Two-year-old, field-grown golden kiwifruit ( Actinidia chinensis ) and fuzzy deliciosa plants were evaluated for injury following an early freeze event of −4.1 °C on 14 Nov. 2018 in Burleson County, TX. Plant material included seven cultivars: one seed-propagated [Sungold™ (ZESY002)] three cutting-propagated (AU Golden Dragon, AU Sunshine, CK03), (Hayward) two Authur Fitzgerald). Observations m...

This paper presents a system for modeling autumn leaves covering vegetation and monuments. We simulate the coloring and aging process by a stochastic model that represents the probability of evolution of a leaf according to the characteristics of the environment. We distribute leaves over the ground by approximating their complex movement by trajectory templates such as fluttering, rolling and ...

 We performed molecular dynamics simulations using the coarse-grained model to study the freezing behavior of pure water and 14% water-salt mixture in a wide range of temperatures for a very long time around 50 nanoseconds. For the salty water, an interface in nanoscale was used. For both systems, the f...

This experiment was conducted to study variations of serum testosterone and seminal characteristics of Markhoz male goats. Blood samples were obtained via jugular vein, and semen was collected by using an artificial vagina from 14 fertile male goats (2-3 years of age), at 15-day intervals starting on 15 July and ending on 30 October 2010 (during breeding and non-breeding season). Semen volume, ...

  Background : Since milk is considered as one of the most common foods in human life, this research aimed to evaluate the quality of milk produced in traditional and industrial dairy farms of Yazd province in 2007.   Materials and Methods : In this descriptive study, six farms were selected in the cities Sadoogh, Yazd and Mehriz and sampling was performed in each of them bimonthly...

We analyse the spatial structure of early developmental stages of three ecologically important small pelagic schooling species in the northwestern Mediterranean sea: the anchovy Engraulis encrasicolus, the round sardinella Sardinella aurita, and the sardine Sardina pilchardus. We used data on egg and larval abundance (arranged by development stage), hydrographic data and potential prey biomass ...

Plants adapted to cold winters go through annual cycles of gain followed by loss of freezing tolerance (cold acclimation and deacclimation). Warm spells during winter and early spring can cause deacclimation, and if temperatures drop, freezing damage may occur. Many plants are vernalized during winter, a process making them competent to flower in the following summer. In winter cereals, a coinc...

in fruit trees damage of frost and freezing is depended to time of chillhng and tree phonological stage. almond (prunus amygdalus b. (and apricot (p. armeniaca l.) cultivars are usually the first fruit trees to bloom and susceptible to damaging frosts in the early spring. a study was conducted on different types of almond and apricot cultivars in order to investigation the main factors related ...