such coordination. The endosperm may play a central role in these mechanisms as epigenetic modifications of endosperm development, via imb...

The problem of optimizing influence diffusion in a network has applications in areas such as marketing, disease control, social media analytics, and more. In all cases, an initial set of influencers are chosen so as to optimize influence propagation. While a lot of research has been devoted to the influence maximization problem, most solutions proposed to date apply on directed networks, consid...

Common bean (Phaseolus vulgar is L.) demand is increasing with an alarming rate around the world, especially in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Therefore, increased bean yield per hectare i.s the best way to meet the world demand rather than expansion of area under cultivation. The objectives of this experiment were to determine the genotypic variations for green bean and dry seed yield and ma...

The rate and duration of apple fruit growth, cell division, and cell expansion, were considered in relation to within-tree factors affecting them. Fruit size at harvest was found to be related to the position of fruit on the spur, seed number, spur size, number of fruits set on the spur, and the date of flowering. The position of fruit on the spur, and spur size, were related to blossom size, b...

Both ploidy and hybridity affect cell size and growth vigor in plants and animals, but the relative effects of genome dosage and hybridization on biomass, fitness, and gene expression changes have not been systematically examined. Here we performed the first comparative analysis of seed, cell, and flower sizes, starch and chlorophyll content, biomass, and gene expression changes in diploid, tri...

Previous energy-dispersive x-ray analysis studies of globoid crystal composition in seed protein bodies gave an indication that there might be a correlation between seed size and the type of elements stored in globoid crystals. This possibility was tested by conducting energy-dispersive x-ray analysis studies of P, K, Mg, and Ca levels in globoid crystals of four embryo regions (radicle, stem, ...