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Agronomic treatments to avoid seed presence in `Nadorcott¿ mandarin I. Effect on in vivo pollen tube growth
[EN] Fresh market demands high quality fruit and, therefore, citrus growers and researchers are constantly looking for
solutions to avoid seed presence. Current horticultural techniques have low effectiveness or high cost. The
objective of this study is to evaluate the inhibition effect of seven products on the in vivo pollen tube growth in
Nadorcott mandarin, which is a high-value seedy variety. To achieve this main objective, three inorganic fer
tilizers (ammonium nitrate, potassium nitrate, sulfur), and four saccharides (saccharose, methyl cellulose, cal
lose, chitosan) were applied to Nadorcott stigmas 24 h before and after hand pollination. Pollen tubes were
counted 1, 3, and 5 days after treatment in longitudinal blue violet autofluorescence-stained sections. Of the
seven evaluated products, only sulfur had a strong inhibitory effect. Elemental sulfur (S 8 ) inhibited pollen tube
growth by 94-100%. This strong effect was observed regardless of sulfur being applied 24 h before or after
pollination, and on fixed flowers 1, 3 or 5 days after applications. Saccharose treatment seemed to have the
opposite effect: stimulated pollen tube growth, but the difference with the positive control was small and non-
significant. The sulfur effect could be useful for designing agronomic applications capable of preventing seed
presence in Nadorcott mandarin.This research was supported by the Asociación Club de Variedades Vegetales Protegidas as part of a project undertaken with the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain, UPV 20170087), of which H. Merle was the principal researcher. There was no additional external funding received for this study.Garmendia, A.; García-Breijo, F.; Reig, J.; Raigón Jiménez, MD.; Beltrán, R.; Zornoza, C.; Cebrián, N.... (2022). Agronomic treatments to avoid seed presence in `Nadorcott¿ mandarin I. Effect on in vivo pollen tube growth. Scientia Horticulturae. 294:1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scienta.2021.11076011029
Hydrogen Separation at High Temperature with Dense and Asymmetric Membranes Based on PIM-EA(H2)-TB/PBI Blends
The preparation of dense and asymmetric flat membranes from the blending of polybenzimidazole (PBI) and (1.5-20 wt %) of a polymer of intrinsic microporosity (PIM-EA(H2)-TB) is reported. Thermal characterization validated the blend by revealing a single glass transition temperature, which suggests the absence of polymer phase segregation. In addition, the decomposition activation energy and d-spacing of the blends follow trends that correlate with the amount of PIM component. The membranes have been tested for the separation of H2/CO2 mixtures. The properties of the dense membranes, which also incorporate zeolitic imidazolate-8 (ZIF-8) nanoparticles, helped understanding of the behavior of the PIM/PBI blends by which phase inversion results in high separation performance asymmetric membranes. Asymmetric membranes show H2/CO2 selectivities of 23.8 (10/90 wt % PIM/PBI) and 19.4 (20/80 wt % PIM/PBI) together with respective H2 permeances of 57.9 and 83.5 GPU at 250 °C and 6 bar feed pressure. The gas separation performance of these asymmetric blends has been fitted to an empirical model, showing the influence of the amount of PIM and the feed pressure
The polo-like kinase 1 (PLK1) inhibitor NMS-P937 is effective in a new model of disseminated primary CD56+ acute monoblastic leukaemia
CD56 is expressed in 15–20% of acute myeloid leukaemias (AML) and is associated with extramedullary diffusion, multidrug resistance and poor prognosis. We describe the establishment and characterisation of a novel disseminated model of AML (AML-NS8), generated by injection into mice of leukaemic blasts freshly isolated from a patient with an aggressive CD56+ monoblastic AML (M5a). The model reproduced typical manifestations of this leukaemia, including presence of extramedullary masses and central nervous system involvement, and the original phenotype, karyotype and genotype of leukaemic cells were retained in vivo. Recently Polo-Like Kinase 1 (PLK1) has emerged as a new candidate drug target in AML. We therefore tested our PLK1 inhibitor NMS-P937 in this model either in the engraftment or in the established disease settings. Both schedules showed good efficacy compared to standard therapies, with a significant increase in median survival time (MST) expecially in the established disease setting (MST = 28, 36, 62 days for vehicle, cytarabine and NMS-P937, respectively). Importantly, we could also demonstrate that NMS-P937 induced specific biomarker modulation in extramedullary tissues. This new in vivo model of CD56+ AML that recapitulates the human tumour lends support for the therapeutic use of PLK1 inhibitors in AML
