A novel 'skinny pot-belly' disease in Asian seabass fry, Lates calcarifer (Bloch)     

Gibson-Kueh S  Crumlish M  Ferguson HW 《Journal of fish diseases》2004,27(12):731-735

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Necrotic myositis in cage cultured rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum), caused by Flexibacter psychrophilus     

J S Lumsden  V E Ostland  H W Ferguson 《Journal of fish diseases》1996,19(2):113-119

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Neoplasia in the Indian oil sardine, Sardinella longiceps (Valenciennes), and the great barracuda, Sphyraena barracuda (Edwards), from the south-east coast of India     

Gopalakrishnan A  Maran BA  Puvanendran V  Rajkumar M  Balasubramanian T  Ferguson HW 《Journal of fish diseases》2011,34(11):881-885

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THE TERM "INVERSION"     

Ferguson JB 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》1919,50(1302):544-546

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Genetic variation in bitter pit and fruit calcium concentrations within a diverse apple germplasm collection     

Richard K. Volz  Peter A. Alspach  David J. Fletcher  Ian B. Ferguson 《Euphytica》2006,149(1-2):1-10

Summary Genetic variability in the apple [Malus] fruit disorder bitter pit and fruit calcium concentrations ([Ca]) was determined in 25 seedling families at each of two sites from 1999 to 2000 and again for one site, in 2001. Most trees were free of pit or had low pit incidence, which could be approximated by an over-dispersed binomial distribution. A genetic component to external and internal pit incidence was found across both sites and all years. This effect was irrespective of the use of several cropping factors, average fruit weight or fruit mineral concentrations as covariates in the analyses. Year and/or site always had substantial effects on pit incidence. Interactions of genetic effects with site or year were also detected with large differences in mean pit incidence between sites or years for some families but not others. No relationship was found between mean family pit incidence and mean family [Ca] or mean family harvest date. However fruit [Ca] and harvest date were usually important predictors of within-family variation in pit incidence. For any one seedling, family had the largest effect on bitter pit incidence followed by site and [Ca] and the smallest effect was that of harvest date. [Ca] showed a strong genetic component and estimated family means of [Ca] were consistent at different sites and years. These results suggest that susceptibility of apple genotypes to bitter pit in breeding programmes may be best assessed through screening across multiple sites and seasons. Fruit [Ca] might be useful as an indirect selection index for bitter pit within, but not among families.  相似文献   

Behavioral responses of rats exposed to long-term dietary vinclozolin     

Flynn KM  Delclos KB  Newbold RR  Ferguson SA 《Journal of agricultural and food chemistry》2001,49(3):1658-1665

Vinclozolin is a fungicide used on food crops with human exposure estimated at approximately 2 microg/kg/day from ingestion; occupational exposure, however, may be greater. The metabolites of vinclozolin have been reported to act as antiandrogens and have adverse effects on reproductive physiology and behavior in animals. Here, pregnant rats were fed soy-free diets containing 0, 10, 150, or 750 ppm of vinclozolin (approximately 0, 0.8, 12, and 60 mg/kg/day for an adult) beginning on gestational day 7, and offspring were continued on these diets through sacrifice at postnatal day 77. Male and female offspring were assessed for changes in several nonreproductive sexually dimorphic behaviors: open field and running wheel locomotor activity, play behavior, and consumption of saccharin- and sodium chloride-flavored solutions. There was a significant interaction of sex with vinclozolin exposure on running wheel activity, which indicated that females in the high-dose exposure group were hypoactive compared to same-sex controls. There was a significant overall effect of vinclozolin exposure on fluid consumption, and high-dose animals showed increased intake of the saccharin solution and decreased intake of plain water while saccharin was available. Effects were more pronounced in females, which drank 40.8% more saccharin than control females, whereas males drank 6.2% more than control males. There were no effects of vinclozolin treatment on play behavior or sodium solution intake. Gestational duration, total and live pups per litter, litter sex ratios, and birth weight were also not significantly affected, nor were body weight and food intake for dams and offspring. These results indicate that long-term dietary exposure to vinclozolin does not have severe toxicological consequences on the nonreproductive behaviors measured here. However, exposure may cause subtle alterations in locomotor activity and consumption of saccharin-flavored solution.  相似文献   

Where systems biology meets postharvest     

Maarten L.A.T.M. Hertog  David R. RudellRomina Pedreschi  Robert J. SchafferAnnemie H. Geeraerd  Bart M. Nicolaï  Ian Ferguson 《Postharvest Biology and Technology》2011,62(3):223-237

According to the dictionary, a system is something like “a group or combination of interrelated, interdependent, or interacting elements forming a collective entity”. In postharvest, fresh harvested food crops can be considered isolated small scale systems. Postharvest research aims to understand the quality of these ‘systems’ as influenced by postharvest conditions. The phenotypic quality of horticultural produce is based on genetic traits that are expressed through a cascade of reactions subject to complex regulatory mechanisms and diverse environmental conditions. Ultimately, to fully understand postharvest phenomena, a systemic approach that links genetic and environmental responses and identifies the underlying biological networks is required. Thanks to the development of high throughput omics techniques such system-wide approaches have become a viable option to support traditional postharvest research. This review provides an overview of systems biology and how it can lead postharvest research into a new era.  相似文献   

Educational Resources for Precision Agriculture     

Ferguson  Richard B. 《Precision Agriculture》2002,3(4):359-371

As site-specific management evolved into precision agriculture and began to be adopted by producers in the late 1980s and early 1990s, information about precision agriculture emerged in a variety of forms. Much of the information was initially available only in industry guides and popular press articles, such as Successful Farming and Farm Journal. Today, a variety of educational resources for both producers and advisors on precision agriculture has emerged, including books, proceedings of conferences, Extension bulletins, newsletters, industry guides, and multimedia modules. Recently, the Internet has had a significant influence on the production and dissemination of information on precision agriculture. The Internet has been a particularly valuable mode of information exchange due to the rapid evolution of technology and practices associated with precision agriculture, and because many of the early adopters of precision agriculture technologies were also early adopters of electronic communication technologies.  相似文献   

Stratospheric ion chemistry and the 11-year variation in polar ozone     

Fehsenfeld FC  Ferguson EE  Streit GE  Albritton DL 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》1976,194(4264):544-545

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Self-Assembled Smectic Phases in Rod-Coil Block Copolymers   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

JT Chen  EL Thomas  CK Ober  G Mao 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》1996,273(5273):343-346

Rod-coil block copolymers are self-assembling polymers that combine the physics of orientational ordering of rodlike polymers and the microphase separation of coil-coil block copolymers. Several new solid-state morphologies were observed in a series of anionically synthesized model poly(hexyl isocyanate-b-styrene) rod-coil diblock copolymers examined by transmission electron microscopy and selected-area electron diffraction. The rod-coils formed smectic C-like and O-like morphologies with domain sizes ranging from tens of nanometers to almost 1 micrometer. Both structural and orientational changes were found for increasing rod volume fractions. In addition, some morphologies exhibited spontaneous long-range orientational order over many tens of micrometers.  相似文献