Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, Dept. of Plant Pathology, 1979.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1975. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-84).

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:32:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2005-01-25Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:43:11Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 gadum_j_dr_botfca.pdf: 288776 bytes, checksum: 8e26883c5c77307d1127daa626385ae9 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Esse trabalho teve como objetivo estimar a capacidade geral e específica de combinação, empregando-se um topcross entre linhagens e populações de pepino japonês. Foram obtidos 16 híbridos experimentais a partir de 2 populações testadoras (geração F2 de Yoshinari e de Natsusuzumi) e 8 linhagens S5 obtidas a partir do híbrido comercial Hokuho, também foi avaliado o híbrido F1 Hokuho, totalizando 27 tratamentos. O delineamento experimental utilizado foi em blocos casualizados com 4 repetições e cada parcela foi constituída de 4 plantas. Foram realizados dois experimentos em duas épocas, onde foram avaliadas as seguintes características relacionadas ao crescimento vegetativo da planta: comprimento das plantas, número de folhas, número de nós, número de brotações laterais e porcentagem de brotações. Também se avaliou o peso de frutos totais, peso de frutos comerciais, número total de frutos, número de frutos comerciais, porcentagem de frutos comerciais e peso médio de frutos comerciais. As análises de capacidades combinatória foram efetuadas de acordo com o modelo de Geraldi & Miranda Filho (1988). A população de Yoshinari (TY) apresentou, em média, melhor capacidade de se combinar com as linhagens de Hokuho. A linhagem L7 apresentou os maiores valores positivos da estimativa da CGC para a maioria das características avaliadas nos dois experimentos e os híbridos H1Y e H1N, que continham a linhagem L1 como parental, foram os que apresentaram maiores valores para a estimativa da CEC com as populações testadoras para a maioria das características avaliadas nos dois experimentos realizados, enquanto os que tinham a linhagem L5 como parental apresentaram os menores valores. Conclui-se, portanto, que há um alto potencial de se extrair linhagens de Yoshinari para cruzamentos com linhagens de Hokuho, a fim de se obter híbridos tão bons quanto o Hokuho. / The objective of the present work was obtain general and specific combining ability estimates, using a top cross between lines and japanese cucumber populations. It was obtained 16 experimental hybrids starting from 2 test populations (Yoshinari and Natsusuzumi) and 8 S5 lines obtained starting from the Hokuho commercial hybrid. The Hokuho hybrid F1 was also evaluated, totaling 27 treatments. The experimental design used was randomized block with four replications and for plant per plot. Were evaluated the following characteristics related to the vegetative growth of the plant: length of the plants, number of leaves, number of us, number of lateral produce and produce percentage. Related to the production it was evaluated: weight of total fruits, weight of commercial fruits, total number of fruits, number of commercial fruits, percentage of commercial fruits and weigh medium of commercial fruits. The analyses of combining ability were evaluated in agreement with the model of Geraldi & Miranda Filho (1988). The Yoshinari of population (TY) presented, on average, better combining ability with the lines of Hokuho, the lines L7 presented the largest positive values of gi for most of the evaluated characteristics in the two experiments and hybrids with the lines L1 it was the one that it presented larger values for CEC with the test populations for most of the evaluated characteristics in the two accomplished experiments, while the hybrids of lines L5 showed the smallest values. It is ended that there is a high potential of extracting lines of Yoshinari for crossings with lines of Hokuho, in order to obtain hybrid as good as Hokuho, with the advantage of being adapted to national conditions.

Maxixe (Cucumis anguria L.), also known as Burr gherkin and West Indian gherkin, was brought to Brazil from Africa during the slave trade. This crop was grown extensively in New England in the 18th and 19th centuries. There has been a tremendous increase of immigrants to the United States in recent years, and this has provided an opportunity for farmers to produce crops desired by these new and expanding markets. In order to benefit local farmers, two field experiments were implemented in 2009 and 2010 to address the effect of plant population, the use of a trellis and evaluate different seed sources of maxixe to assist producers interested in growing this crop in the Northeastern United States. The Trellis/Spacing trial was set up as a randomized–complete-block-split-plot design with five replications of ‘Trellis’ versus ‘No Trellis’ and within each trellis treatment there were five spacing between plants in the row: 15, 30, 45, 60, and 75 cm. The Seed Source trial was set up as a randomized complete block design with five replications and five sources of maxixe from five different seed companies: ‘Isla’, ‘Feltrin’, ‘Topseed’, ‘HF’, ‘Seed Savers Exchange’, and ‘Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds’. The five seed sources of maxixe are commercially viable for production in Massachusetts. The best plant spacing for marketable yield and marketable number of fruits was ‘15 cm’ in 2009; however, in 2010, the plant spacing that had the best marketable yield and the greater marketable number of fruits was ‘60 cm’ and ‘30 cm’, respectively. The use of trellis support indicated that the net returns on the ‘Trellis’ are higher than ‘No trellis’. However it is critical to understand the market preferences, such as size of the fruits and spines. This work speaks to the opportunities to supply the Brazilian markets and introduce this crop to non-Brazilian markets.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Oregon State University, 2007. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the World Wide Web.

Automated acceptance testing is the testing of software done in higher level to test whether the system abides by the requirements desired by the business clients by the use of piece of script other than the software itself. This project is a study of the feasibility of acceptance tests written in Behavior Driven Development principle. The project includes an implementation part where automated accep- tance testing is written for Touch-point web application developed by Dewire (a software consultant company) for Telia (a telecom company) from the require- ments received from the customer (Telia). The automated acceptance testing is in Cucumber-Selenium framework which enforces Behavior Driven Development principles. The purpose of the implementation is to verify the practicability of this style of acceptance testing. From the completion of implementation, it was concluded that all the requirements from customer in real world can be converted into executable specifications and the process was not at all time-consuming or difficult for a low-experienced programmer like the author itself. The project also includes survey to measure the learnability and understandability of Gherkin- the language that Cucumber understands. The survey consist of some Gherkin exam- ples followed with questions that include making changes to the Gherkin exam- ples. Survey had 3 parts: first being easy, second medium and third most difficult. Survey also had a linear scale from 1 to 5 to rate the difficulty level for each part of the survey. 1 stood for very easy and 5 for very difficult. Time when the partic- ipants began the survey was also taken in order to calculate the total time taken by the participants to learn and answer the questions. Survey was taken by 18 of the employers of Dewire who had primary working role as one of the programmer, tester and project manager. In the result, tester and project manager were grouped as non-programmer. The survey concluded that it is very easy and quick to learn Gherkin. While the participants rated Gherkin as very easy.

The spotted cucumber beetle (Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi Barber) is regarded as a pest of sweetpotatoes in Mississippi; however, its feeding on sweetpotatoes has not previously been documented. They are attracted to cucurbit crops that could be utilized as a trap crop or sentinel plant for management of cucumber beetles in sweetpotatoes. Studies were conducted between 2006 and 2008 to determine if cucurbit plants have the potential to serve as a trap crop or as sentinel plants for the spotted cucumber beetle in sweetpotato fields, and to determine the status of the spotted cucumber beetle as a sweetpotato pest in Mississippi. Cucurbit plants showed some potential to serve as a trap crop or sentinel plant for the spotted cucumber beetle, however, sweetpotato damage assumed to be caused by cucumber beetle larvae did not correlate with the number of adults captured. Spotted cucumber beetle larvae can feed and survive on sweetpotato roots.

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