Maize is the New World’s preeminent grain crop and it provided the economic basis for human culture in many regions within the Americas. To flourish, maize needs water, sunlight (heat), and nutrients (e.g., nitrogen). In this paper, climate and soil chemistry data are used to evaluate the potential for dryland (rainon-field) agriculture in the semiarid southeastern Colorado Plateau and Rio Gran...

Introduction: Although a significant fraction the mascon gravity anomalies can be explained by the flexural support of the mare basalts within the basins, in some cases this explanation does not suffice. A number of the lunar basins exhibit mascons in excess of that which can be accounted for by the maria, and some basins possess central gravity anomalies yet lack mare fill altogether [1]. An e...

the kuhshah ultramafic complex is located in the south-east of sanandaj-sirjan metamorphic zone, near the probable remnants of neotethys plate in iran. it consists of highly depleted harzburgites, dunites, chromitite bands and altered gabbros. the ultramafic parts have been intruded by numerous clinopyroxenite dykes and veins. in the harzburgites, there are different generations of olivine, ort...

The relative contributions of the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean sea surface temperatures (SSTs) to the rainfall variability over eastern, central, and southern Africa during austral spring-summer are examined. The variability of African rainfall is statistically related to both oceans, but the variability in the two oceans is also related. To separate the effects of the Indian and Pacific Ocea...

Low-frequency sea level variationswith periods longer than interannual time scales have been receivingmuch attention recently, with the aim of distinguishing the anthropogenic regional sea level change signal from the natural fluctuations. Based on the available sea level products, this study finds that the dominant low-frequency sea level mode in the Pacific basin has both quasi-decadal variat...

understanding of physiological responses of salt tolerance might be lead to identify main salt tolerance mechanisms and essential approaches for improving grain yield stability, and also to select salt tolerant wheat cultivars. thus, the effects of salinity were investigated on grain yield and some of the characteristics related to salt tolerance. six wheat cultivars (roshan, kavir, karchia, ga...

conclusions we hope that turkey will be one of the brucellosis-free countries in near future with highlights from the current and further studies. materials and methods seroprevalence of brucellosis was examined in sera of 2913 patients who referred to igdır state hospital between february and december of the year 2010 by standard tube agglutination test method. results results were statistical...

Fossil plants are abundant in dolomite of the Clear Fork Group (Leonardian; late Early Permian) in the North Robertson Unit of the Robertson Clear Fork oil field of Gaines County, West Texas. The unit is a portion of the larger Robertson field. Thirty-seven separate collections were made from drill cores taken in three wells, spanning an interval 300 m thick from a depth below the surface of > ...

The Witwatersrand Basin formed over a period of 360 Ma between 3074 and 2714 Ma. Pulses of sedimentation within the sequence and its precursors were episodic, occurring between 3086-3074 Ma (Dominion Group), 2970-2914 Ma (West Rand Group) and 2894-2714 Ma (Central Rand Group). Detritus was derived from a mixed granite-greenstone source of two distinct ages; the first comprises Barberton-type gr...