All-sky Search for High-Energy Neutrinos from Gravitational Wave Event GW170104 with the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope
Advanced LIGO detected a significant gravitational wave signal (GW170104)
originating from the coalescence of two black holes during the second
observation run on January 4, 2017. An all-sky high-energy
neutrino follow-up search has been made using data from the ANTARES neutrino
telescope, including both upgoing and downgoing events in two separate
analyses. No neutrino candidates were found within s around the GW
event time nor any time clustering of events over an extended time window of
months. The non-detection is used to constrain isotropic-equivalent
high-energy neutrino emission from GW170104 to less than
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The ANTARES Collaboration: Contributions to ICRC 2017 Part I: Neutrino astronomy (diffuse fluxes and point sources)
Papers on neutrino astronomy (diffuse fluxes and point sources, prepared for
the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2017, Busan, South Korea) by
the ANTARES Collaboratio
Performance of the First ANTARES Detector Line
In this paper we report on the data recorded with the first Antares detector
line. The line was deployed on the 14th of February 2006 and was connected to
the readout two weeks later. Environmental data for one and a half years of
running are shown. Measurements of atmospheric muons from data taken from
selected runs during the first six months of operation are presented.
Performance figures in terms of time residuals and angular resolution are
given. Finally the angular distribution of atmospheric muons is presented and
from this the depth profile of the muon intensity is derived.Comment: 14 pages, 9 figure
The ANTARES Collaboration: Contributions to ICRC 2017 Part III: Searches for dark matter and exotics, neutrino oscillations and detector calibration
Papers on the searches for dark matter and exotics, neutrino oscillations and
detector calibration, prepared for the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference
(ICRC 2017, Busan, South Korea) by the ANTARES Collaboratio
The ANTARES Collaboration: Contributions to ICRC 2017 Part II: The multi-messenger program
Papers on the ANTARES multi-messenger program, prepared for the 35th
International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2017, Busan, South Korea) by the
ANTARES Collaboratio
Search for muon-neutrino emission from GeV and TeV gamma-ray flaring blazars using five years of data of the ANTARES telescope
The ANTARES telescope is well-suited for detecting astrophysical transient
neutrino sources as it can observe a full hemisphere of the sky at all times
with a high duty cycle. The background due to atmospheric particles can be
drastically reduced, and the point-source sensitivity improved, by selecting a
narrow time window around possible neutrino production periods. Blazars, being
radio-loud active galactic nuclei with their jets pointing almost directly
towards the observer, are particularly attractive potential neutrino point
sources, since they are among the most likely sources of the very high-energy
cosmic rays. Neutrinos and gamma rays may be produced in hadronic interactions
with the surrounding medium. Moreover, blazars generally show high time
variability in their light curves at different wavelengths and on various time
scales. This paper presents a time-dependent analysis applied to a selection of
flaring gamma-ray blazars observed by the FERMI/LAT experiment and by TeV
Cherenkov telescopes using five years of ANTARES data taken from 2008 to 2012.
The results are compatible with fluctuations of the background. Upper limits on
the neutrino fluence have been produced and compared to the measured gamma-ray
spectral energy distribution.Comment: 27 pages, 16 figure
Detection of Atmospheric Muon Neutrinos with the IceCube 9-String Detector
The IceCube neutrino detector is a cubic kilometer TeV to PeV neutrino
detector under construction at the geographic South Pole. The dominant
population of neutrinos detected in IceCube is due to meson decay in cosmic-ray
air showers. These atmospheric neutrinos are relatively well-understood and
serve as a calibration and verification tool for the new detector. In 2006, the
detector was approximately 10% completed, and we report on data acquired from
the detector in this configuration. We observe an atmospheric neutrino signal
consistent with expectations, demonstrating that the IceCube detector is
capable of identifying neutrino events. In the first 137.4 days of livetime,
234 neutrino candidates were selected with an expectation of 211 +/-
76.1(syst.) +/- 14.5(stat.) events from atmospheric neutrinos
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