Taro (ColocasiaesculentaL. Schott) is a perennial root crop that belongs to Araceace family. It is widely cultivated as a staple food in Africa, Asia and pacific Islands. Despite its importance, there is limited information on many aspects of the crop. In order to obtain data that can support improved and sustainable taro production, a field trial was conducted to study the effects of ...

Ontologies are used in an increasing number of roles within Intelligent Tutoring Systems. In this paper, we describe TARO (Teaching with an Automatically Retrieved Ontology), a system which explores a role for ontologies that are externalised and used, in conjunction with a learner model, as a basis for independent learning. A novel and important feature of our approach is that the ontology is ...

objective: taro (colocasia esculenta l. schott) is a perennial root crop that belongs to araceace family.  it is widely cultivated as a staple food in africa, asia and pacific islands. despite its importance, there is limited information on many aspects of the crop. in order to obtain data that can support improved and sustainable taro production, a field trial was conducted to study the effect...

Root crops are an important staple food in the Pacific region. Yields are generally low and inorganic fertilizers are deemed an option to increase root crop production. The effects of inorganic N fertilizers on upland taro (Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott) and sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) were quantified with the aim to investigate relationships between inherent soil fertility, N up...

This paper introduces new Disaster Information System based upon Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) in Taro, Miyako, and Iwate Prefecture in Northern Japanese coastal towns which are the severely damaged by the East Japan Great Earthquake in 2011. This paper reports and discusses about the network conditions in disaster area by using our prototype network. Then, the computational experiments of the D...

Eleven new microsatellite markers were isolated from taro, Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott, a root crop widely distributed all over the world. Forty-eight primer pairs were designed from a microsatellite-enriched genomic library, of which 11 primer pairs have polymorphisms in 30 individuals tested from a population in China, which revealed two to six alleles per locus with the observed and expe...

Aphids and other phytophagous insects often show intra-specific variations in relation to host plant utilization. In several instances, intra-species variations lead to host-plant specialization. These are considered to be important source of speciation. In a recent study ( Foottit RG et al. 2010 . Zootaxa 2358: 25–38) two forms of the banana aphid, Pentalonia nigronervosa f typica Coquerel (He...

ing away from the technical details, what the data in (14)-(15) suggests is that the Case marker on a nominal, be it nominative or accusative, can be omitted as long as the nominal is adjacent to the predicate. With this observation in mind, let us examine the data in (16) with the exceptional accusative predicate. (16) Case-marker drop and the exceptional accusative predicate: a. Taroo-wa tyuu...

Objective: Taro (Colocasia esculenta L. Schott) is a perennial root crop that belongs to Araceace family.  It is widely cultivated as a staple food in Africa, Asia and pacific Islands. Despite its importance, there is limited information on many aspects of the crop. In order to obtain data that can support improved and sustainable taro production, a field trial was conducted to study t...

Objective: Taro (Colocasia esculenta L. Schott) is a perennial root crop that belongs to Araceace family.  It is widely cultivated as a staple food in Africa, Asia and pacific Islands. Despite its importance, there is limited information on many aspects of the crop. In order to obtain data that can support improved and sustainable taro production, a field trial was conducted to study t...