Bipartite density of triangle-free subcubic graphs

A graph is subcubic if its maximum degree is at most 3. The bipartite density of a graph G is defined as b(G) = max{|E(B)|/|E(G)| : B is a bipartite subgraph of G}. It was conjectured by Bondy and Locke that if G is a triangle-free subcubic graph, then b(G) ≥ 45 and equality holds only if G is in a list of seven small graphs. The conjecture has been confirmed recently by Xu and Yu. This note gives a shorter proof of this result.