Stable transformation with T-DNA needs the coordinated activities of many proteins derived from both host plant cells and Agrobacterium. In dicot plants, including Arabidopsis, it has been suggested that non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ)-one of the main DNA double-strand break repair pathways-is involved in the T-DNA integration step that is crucial to stable transformation. However, how this p...

Spectroscopic techniques combined with chemometrics methods have proven to be effective tools for the discrimination of objects with similar properties. In this work, terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) combined with discriminate analysis (DA) and principal component analysis (PCA) with derivative pretreatments was performed to differentiate transgenic rice (Hua Hui 1, containing the C...

BACKGROUND Introgression plays an important role in evolution of plant species via its influences on genetic diversity and differentiation. Outcrossing determines the level of introgression but little is known about the relationships of outcrossing rates, genetic diversity, and differentiation particularly in a weedy taxon that coexists with its conspecific crop. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDING...

The MARORA model is used to evaluate the economics of investment in on-farm reservoirs in Arkansas under alternative land tenure arrangements. A declining groundwater supply coupled with a high percentage of rice-production area owned by absentee landowners makes investment decision-making on on-farm reservoirs an important issue for the sustainability of rice in Arkansas. The MARORA model is s...

This paper introduces an agent-based framework to modeling and simulate assessing rice area infested by brown plant hoppers from field to regional scales using agent-based and upscaling approach. Because detail levels of infestation rice area information are different from small scale to large scale, infestation rice area information are collected from fields in the Mekong Delta region-Vietnam ...

The antimicrobial effect of the broad-spectrum bacteriocin enterocin AS-48 against the toxicogenic psychrotrophic strain Bacillus cereus LWL1 has been investigated in a model food system consisting of boiled rice and in a commercial infant rice-based gruel dissolved in whole milk stored at temperatures of 37 degrees C, 15 degrees C and 6 degrees C. In food samples supplemented with enterocin AS...

Background and purpose: dye is widely used in industries such as cosmetic, leather, paper and textile and release to the environment via their effluents. The purpose of this study was to compare the efficiency of low-cost adsorbents in acid orang 7 dyes removal from water. Materials and Methods: The Rice Stem biomass was sun dried, crushed and sieved to particle sizes in range of 1-2 mm. Then ...

A neural network (NN) algorithm to invert biomass of rice plants using quad-polarization radar datasets of ground-based scatterometer and spaceborne RADARSAT-2 has been studied. The NN is trained with pairs of multipolarization radar backscattering and biomass data. The backscattering data are simulated from a Monte Carlo backscatter model that uses the outputs from a growth model of the rice p...