A new cultivar of Dianthus plant named `FLORIAMETRINE` is characterized inter alia by altered inflorescence with respect to tissue and/or organelles including flowers or flower parts. This trait sets `FLORIAMETRINE` apart from all other existing varieties, lines, strains or sports of Dianthus. In particular, Dianthus `FLORIAMETRINE` has bright purple/violet flowers.

This invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of strawberry plant named `DrisStrawFive`. A new cultivar primarily characterized by its small, sweet tasting fruit, moderate resistance to high pH and high soil salt levels, is disclosed.

A new variety of mandarin (Citrus L.) designated `African Sunset` is described. The fruit matures earlier than comparable varieties. In addition, the fruit includes a more pebbled rind, a lower acid content, and is almost seedless.

The present invention relates to an interspecific tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a medium size, moderately vigorous, hardy, and medium productive tree. Being self-unfruitful, the present variety requires cross pollination from an apricot, interspecific, or plum that blooms during the mid season. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described during early July, with first picking on Jul. 7, 2007. The fruit is uniformly medium in size...

A new and distinctive variety of the kiwi plant, Actinidia deliciosa, named `Tsechelidis` is described. The new variety is characterized by very large oblong fruit covered with downy hairs, and very broad ovate leaves having acuminate apexes, among other features. The size and uniformity of the fruit provide significantly higher yield than other known varieties of kiwi.

The present invention relates to a method for the production of tips, the order of magnitude of which lies in the micro- and/or nanometer range, comprising contacting a precursor material with a matrix and then energetically activating over a large area, wherein the precursor material contains an element other than carbon from the second to fifth main groups, the sixth main group with an atomic number Z.gtoreq.16 or a sub-group of the periodic table of the elements and organic groups which are c...

The present invention relates to treatments for atom probe components. For example, certain aspects are directed toward processes for treating an atom probe component that includes removing material from a surface of the atom probe component (e.g., using an ion beam, a plasma, a chemical etching process, and/or photonic energy). Another aspect of the invention is directed toward a method for treating an atom probe specimen that includes using a computing device to automatically control a voltage...

A measuring device with a daisy type cantilever wheel enabling easier setting of a measuring head and modification head by rotating the daisy type cantilever wheel, enabling modification, adhesion of a sample, and application of a force to a sample specimen by using centrifugal force, and also enabling an easier measurement of a variation of characteristic vibration frequency and vibration amplitude of a cantilever array is provided. The measuring device with a daisy type cantilever wheel compri...

The present invention relates to sunflower seeds which have been genetically modified through two artificial induction cycles of mutations followed in each case by processes for the identification of mutant individuals which have the desired character. The disclosed seeds are characterised in that they contain between 26% and 80% of the tocopherols as delta-tocopherol. This high delta-tocopherol production is determined by the genotype of the seeds which have been modified to this effect, and is...

This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding an enzyme involved in lipid biosynthesis. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the enzyme involved in lipid biosynthesis, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of the enzyme involved in lipid biosynthesis in a transformed host cell.