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Genetic Variability, Correlation and Path Analysis in Fenugreek Grown under Sub-humid Sub-tropical Red Lateritic Belt of Eastern India
Thirty genotypes of fenugreek were grown during two consecutive winter seasons in sub-humid sub-tropical red lateritic belt of eastern India. Genetic variability, correlation and path coefficients were studied on eight agronomic characters, viz., plant height, days to flowering, branches per plant, pods per plant, pod length, seeds per pod, test weight and seed yield per plant. Analysis of variance pooled over the seasons revealed that the mean squares due to genotypes for all the characters studied were highly significant indicating presence of genetic variation in the test population. The estimates of genotypic and phenotypic coefficient of variation were high for branches per plant, moderate for plant height and test weight, and low for days to flowering and pod length. Heritability estimates were high for plant height, days to flowering, branches per plant and test weight and low for pod number, pod length, seeds per pod and seed yield The results of phenotypic and genotypic coefficient of variability, heritability and genetic advance revealed that improvement through selection for branches per plant, pods per plant and test weight would be effective in this population. Seed yield was positively and significantly correlated with plant height, branch number, pods per plant and seeds per pod at both genotypic and phenotypic levels indicating the importance of these characters for seed yield. The results of path analysis indicated that selection for tall plant height, late flowering with reasonable branch number, high number of seeds per pod and pods per plant are important which will help improve seed yield in this population
Penetrating particle ANalyzer (PAN)
PAN is a scientific instrument suitable for deep space and interplanetary
missions. It can precisely measure and monitor the flux, composition, and
direction of highly penetrating particles (100 MeV/nucleon) in deep
space, over at least one full solar cycle (~11 years). The science program of
PAN is multi- and cross-disciplinary, covering cosmic ray physics, solar
physics, space weather and space travel. PAN will fill an observation gap of
galactic cosmic rays in the GeV region, and provide precise information of the
spectrum, composition and emission time of energetic particle originated from
the Sun. The precise measurement and monitoring of the energetic particles is
also a unique contribution to space weather studies. PAN will map the flux and
composition of penetrating particles, which cannot be shielded effectively,
precisely and continuously, providing valuable input for the assessment of the
related health risk, and for the development of an adequate mitigation
strategy. PAN has the potential to become a standard on-board instrument for
deep space human travel.
PAN is based on the proven detection principle of a magnetic spectrometer,
but with novel layout and detection concept. It will adopt advanced particle
detection technologies and industrial processes optimized for deep space
application. The device will require limited mass (~20 kg) and power (~20 W)
budget. Dipole magnet sectors built from high field permanent magnet Halbach
arrays, instrumented in a modular fashion with high resolution silicon strip
detectors, allow to reach an energy resolution better than 10\% for nuclei from
H to Fe at 1 GeV/n
Power laws in microrheology experiments on living cells: comparative analysis and modelling
We compare and synthesize the results of two microrheological experiments on
the cytoskeleton of single cells. In the first one, the creep function J(t) of
a cell stretched between two glass plates is measured after applying a constant
force step. In the second one, a micrometric bead specifically bound to
transmembrane receptors is driven by an oscillating optical trap, and the
viscoelastic coefficient is retrieved. Both and
exhibit power law behavior: and , with the same exponent
. This power law behavior is very robust ; is
distributed over a narrow range, and shows almost no dependance on the cell
type, on the nature of the protein complex which transmits the mechanical
stress, nor on the typical length scale of the experiment. On the contrary, the
prefactors and appear very sensitive to these parameters. Whereas
the exponents are normally distributed over the cell population, the
prefactors and follow a log-normal repartition. These results are
compared with other data published in the litterature. We propose a global
interpretation, based on a semi-phenomenological model, which involves a broad
distribution of relaxation times in the system. The model predicts the power
law behavior and the statistical repartition of the mechanical parameters, as
experimentally observed for the cells. Moreover, it leads to an estimate of the
largest response time in the cytoskeletal network: s.Comment: 47 pages, 14 figures // v2: PDF file is now Acrobat Reader 4 (and up)
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Enhanced description of protocols // v4: Minor corrections in the text : the
immersion angles are estimated and not measured // v5: Minor typos corrected.
