Selective list of VIR’s methodological recommendations (guidelines) for 2000–2022 by Article Editorial

“…All recommendations (guidelines) are an assemblage of documents dedicated to the study, conservation, and replenishment of the unique global plant genetic resources collection held by VIR; plant breeding; seed production; cultivation; resistance of individual crops to diseases and pests; herbarization; long-term seed storage; biochemical, mycological, phytopathological, genetic, and biotechnological research methods; and many other issues. …”
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Immunolocalization of hordein synthesis and transport in developing barley endosperm by Gregory Tanner, Allison van deMeene, Anthony Bacic

“…In contrast, serpin Z4 was present at 6 DPA, but the greatest synthesis and accumulation occurred during the middle of seed development, from 15 to 30 DPA. LTP1 accumulated later in seed development, from 15 to 30 DPA. …”
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Real-Time Depth-Based Hand Detection and Tracking by Sung-Il Joo, Sun-Hee Weon, Hyung-Il Choi

“…Starting from the seed point, a region growing scheme is applied to obtain a hand region. …”
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Maraichage urbain et semi-urbain de Moringa oleifera Lam. par des associations de femmes au Burkina Faso : contraintes et opportunités by Madjelia Cangré Ebou Dao, Josias Sanou, Souleymane Pare

“…To this end, the strengthening of producing technical building and technical support systems for collecting and distribution of viable seed quality for themselves could constitute a great economic and strategic value for small producers in urban and semi urban areas of Burkina Faso. …”
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THE RESULTS OF THE STUDY OF VARIETIES OF ALFALFA IN THE CENTRAL-CHERNOZEM ZONE by N. I. Isaeva, N. Yu. Malysheva, L. L. Malyshev, N. V. Vavkina

“…The most variable were character of seed production, productivity of green mass and hay yield productivity; character of foliage and the intensity of regrowth of plants on the 20-th day after spring regrowth had medium variability. …”
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The Impact of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles on Cytotoxicity, Genotoxicity, and miRNA Expression in Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) Seedlings by Ilona Plaksenkova, Inese Kokina, Anastasija Petrova, Marija Jermaļonoka, Vjačeslavs Gerbreders, Marina Krasovska

“…The objective of this study was to examine the impact of different concentrations of zinc oxide nanoparticles on barley Hordeum vulgare L. seed germination, seedling morphology, root cell viability, stress level, genotoxicity, and expression of miRNAs. …”
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Yield gap decomposition: quantifying factors limiting soybean yield in Southern Africa by John Okoth Omondi, Mazvita Sheila Chiduwa, Stephen Kyei-Boahen, Patricia Masikati, Isaiah Nyagumbo

“…This study showed that besides soil nutrients and plant nutrition, soybean variety is the most limiting factor in Malawi and Zambia, whereas, in Mozambique, seed rate is significant. Overall, in the Southern Africa region (Malawi, Zambia, and Mozambique) the major soybean yield gap contributors are: variety (63.9%), seed rate (49.7%), and disease damage (36.3%), especially soybean rust. …”
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Utilization of Cempedak (Artocarpus champeden) by Communities in Sabun Village, Central Aitinyo Sub-district, Maybrat Regency, West Papua Province by Ariance Juli Ross Nauw, Sepus M Fatem, Susilo Budi Husodo, Mecky Sagrim

“…The result showed that fruits and seeds are part of of the cempedak trees, which is utilised for food. …”
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From Entomological Disaster to Agricultural Modernization, the Effect of Pink Bollworm on Cotton Farming in Çukurova (1914-1928) by Okan Ceylan

“… Since the second half of the 19th century, pink bollworm, which has been effective on a global scale, spread to Çukurova as a result of cotton seed imports from Egypt after the First World War (the WWI). …”
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Potential of corn cob compost in corn fertilization on alfisol soil by Purnomo Djoko, Setyaningrum Desy

“…Corn cobs as waste material after the seeds are removed have not been utilized so they have the potential to become pollutants. …”
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A Pre-Activation Residual Convolutional Network With Attention Modules for High-Resolution Segmented EEG Emotion Recognition by Ioannis Charalampous, Christos Mavrokefalidis, Kostas Berberidis

“…The suggested exploitation of the temporal dynamics of the EEG signals in emotion recognition turns out to be useful, as classification accuracies of up to 99.51% and 97.51% on SEED and SEED-IV datasets have been achieved, respectively, thus, outperforming the current state-of-the-art models.…”
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Fractional Factorial Design and Desirability Function-Based Approach in Spice Paprika Processing Technology to Improve Extractable Colour Stability by Arnold Koncsek, Lajos Szokol, Vivien Krizsa, Hussein G. Daood, Lajos Helyes, Antal Véha, Balázs Szabó P.

