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THE TRANSFER OF TISSUE CULTUIRED PLANTS FROM IN VITRO TO OPEN GREENHOUSE ENVIRONMENTS IS FREQUENTLY A MULTI-STAGED, LABOR INTENSIVE PROCESS THAT CAN RAISE PRODUCTION COSTS TO COMMERCIALLY PROHIBITIVE LEVELS. RESEARCH IS UNDERWAY TO TEST THE FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING A CONSOLIDATED, COST- EFFECTIVETRANSFER PLUG SYSTEM THAT WILL ALLOW PLANTS TO BE TRANSFERRED, ROOTED, INOCULATED WITH BENEFICIAL MYCO ...

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ANALYTICAL METHODS FOR DETECTING PESTICIDES, ANTIBOIOTICS, AND METABOLIC PRODUCTS IN MEAT PRODUCTS ARE TEDIOUS AND TIME-CONSUMING. THIS STUDY WILL EVALUATE SUPERCRITICAL FLUID EXTRACTION AND CHROMATOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES FOR ANALYSIS OF THESE COMPOUNDS WHICH MAY BE POLAR, THERMALLY UNSTABLE, OR OTHERWISE INTRACTABLE TO OTHER METHODS. IN PHASE I, WE WILL DEMONSTRATE ANALYSIS OF RESIDUES BY SFC; DEMONS ...

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IF A SERIES OF MATERIALS CAN BE ENGINEERED HAVING METAL TO INSULATOR OR METAL-TO-SEMICONDUCTOR TRANSITION AT A SPECIFIC DESIRED TEMPERATURE, THEN THESE MATERIALS WILL PAVE THE WAY FOR A VARIETY OF APPLICATIONS. ONE SUCH APPLICATION IS A HIGH CURRENT, SOLID STATE, RELIABLE SWITCH. IT IS PROPOSED TO DEVELOP SUCH MATERIALS USING TIO2-VO2 SOLID SOLUTION. THE HIGH TEMPERATURE RUTILE STRUCTURE OF VO2 IS ...

SALANNIN (C34H4O9) IS A PLANT TETRANORTRITERPENOID OCCURRINGIN TWO SPECIES IN THE MELIACEAE, AZADIRACHTA INDICA A. JUSS.(NEEM) AND MELIA DUBIA CAV. SALANNIN HAS BEEN SHOWN TO BE AN ANTIFEEDANT (FEEDING INHIBITOR) AGAINST SEVERAL SPECIES OF INSECT PEST, INCLUDING DIPTERANS (FLIES), LEPIDOPTERANS (CATERPILLARS), AND COLEOPTERANS (BEETLES). WE PLAN TO INVESTIGATE THE FEASIBILITY OF MODELING A NEW CHE ...

THIS PROPOSED RESEARCH REPRESENTS A UNIQUE COMBINATION OF TECHNOLOGIES AND SUBSEQUENT OPPORTUNITY TO EXAMINE THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF TRAITS EXHIBITING QUANTITATIVE EXPRESSIONAND INHERITANCE. IT HAS BEEN OBSERVED THAT THERE ARE OFTEN STRONG ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN PATTERNS OF VARIATION OF ISOZYME MARKERS AND PLANT MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS WHICH SHOW QUANTITATIVE INHERITANCE. RECENTLY, HELENTJARIS, EDWA ...

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF FREE FATTY ACIDS AND METHYL ESTERIFIED FREE FATTY ACIDS OF SEED OIL AS ADJUVANTS FOR PESTICIDE SPRAYS WILL BE CONDUCTED. LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS WILL BE CONDUCTED TO DEVELOP EMULSIFIER SYSTEMS FOR FREE FATTY ACIDS AND METHYL ESTERIFIED FREE FATTY ACIDS OF SEED OIL WHICH ARE COMPATIBLE WITH COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE HERBICIDES. SMALL PLOT FIELD EXPERIMENTS WILL BE CONDUCTED ...

INTEREST IN GALLIUM ARSENIDE (GAAS) INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (IC) IS GROWING RAPIDLY BECAUSE THEY ARE VERY FAST AND RESISTANT TO RADIATION.HOWEVER, SOME SIGNIFICANT PROBLEMS ARE STILL OF CONCERN. FIRST, THE INCREASED SPEED OF THIS TECHNOLOGY HAS LED TO TIMING PROBLEMS IN CIRCUIT DESIGN. WITH THIS TECHNOLOGY THE GATE SWITCHING SPEEDS HAVE BEEN REDUCED TO WHERE THEY CAN BE EQUIVALENT TO THE WIRE TRANSMIS ...