Marker development in ornamental plants

Development of markers for a new crop or development of additional markers for a crop where markers have been developed in the past raises the question of the intended use of the markers. Depending on the different objectives in mind one marker type may be better suited then another. In general one can think of two main objectives for the use of markers; variety identification and breeding applications. In view of recent developments in molecular genetics, and sequencing technologies in particular, within the 23rd International Eucarpia Symposium Section Ornamentals a workshop was devoted on molecular markers and their use in ornamentals. Within this paper an overview will be presented on the development of markers for identification of ornamental crops and on the importance of the new developments in marker and sequence technology for the use of markers in ornamental breedin

Rapidly assemled emergency shelters made from "green" materials

p. 799-812This paper describes a research project conducted by the Department of Architectural Engineering, the Department of Architecture and the Department of Materials Engineering at California Polytechnic State University. We are developing a habitable temporary shelter that is durable, sustainable, economical, and rapidly assembled. A basic, repeatable module of the design is a hyperbolic paraboloid (hypar) panel, generated from extruded straight boards of high density polyethylene (HDPE) reinforced with waste-stream agricultural fibers. Our research has shown that the hypar is well suited for a rapidly assembled emergency shelter because it can be generated from straight line segments which can be trucked to the disaster site. Then, using our proposed assembly method, a large span thin shell structure can be rapidly constructed. The paper will discuss the fabrication and the testing of the "green" composite material used for these shelters. This composite material itself was the starting point for a number of design ideas. The uniqueness of the material; its stiffness, strength, and ecologically friendly nature spurred us into thinking about how we could incorporate it into structures. Before designing with this material, we addressed some of its mechanics issues, namely how could we characterize this material under tensile loads and under bending loads. Also, we performed a detailed study of how the material reacted to intense ultraviolet light. Having addressed the mechanics, we began the task of designing a structure with this material. We chose an emergency shelter as our design goal because we decided that an emergency shelter composed of hypar modules could be constructed from straight-line segments of this unique, extruded material.Saliklis, EP.; Arens, RM. (2010). Rapidly assemled emergency shelters made from "green" materials. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/694

Development of Sequence Tagged Microsatellite Site (STMS) markers in Azalea

A genomic library was constructed from DNA of two azalea genotypes: a Belgian pot azalea R. simsii hybrid Mevr. Van Belle and a Chinese R. simsii from Daoxian. An enrichment of microsatellite containing sequences was performed as in Van de Wiel et al. (1999). Fragments were sequenced and primers were designed that allow the amplification of the microsatellite repeat. About 220 microsatellite containing clones were selected from the enrichment procedure. Mainly dinucleotide repeats and some trinucleotide repeats were found. The selected primers were tested in a small set of reference varieties to check their value (specificity and polymorphic rate) and to set up the PCR-conditions. Five primer pairs have been tested, two of them gave a specific and polymorphic pattern. They were further screened by radioactive PCR on a selection of 5 plants from the azalea breeders gene pool which included the two genotypes used library construction. These 2 STMS markers uniquely identified the 5 plants

ANALISIS KESTABILAN LERENG DENGAN METODE BISHOP (Studi Kasus: Kawasan Citraland sta.1000m)

Analisis kestabilan lereng didapat berdasarkan nilai faktor keamanan dari suatu lereng menggunakan program Rocscience Slide 6.0. Soil properties didapat dari hasil geser langsung. Hasil dari analisis kestabilan lereng yang berada dikawasan Citraland dapat dilihat bahwa kondisi lereng dalam keadaan kritis yang mana nilai faktor keamanannya adalah 1,099. Dengan kondisi kritis tersebut perlu diadakan perbaikan lereng diantaranya dengan menggunakan End Anchored yang mempunyai tujuan untuk memperkecil momen penyebab longsor. Penggunaan End Anchored memberikan nilai faktor keamanan sebesar 1,522 yang menunjukkan lereng dalam kondisi yang stabil. Kata kunci: kestabilan lereng, faktor keamanan,bisho

Large Extra Dimension Effects on the Spin Configuration of the Top Quark Pair at e^+ e^- Colliders

Large extra dimension effects on the spin configuration of the top quark pair at the $e^+ e^-\to t\bar{t}$ process are studied. It is shown that the TeV scale quantum gravity effects cause significant deviations from the Standard Model predictions for the spin configuration in the off-diagonal basis: they lead to substantial cross sections of the like-spin states of the top quark pair, which vanish in the SM; they weaken the pure dominance of the processes, the Up-Down (Down-Up) spin states for the left-handed (right-handed) beam. In addition it is shown that the angular cut $-0.5<\cos\theta<0$ is very effective to determine the sign of the quantum gravity corrections.Comment: A discussion on the angular distribution is added with a tabl

MIPS: The Multiband Imaging Photometer for SIRTF

The Multiband Imaging Photometer for SIRTF (MIPS) is to be designed to reach as closely as possible the fundamental sensitivity and angular resolution limits for SIRTF over the 3 to 700μm spectral region. It will use high performance photoconductive detectors from 3 to 200μm with integrating JFET amplifiers. From 200 to 700μm, the MIPS will use a bolometer cooled by an adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator. Over much of its operating range, the MIPS will make possible observations at and beyond the conventional Rayleigh diffraction limit of angular resolution

Top Production in Hadron-Hadron Collisions and Anomalous Top-Gluon Couplings

We discuss the influence of anomalous tbar-t-G couplings on total and differential tbar-t production cross sections in hadron-hadron collisions. We study in detail the effects of a chromoelectric and a chromomagnetic dipole moment, d' and \mu', of the top quark. In the d'-\mu' plane, we find a whole region where the anomalous couplings give a zero net contribution to the total top production rate. In differential cross sections, the anomalous moments have to be quite sizable to give measurable effects. We estimate the values of d' and \mu' which are allowed by the present Tevatron experimental results on top production. A chromoelectric dipole moment of the top violates CP invariance. We discuss a simple CP-odd observable which allows for a direct search for CP violation in top production.Comment: footnote pg. 4 changed, acknowledgments extende