Development and validation of PCR marker array for molecular selection towards spring, vernalization-independent and winter, vernalization-responsive ecotypes of white lupin (Lupinus albus L.)

Abstract White lupin (Lupinus albus L.) is an ancient grain legume that is still undergoing improvement of domestication traits, including vernalization-responsiveness, South Carolina providing frost tolerance and preventing winter flowering in autumn-sowing agriculture, and vernalization-independence, conferring drought escape by rapid flowering i

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My money or your life: the Habsburg hunt for Uluc Ali

This article deals with Habsburg efforts to eliminate the ottoman DIURETIC naval threat by employing clandestine measures and undertaking covert operations.Realizing the danger that the ottoman fl and corsairs created for their defenses, the Habsburg secret service dispatched a number of go-betweens in order to remind Uluc Ali of his Christian past

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