Tunis University

About: Tunis University is a education organization based out in Tunis, Tunisia. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Thin film. The organization has 11745 authors who have published 15400 publications receiving 154900 citations. The organization is also known as: University of Tunis & UT.

Chickpea genotypes shape the soil microbiome and affect the establishment of the subsequent durum wheat crop in the semiarid North American Great Plains

Abstract: Accumulating evidence supports the feasibility of creating biotic soil environments that promote root health using selected plant genotypes. Five years of field experimentation conducted in the semiarid grasslands of North America revealed genotypic variation in the influence of chickpea on the composition of the soil microbial community and on the establishment of the subsequent crop. A 2-year experiment documented the effects of four chickpea cultivars on the arable soil microbiome using cultural methods, the cloning and sequencing of soil-extracted DNA, and fatty acid methyl ester profiling. Cultivar CDC Frontier was characterized by low bacterial biomass, whereas Amit and CDC Anna selected similarly structured bacterial communities but contrasting soil fungal communities. Amit and CDC Anna became colonized by arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi to the same extent, but the arable soil planted with CDC Anna hosted the highest level of culturable fungal diversity, whereas the soil planted with Amit hosted the lowest. The highest diversity of culturable fungi and the richness of AM fungal ribotypes (11) were also associated with CDC Anna. Amit was preferentially associated with the antagonist species Penicillium canescens. Higher durum wheat stand density was found after CDC Anna than after Amit, indicating that microbial diversity is an important feature of productive soils. The influence of chickpea genotype on the arable soil microbiome and on the establishment of the subsequent durum wheat crop was related to the soil water reserve at depths of 30–120 cm and was eliminated when the chickpea crops experienced drought. Genetic variation in the influence of chickpea on the soil microbiome suggests the possibility of selecting genotypes to engineer beneficial soil biotic environments. Inadequate levels of soil water could limit the success of this strategy, however, in rainfed cropping systems of the semiarid grasslands of North America.

A new adaptive image steganography scheme based on DCT and chaotic map

Abstract: In this paper, a novel steganographic scheme is proposed based on chaotic map in the DCT domain. The proposed method apply the DCT on the cover image, scan the AC coefficients in a zigzag form from the least significant to the most significant one, this scan will lead us eventually to precise the embedding positions through a chaotic function as well as the maximum allowed payload relative to a computed SSIM threshold. A quantitative study shows the check of the designed method to the requirement of imperceptibility and flexibility.

Optimal condition for non-simultaneous blow-up in a reaction-diffusion system

Abstract: We study the positive blowing-up solutions of the semilinear parabolic system: ut-Δu=vp+ur,vt-Δv=uq+vs, where t∊(0,T),x∊RN and p,q,r,s>1. We prove that if r>q+1 or s>p+1 then one component of a blowing-up solution may stay bounded until the blow-up time, while if r