Purple Rain Research Articles

Influence of the Mother Bulb Size on the Growth and Development of Allium ‘Purple Rain’

The experiment aims was to study the influences of the mother bulb weight on the growth and development, of the plants of ornamental onion. The study was conducted during October 2015 – June 2016 and the biologic material was represented by Allium ‘Purple Rain’. The bulbs were divided in three different weight groups: W1 (15.1-30 g), W2 (5.1-15 g), W3 (< 5 g), which were reprezented the three variants (V1, V2, respectively V3). The bulbs were planted in the field and the plants were studied thrue the biometric determinations. The results were compared with the average of the experiment. The research showed that the all the analyzed characters (number and length of leaves, number and weight of new formed bulbs, flowers yield, diameter of the inflorescence) were decreasing from V1 to the V3 variant. The highest number of the flowering plants (98.9 %) was resulted from V1 variant. From V2, bloomed only 20% of the bulbs and from V3 the bulbs did not got flowers. The flowering time was earlier for the plants resulted from the biggest bulbs (V1), with around 3 days, then the V2 and around 7 days then V3. The capacity to form new bulbs, expressed in bulb number or bulb weight per plant, was increased with the increasing of the mother bulb weight. The number of leaves per plant and the length of the leaves were higher for V1, as against the other two variants

Incidence and Severity of Cavity Spot of Carrot as Affected by Pigmentation, Temperature, and Rainfall.

Field trials to determine the effect of carrot pigmentation and weather parameters on cavity spot (CS) of carrot were conducted in the Holland/ Bradford Marsh region of Ontario between 2002 and 2009. In all, 23 colored carrot cultivars from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service breeding program at the University of Wisconsin (n = 5) and commercial seed companies (n = 18) were seeded in organic soil (pH 6 to 7, 45 to 75% organic matter) in late May to early June and harvested in late October or early November. Carrot roots were assessed for CS severity midseason and postharvest. Evaluations postharvest indicated that the purple pigmented carrot from breeding line 'USDA 106-3' and cultivars 'Purple Rain' and 'Purple Haze' consistently had low CS severity. The orange-pigmented 'USDA 101-23', 'Cellobunch', 'YaYa', and 'Envy' had moderate CS; and the red-pigmented carrot breeding line 'USDA 104-3' and cultivars 'Atomic Red', 'Proline Red', 'Dragon', and an unnamed line from India had high CS. Differences in CS severity in carrot cultivars between evaluations at midseason and postharvest suggest that some carrot cultivars are more susceptible to Pythium spp. inoculum in soil (alloinfection) and others to secondary infection (autoinfection) that can be attributed to the Pythium sp. involved in CS. CS severity was positively correlated with total rainfall 2 and 3 months after seeding, and was negatively correlated with number of days with air temperature ≥30°C 3 and 4 months after seeding. Soil temperature and total rainfall were the best predictors of CS incidence and severity. These results could allow a forecast of disease incidence and severity at harvest.

Transcriptomic analysis of purple leaf determination in birch

‘Purple Rain’, a purple cultivar of Betula pendula, has dark purple leaves throughout the vegetative period. In this study, B. pendula ‘Purple Rain’ was found to have a higher anthocyanidin level compared with B. pendula, Transcriptome analysis revealed numerous changes in gene expression that could be attributed to color change, including the upregulation of 2467 unigenes and the downregulation of 2299 unigenes in ‘Purple Rain’. Furthermore, anthocyanidin synthesis and transcriptional regulation were altered in ‘Purple Rain’, which may have contributed to phenotypic changes. These results provide unique molecular insights into the biochemical pathways and regulatory networks that function in a purple variety of B. pendula.

Red socks and purple rain: the political uses of colour in late apartheid South Africa

This article explores the extent to which colour functions as an independent mode in a particular context and explores the culturally produced regularities in the uses of colour in this context. Drawing on a Hallidayan metafunctional view of text, we look at how colour instantiated systems of knowledge and belief (ideational function) and social relations and identities (interpersonal function) in South Africa during the last decade of the apartheid government. In this type of repressive socio-political context, colour was a less policed mode, and thus had different affordances to images and the verbal modes. We argue that colour can function as an independent mode under certain conditions, such as stringent press restrictions, where the use of colour in a range of media (clothing, flags, posters) can play a crucial role in communicating.

ｉｎ ｖｉｔｒｏにおけるバラの根頭がん腫病抵抗性の品種間差異

In vitroで継代・維持している切りバラ24品種を供試材料とし, 岐阜県内バラ産地の発病個体の新鮮ながん腫から分離した根頭がん腫病菌(菌株GOU1)を用い, in vitro検定法で根頭がん腫病に対する抵抗性を検討した.この結果, 抵抗性は病徴形成抵抗性と病徴発達抵抗性に分けられた.供試品種のうち, 'PEKcougel'は極めて強い抵抗性を示し, 発病が全く認められなかった.黄色品種'Dukat'および'Golden Emblem'ではそれぞれ87%, 65%と高い発病率を示し, 形成されたがん腫も3.62mm×mm, 2.43mm×mmと大きく, 両抵抗性ともに弱かった.'White Dream'および'Purple Rain'などの品種では発病率が著しく高く, 病徴形成抵抗性が低いものの, 病徴発達抵抗性は中程度であった.'Lifirane'では発病率が7%と著しく低く, 病徴形成抵抗性が高かったが, 形成されたがん腫は4.75mm×mmと著しく大きく, 病徴発達抵抗性が低かった.Hybrid Teaに分類される品種では発病率が0%-95%, がん腫の大きさは0-4.75mm×mmと変異が大きかったが, Floribundaでは変異が小さかった.花色との関係では, 発病率が高く, 大きながん腫が形成された品種はいずれも黄色の品種であり, さらにふじ色の品種についても発病率が高かった.

‘Joy in Repetition’?: Prince's Graffiti Bridge and Sign o' the Times as Sequels to Purple Rain

The Journal of Popular CultureVolume 30, Issue 3 p. 57-65 ‘Joy in Repetition’?: Prince's Graffiti Bridge and Sign o' the Times as Sequels to Purple Rain Marie A. Plasse, Marie A. Plasse Marie A. Plasse is Associate Professor of English at Memmack College, North Andover, Massachusetts.Search for more papers by this author Marie A. Plasse, Marie A. Plasse Marie A. Plasse is Associate Professor of English at Memmack College, North Andover, Massachusetts.Search for more papers by this author First published: Winter 1996 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1996.00057.xCitations: 2AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume30, Issue3Winter 1996Pages 57-65 RelatedInformation

Prince as Queer Poststructuralist

This chapter argues that these (flows, melting, delirium, machines) bodies of work deal with comparable concerns, however vastly different their institutional, biographical, and discursive locations. It points out that Prince's only successful movie, Purple Rain, was clearly a story about one kind of de-Oedipalization, the struggle over the social reproduction of patriarchy. In songs like Strange Relationship, Prince reflects on the contradictions built into dominant narratives about gender and erotic relationships. Prince uses an androgynous falsetto, trembling with desire and vulnerability. Tom Jones recasts the song in the manly voice of the aging hipster, centered and posturing, just like his dancing. Tom Jones changes a few words for his version: where Prince had warned that women, not girls, rule his world, Jones says women and girls, transforming Prince's preference for maturity into a boast of indiscriminate lust. Prince recordings of desire thus fall within the boundaries of queer performance.