When silicon meets a legume under insect attacks Rocky Putra, Markus Bünker, Caroline Müller This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. Crop plants are often damaged by insect pests. However, plants may utilise their chemical weapons to ...
aWhy is the healthy weight important? If you are too heavy and fat, you have a better chance to develop a serious illness like heart disease. Maybe you also suffer from other problems. For example, you often feel tired, but can’t sleep well. 为什么是健康重量重要的? 如果您是太重和...
For each price ratio, the optimum fertilizer rate was regressed against the soil test value to obtain a calibration curve. The resulting calibration curves indicated that, for example, the maximum economic fertilizer rate is 137, 87, and 52 lb K20/acre for price ratios of 3.00, 3.75, and ...
Parasitism is a kind of predator-prey relationship in which one organism, the parasite, derives its food at the expense of its symbiotic associate, the host.Parasites are usually smaller than their hosts.An example of a parasite is a tapeworm that lives inside the intestines of a larger animal...
So-called serpentine soils, for example, are deficient in calcium, and only plants able to tolerate low levels of this mineral can survive.In modern agriculture, mineral depletion of soils is a major concern, since harvesting crops interrupts the recycling of nutrients back to the soil. ...
(a) preparing a solution comprising starch and pectin; and (b) cross-linking starch with pectin by pectinesterase reaction. 5. The process of claim 4, wherein the cross-linking reaction in step (b) is conducted at a temperature of about 20 to 80° C. 6. The process of claim 4, whe...
was in press. The new position brought Villars an additional 800 livres a year, as he was privileged to retain the pension of 1000 livres granted by the intendant. This recognized both his continuing work in botany and his need to pay for a second domicile in Grenoble. Even though Villars...
[0017] Also, under the present invention, a "non-aromatic heterocyclic ring" may be, for example, pyrrolidinyl, piperidinyl, morpholinyl, thiomorpholinyl, piperadinyl, 4-methyl piperadinyl, oxazolidinyl, thiazolidinyl, imidazolidinyl, oxazolinyl, thiazolinyl, isoxazolinyl, imidazolinyl, dioxolanyl...
Parasitism is a kind of predator-prey relationship in which one organism, the parasite, derives its food at the expense of its symbiotic associate, the host.Parasites are usually smaller than their hosts.An example of a parasite is a tapeworm that lives inside the intestines of a larger animal...