Essential oils (EOs) from plant extracts have been reported to have an antibacterial activity against gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria. Several of the gram-positive bacteria are involved in ruminal biohydrogenation of fatty acids (FAs), thus suggesting that feeding EOs could lower biohydrogenation of FA because of a decrease in the number of bacteria involved in that process. As a resul...

This review provides an overview of existing literature on the effects of ultraviolet-B (UV-B) radiation and abscisic acid (ABA) on physiological and biochemical aspects affecting grape berry (Vitis vinifera L.) growth, maturation and their quality for winemaking. The UV-B (280–315 nm) comprises only a small fraction of sunlight that reaches the Earth’s surface, but has enough energy to cause l...

This study examined the genetic diversity present in a population obtained by crossing two very distinctive varieties of wine grapes (142 progeny from a Riesling x Cabernet Sauvignon cross, including both parents, created at the University of California). The following list of morphological characters were evaluated and found to segregate in this population: cluster weight, cluster length,...

Flexibility, Scalability and Performance-per-Watt In today’s datacenters, flexibility, scalability and performance-per-watt are all key factors influencing platform selection. By incorporating the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family into their Xtreme-XTM Supercomputers, Appro brings significant flexibility to HPC workload configurations that include capacity, hybrid, data intensive an...

We analyze 2-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau vortices at critical coupling, and establish asymptotic formulas for the tangent vectors of the vortex moduli space using theorems of Taubes and Bradlow. We then compute the corresponding Berry curvature and holonomy in the large area limit.

This study presents the findings on qualitative indicators of seven varieties redcurrant (Ribes rubrum L.), five which are selected by Professor V.L. Symyrenko Department Horticulture NULES Ukraine. The largest average weight berries had 'Buzhanska' (0.58 g) and 'Polyana Holosiivska' (0.59 g). These also stand out among others in terms maximum berry weight. In certain years research, fruits wei...

background and objectives: evaluation of the grain yield and yield components and also morphological traits can help to identify strategies for selection of resistant cultivars and increased crop yield production under heat stress condition. to this end, in experiment to evaluate of grain yield and yield components on 42 rice lines tolerant to heat stress from international rice research instit...

A study was conducted to investigate the selection criteria in 54 kantakari accessions based on 14 morphological and qualitative traits employing correlation, path analysis, principal component analysis cluster analysis. The viz., plant spread (N-S), (E-W), number of branches per plant, flower clusters berries, fresh berry yield dry hectare, total proteins, phenols, flavonoid content, antioxida...

In August 2010 the coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei, was first reported to have invaded the Kona coffee growing region of Hawaii, posing a severe economic challenge to the fourth largest agricultural commodity in the State. Despite its long and widespread occurrence throughout the tropics as the most serious pest of coffee, there are still discrepancies in the literature regarding severa...