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A foliar disease model for use in wheat disease management decision support systems.

Audsley, Eric; Milne, Alice E.; Paveley, Neil (Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2005-10-01)

A model of winter wheat foliar disease is described, parameterised and tested for Septoria tritici (leaf blotch), Puccinia striiformis (yellow rust), Erysiphe graminis (powdery mildew) and Puccinia triticina (brown rust). ...
Agricultural Futures and Implications for the Environment.

Morris, Joe; Audsley, Eric; Wright, Iain A.; McLeod, Jim; Pearn, Kerry R.; Angus, Andrew; Rickard, Sean (2005-11-01)

In this context, the overall aim of project is to explore possible long term futures for agriculture in England and Wales in order to inform decision-making on environmental policy and provide a 2 framework for Defra ...
Soil Factors and their Influence on Within-Field Crop Variability, I: Field Observation of Soil Variation

Earl, R.; Taylor, John C.; Wood, G. A.; Bradley, I.; James, Iain T.; Waine, Toby W.; Welsh, J. P.; Godwin, R. J.; Knight, S. M. (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, 2003-04-01)

A fundamental component of adopting the concept of precision farming in practice is the ability to measure spatial variation in soil factors and assess the influence of this on crop variability in order to apply appropriate ...
A framework for integrating flood defence and biodiversity in washlands in England

Morris, Joe; Hess, Tim M. (Jrbm, 2005-01-01)

Concerns about increased flood risk and loss of biodiversity in lowland areas, coupled with changing priorities in the countryside have drawn attention to the potential contribution that managed washlands can make to ...
Too large to fit? Recent developments in macromolecular imprinting.

Ge, Yi; Turner, Anthony P. F. (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam., 2008-04-01)

Molecular imprinting involves the synthesis of polymers in the presence of a template to produce complementary binding sites with specific recognition ability. The technique has been successfully applied as a measurement ...
Immunosensor for okadaic acid using quartz crystal microbalance

Tang, Alice X. J.; Pravda, Miloslav; Guilbault, George G.; Piletsky, Sergey A.; Turner, Anthony P. F. (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam., 2002-10-23)

An immunosensor for the determination of okadaic acid (OA) using a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) was developed and optimised in standard solutions. Several coupling techniques, protein A, protein G and polyethylenimine ...
A new reactive polymer suitable for covalent immobilisation and monitoring of primary amines

Piletska, Elena V.; Piletsky, Sergey A.; Subrahmanyam, S.; Turner, Anthony P. F. (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam., 2001-04-01)

A new polymer able to react with primary amines was synthesised from allyl mercaptan, o-phtalic dialdehyde and ethylene glycol dimethacrylate by radical polymerisation. Reactive thioacetale formed by allyl mercaptan and ...
Preformed antifungal compounds in strawberry fruit and flower tissues

Terry, Leon A.; Joyce, Daryl C.; Adikaram, Nimal K. B.; Khambay, Bhupinder P. S. (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam., 2004-02-01)

Antifungal activity against the pathogen, Botrytis cinerea, and a bioassay organism, Cladosporium cladosporioides, declined with advancing strawberry fruit maturity as shown by thin layer chromatography (TLC) bioassays. ...
The study of genomic DNA adsorption and subsequent interactions using total internal reflection ellipsometry.

Nabok, Alexei; Tsargorodskaya, Anna; Davis, Frank; Higson, Seamus P. J. (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam., 2007-10-31)

The adsorption of genomic DNA and subsequent interactions between adsorbed and solvated DNA was studied using a novel sensitive optical method of total internal reflection ellipsometry (TIRE), which combines spectrosco ...
Sonochemically fabricated microelectrode arrays for biosensors offering widespread applicability. Part I

Barton, Andrew C.; Collyer, Stuart D.; Davis, Frank; Gornall, Davinia D.; Law, Karen A.; Lawrence, Emma C. D.; Mills, Daniel W.; Myler, Suzy; Pritchard, Jeanette A.; Thompson, Mark; Higson, Seamus P. J. (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam., 2004-09-15)

A novel and patented procedure is described for the sonochemical fabrication of a new class of microelectrode array based sensor with electrode element populations of up to 2 x 105 cm-2. For some years it has been accepted ...
The electrochemistry of the ferri/ferrocyanide couple at a calix [4]resorcinarenetetrathiol-modified gold electrode as a study of novel electrode modifying coatings for use within electro-analytical sensors

Collyer, Stuart D.; Davis, Frank; Lucke, Andrew; Stirling, Charles J. M.; Higson, Seamus P. J. (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam., 2003-06-05)

The electrochemistry of the ferri/ferrocyanide redox couple has been studied at Au electrodes modified with calix[4]resorcinarenetetrathiol. Cyclic voltammetry in Fe(CN)63- solutions yields three separate pairs of faradaic ...
Labeless AC impedimetric antibody-based sensors with pg ml-1 sensitivities for point-of-care biomedical applications.

