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From: james@apldbio.com (James Candlin)
Newsgroups: bionet.jobs
Subject: Macintosh(TM) software developer at Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA
Date: 4 Jan 93 21:59:50 GMT
Reply-To: james@apldbio.com
Distribution: na
Organization: Applied Biosystems, Inc.


Applied Biosystems, a leading supplier of systems for biotechnology research, is 
looking for a MacApp(TM) Software developer to join its Data Products group.  If your
interests and skills conform to the profile below, and you are available for
interview in the San Francisco Bay area, you may e-mail your resume to me at
james@apldbio.com.


Responsibilities:

- To design and develop new versions of Factura(TM), an application for the 
preliminary analysis of DNA sequence data from ABI sequencer instruments.
- To contribute to the integration of ABI's instruments and data products, in
which Factura will play a central role.


Essential Requirements:
- 2 or more years of experience in developing MacApp based products
- 3 or 4 years of C and C++ commercial product development
- Self direction
- CS degree


Strongly Preferred:

- Understanding of MacOS operation and debugging
- Background in biology or scientific applications, or in other data-intensive
  areas
- Experience with network programming, distributed computing, data structures,
  algorithm development or database design
Newsgroups: bionet.jobs
Subject: NIH jobs bulletin board 
From: rdoelz@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Reinhard Doelz [remote])
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 09:47:41 GMT
Reply-To: doelz@urz.unibas.ch
Organization: EMBnet Switzerland [BASEL]   

Sorry if this is a FAQ, but is it possible to access the NIH bulletin board 
via Internet or any other non-dial in path? 

Thanks. 
Regards 
Reinhard
From: kristoff@NET.BIO.NET (David Kristofferson)
Newsgroups: bionet.jobs
Subject: EMPLOYMENT/bionet.jobs posting regulations
Date: 9 Jan 93 02:05:34 GMT
Distribution: bionet


In order to prevent misunderstandings regarding the purpose of this
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Newsgroups: bionet.jobs
From: vvl2h@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Victor V. Levenson)
Subject: Headhunter Info Needed (BioMed Research)
Organization: University of Virginia
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:41:45 GMT

Dear Netters;

I am looking for a job in biomed research, preferrably in 
industrial settings. While ads in Nature, Science, etc. provide some 
info about current openings, I would like to contact "headhunters".
I have no preferences as to the region, so any info will be 
appreciated.

If you have any  relevant information please contact me via e-mail.

Thanks in advance,

Victor Levenson

VVL2H@VIRGINIA.EDU
From: eagreene@pathos (Elizabeth Ann Greene)
Newsgroups: bionet.jobs
Subject: postdoc position in plant molecular biology
Date: 4 Jan 1993 23:12:50 GMT
Organization: U.C. College of Natural Resources
NNTP-Posting-Host: pathos.berkeley.edu


I'm posting this job announcement for Vitaly Citovsky.  Please respond
to it via U.S. mail.  Do not use my e-mail address.
Thank you,  Liz Greene

-----------------------------------------------------------
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT STONY BROOK
DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY

Postdoctoral position in Plant Molecular Biology available starting Fall
1993. Specific areas of research include:

(i) nuclear targeting and transport of proteins and nucleic acids in
plant cells,
(ii) mechanisms of cell-to-cell movement of plant viruses, and
(iii) molecular biology and biochemistry of plant intercellular
connections, the plasmodesmata.

Please send curriculum vitae and names and addresses of three references
to Dr. Vitaly Citovsky, Department of Plant Biology, University of
California, Berkeley, CA 94720 (before August 1993) 
or Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, State University of New 
York, Stony Brook, NY 11794 (starting August 1993).
From: BRIAN@BIO.TAMU.EDU
Newsgroups: bionet.plants
Subject: Abnormal tomato growth
Date: 9 Jan 93 20:18:21 GMT
Distribution: bionet
Organization: Texas A&M University - Biology Dept

In the course of our work with transgenic tomatoes, we occasionally
see callusing of the leaf veins, resulting in deformed leaves and
subsequent necrosis.  This occurs both in sterile tissue culture and
in the greenhouse.   It's difficult to identify exactly what triggers
the effect, since some plants are affected and adjacent plants are
not.  I would like to hear from anyone who has seen this before,
especially if they know how to prevent it.



