Anthropogenic seed dispersal: rethinking the origins of plant domestication
, 2020 It is well documented that ancient sickle harvesting led to tough rachises, but the other seed dispersal properties in crop progenitors are rarely discussed. The first steps toward domestication are evolutionary responses for the recruitment of humans as
Spengler, R.
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A performant bridge between fixed-size and variable-size seeding [PDF]
BMC Bioinformatics, 2019 Abstract Background Seeding is usually the initial step of high-throughput sequence aligners. Two popular seeding strategies are fixed-size seeding (k-mers, minimizers) and variable-size seeding (MEMs, SMEMs, maximal spanning seeds). The former strategy supports fast seed computation, while the latter one benefits from a high seed entropy ...
Kutzner, Arne +2 more
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Testing mechanisms of compensatory fitness of dioecy in a cosexual world [PDF]
, 2019 Questions: All else being equal, populations of dioecious species with a 50:50 sex ratio have only half the effective reproductive population size of bisexual species of equal abundance. Consequently, there is a need to explain how dioecious and bisexual
Du, Y +10 more
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Crop size influences pre-dispersal seed predation in the Brazilian Cerrado
Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2017 Many pre-dispersal seed predators are specialized insects that rely on seeds for larval development. These insects may respond to the amount of seeds produced by a plant (i.e.
Alexander V. Christianini
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The relationship between shape and size of diaspores depends on being seeds or fruits [PDF]
, 2019 The relationship between the size and shape of diaspores was investigated in angiosperms and gymnosperms including determining if being a seed or fruit was a factor. Size was expressed as volume and shape as the departure from a perfect idealized sphere.
Dias, A.S., Dias, L.S.
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Ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) as predators of conifer seeds
Folia Oecologica, 2019 Many species of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) are important predators of seeds. While the consumption of herb seeds has been intensively studied, little attention has been paid to the consumption of seeds of gymnosperm plants.
Martinková Zdenka +4 more
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Variations on Classical and Quantum Extractors [PDF]
, 2014 Many constructions of randomness extractors are known to work in the presence of quantum side information, but there also exist extractors which do not [Gavinsky {\it et al.}, STOC'07].
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Sketch-based Influence Maximization and Computation: Scaling up with Guarantees [PDF]
, 2014 Propagation of contagion through networks is a fundamental process. It is used to model the spread of information, influence, or a viral infection.
Chen W. +4 more
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Soybean seed germination and initial seedling growth as affected by seed size [PDF]
Journal on Processing and Energy in Agriculture, 2013 Soybean seed size can have a major effect on the quality of seeds. Beside the effect that seed size has on 1000-grain weight, it can also affect other seed quality parameters. Some authors suggest it can be expected that larger seeds have better quality.
Kostić Miladin +6 more
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Rapid analysis of seed size in
Plant Methods, 2011 Background Arabidopsis thaliana is a useful model organism for deciphering the genetic determinants of seed size; however the small size of its seeds makes measurements difficult. Bulk seed weights are often used as an indicator of average seed size, but
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