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This project was initiated by JM and NH and continued by KH, and AT as part of the CHEM 1108 Freshman Chemistry Research Rotation taught by Prof. W. R. Murphy, Jr. at Seton Hall University. We thank Merck Co., Inc. for partial support of this research through an unrestricted grant. We also thank the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation for support of TC through the Partners-in-Science Program and the ACS Project SEED program for support of MK. 

Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544. Project SEED Student... 

We thank the National Science Foundation and the Robert A. Welch Foundation for their financial support. We also thank the American Chemical Society for a Project SEED award to RL. 

In the BLUESEED Project, seed was transferred from a lab-scale micronursery after two to three months of growth. Mussel seed from several batches (around 8 mm average size) was wrapped to different types of culture ropes with degradable cotton net (Fig. 11.19), and transferred to a mussel raft placed in an inner culture polygon in the Ria de Arousa (NW Spain). 

The authors wish to thank the United States National Science Foundation, grant number 98-51311 as well as the University of Detroit Mercy for the purchase of the energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, and Project SEED for V.I. s involvement in this research. 

This work was supported by the Italian MIUR and IIT (Project Seed HELYOS). The large-scale computer facihties of the M -VILLAGE network (http //m3village.sns.it) are kindly acknowledged. 

RCRA covers were constructed in 1995, and the ET covers were constructed in 1996. All of the covers are 43 ft wide by 328 ft long and were seeded with native vegetation. The purpose of the project is to use the performance data to help demonstrate equivalency and refine numerical models to more accurately predict cover system performance.39... 

Copper is an essential micronutrient required in the growth of both plants and animals. In humans, it helps in the production of blood haemoglobin. In plants, copper is an important component of proteins found in the enzymes that regulate the rate of many biochemical reactions in plants. Plants would not grow without the presence of these specific enzymes. Research projects show that copper promotes seed production and formation, plays an essential role in chlorophyll formation and is essential for proper enzyme activity, disease resistance and regulation of water in plants (Rehm and Schmitt, 2002). 

Acknowledgements Support for this project was provided by the South Dakota Com Utilization Council, South Dakota Soybean Research and Promotion Council, NRCS, USDA-CSREES-seed technology grant, South Dakota 2010 initiative, USDA-SARE (enc07-095, 2007-47001-03883), and NASA. 

A project at the University of Idaho (FEDRIP 1996) will study the biodegradation of several halogenated hydrocarbons in soils amended with plant residues from various Brassica cultivars (e.g., rape seed). These residues contain chemicals that may help catalyze the degradation of some chlorinated hydrocarbons. 

Internal tissue breakdown in melons such as Galia and Cantaloupe occurs around the seedbed and eventually results in collapse of the seed bed into a mixture of liquid, seeds and tissue pieces. Unfortunately this disorder does not affect the skin or hardness of the outer layers so cannot be detected by visual inspection. Preliminary reports from the Volcani Center in Israel have shown that the tissue breakdown results in a small increase in T2 from, typically, 35 to 45 ms and a corresponding increase in signal intensity in spin-echo projection images acquired with a 4.7 T (200 MHz) imaging magnet. There is therefore a reasonable possibility of being able to detect this disorder by on-line projection MRI. 

The collaboration of two research groups on this drinking water project was brought about through the intervention of Cornell s Center for Environmental Research. The Initial seed money provided helped to lay the groundwork for the more ambitious project now being supported by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Major research objectives of the project Included ... 

Deer mice, P. maniculatus, readily find buried seeds. In forest reseeding projects, deer mice often remove 70 to 100% of the planted conifer seeds. In the laboratory, deer mice found the aromatic seeds of sugar, Jeffrey, and Ponderosa... 

Van Zyl, J. (2007). Marama bean cotyledon and seed coats Phenolic composition and antioxidant activity. Univerity of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa B.Sc. Honours Project Report. 

Yeboah, S. O. and Moshoeshoe, E. (2008). Oil extraction and characterization of the oil from the morama seed, Tylosema esculentum. Annual Report Marama II Project, Copenhagen, Denmark. 

Fig. 39. Velocity imaging of the vertical (p4 component projected onto the cross-section of a granular bed of poppy seeds. The data are averaged over the height of the bed (2 cm). Velocities are normalized to the maximum upward motion (which is set to unity). The white line indicates = 0 and separates upward (inner part) from downward motion (outer part). Vertical lines are processing artifacts (J22).

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