Brian H. Taylor                         *   Ad hoc loc and
Dept. of Biology, Texas A&M University  *   quid pro quo,
College Station, TX  77843-3258         *   so little time,
                                        *   so much to know!
Phone:  (409) 845-7754                  *
FAX:    (409) 845-2891                  *   Jeremy Hilary Boob
                                        *   (The Nowhere Man)
From: macgowan@unixg.ubc.ca (Chris Macgowan)
Newsgroups: bionet.plants
Subject: chemical composition of wood
Date: 11 Jan 1993 00:05:52 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca


I'm doing research in radiation dosimetry, and we use wood to simulate
lung tissue. To accurately simulate the radiation dose using Monte
Carlo, I need the chemical composition of wood (balsa, cedar namely).
I assumed this would be easily available knowledge but I haven't been
able to find it. If you know the answer or where I can find it please
let me know. Thanks in advance.

					Chris Macgowan
From: ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk (Tony Travis)
Newsgroups: bionet.plants
Subject: Re: What new innovation, software or products do you want to see?
Date: 5 Jan 93 10:53:35 GMT
Reply-To: ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk
Followup-To: bionet.general
Distribution: bionet
Organization: Rowett Research Institute
Original-To: plantbio@uk.ac.daresbury

In article <9314231302.MIN-LFDAa15633.bionet-news@uk.ac.daresbury> you wrote:
: ---
: 
: What type of new innovation, software or products do you want to be
: introduced to the market place.  No answer is stupid.  The things
: that might be unachievable to you, might be very easy to produce
: by others.  You could become part of history by initiating the process of
: innovation.

Please send your comments about this to Babak directly, or set the
Followup to bionet.general.  I doubt if he will read this group anyway.

: [...]
: P.S.  This message is being automatically posted to all unix wide bbs'. 
: This post does not mean that I approve or disapprove this newsgroup.  Also,
: the moderator of the moderated newsgroups, such as rec.humor.funny, should 
: decide if they want this posting in their newsgroup.

If everyone who is irritated by this article would mail the sender a
long but polite message pointing out how inappropriate it is to cross
post on such a grand scale he might think twice before doing it again.

	Tony.
--
Dr. A.J.Travis,                       |  Tony Travis
Rowett Research Institute,            |  JANET: <ajt@uk.ac.sari.rri>
Greenburn Road, Bucksburn,            |  other: <ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk>
Aberdeen, AB2 9SB. UK.                |  phone: 0224-712751
From: UGG00180@VM.UOGUELPH.CA (Sandy)
Newsgroups: bionet.plants
Subject: tyrosine ammonia lyase
Date: 12 Jan 93 15:54:15 GMT
Distribution: bionet

I am quickly becoming a desperate PhD student, hoping to graduate before
the end of the century. If anyone out there is sympathetic to my cause and
has either antibodies or clones for tyrosine ammonia lyase (I am working with
wheat although I am willing to test any system) I would be forever indebted
to you for helping me. Any information on obtaining antibodies or clones
or even some sequence data for making PCR primers would be helpful at this time
. I am studying phenylpropanoid metabolism in virus infected wheat.  If you
have any information or require more details please contact me at:
Sandy Kofalvi              e-mail: ugg00180@vm.uoguelph.ca
Dept. of Botany            fax:    (519)-767-1991
U. of Guelph
Guelph, ON
Canada
Newsgroups: bionet.plants
Subject: Aeroponics
From: mffowler@zeus.calpoly.edu (Michael Francis Fowler)
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 18:58:13 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Someone asked what aeroponics was.  Well, it's the method, developed in
Israel, that suspends the root system in an enclosed casing ( or
whatever) and mists the roots.  Larger plants with smaller root systems
have been achieved by this method.  I grow tomatoes this way and have
been successful in growth of 3 inches per day and by doing this I have
sped up the growth time a couple of weeks.  But, this technique is even
less forgiving than hydroponics.  Any other comments anyone?  Please
add.
					mffowler@nike.calpoly.edu

