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Mechanism Of Decarboxylation Of Glycine And Glycolate By Isolated Soybean Cells, David J. Oliver

David J. Oliver

Isolated soybean leaf mesophyll cells decarboxylated exogenously added [1-14C]glycolate and [1-14C]glycine in the dark. The rate of CO2 release from glycine was inhibited over 90% by isonicotinic acid hydrazide and about 80% by KCN, two inhibitors of the glycine to serine plus CO2 reaction. The release of CO2 from glycolate was inhibited by less than 50% under the same conditions. This indicates that about 50% of the CO2 released from glycolate occurred at a site other than the glycine to serine reaction. The sensitivity of this alternative site of CO2 release to an inhibitor of glycolate oxidase (methyl-2-hydroxy-3-butynoate) but not …

Vesicular-Arbuscular Mycorrhiza Influence Growth But Not Mineral Concentrations In Seedlings Of Eight Sweetgum Families, Richard C. Schultz, Paul P. Kormanik, W. Craig Bryan, G. H. Brister

Richard C. Schultz

Seedlings of eight half-sib sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua L.) families were grown for 6 months in a fumigated soil mixture, with or without inoculum from a mixture of Glomus mosseae and Glomus etunicatus fungi, at levels of 140, 280, 560, and 1120 kg/ha of 10-10-10 fertilizer. All seedlings received three additions of 187 kg/ha of N during the growing season. Inoculated seedlings had significantly greater biomass, height, and stem diameters at each fertilizer level than nonmycorrhizal control seedlings. Significant differences in growth occurred between families in mycorrhizal plants. However, fertilizer did not significantly affect growth or nutrient uptake of the seedlings. …

Adaptive Nonlinear Image Restoration By A Modified Kalman Filtering Approach, Sarah A. Rajala

Sarah A. Rajala

An adaptive nonlinear Kalman-type filter is presented in this dissertation for the restoration of two-dimensional images degraded by general image formation system degradations and additive white noise. A vector difference evaluation model is used to model the degradation process. The object plane distribution function is partitioned into disjoint regions based on the amount of spatial activity in the image, and difference evaluation models are used to characterize the object plane distribution function.

It is shown that each of the regions can be uniquely characterized by their second order statistics. The autocorrelation function for each region is then used to determine …

Removal Of Raw Peanut Flavor And Odor In Peanut Flour Processed By Direct Solvent Extraction1, Lawrence A. Johnson, J. T. Farnsworth, R. J. Garland, E. W. Lusas

Lawrence A. Johnson

Peanut slices can be directly extracted with hexane yielding more soluble protein and better color than pre-press solvent extraction; however, flavor and odor are characterized as raw and “green beany”. The utilization of secondary extraction with hexane: ethanol azeotrope, hexane: methanol azeotrope and absolute ethanol subsequent to hexane extraction significantly improved flavor and odor characteristics of peanut flour. Hexane: propanol azeotrope did not significantly improve sensory evaluations. Hexane: ethanol azeotrope did not reduce soluble protein, yielding an NSI value of 95%. Hexane: methanol azeotrope and absolute ethanol slightly reduced NSI to 88% and 92% respectively. Color of peanut flour was …

Excited States And Photochemistry Of Saturated Molecules. Vii. Potential Energy Surfaces In Excited Singlet States Of Methane, Mark S. Gordon, James W. Caldwell

Mark S. Gordon

Potential energy surfaces are investigated for a number of low‐lying excited singlet states of methane, using a split valence plus Rydberg basis set and singly excited CI. Of the six minima found, the lowest two are valence states. The lowest minimum corresponds to the products 1 1 B 1 CH2+1 1Σ g + H2, in agreement with the observed threshold photochemistry, and is accessible by five separate routes from the lowest vertical state. The second valence minimum is a square planar structure. Of the four Rydberg minima detected, one is a local minimum on the otherwise dissociative B 1surface and …

Generation Of Horizontally Polarized Shear Waves In Ferromagnetic Materials Using Magnetostrictively Coupled Meander‐Coil Electromagnetic Transducers, R. Bruce Thompson

R. Bruce Thompson

A new electromagnetic transducer configuration is described for generating horizontally polarized shear (SH) waves in ferromagnetic materials. The transducer consists of a meander coil and static bias magnetic field parallel to the coil elements. This configuration generates no ultrasonic waves in a nonmagnetic metal since the induced eddy currents are parallel to the bias field and the driving Lorentz forces vanish. However, the configuration provides coupling to SH waves in ferromagnetic materials through magnetostrictive effects. Experimental measurements of the variation of transduction efficiency with bias field in nickel and 4130 steel plate are presented and compared to the efficiency obtained …

An Elastic‐Wave Ellipsometer For Measurement Of Material Property Variations, R. Bruce Thompson

R. Bruce Thompson

Electromagnetic‐acoustic transducers (EMAT’s) can excite and detect elastic shear waves with electronically controlled elliptical polarizations. These can be used to construct an ellipsometer for precise measurement of mechanical properties of solids, in analogy to devices presently used in optical studies. The elastic‐wave case differs from the optical case in two important ways. Longitudinal as well as transverse waves will, in general, exist, and the propagation medium, as well as the surfaces, play an important role in determining the system response. A device is described which is designed to avoid the former mode conversion effects on thin plates. The results of …