During the 1995 harvest season Pinot noir development during ripening was monitored at Woodhall Vineyards (WHV) in Alpine and at three commercial vineyard sites at Croft (CR) Vineyards in Monmouth, Rex Hill Kings Ridge Vineyard (RHKR) in Newberg, and Erath Vineyards (ER) in Dundee. Cluster samples (25) were taken weekly...
The focus of this study is the effective prioritization of customer requirements in collaborative product development. The CR priorities are often retrieved by questioning and interviewing targeted customers. But the targeted customer might not always be easily questioned, because they might not always be obvious or clearly known. If customers...
Over the last several years many Oregon winemakers have expressed concerns over the frequency of 'stuck' and sluggish yeast fermentations. These problems are probably due to low nitrogen status of musts at harvest. Malolactic fermentations may also be affected by low levels of fermentable nitrogen in juice and wine. Low...
The actively subsiding North China sedimentary basin is associated with an unusually high level of seismic activity. This oil- and gas-producing basin has been the site of nine large (M ≥ 7), destructive earthquakes since 1600 A. D. An analysis of faulting during the Tangshan earthquake sequence, which includes some...
Pesticides benefit agriculture by increasing crop yield, quality, and security. However, pesticides may inadvertently harm bees, which are valuable as pollinators. Thus, candidate pesticides in development pipelines must be assessed for toxicity to bees.
Leveraging a data set of 382 molecules with toxicity labels from honey bee exposure experiments, we...
During exploration of imaging photosynthetic fluorimetry of Arabidopsis thaliana mutants, we discovered a novel phenomenon wherein photosynthetic efficiency (defined in Ning et al., 1995) is shown to plot in discrete groups. This exploration resulted first in the development of a spectrofluorometric method that apparently allows for in vivo observation of...
A sophisticated computer program is developed to analyze flow linear
dichroism data on nucleic acids for individual base inclinations. Measured
absorption and linear dichroism data for synthetic AT and GC polymers and
natural DNAs are analyzed. The reliability of the program is tested on data for
the synthetic polymers, and...
Equipment and technology suppliers to the US forest sector are confronting challenges and opportunities to meet the need for disruptive changes in an increasingly complex business environment. Open innovation is crucial for survival and success in the complex and changing operational environment due to its inherent openness and interdisciplinary nature....
Homeodomain transcription factors control developmental processes. They pattern body formation, specify cell lineages and switch the onset of gene regulatory cascades. Pitx2, a bicoid-related homeodomain transcription factor, is asymmetrically expressed in the left lateral plate mesoderm and mesoderm-derived tissues. Pitx2 null mice are characterized by failure of body wall closure,...