“…Post-harvest ripening, drying, sorting (seed content), milling and additives (paprika seed oil, tocopherol extract) were identified as important for the degradation rate of extractable colour. …”
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Evaluating sowing uniformity in hybrid rice using image processing and the OEW-YOLOv8n network by Zehua Li, Zehua Li, Yihui Pan, Xu Ma, Yongjun Lin, Xicheng Wang, Hongwei Li

“…Firstly, image processing methods are used to segment seed image and obtain seed grids. Next, an improved model named OEW-YOLOv8n based on YOLOv8n is proposed to identify the number of seeds in a unit seed grid. …”
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Rapid Detection of Hybrid Maize Parental Lines Using Stacking Ensemble Machine Learning by M. Aqil, M. Azrai, M. J. Mejaya, N. A. Subekti, F. Tabri, N. N. Andayani, Rahma Wati, S. Panikkai, S. Suwardi, Z. Bunyamin, E. Roy, M. Muslimin, M. Yasin, E. Prakasa

“…Hybrid maize seed production is a relatively complex task due to the coexistence of three distinct types of maize plants in the field: female, male, and contaminant/off-type plants. …”
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Determination of the breeding value of collection chickpea (<i>Cicer arietinum</i> L.) accessions by cluster analysis by N. A. Vus, L. N. Kobyzeva, O. N. Bezuglaya

“…Cluster 1 contained mainly kabuli accessions with optimal combinations of valuable traits: drought tolerance, resistance to Ascochyta leaf and pod spot, large seeds, high yield capacity and performance, pod and seed numbers as well as protein content in seeds. …”
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Growth of Zinc Oxide Nanorods with the Thickness of Less than or Equal to 1 μm through Zinc Acetate or Zinc Nitrate for Perovskite Solar Cell Applications by Albertus Bramantyo, Kenji Murakami, Masayuki Okuya, Arief Udhiarto, Nji Raden Poespawati

“…Arrays of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorod (NR) were fabricated in a vertical axis direction through the two-step method of seed layer’s deposition and growth of the NR. The seed layer was applied by spin coating with a three-time repetition (n) and rotational speed (v) at 3000 rpm. …”
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Biological Evaluation of Garcinia kola Heckel by Abdulrahman Mahmoud Dogara, Saber W. Hamad, Harmand A. Hama, Sarwan W. Bradosty, Soran Kayfi, Sawsan S. Al-Rawi, Abubakar Abdullahi Lema

“…The mechanism of action of the seed extract should be examined. The standard dose and safety of the seed should be established.…”
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Directional Spatial and Spectral Attention Network (DSSA Net) for EEG-based emotion recognition by Jiyao Liu, Lang He, Haifeng Chen, Dongmei Jiang

“…Experimental results on three benchmark EEG datasets demonstrate that DSSA Net outperforms most competitive methods. On the SEED and SEED-IV datasets, it achieves accuracies of 96.61% and 85.07% for subject-dependent emotion recognition, respectively, and 87.03% and 75.86% for subject-independent recognition. …”
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Genotypic variability for root nodulation and identification of high yielding chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) genotypes by Jyoti Kumari, Rafat Sultana*, Zafar Imam, Mankesh Kumar and Reena Kumari

“…Several traits have been found to correlate positively and significantly with seed yield. The genotypes namely BRHT-8, Sabour chana-2, BRHT-12, JG-218, ICC-67, BRHT-1, and BRHT-6 exhibited considerably high nodulation and seed yield/hectare. …”
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Comparative Evaluation of Agroindustrial Byproducts for the Production of Alkaline Protease by Wild and Mutant Strains of Bacillus subtilis in Submerged and Solid State Fermentatio... by Hamid Mukhtar, Ikramul Haq

“…During submerged fermentation, different agro-industrial byproducts were tested which include defatted seed meals of rape, guar, sunflower, gluten, cotton, soybean, and gram. …”
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