An -ever free relative (FR) is felicitous only when the speaker doesn't know, or doesn't care about, the identity of the entity denoted. (1) is felicitous if, for example, the speaker doesn’t know if Mary is cooking pea soup or spinach (although he may know it is green). That is, the basic level nominal (in the sense of Cruse 1977) must be undetermined. When an -ever FR contains a nominal head ...

A bacterial isolate, Alcaligenes sp. secreting phytase (EC 3.1.3.8), was isolated and characterized. The optimum conditions for the production of phytase included a fermentation period of 96 h, pH 8.0, and the addition of 1% (w/v) maltose and 1% (w/v) beef extract to the culture medium. This enzyme was purified to homogeneity and had an apparent molecular mass of 41 kDa. The optimum pH range an...

Zentner et al., 2001). Johnson (1982) found that income variability was reduced under summer fallow and that Suitability of alternative crops in the northern Great Plains remains summer fallow maximized return to land at low yields, a question because of water limitations. Objectives were to compare water use of an oat (Avena sativa L.)–pea (Pisum sativum L.) mix low wheat prices, and high N pr...

To clarify the reason for the recent dramatic outbreak of the leafminer, Chromatomyia horticola (Goureau), on the green pea in Japan, the insecticide susceptibility of two leafminer populations collected from grower’s pea fields in Shizuoka and Kagoshima Prefectures was measured in a laboratory assay. Of the five insecticides registered for leafminer control on the pea, cartap was moderately ef...

Santalla, M., Amurrio, J. M. and De Ron, A. M. 2001. Food and feed potential breeding value of green, dry and vegetable pea germplasm. Can. J. Plant Sci. 81: 601–610. Pea is an important grain legume and vegetable in the South of Europe where it is grown on small farms and gardens using traditional varieties and methods during the winter. Variability in old, unimproved varieties needs to be det...

Isatin, previously shown to promote growth in green and etiolated pea stems, is converted mainly to anthranilate in those tissues; small quantities of isatate are also formed. Fed anthranilate is converted mainly to its beta-d-glucoside; smaller amounts are metabolized to anthranilamide, tryptophan and kynurenine. These data provide some basis for understanding the growth promoting activity of ...

A modified pesta granule was developed for Pseudomonas fluorescens BRG100, a bioherbicidal bacterium for grass weeds, green foxtail (Setaria viridis) and wild oat (Avena fatua). This study reports: i) the effect of formulation water activity (aw) on survival of P. fluorescens BRG100 and, ii) the effect of starch on disintegration and dispersal of a green fluorescent protein transformant of P. f...