The strawberry, and its culture: with a descriptive catalogue of all known varieties

Abstract

Nicaise, Admiral Dundas, &c., the ground can hardly be made too deep or too rich. The latter varieties will fail utterly where the Wilson or the Agriculturist would do tolerably well. The President Wilder exhibits in many respects its relationship to La Constante, and, like that fine berry, it is fond of good feeding. While many kinds of strawberries will do well, although poorly fed, there is hardly one that will not do better on well-manured land ; and in general, we may say, as in the case of other crops, the more manure the more strawberries. The Germans are fond of saying of their vineyards, " Well dug is half manured ; " but deep cultivation and fine working the land for strawberries, although of exceeding value, will not take the place of manure. It is hard to name the fertilizer that cannot be used to advantage, either in preparing the soil for a strawberry plantation, or as a top-dressing for it. Stable manure, compost, unleached ashes, superphosphate of lime, guano, fish manure, and hen dung, may each and all be used with profit. Market gardeners, who can command an abundance of stable manure, generally give that the preference, using Peruvian guano, however, as a tonic, or special means for bringing up to the mark any part of a field that seems to be behind the rest in vigor or health. Lime alone is considered by some injurious, but superphosphate of lime is certainly beneficial. Guano alone, scattered broadcast half a dozen times through the summer, before a rain in each case if possible, using in all eight hundred or a thousand pounds to the acre, produces wonderful results, and may take the place of all other manures. I have used it in this way with excellent results. Guano composted in the fall, with say fifty times its bulk of peat earth, and allowed to remain through the winter in a pile, well covered with a few inches of soil, makes, in the opinion of many, the best possible of all composts.

ctsR of Lactococcus lactis encodes a negative regulator of clp gene expression The GenBank accession numbers for the nucleotide sequences of ctsR and ORF555 and their flanking regions are AJ249133 and AJ249134, respectively.

“…Sequence analysis of the DNA region downstream of clpC revealed a start codon of a 555 bp ORF (ORF555) located 139 bp downstream of clpC. ORF555 is preceded by a putative RBS and could encode a 21 kDa protein with 45 % identity to the gene product of B. subtilis yvyD (Drzewiecki et al, 1998) and 30-37 % identity to σ&% modulating factors of various Gramnegative bacteria (Merrick & Coppard, 1989). A putative Rho-independent transcription terminator is located 5 nucleotides downstream of the ORF555 stop codon.…”

Pyrolysis of bacterial polyalkanoates

“…This chiral polymer occurs as spherical hydrophobic granules in the cells of a wide variety of bacteria (5) and is easily harvested by a simple cell rupture (6,7). The solid state structure of this polymer has been studied intensively (8)(9)(10)(11).…”

Purification and Properties of d(−)‐3‐Hydroxybutyrate‐Dimer Hydrolase from Zoogloea ramigera I‐16‐M

“…However, owing to the extreme complexity of the initial stage of degradation, the enzymatic mechanism of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) digestion in bacterial cells has not been fully clarified yet demonstrated that poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) granules isolated from Bacillus megaterium KM, which did not undergo self-digestion, were hydrolyzed by a depolymerizing enzyme system present in the soluble fraction of poly( 3-hydroxybutyrate)depleted Rhodospirillum rubrum cells, yielding D( -)-3-hydroxybutyrate as a main product and its dimeric ester (DD-dimer) as a minor product [4]. The latter product was further hydrolyzed to the monomer by a hydrolase (hydroxybutyrate-dimer hydrolase) partially purified from R. rubrum.…”