Newsgroups: bionet.plants
From: pf@bilbo.bio.purdue.edu (Paul Furbacher)
Subject: Re: Botanical software
Followup-To: bionet.plants
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 06:31:07 GMT

In article <01GT4Q1VZF4G8X2ALE@PEARL.TUFTS.EDU>, 
  GELLMORE@PEARL.TUFTS.EDU (BIOHEAD) wrote:
> 
> Botanical software of possible use?
> 
> Just yesterday I was browsing through the electronic section of a dept.
> store, and noticed hand-held (calculator-sized) language translators,
> dictionaries, baseball fact compendia, etc. It would be fun to have
> a BOTANICAL KEY in such a format.
 
Not only fun but educational, too.

> You'd take this mini-computer into
> the field, punch in floral characteristics, and it would give you the
> Family, if not the very species. The writing has already been done in
> Book form (major floras of regions throughout the world). It would be
> a matter of converting the printed dichotomous keys to the computer
> format, AND correctly diagnosing floral morphology.
> 
> Has this already been done, or is the market too small?

It probably hasn't been done for hand-held computers, but 
if you work hard on convincing your favorite publishers to
look into putting the data onto CD or MD, then in a few
years, the hand-helds will have CD-ROMs or MDs in them and 
all of us who would like to know what we're looking at in 
the field, but can't remember enough from our field botany 
courses taken fifteen years ago, will be in heaven.
(Prof. W.H. Wagner, Jr. would be disappointed if he knew how
much I've forgotten over the years.  Well, I am too.  His 
field botany course was perhaps the most intense course I
ever took, and second in enjoyment behind the systematics
course he offered the previous semester.  Very regrettably, I've
forgotten most of the material from both courses.)

Some of the upcoming products from Sony and Apple (Newton) offer 
the promise of holding and handling such encyclopedic 
volumes of information.  Illustrations and photographs would be
an integral part of botanical keys offered in these formats, and
would make identification even more certain for even the novice.
Interactive machines would allow annotations, and even smarter ones
would log your earthly coordinates and link to national botanical
databases to log data on distribution and population sizes.  
And so on -- the possibilities are endless.

PF
From: gilles.laberge@synapse.org (Gilles Laberge) 
Newsgroups: bionet.plants
Subject: Hydroponics & CO2
Date: 4 Jan 93 01:16:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: SYNAPSE BBS - GATINEAU, QUEBEC - 819-561-4321
Reply-To: gilles.laberge@synapse.org (Gilles Laberge) 

To: mffowler@zeus.calpoly.edu (Michael Francis Fowler)
From: gilles.laberge@synapse.org
Date: 4 Jan 93 1am EST


MF>Oh...Since I am here-  I am curious what the effects 
MF>of supplementing Carbon Dioxide to my greenhouse
MF>crop of flowers and vegetables.  Any suggestions 
MF>about this is also greatly appreciated.   
MF>

Well I think that supplementing CO2 will increase the
"Greenhouse effect" in the closed stucture which will
increase the ambient temperature. This will throw off the
flowers natural cycle and have an effect contrary to what 
your looking for (more growth, longer bloom periods).


                                       G.L.
                                       Ottawa,Canada
---
 . KingQWK 0.11. .
From: GELLMORE@PEARL.TUFTS.EDU (BIOHEAD)
Newsgroups: bionet.plants
Subject: Botanical software
Date: 4 Jan 93 22:40:00 GMT
Distribution: bionet

Botanical software of possible use?

