Sentences with phrase «sophora japonica»

Wasabi (Wasabia japonica) is a perennial plant, a member of the mustard family, and a cousin to cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower.

The nutty japonica rice was cooked per the instructions and mixed with steamed kale.

Tropical japonica rice is mainly grown in East Asia and accounts for only about 10 % of global rice production.

Through funding from the Global Rice Science Partnership, the 3,024 genomes were re-analyzed against five popular varieties that represent the three main subgroups of cultivated rice — indica, japonica, and aus.

IRRI breeders had earlier observed traits related to higher yield potential — such as large panicles, large leaves, a vigorous root system, and thick stems — in several Indonesian tropical japonica rice varieties.

Bean has found that Japanese quail, Coturnix japonica, also show similar temporary behavioral effects in response to neonicotinoids.

Male Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) can use their sex organs to whip up a meringue - like foam.

DNA contamination from several species of bivalve was also detected, which indicates that, like other species of Xenoturbella, X. japonica likely feeds on marine bivalves.

As co-author Hisanori Kohtsuka explains, «because one habitat where X. japonica was found is easily accessible from a marine station, this new species promises to be valuable for future research on bilaterian and deuterostome evolution.»

«Species within this genus have previously been divided into «shallow» and «deep» subgroups, and our results place X. japonica in the «shallow» subgroup,» lead author Hiroaki Nakano says.

The researchers, centered at the University of Tsukuba, described two specimens of X. japonica dredged from the seafloor of the western Pacific: a female about 5 cm in length, and a juvenile about 1 cm in length.

For larger specimens, such as the metallic, wood - boring Chalcophora japonica (or ubatamamushi, as the Japanese call the beetle, pictured at right and below), the device helps measure morphological features, such as genitalia.

Traders carried domesticated japonica from China to India, where it was bred with the cultivated rice species O. nivara to produce domesticated aus about 4,000 years ago, Fuller, Purugganan and colleagues reported in January in Molecular Biology and Evolution.

DNA evidence clearly shows that China's wild O. rufipogon was domesticated into O. sativa japonica.

The Japanese Beetle (Popillia japonica) is a beetle about 1.5 cm (0.6 inches) long and 1 cm (0.4 inches) wide (smaller in Canada), with shiny copper - colored elytra and a shiny green top of the thorax and head.

But the genetic evidence indicates that it got its domestication genes from China's japonica.

Scientists used to think modern rice, Oryza sativa, was domesticated twice: sticky, short - grained japonica rice was domesticated in China, and in India, rice was domesticated into long - grained varieties indica and aus.

An example of a problematic non-native species in many parts of the world is Fallopia japonica, the Japanese knotweed that negatively affects river ecosystems.

In K. japonica, the anthers of adjacent stamens are connected, but in samples collected on Okinawa, Taiwan and other parts of the Ryukyu Islands, they discovered individuals without connections between the anthers of adjacent stamens.

K. japonica is also known as the kadsura vine or kadsura, and in the past its resin has been used for hair styling.

To do this he filled experimental wicker nests with Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) eggs and placed them in forest locations ranging from the midcanopy to the understory, to reflect native birds» nesting habits.

Left - the male flowers of the Kadsura japonica (Photo by MORI Sayoko) Right - the male flowers of the Kadsura matsudae (Photo by TOMA Tsugutaka).

In more than 18 person - years of maintaining a colony of D. japonica that involves more than 15,000 control worms in just the last five years alone, the Tufts researchers have never observed a spontaneous occurrence of double - headedness.

Researchers led by the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University sought to determine how microgravity and micro-geomagnetic fields would affect the growth and regeneration of planarian flatworms (D. japonica) and whether any changes would persist after the worms returned to earth.

This plant was first discovered in 1917 in Taiwan, when it was provisionally identified as Kadsura japonica.

Most of the rice grown in the U.S. is japonica rice, Olsen says, which is genetically pretty different from indica rice, the rice grown in a lot of the tropics.

There are 16 known species of this genus, and until now K. japonica was the only species reported in Japan.

The sticky variety, favoured in Japan, belongs to the japonica group, which the team traced back to the middle of the Yangtze Valley in southern China.

They concluded that this rearrangement must have originally occurred in the tropical japonica subspecies of rice and that the black rice trait was then transferred into other varieties (including those found today) by crossbreeding.

Although the grains of the multi-nutrient rice lines have more beta - carotene than the original japonica rice variety, depending on the lines the beta - carotene content can be ten-fold lower than in Golden Rice 2, the improved variant of Golden Rice.

The pineconefish, Monocentris japonica, is as tough as its name implies.

In northern parts of East Asia, consisting of Japan, Korea, and northern part of China, current rice production and consumption are japonica with very little exceptional use of indica.

The popular consensus is that japonica, the shorter stickier grain perfect for sushi, has been exclusively cultivated exclusively in northern part of East Asia.

Yet the majority of rice crops that supply 90 percent of the world come from just two domesticated varieties, japonica and indica.

The invasive fiber - like red seaweeds (Dasysiphonia japonica) had covered up to 90 percent of some areas, altering the visual landscape, and the newly created habitat structure now supported two to three times more small creatures at the base of the food chain.

The research team has now found, for the first time, the presence of both japonica - and indica - type varieties in the Yayoi period and the middle ages of Japan and the middle part of Korea Peninsula 2000 years ago.

Fukano found that tendrils of Cayratia japonica only stayed wrapped around other plants if they were non-vine species like shrubs.

Most (73.1 %) were invasive Asian tiger mosquitoes (Aedes albopictus), but samples also included West Nile virus Culex vectors (24.1 %) and Aedes j. japonicas (2.4 %).

japonica, and introgressive hybridization from early japonica to proto - indica and proto - aus led to domesticated indica and aus rice.

Results are shown for tests involving japonica, indicaIR64, ausDJ123, O. nivara, and O. rufipogon (table 1) but results from the full combination of comparisons are listed in the supplementary table S3, Supplementary Material online.

japonica, occurring at ∼ 13.1 — 24.1 ka, which is an order of magnitude older then the earliest archeological date of domestication.

Japanese honeybees (Apis cerana japonica) maintained at the apiary in Tamagawa University (Tokyo, Japan) and giant hornets (Vespa mandarinia japonica) caught near the apiary were used for all experiments.

China has received 54 varieties of rice from IRRI for research and breeding, contributed 6,880 types of rice to IRRI's International Rice Genebank for conservation, and released more than 382 indica and japonica inbred and hybrid varieties.

The varieties grown in this area are typically the semi-glutinous japonica and are considered to be of high quality than rice grown in other areas.

By about 7,000 B.C., japonica was spread throughout the valley, including large amounts of rice kernels at Tong Xian, Luojiajiao and Hemuda.

Near Poyang Lake, researchers found japonica pytoliths, radiocarbon dated to 10,000 - 9,000 B.C., in sediment deposits of Diaotonghuan Cave.

We employ new strategies to eliminate linkage drag and incorporate desirable traits into temperate japonica cultivars.

Adkins - Regan, E. (1998) Role of the archistriatal nucleus taeniae in the sexual behavior of male Japanese quail, (Coturnix japonica): a comparison of function with the medial nucleus of the amygdala in mammals.

Under a grant from the Global Diversity Trust, we are using genomic tools to develop inter-specific introgression lines, novel genetic resources that are derived from crosses between diverse wild relatives and elite, high yielding varieties of both indica and japonica rice.

Thompson, RR, Adkins - Regan, E. (1994) Photoperiod affects the morphology of a sexually dimorphic nucleus in the preoptic area of Japanese quail, Coturnix japonica.