Flax dew-retting is a key step in the industrial extraction of fibers from flax stems and is dependent upon the production of a battery of hydrolytic enzymes produced by micro-organisms during this process. To explore the diversity and dynamics of bacterial and fungal communities involved in this process we applied a high-throughput sequencing (HTS) DNA metabarcoding approach (16S rRNA/ITS regi...

Lucy Campbell ([email protected]) Tracy Dew ([email protected]) Rashim Salota ([email protected]) Emily Cheserem ([email protected]) Lisa Hamzah ([email protected]) Fowzia Ibrahim ([email protected]) Pantelis Sarafidis ([email protected]) Caje Monij ([email protected]) Bruce Hendry ([email protected]) Mary Poulton ([email protected]) Roy Sherwood (Roy.Sh...

Dew has been considered a supplementary water resource as it constitutes an important supply in many ecosystems, especially arid and semiarid areas. Remote sensing allows large-scale surface observations, offering the possibility to estimate dew such regions. In this study, by screening combining different remote variables, we obtained well-performing monthly scale yield estimation model based ...

A traditional mulching technique used in Lanzarote, Canary Islands, allows dry farming as well as pronounced water savings in irrigation. It is known to reduce evaporational losses, but is also supposed to enhance the nocturnal condensation of water vapour from the atmosphere. The mulch layer consists of porous volcanic rock fragments abundantly available on the island. The mulched surface is b...

Canopy wetness is a common condition that influences photosynthesis, the leaching or uptake of solutes, water status and energy balance canopies, interpretation eddy covariance remote sensing data. While often treated as binary variable, ‘wet’ ‘dry’, forest canopies are partially wet, requiring use continuous description wetness. Minor precipitation events such dew, wet fraction canopy, have be...

BACKGROUND Ultraviolet B (UV-B) radiation plays a multifaceted role in human health, inducing DNA damage and representing the primary source of vitamin D for most humans; however, current U.S. UV exposure models are limited in spatial, temporal, and/or spectral resolution. Area-to-point (ATP) residual kriging is a geostatistical method that can be used to create a spatiotemporal exposure model ...

With increasing aridity in many regions, dew is likely to play an increasingly important role the ecohydrological processes ecosystems, especially arid and semiarid regions. Few studies investigated of evaporation during formation how it varies under different climate settings. 17O-excess, as a new tracer, could be used extract information dynamics from natural water samples (e.g., precipitatio...

Under low outdoor temperature and high humidity, frost easily forms on the Heat Exchanger (Exchanger) surface side. The formation growth of this layer will seriously impact Exchanger’s heat extraction process system’s energy efficiency, triggering malfunction in compressor. To end, work first analyzes mechanism frosting condensation. It then summarizes current research status Machine Vision (MV...