Just yesterday I was browsing through the electronic section of a dept.
store, and noticed hand-held (calculator-sized) language translators,
dictionaries, baseball fact compendia, etc. It would be fun to have
a BOTANICAL KEY in such a format. You'd take this mini-computer into
the field, punch in floral characteristics, and it would give you the
Family, if not the very species. The writing has already been done in
Book form (major floras of regions throughout the world). It would be
a matter of converting the printed dichotomous keys to the computer
format, AND correctly diagnosing floral morphology.

Has this already been done, or is the market too small?

                          George S. Ellmore
                          Tufts University
                          Dept. of Biology
From: samodena@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu (S. A. Modena)
Newsgroups: bionet.plants
Subject: Re: Hydroponics & CO2
Date: 4 Jan 93 20:07:33 GMT
Distribution: bionet
Organization: Crop Science Dept., NCSU, Raleigh, NC 27695-7620

In article <1993Jan4.104210.24053@gserv1.dl.ac.uk> ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk writes:
>In article <9313232241.MIN-LRPBa00330.bionet-news@uk.ac.daresbury> you wrote:
>
>: Oh...Since I am here-  I am curious what the effects 
>: of supplementing Carbon Dioxide to my greenhouse
>: crop of flowers and vegetables.  Any suggestions 
>: about this is also greatly appreciated.   
>
>Elevated levels of CO2 are generally regarded as beneficial in a
>greenhouse but if you are burning fuel to produce the CO2 you should be
>aware that SO2 and NOX (various oxides of nitrogen) are also produced
>which may have an adverse effect on your crop.

Let's remember a bigger threat: incomplete combustion may produce
ETHYLENE......a plant hormone related to....undesirable "timing" effects
in greenhouses.

>
>	Tony.
>--
>Dr. A.J.Travis,                       |  Tony Travis

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From: ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk (Tony Travis)
Newsgroups: bionet.plants
Subject: Re: Hydroponics & CO2
Date: 4 Jan 93 10:28:32 GMT
Reply-To: ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk
Distribution: bionet
Organization: Rowett Research Institute
Original-To: plantbio@uk.ac.daresbury

In article <9313232241.MIN-LRPBa00330.bionet-news@uk.ac.daresbury> you wrote:
: I am a Aeroponics/Hydroponics hobbyist.  Currently

I'm showing my ignorance here (again) but what is Aeroponics?

: I study Horticulture in college.  I am curious about
: careers in these related fields.  Any information
: about these would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

Did you cross-post this to bionet.jobs?

: Oh...Since I am here-  I am curious what the effects 
: of supplementing Carbon Dioxide to my greenhouse
: crop of flowers and vegetables.  Any suggestions 
: about this is also greatly appreciated.   

Elevated levels of CO2 are generally regarded as beneficial in a
greenhouse but if you are burning fuel to produce the CO2 you should be
aware that SO2 and NOX (various oxides of nitrogen) are also produced
which may have an adverse effect on your crop.

Even if you are burning 'clean' low-sulphur fuel you will get NOX
production if the air in the greenhouse comes into contact with hot
surfaces.  This is one reason why the best greenhouses are heated by
steam pipes.

There was some work done at Fairfield Experimental Station near Kirkham
in the UK during the 1970's concerning the relative merits of heating
the greenhouse compared to just heating the solution used to irrigate
the roots of plants grown using hydroponics.  Sadly, Fairfield closed
down years ago, but I'm sure the work was published.

	Tony.
--
Dr. A.J.Travis,                       |  Tony Travis
Rowett Research Institute,            |  JANET: <ajt@uk.ac.sari.rri>
Greenburn Road, Bucksburn,            |  other: <ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk>
Aberdeen, AB2 9SB. UK.                |  phone: 0224-712751
From: UGG00180@VM.UOGUELPH.CA (Sandy)
Newsgroups: bionet.plants
Subject: cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase
Date: 12 Jan 93 16:05:10 GMT
Distribution: bionet