Two references were clarifie
An exploratory study into the role and interplay of intrinsic and extrinsic cues in Australian consumersâ evaluations of fish.
This study explores the role and interplay of intrinsic and extrinsic cues when evaluating fish quality and in shaping consumers' attitudes toward fish consumption. A sensory analysis of nine different fish including five variants of barramundi was conducted to determine how consumers evaluated the fish on intrinsic cues. Focus groups were then conducted to explore the impact of extrinsic cues on attitudes and purchase intentions. While the sensory analysis revealed distinct differences between barramundi variants on intrinsic cues (notably taste), the focus groups revealed that, as a brand, barramundi is perceived much more favourably and consistently. Consumers used extrinsic cues, particularly country of origin, as surrogate indicators of quality. Aquaculture producers need to ensure intrinsic product quality and consistency, as while consumers use the extrinsic cue of "Australian grown" as a surrogate indicator of quality, as their familiarity and confidence with seafood grows, this overreliance on extrinsic cues may diminish
Na+ imaging reveals little difference in action potentialâevoked Na+ influx between axon and soma
Author Posting. © The Authors, 2010. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Nature Publishing Group for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Nature Neuroscience 13 (2010): 852-860, doi:10.1038/nn.2574.In cortical pyramidal neurons, the axon initial segment (AIS) plays a pivotal role in synaptic
integration. It has been asserted that this property reflects a high density of Na+ channels in AIS.
However, we here report that APâassociated Na+ flux, as measured by highâspeed fluorescence
Na+ imaging, is about 3 times larger in the rat AIS than in the soma. Spike evoked Na+ flux in
the AIS and the first node of Ranvier is about the same, and in the basal dendrites it is about 8
times lower. At near threshold voltages persistent Na+ conductance is almost entirely axonal.
Finally, we report that on a time scale of seconds, passive diffusion and not pumping is
responsible for maintaining transmembrane Na+ gradients in thin axons during high frequency
AP firing. In computer simulations, these data were consistent with the known features of AP
generation in these neurons.Supported by USâ
Israel BSF Grant (2003082), Grass Faculty Grant from the MBL, NIH Grant (NS16295),
Multiple Sclerosis Society Grant (PP1367), and a fellowship from the Gruss Lipper Foundation
A Search for Selectrons and Squarks at HERA
Data from electron-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 300 GeV
are used for a search for selectrons and squarks within the framework of the
minimal supersymmetric model. The decays of selectrons and squarks into the
lightest supersymmetric particle lead to final states with an electron and
hadrons accompanied by large missing energy and transverse momentum. No signal
is found and new bounds on the existence of these particles are derived. At 95%
confidence level the excluded region extends to 65 GeV for selectron and squark
masses, and to 40 GeV for the mass of the lightest supersymmetric particle.Comment: 13 pages, latex, 6 Figure
Energy Flow in the Hadronic Final State of Diffractive and Non-Diffractive Deep-Inelastic Scattering at HERA
An investigation of the hadronic final state in diffractive and
non--diffractive deep--inelastic electron--proton scattering at HERA is
presented, where diffractive data are selected experimentally by demanding a
large gap in pseudo --rapidity around the proton remnant direction. The
transverse energy flow in the hadronic final state is evaluated using a set of
estimators which quantify topological properties. Using available Monte Carlo
QCD calculations, it is demonstrated that the final state in diffractive DIS
exhibits the features expected if the interaction is interpreted as the
scattering of an electron off a current quark with associated effects of
perturbative QCD. A model in which deep--inelastic diffraction is taken to be
the exchange of a pomeron with partonic structure is found to reproduce the
measurements well. Models for deep--inelastic scattering, in which a
sizeable diffractive contribution is present because of non--perturbative
effects in the production of the hadronic final state, reproduce the general
tendencies of the data but in all give a worse description.Comment: 22 pages, latex, 6 Figures appended as uuencoded fil
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