In this paper, a characterization of the language varieties and congruence varieties corresponding to M -solid pseudovarieties is presented. Taking into account the isomorphisms of the Eilenberg-type correspondences, each complete sublattice of pseudovarieties corresponds to a complete sublattice of language varieties, as well as another one of congruence varieties. For the varieties of tree la...

In this paper, a characterization of the language varieties and congruence varieties corresponding toM -solid pseudovarieties is presented. Taking into account the isomorphisms of the Eilenberg-type correspondences, each complete sublattice of pseudovarieties corresponds to a complete sublattice of language varieties, as well as another one of congruence varieties. For the varieties of tree lan...

One hundred and sixty rice varieties from the tidal and flood prone areas of south and south East Asian countries were analyzed. Samples sizes were: 50 varieties from Bangladesh (deepwater, tidal and flood prone rice and modern varieties), 14 varieties from India (flood prone rice), 16 varieties from Sri Lanka (flood prone rice), 7 varieties from Vietnam (tidal varieties), 69 varieties from Ind...

This chapter is devoted to the theory of varieties, which provides an important tool, based in universal algebra, for the classification of regular languages. In the introductory section, we present a number of examples that illustrate and motivate the fundamental concepts. We do this for the most part without proofs, and often without precise definitions, leaving these to the formal developmen...

The 13 major blast resistance (R) genes against Magnaporthe grisea were screened in a number of Korean rice varieties using molecular markers. Of the 98 rice varieties tested, 28 were found to contain the Pia gene originating from Japanese japonica rice genotypes. The Pib gene from BL1 and BL7 was incorporated into 39 Korean japonica varieties, whereas this same gene from the IRRI-bred indica v...

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We study a graded algebra D=D(L,G) defined by a finite lattice L and a subset G in L, a so-called building set. This algebra is a generalization of the cohomology algebras of hyperplane arrangement compactifications found in work of De Concini and Procesi [D2]. Our main result is a representation of D, for an arbitrary atomic lattice L, as the Chow ring of a smooth toric variety that we constru...