The form of the Apple tree is decided by the organ position of the tree, it affects not ONLY the relationship between the vegetative growth and the fruit production, but also the fruit quality. In this research, the continuous growth for 3 years was gotten with polhemus fastrak, and the apple tree model was built in the POV-ray to simulate the interception of the sunlight. A mathematic model wa...

"Best interests" is widely accepted as the appropriate foundation principle for medico-legal decisions concerning treatment withdrawal from patients in persistent vegetative state (PVS). Its application appears to progress logically from earlier use regarding legally incompetent patients. This author argues, however, that such confidence in the relevance of the principle of best interests to PV...

However, its commercial success as a biofuel plant is still elusive. Major bottlenecks for the same are significant variations in seed yield and oil content, low seed viability and germination rate. For vegetative propagation to be successful, it would require availability of quality planting material throughout the year. However, this is limited by unavailability of quality planting material a...

The variation of the directional reflectance of a vegetative canopy with azimuthal view angle becomes prominent when the canopy is illuminated by the sun at large angles from zenith. An extension of a previous directional reflectance model of vegetative canopies is presented to quantify this effect. The results indicate that the cause of the azimuthal variation can be traced to solar flux illum...

A three-year project, financed by EU, European Regional Developmental Fund, will be carried out in 2011-14 as a collaborative effort with Finnish Forest Research Institute as a main performer, and Eastern Finland University and a commercial company Taimityllilä Oy as partners. Three new researchers are engaged by the project. The aim of the project is to deepen knowhow and develop technology fo...

In situ propagation of Elaeocarpus venustus Bedd. a threatened endemic tree of Agasthiamalai Biosphere Reserve, Western Ghats, India has been done.