Climate change poses a significant threat to agricultural production in the tropics, yet relatively little research has been carried out understand its impact on mature tropical tree crops. This aims genotypic variation growth and photosynthesis cacao trees response elevated CO2 water deficit. Six genotypes were grown under greenhouse conditions at ambient (ca. 437 ppm) 724 well-watered deficit...

Remote sensing of high-latitude forests phenology is essential for understanding the global carbon cycle and the response of vegetation to climate change. The normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) has long been used to study boreal evergreen needleleaf forests (ENF) and deciduous broadleaf forests. However, the NDVI-based growing season is generally reported to be longer than that based...

239 Elastomers and plastomers: their chemistry, physics, and technology. (Vol. III.) R. Houwink, Ed. Reviewed by H. Mark 239 Foundations of nuclear physics: faesimilies of thirteen original studies: Robert T. Beyer, Ed. Reviewed by Karl Lark-Hororitz 239 Advances in catalysis and related subjcets: XV. G. Frankenburg, V. I. Komaiclrewsly, and E. K. Rideal, Eds. Reviewed by Henry Eyring 2.40 Deta...

Our sowing date experiment took place in the Demonstration Garden of Institution of Plant Sciences, Centre for Agricultural Sciences of University of Debrecen, in 2012-2014. The paper contains data of test year 2014. Our purpose, besides several other examinations, was to observe how sowing date influences the leaf area index and the activity of photosynthesis of maize hybrids, and how those fa...

Sustainably feeding the world's growing population in future is a great challenge and can be achieved only by increasing yield per unit land surface. Efficiency of light interception and biomass partitioning into harvestable parts (harvest index) has been improved substantially via plant breeding in modern crops. The conversion efficiency of intercepted light into biomass still holds promise fo...

We investigated the radiative energy budgets of a heterogeneous photosynthetic coral reef sediment and a compact uniform cyanobacterial biofilm on top of coastal sediment. By combining electrochemical, thermocouple and fiber-optic microsensor measurements of O2, temperature and light, we could calculate the proportion of the absorbed light energy that was either dissipated as heat or conserved ...

The initial steps of photosynthesis require the absorption and subsequent transfer of energy through an intricate network of pigment–protein complexes. Held within the protein scaffold of these complexes, chromophore molecules are densely packed and fixed in specific geometries relative to one another resulting in Coulombic coupling. Excitation energy transfer through these systems can be accom...

background: due to the increasing health care costs, the issue of productivity in hospitals must be taken into great consideration in order to provide, preserve and promote public health services. thus, increasing the level of productivity must become the main aim of any hospital. objective of this study is to determine the total factor productivity and its components over the period under the ...