The aim of the study was to investigate effect foliar fertilization on morphological and mechanical properties pea seeds (Pisum sativum L.) determine dependences between features chemical composition their susceptibility damage. Field experimentation carried out in 2015–2017 (south-eastern Poland, 49°59′ N, 21°57′ E). Micronutrient conventional (N1) organic fertilizer (N2) were tested eight cul...

Today’s artefacts, from small devices to buildings and cities, are, or are becoming, cyber-physical socio-technical systems, with tightly interwoven material and computational parts. Currently, we have to laboriously build such systems, component by component, and the results are often difficult to maintain, adapt, and reconfigure. Even “soft”ware is brittle and non-trivial to adapt and change....

ABSTRACT: In Brazil and worldwide, commercialization of soybeans is great importance to the economy, making their quality considered. The presence damaged soybean seeds decreases added value product. Businesses need fast effective techniques maintain quality. present research aimed identify, through image processing, damage caused seeds, namely greenish wrinkled due variations humidity temperat...

Efficacy of Cinnamon bark oil vapour (Cinnamomam verum Presl.) and Citronella oil vapour (Cymbopogon nardus L.) were evaluated for the control of infestations of Callosobruchus chinensis L in bulk stored green gram. Both oils were used at 5ml and 10ml/5kg of seeds in 3L plastic baskets. Oviposition and damaged seeds were detected for up to two months of period. At the end of the storage period,...

A fundamental way in which animal-dispersed plants can influence the viability and distribution of dispersed seeds is through control of retention time in the guts of dispersers. Using two species of wild chilies and their dispersers, we examined how chemical and physical properties of fruits and seeds mediate this interaction. Capsicum chacoense is polymorphic for pungency, occurs in Bolivia, ...

Abstract Pre-harvest and post-harvest operations are integral parts of the quality seed production system. If due attention is not paid during first phase, probably therewill be any means left to obtain seed. Similarly, good produced with utmost care may lose much its value if proper management followed period. The attributes genetic purity, appearance physical germination potential, vigour hea...

to determine ancient seed species, 3250-3450 year-old charred seeds obtained from different iranian archaeological sites were studied using scanning electron microscopy (sem) and molecular analysis. sem analysis of ancient seeds revealed that the surface of the seeds was damaged. therefore, we could not accurately identify their species. molecular analysis on ancient specimens was done on diffe...

Modernization is present in all fields of knowledge. The wavelet transform and the Hurst exponent are tools that have fundamental importance many these advances. In study, decomposition technique was combined with calculation to analyze X-ray images seeds thus classify them as full, slightly damaged or damaged. To calculate mean median were used measurements position. A support vector machine v...

In the dry forest of Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica, the understory shrub Jacquinia nervosa presents an inverse pattern of phenology that concentrates vegetative growth and reproduction during the dry season. In this study, we tested the "escape from herbivory" hypothesis as a potential explanation for the inverse phenological pattern of J. nervosa. We monitored leaf, flower and fruit pro...

the efficiency of oil extraction from oil seeds is affected by seed harvesting time, drying methods, seed storage conditions and finally the means of seed transportation to the factory. to determine the grain moisture content at harvest  and its effect on seed while on drying trails, (employing different canola dryers), a study was conducted in mazandaran province in 2009. a factorial complete ...