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Nematodes Affecting Soybean and Sustainable Practices for Their Management
Plantâparasitic nematodes are one of the limiting factors for soybean production worldwide. Overall, plantâparasitic nematodes alone cause an estimated annual crop loss of $78âbillion worldwide and an average crop yield loss of 10â15%. This imposes a challenge to sustainable production of food worldwide, since there has been increasing demand for food supply and food security. Unsustainable cropping production systems with monocultures, intensive use of soils and expansion of crops to newly opened areas have intensified problems associated with new pests and diseases. Thus, finding and applying sustainable methods to control diseases associated with soybean are in current need. Over hundred nematode species, comprising fifty genera, have been reported in association with soybean. Of these, the rootâknot nematode Meloidogyne spp., cyst nematode Heterodera glycines, lesion nematode Pratylenchus brachyurus and the reniform nematode Rotylenchulus reniformis are major nematode species limiting soybean production. Here, we report an upâtoâdate literature review on the biology, symptoms, damage and control methods used for these nematodes species. Additionally, unusual and emergent nematode species affecting soybean are discussed
Twisted Backgrounds, PP-Waves and Nonlocal Field Theories
We study partially supersymmetric plane-wave like deformations of string
theories and M-theory on brane backgrounds. These deformations are dual to
nonlocal field theories. We calculate various expectation values of
configurations of closed as well as open Wilson loops and Wilson surfaces in
those theories. We also discuss the manifestation of the nonlocality structure
in the supergravity backgrounds. A plane-wave like deformation of little string
theory has also been studied.Comment: 46 pages, changed to JHEP forma
A lattice model for the kinetics of rupture of fluid bilayer membranes
We have constructed a model for the kinetics of rupture of membranes under
tension, applying physical principles relevant to lipid bilayers held together
by hydrophobic interactions. The membrane is characterized by the bulk
compressibility (for expansion), the thickness of the hydrophobic part of the
bilayer, the hydrophobicity and a parameter characterizing the tail rigidity of
the lipids. The model is a lattice model which incorporates strain relaxation,
and considers the nucleation of pores at constant area, constant temperature,
and constant particle number. The particle number is conserved by allowing
multiple occupancy of the sites. An equilibrium ``phase diagram'' is
constructed as a function of temperature and strain with the total pore surface
and distribution as the order parameters. A first order rupture line is found
with increasing tension, and a continuous increase in proto-pore concentration
with rising temperature till instability. The model explains current results on
saturated and unsaturated PC lipid bilayers and thicker artificial bilayers
made of diblock copolymers. Pore size distributions are presented for various
values of area expansion and temperature, and the fractal dimension of the pore
edge is evaluated.Comment: 15 pages, 8 figure
How does burning of rice straw affect CH4 and N2O emissions? A comparative experiment of different on-field straw management practices
IntoxicaçÔes por plantas e micotoxinas associadas a plantas em bovinos no Rio Grande do Sul: 461 casos
Enfermidades de cutias (Dasyprocta aguti) criadas em cativeiro diagnosticadas pelo exame anatomopatolĂłgico
Estudo histolĂłgico, imuno-histoquĂmico e ultra-estrutural das lesĂ”es induzidas experimentalmente por Ramaria flavo-brunnescens (Clavariaceae) em bovinos
Search for a W' boson decaying to a bottom quark and a top quark in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
Results are presented from a search for a W' boson using a dataset
corresponding to 5.0 inverse femtobarns of integrated luminosity collected
during 2011 by the CMS experiment at the LHC in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV.
The W' boson is modeled as a heavy W boson, but different scenarios for the
couplings to fermions are considered, involving both left-handed and
right-handed chiral projections of the fermions, as well as an arbitrary
mixture of the two. The search is performed in the decay channel W' to t b,
leading to a final state signature with a single lepton (e, mu), missing
transverse energy, and jets, at least one of which is tagged as a b-jet. A W'
boson that couples to fermions with the same coupling constant as the W, but to
the right-handed rather than left-handed chiral projections, is excluded for
masses below 1.85 TeV at the 95% confidence level. For the first time using LHC
data, constraints on the W' gauge coupling for a set of left- and right-handed
coupling combinations have been placed. These results represent a significant
improvement over previously published limits.Comment: Submitted to Physics Letters B. Replaced with version publishe
Search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying into two photons in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV
A search for a Higgs boson decaying into two photons is described. The
analysis is performed using a dataset recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC
from pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, which corresponds to an
integrated luminosity of 4.8 inverse femtobarns. Limits are set on the cross
section of the standard model Higgs boson decaying to two photons. The expected
exclusion limit at 95% confidence level is between 1.4 and 2.4 times the
standard model cross section in the mass range between 110 and 150 GeV. The
analysis of the data excludes, at 95% confidence level, the standard model
Higgs boson decaying into two photons in the mass range 128 to 132 GeV. The
largest excess of events above the expected standard model background is
observed for a Higgs boson mass hypothesis of 124 GeV with a local significance
of 3.1 sigma. The global significance of observing an excess with a local
significance greater than 3.1 sigma anywhere in the search range 110-150 GeV is
estimated to be 1.8 sigma. More data are required to ascertain the origin of
this excess.Comment: Submitted to Physics Letters
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