Research Notes : Genetics of black pigmentation of soybean seedcoats/hila

Gene T is involved in black pigmentation and w1 in the presence of t is involved in imperfect black pigmentation (Bernard and Weiss, 1973). Tis a phenolase gene resulting in quercetin formation and brown pubescence (Buttery and Buzzell, 1973); W is a flower and hypocotyl-color gene (Hartwig and Hinson, 1962). Thin layer chromatography shows two major \u27spots\u27 involved in black pigmentation of soybean seed coats

Research Notes : Inheritance of presence/absence of flavonoid compounds in soybean seedcoats

In soybean plants carrying the gene T and having black or brown pigmentation of seed coats, there are numerous compounds that can be detected by thin layer chromatography (TLC). There are four spots (A, B, C and D) that appear to be related; they are yellow-orange under visible light and they fluoresce yellow-orange (duller than quercetin) under UV light after spray-ing with flavone reagent. Phenotypic positions of A and D on 2-way plates are given in Table 1. A is present in all material tested, but D varies in presence/absence (B and C also vary but have not been studied)

Research Notes : Canada : Preliminary information on the Rps allele in the cultivar Harosoy

The \u27Harosoy\u27 soybean cultivar was considered to be the universal suscept for Phytophthora megasperma f. sp. glycinea when it was included in the differential host series for this pathogen (Haas and Buzzell, 1976). However, Moots (1982) reported that an Rps allele pair was present in Harosoy that conferred resistance to races 12 and 16. Harosoy is also resistant to races 18 and 19 but is susceptible to all other races 1-25 (unpublished results)

Research notes: Soybean parental lines

Seed of five improved breeding lines (Table 1) is available upon request for use in crosses or experimental work. Disease reactions are given in Table 2 and physiological attributes in Table 3. The lines are somewhat improved over the unadapted parents; however, only OX610I has been yield tested

The association of state per capita income and military service deaths in the Vietnam and Iraq wars

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>In the United States, social burdens including war casualties are often distributed unequally across groups of individuals, communities, and states. The purpose of this report was to examine the association between war deaths and per capita income in the 50 states and District of Columbia during the Vietnam and Iraq wars.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>The numbers of deaths by the home state of record for each conflict were obtained from Department of Defense records on the Internet as were key variables including age at death, gender, race, branch of service, rank, circumstances of death, home state of record and the ratio of wounded to dead. In addition, we obtained state per capita income and state population for the relevant times.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Characteristics of decedents in the 2 conflicts were very similar with young, white enlisted men accounting for the majority of deaths. However, in the Iraq war, women accounted for a 2.4% of casualties. Also of note was the higher ratio of wounded to dead in Iraq. At the level of the state, the correlation between the ratio of deaths per 100,000 and per capita income was -0.51 (p < 0.0001) for Vietnam and -0.52 for Iraq (p < 0.0001). In both eras, states with lower per capita income tended to have higher ratios of deaths per population.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>For military service members serving in the Vietnam and Iraq conflicts, there were many more women who died in the latter war. Whether war deaths resulted in lower per capita income cannot be determined from these cross sectional data; we simply note a strong association between per capita income and war casualty rates for both wars.</p

Research Notes : Flavonol classes of cultivars in Maturity Groups 00-IV

Since the complementary action of Fg1 and Fg3 in producing kaempferol 2G-glucosyl-gentiobioside (Buttery and Buzzell, 1975) is associated with deleterious effects on chlorophyll concentration, photosynthetic rate and yield (Buttery and Buzzell, 1976), the bringing together of these two genes in crosses may necessitate selection against the Fg1-Fg3-genotype in the segregating material. For example, with the cross of \u27Corsoy\u27 (Fg1 fg3) x \u27Hawkeye\u27 (fg1 Fg3) at Iowa State University, visual selection was carried out against chlorophyll deficient types during inbreeding in order to develop lines for a physiological study. At the time of selection it was not known that flavonol-glycoside genes were involved. Advanced lines were later classified using thin layer chromatography (Buttery and Buzzell, 1973

Denial at the top table: status attributions and implications for marketing

Senior marketing management is seldom represented on the Board of Directors nowadays, reflecting a deteriorating status of the marketing profession. We examine some of the key reasons for marketing’s demise, and discuss how the status of marketing may be restored by demonstrating the value of marketing to the business community. We attribute marketing’s demise to several related key factors: narrow typecasting, marginalisation and limited involvement in product development, questionable marketing curricula, insensitivity toward environmental change, questionable professional standards and roles, and marketing’s apparent lack of accountability to CEOs. Each of these leads to failure to communicate, create, or deliver value within marketing. We argue that a continued inability to deal with marketing’s crisis of representation will further erode the status of the discipline both academically and professionally

Exploring the impact of an evolving war and terror blogosphere on traditional media coverage of conflict

This article analyses the evolution of a war and terror blogosphere between 2001 and 2011. It identifies seven areas where blogs and related online genres could provide ‘alternative’ accounts to traditional media narratives of conflict. The article also assesses the challenges and opportunities of blogs in each area from the perspective of the working journalist in order to deepen our understanding of the changing influence of blogs on traditional media narratives of conflict. Parallel accounts and interpretations of conflict will collaborate and compete in a war and terror blogosphere in the future, but it has been significantly influenced by the adoption of blogging by military actors since 2008. The war and terror blogosphere is no longer a relatively unmonitored online space which is having an impact on both the production of ‘alternative’ accounts of conflict and the incorporation of these accounts into traditional journalism