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Antioxidant Activity, Total Phenolics and Taxol Contents Response of Hazel (Corylus avellana L.) Cells to Benzoic Acid and Cinnamic Acid

Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca, 2012
Hazel (Corylus avellana L.) plant has been recently introduced as a plant with the ability to produce Taxol. In the present research effects of different concentrations of benzoic acid and cinnamic acid on the phenolic compounds, Taxol content, and ...
Ebrahim BEMANI, Faezeh GHANATI, Laleh YOUSEFZADEH BOROUJENI, Faezeh KHATAMI   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Perspectives on Climate Change in Education for Sustainability: Linking Concepts and Skills for a Practical Ecological Transition

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘Hard’ natural sciences have extensively been used to provide evidence that climate change is happening and climate action is needed. If the contribution of our economic activities to disturbing our climate systems is now largely accepted, the way in which we design and operationalise ‘climate action’—how we transition to more sustainable ...
Sandrine Simon
wiley   +1 more source

Ectomycorrhizal communities in a Tuber aestivum Vittad. orchard in Poland

Open Life Sciences, 2016
Cultivation of the Burgundy truffle, Tuber aestivum Vittad., has become a new agricultural alternative in Poland. For rural economies, the concept of landscaping is often considerably more beneficial than conventional agriculture and promotes ...
Hilszczańska Dorota, Szmidla Hanna, Horak Jakub, Rosa-Gruszecka Aleksandra   +3 more
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Assessment of winter hardiness of common hazel (Corylus avellana L.) in Voronezh region depending on forest conditions [PDF]

BIO Web of Conferences
Abiotic factors often do not allow to realize the productivity potential of nut-bearing plants, which entails a decrease in the efficiency of their cultivation. One of the key adaptive properties of common hazel in the Voronezh region is winter hardiness,
Nakonechnaya Tatiana, Slavskiy Vasily, Tsaralunga Anna, Poddubnaya Anastasia   +3 more
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Identity Impermanence as a Generic Social Process: The Malleability of Gender in Transgender and Nonbinary People's Lives

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Drawing on 40 in‐depth interviews with transgender and nonbinary people, we found that respondents' gender identities or displays shifted day‐by‐day and audience‐by‐audience. The first describes respondents shifting their identities and displays based on feeling their way through gender while the latter describes feeling out an audience.
Stef M. Shuster, Andrew Kirks‐Cler
wiley   +1 more source

Managing Competency‐Based Resistance in Video‐Mediated L2 Peer Feedback Sessions

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Though there is growing empirical evidence on managing advice resistance as an institutional work of higher status party with superior epistemic knowledge domain (e.g., trainer) across diverse settings (e.g., supervision meetings), there is still a lack of research on how second language (L2) learners handle peer resistance in real time once ...
Kübra Ekşi
wiley   +1 more source

Longitudinal Tracking of Persistence in Other‐Repair Practices in an Audio‐Mediated English Private Tutoring Setting

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Private tutoring—or shadow education—has received ample scholarly attention due to increasing demand from parents for reasons of social mobility in ESL/EFL contexts. Referred to as English private tutoring (EPT) for language learning purposes, this type of non‐formal education shares certain features of formal education like content and ...
Semih Ekin, Ali Anaç, Muhammet Öcel
wiley   +1 more source

Comparison of microstructure, pollen tube growth pattern and starch content in developing and abortive ovary during progamic phase in hazel

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2014
In Northeast China, a high frequency of ovary abortion contributes to serious losses in yield of hazelnut. The development of pistillate inflorescences and fruit clusters of four large-fruited hybrid hazel cultivars and the small-fruited Corylus ...
Jianfeng eLiu, Huidi eZhang, Yunqing eCheng, Ju eWang, Yixin eZhao, Wanting eGeng   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

How weather got its words: a history of meteorological English – Part 1: Old English to the Age of Discovery

Weather, EarlyView.
The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary among its peers in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the diverse origins of the words we use. In this two‐part paper, we will explore these origins, including the Pontic‐Caspian steppe, the British Empire, latinophone scientists and a TV show. We
Kieran M. R. Hunt
wiley   +1 more source

Does a decision support tool designed to depict West Nile virus risk explain variation in ruffed grouse Bonasa umbellus use of managed forests?

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Infectious diseases are commonly cited as significant contributors to wildlife population declines. It is, therefore, important to investigate the extent to which tools designed to mitigate the effects of infectious diseases explain wildlife responses to habitat management.
Jacob Goldman, Darin J. McNeil, Lauren M. Chronister, Randall Koleck, Samuel Lapp, Jeffery T. Larkin, Reina Tyl, Justin Kitzes, Jeffery L. Larkin   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source