I have been studying cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase activity in virus
infected wheat plants and would like to test for mRNA activity of this
enzyme. I have tested a tobacco clone against my wheat RNA but without
success even under conditions of very low stringency. Does anyone have
(or know of) a clone for CAD made from a monocot? Even some sequence data
which could be used to make PCR primers would be very helpful. Please
send any information to:
Sandy Kofalvi                   e-mail: ugg00180@vm.uoguelph.ca
Dept. of Botany                 fax:    519-767-1991
U of Guelph
Guelph, ON
Canada                                       Thanks a million
From: u6069416@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au
Newsgroups: bionet.plants
Subject: Re: tobacco seed structure
Date: 7 Jan 93 15:58:19 +1100
Organization: The University of Melbourne

Thank you to all the persons who sent me information about tobacco seed
structure.
From: GELLMORE@PEARL.TUFTS.EDU (BIOHEAD)
Newsgroups: bionet.plants
Subject: Calif. Oak restoration
Date: 11 Jan 93 13:49:00 GMT
Distribution: bionet

Major native Oak restoration projects have succeeded for the Nature
Conservancy in California due to the work of one of their Preserve
Managers and Field Researchers, Dr. Tom Griggs. 

By trying different planting techniques, and carefully monitoring the
results over several years, Griggs has achieved astounding establishment
rates for several native Oaks. In general these have come from focusing
on the ROOT system development. He has found that by focusing on root
system management, he is able to insure a vigorous Oak tree. Roots of 
each species have their characteristic range of responses to soil
properties, irrigation regime, weed competition, and herbivory.

Griggs can be contacted by snail mail:  Dr. Tom Griggs
                                        1658 Inghram Rd.
                                        Corning CA  96021


hope this helps. Griggs is a practicing plant ecologist. His data are 
generated in the harsh and variable reality of open California, not
from the greenhouse or nursery.

                                 George Ellmore
                                 Biology Dept.
                                 Tufts University
                                 Medford, MA
From: Roland.Gronroos@sgen.slu.se (Roland Gronroos)
Newsgroups: bionet.plants
Subject: Re: Hydroponics & CO2
Date: 4 Jan 93 10:33:58 GMT
Followup-To: bionet.plants
Organization: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

In article <1993Jan03.232313.1313548@zeus.calpoly.edu>,
mffowler@zeus.calpoly.edu (Michael Francis Fowler) wrote:

> Oh...Since I am here-  I am curious what the effects 
> of supplementing Carbon Dioxide to my greenhouse
> crop of flowers and vegetables.  Any suggestions 
> about this is also greatly appreciated.   
> 


Carbon dioxide (CO2) fertilization is a common way to increase growth in
greenhouses.

I have tested the effect of CO2 on pine seedlings (Pinus sylvestris) there
was an increase in growth (DW increase) up to about 3500 ppm.

The following examples is cited from a brochure from (snail mail adress)
AGA GAS AB, S-17282 Sundbyberg, SWEDEN. They sell gas and equipment for CO2
fertilization.


Plant        ppm CO2     comment

Tomato      1000-1500   faster growth, earlier and larger yield (25-30%)  
Cucumber    1000-1500   faster growth, earlier and larger yield (25-30%)

Roses        1000       Larger yield, better stem and flower quality

Saintpaulia 1000-2000   Faster growth (24-62%), 1-2 weeks earlier flowering
                        , more flowers  
       
Atmosperic concentration is 300-400 ppm CO2.
In a closed greenhouse will the CO2 concentration drop to about 100-150 ppm
this retards growth.
Effects on man can be observed at 20000-30000 ppm CO2 after some hours
exposure. The authorities in Sweden regard 5000 ppm as safe for workers
spending  all their working-hours in greenhouse.
____________________________________________________________________________
              Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences 
       	       	       	       	       	       	       	       	       	  
Dr. Roland Gronroos 	       	                  Tele: +46 18 67 32 37 
Department of Forest Genetics  	               Fax:  +46 18 67 32 79 
Box 7027       	       	                	      E-mail/Datorpost:
S-750 07 Uppsala       	       	       	       Roland.Gronroos@sgen.slu.se
SWEDEN
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