Barton, Andrew C.; Collyer, Stuart D.; Davis, Frank; Garifallou, Goulielmos-Zois; Tsekenis, Georgios; Tully, Elizabeth; O'Kennedy, Richard; Gibson, Tim; Millner, Paul A.; Higson, Seamus P. J. (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam., 2009-01-01)

This paper describes the development and characterisation of labeless immunosensors for (a) the cardiac drug digoxin and (b) bovine serum albumin (BSA). Commercial screen-printed carbon electrodes were used as the basis ...
Sonochemically fabricated microelectrode arrays for biosensors. Part II. Modification with a polysiloxane coating

Myler, Suzy; Davis, Frank; Collyer, Stuart D.; Higson, Seamus P. J. (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam., 2004-09-15)

A polymer modified sonochemically fabricated glucose oxidase microelectrode array with microelectrode population densities of up to 2.5 x 105 microelectrodes cm-2 is reported. These microelectrode sensors were formed ...
Labeless and reversible immunosensor assay based upon an electrochemical current-transient protocol

Grant, Sarah; Davis, Frank; Pritchard, Jeanette A.; Law, Karen A.; Higson, Seamus P. J.; Gibson, Timothy D. (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam., 2003-10-24)

A novel labeless and reversible immunoassay based upon an electrochemical current-transient protocol is reported which offers many advantages in comparison to classical immuno-biochemical analyses in terms of simplicity, speed ...
New Techniques in Monitoring Water Pollution - Development of Sonochemically Fabricated Microarrays for the Determination of Pollutants.

Davis, Frank; Collyer, Stuart D.; Gornall, Davinia D.; Law, Karen A.; Mills, Daniel W.; Higson, Seamus P. J. (Teknoscienze Srl, 2007-01-01)

The focus of this article is to describe a simple-to-use, disposable sensor suitable for the rapid determination of pollutants in aqueous media, utilising a novel sonochemical microelectrode fabrication technique. The ...
Optical and AFM study of electrostatically assembled films of CdS and ZnS colloid nanoparticles.

Suryajaya, S.; Nabok, Alexei; Davis, Frank; Hassan, A.; Higson, Seamus P. J.; Evans-Freeman, J. (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam., 2008-05-30)

CdS and ZnS semiconducting colloid nanoparticles coated with the organic shell, containing either SO3− or NH2+ groups, were prepared using the aqueous phase synthesis. The multilayer films of CdS (or ZnS) were deposited ...
Langmuir and LB properties of two calix[4]resorcinarenes: Interactions with various analytes

Sugden, Mark W.; Richardson, Tim H.; Davis, Frank; Higson, Seamus P. J.; Faul, Charl F. J. (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam., 2008-05-15)

The ability of calixarene-based molecules to interact with amino acids has been the basis of many studies. The Langmuir and LB properties of two calix [4]resorcinarenes have been investigated. The properties of the layer ...
Carrier systems and biosensors for biomedical applications.

Davis, Frank; Higson, Seamus P. J. (2007-10-31)

This chapter addresses both carrier systems and biosensors which are often applied directly to tissues, either as skin patches, implanted or ingested by a variety of routes. It follows that there is a common theme between ...
Polymers in biosensors.

Davis, Frank; Higson, Seamus P. J. (2007-08-06)

This chapter will be devoted to the incorporation of polymers within biosensors, beginning with a history and descriptions of basic sensor formats - while concentrating on optical and electrochemical sensors. Initially ...
Offshore renewable energy: ecological implications of generating electricity in the coastal zone.

Gill, Andrew B. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2005-01-01)

Global scale environmental degradation and its links with non-renewable fossil fuels have lead to an increasing interest in generating electricity from renewable energy resources. Much of this interest centres on offshore ...

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