By addressing the sub-research questions, the main research question and data mining goal were answered. Drought tolerance can be quantified using yield loss between control and drought treatments and robustly assessed by ranking varieties within each year. Varieties that consistently rank high or low …

Drought, caused by climate change, poses a significant threat to the production of barley. To ensure high yields, drought adaptation in barley is critical. Roots are primarily responsible for water uptake, and during drought, when water levels are low, deep rooting traits are crucial for developing drought-tolerant …

Klimaatverandering verergert de problemen die een plant ervaart door biotische stress, zoals hitte, droogte en hoog water. Planten ervaren de grootste negatieve effecten door droogte, vooral op de hoge zandgronden in Zuid-Nederland waar watertekort een structureel probleem is. Door het verondiepen van …

Climate change can be described as both a natural and an artificial process that affects all life on earth. One of its consequences is the rising of sea levels which can cause problems in coastal areas, such as increasing the pressure of saline groundwater. Due to this increased pressure, this saline …

It is estimated that over 30,000 lesions in the DNA are generated per cell per day. In S-phase, lesions in the DNA can stall replication, which can lead to secondary lesions such as DNA double- strand breaks. The DNA damage tolerance (DDT) network enables replication to be continued in the presence of …

Many people on Earth are hungry or do not have a reliable source of drinking water. Drought-tolerantcrops do not need much water to grow and therefor usable in regions where water is an issue. Cropbreeders are working on crops that are more drought-tolerant and grow faster. Corp …

Sunflower is a one of the cash crops in Tanzania. It’s agronomic advantages are tolerant to drought, low disease vulnerability and easy to cultivate compared other oil crops. High demand for sunflower cooking oil makes for huge potential in subsector economic growth and poverty reduction. However, the …

Dit afstudeeronderzoek is uitgevoerd in opdracht van Young Society om wetenschappelijke onderbouwing voor hun workshop Flikker op! te geven en mogelijke aanpassingen te doen. Er is onderzoek gedaan naar de sociodemografische factoren die invloed hebben op de tolerantie tegenover seksueel anders geaarden …

Friese laagveengebieden worden aangetast door het intensief waterbeheer. Dit waterbeheer houdt in dat water in de winter wordt afgevoerd om overstromingen af te wenden en in de zomer aangevoerd moet worden om verdroging te voorkomen. De ontwatering van de veengrond heeft tot gevolg dat zuurstof de bodem …

TU Delft has started working on its third satellite mission called DelFFi, which is planned for a launch in 2015. In this graduation project spanning 17 weeks, a faulttolerant storage system consisting of three SD cards was designed, implemented and tested for DelFFi that utilizes triple-modular redundancy …