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ISBN: 9780199695751 019969575X Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,
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"This is the story of saltpeter, the vital but mysterious substance craved by governments from the Tudors to the Victorians as an 'inestimable treasure.' National security depended on control of this organic material - that had both mystical and mineral properties. Derived from soil enriched with dung and urine, it provided the heart or 'mother' of gunpowder, without which no musket or cannon could be fired. Its acquisition involved alchemical knowledge, exotic technology, intrusions into people's lives, and eventual dominance of the world's oceans. The quest for saltpeter caused widespread 'vexation' in Tudor and Stuart England, as crown agents dug in homes and barns and even churches. Governments hungry for it purchased supplies from overseas merchants, transferred skills from foreign experts, and extended patronage to ingenious schemers, while the hated 'saltpetermen' intruded on private ground. Eventually, huge saltpeter imports from India relieved this social pressure, and by the eighteenth century positioned Britain as a global imperial power; the governments of revolutionary America and ancien regime France, on the other hand, were forced to find alternative sources of this treasured substance. In the end, it was only with the development of chemical explosives in the late Victorian period that dependency on saltpeter finally declined."--Publisher's description.
Saltpeter --- Gunpowder --- Gunpowder industry --- Salpêtre --- Poudre à canon --- History. --- Industrie --- Histoire --- Explosives industry --- Niter --- Nitrate of potash --- Nitre --- Potassium nitrate --- Nitrate minerals --- Nitrates --- Potassium salts --- History
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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Satisfying the increasing number of consumer demands for high-quality seeds with enhanced performance is one of the most imperative challenges of modern agriculture. In this view, it is essential to remember that the seed quality of crops does not improve.
Research & information: general --- Biology, life sciences --- Technology, engineering, agriculture --- fluorescent tracer --- systemic uptake --- soybean --- in vivo imaging system (IVIS) --- containerized transplants --- humic acids --- relative growth rate (RGR) --- specific root length (SRL) --- heat and drought stresses --- heatmaps --- Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp --- seed health --- spectroscopy --- Solanum lycopersicum L. --- crop establishment --- potassium nitrate --- seed quality --- field emergence --- low phytic acid --- seed treatment --- seed enhancement --- seed dressing --- seed coating --- film coat --- pellet --- organic agriculture --- baby leaf hemp --- cultivar selection --- sowing density --- seed-size distribution --- corn --- seed acquisition of desiccation tolerance --- oil-bodies migration --- physiological maturity --- tissue lipophilicity --- coumarin --- piperonyl amides --- Brassica oleracea --- blindness --- multispectral --- chlorophyll content --- seed respiration --- seed vigor --- spinach --- Zn priming --- multispectral imaging --- Zn localization --- abiotic stress --- fruit morphology --- near-infrared --- pericarp --- testa --- seed coat --- seed testing --- image analysis --- chemometrics --- n/a
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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Satisfying the increasing number of consumer demands for high-quality seeds with enhanced performance is one of the most imperative challenges of modern agriculture. In this view, it is essential to remember that the seed quality of crops does not improve.
fluorescent tracer --- systemic uptake --- soybean --- in vivo imaging system (IVIS) --- containerized transplants --- humic acids --- relative growth rate (RGR) --- specific root length (SRL) --- heat and drought stresses --- heatmaps --- Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp --- seed health --- spectroscopy --- Solanum lycopersicum L. --- crop establishment --- potassium nitrate --- seed quality --- field emergence --- low phytic acid --- seed treatment --- seed enhancement --- seed dressing --- seed coating --- film coat --- pellet --- organic agriculture --- baby leaf hemp --- cultivar selection --- sowing density --- seed-size distribution --- corn --- seed acquisition of desiccation tolerance --- oil-bodies migration --- physiological maturity --- tissue lipophilicity --- coumarin --- piperonyl amides --- Brassica oleracea --- blindness --- multispectral --- chlorophyll content --- seed respiration --- seed vigor --- spinach --- Zn priming --- multispectral imaging --- Zn localization --- abiotic stress --- fruit morphology --- near-infrared --- pericarp --- testa --- seed coat --- seed testing --- image analysis --- chemometrics --- n/a
Book
Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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Satisfying the increasing number of consumer demands for high-quality seeds with enhanced performance is one of the most imperative challenges of modern agriculture. In this view, it is essential to remember that the seed quality of crops does not improve.
Research & information: general --- Biology, life sciences --- Technology, engineering, agriculture --- fluorescent tracer --- systemic uptake --- soybean --- in vivo imaging system (IVIS) --- containerized transplants --- humic acids --- relative growth rate (RGR) --- specific root length (SRL) --- heat and drought stresses --- heatmaps --- Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp --- seed health --- spectroscopy --- Solanum lycopersicum L. --- crop establishment --- potassium nitrate --- seed quality --- field emergence --- low phytic acid --- seed treatment --- seed enhancement --- seed dressing --- seed coating --- film coat --- pellet --- organic agriculture --- baby leaf hemp --- cultivar selection --- sowing density --- seed-size distribution --- corn --- seed acquisition of desiccation tolerance --- oil-bodies migration --- physiological maturity --- tissue lipophilicity --- coumarin --- piperonyl amides --- Brassica oleracea --- blindness --- multispectral --- chlorophyll content --- seed respiration --- seed vigor --- spinach --- Zn priming --- multispectral imaging --- Zn localization --- abiotic stress --- fruit morphology --- near-infrared --- pericarp --- testa --- seed coat --- seed testing --- image analysis --- chemometrics
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