Paramètres agronomiques liés à la tolérance au sel chez le haricot (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)

Agronomical traits associated with salinity-tolerance in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). Identifying multiple agronomical parameters associated with salinity-tolerance is important for evaluating common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) cultivars and improving their tolerance to salinity. Six cultivars were grown in soil, under glasshouse conditions and exposed to three salinity levels (control, 25 and 50 mM NaCl) to evaluate their tolerance using their biomass and the relative salt-susceptibility index: I.S.R.S. = D.R.B./I.I.S. (D.R.B.: relative biomass deficit and I.I.S.: salinity intensity index). On the other hand, a comparative field trial was conducted at four experimental stations of INRAT (Ariana, Oued Beja, Oued Meliz and Sejnane) during three consecutive years with sixteen cultivars to determine their grain yield stability, grain size and precocity. Results showed that tolerant cultivars are colour-seeded, early and presented yield stability and medium grain size. By contrast the susceptible cultivars are late, white-seeded and characterized by a less stable yield and small to medium grain size

UCx_x target design for the SPIRAL 2 project and the ALTO project

ACC NESTERInternational audienceTwo ways of production of radioactive beams using uranium carbide targets are taken into consideration: fission induced by fast neutrons and by bremsstrahlung radiation. For the SPIRAL 2 project, the fission of 238U in uranium carbide target will be induced by a neutron flow created by bombarding a carbon converter with a 40 MeV high intensity deuteron beam. Calculations and design of the target in order to reach 1013 fissions/s with good release time have been done. The second way is the photofission using an electron beam. In 2005 the ALTO project (Accélérateur Linéaire Auprès du Tandem d'Orsay) will give a 50 MeV/10$\mu$A electron beam. This facility will allow more than 1011 fissions/s. In this case, the electron beam hits the target without converter. Calculations realised in order to estimate the production are used to choose the best target shape. For the two cases some R & D on targets to improve release is described

Some results on Dunkl analysis : A survey

In this article, we present a survey of some new results obtained in [2,8]. First, we give a geometric Paley–Wiener theorem for the Dunkl transform in the crystallographic case. Next we describe more precisely the support of the distribution associated to Dunkl translations in higher dimension. We also investigate the Lp → Lq boundedness properties of the Riesz potentials Iακ and the related fractional maximal function Mκ,α associated to the Dunkl transform. Finally we prove the Lp-boundedness, (1 < p < ∞) of the Riesz transforms in the Dunkl setting

Effect of Rhizobium Isolates on Isoflavonoid Levels in Chickpea Plants Infected with Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. ciceris

The aim of the present studies was to determine the effect of two biocontrol agents, belonging to the genus Rhizobium, PchDMS and Pch43, on the accumulation of soluble phenolic compounds, and particularly constitutive isoflavonoids, in chickpea roots infected with Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris (Foc), the causal agent of Fusarium wilt of chickpea. Pretreatment of roots with the bacterial isolates before challenge with Foc significantly increased levels of soluble phenolic compounds in both the susceptible ILC482 and the moderately resistant INRAT87/ 1 chickpea cultivars. High performance liquid chromatography analysis revealed the isoflavones biochanin A and formononetin in the chickpea roots, in both the free and the glycosidically bound forms. Bacterization of the roots with Rhizobium isolates before challenge with Foc increased levels of these isoflavones in plant roots. The antifungal activity of crude phenolics extracted from the chickpea roots was tested in vitro on PDA amended with various concentrations of these extracts and inoculated with Foc. Crude phenolics significantly reduced fungal growth and caused considerable morphological changes in the mycelium, including marked cellular disorganization

The ALTO project at IPN-Orsay

The availability of both a tandem deuteron beam and a linac electron beam, the latter converted into Bremsstrahlung, at the new ALTO facility at IPN-Orsay offers a unique opportunity to compare the performance of a laser ion guide under different regimes. The ALTO accelerator has delivered its first electron beam at the end of 2005 and a design for a gas-cell prototype is being studied