Proanthocyanidins (PAs) are common polyphenolic polymers of plants found in foliage, fruit, bark, roots, rhizomes, and seed coats that consist of flavan-3-ol units such as 2,3-trans-(+)-catechin and 2,3-cis-(–)-epicatechin. Although the biosynthesis of flavan-3-ols has been studied in angiosperms, little is known about their biosynthesis and ecological roles in gymnosperms. In this study, the g...

This note generalizes previous results on the asymptotic equivalence of Ordinary and Generalized Least Squares estimates in Linear Regression models with trending data. This note considers the relative e ciency of OLS versus GLS in the linear regression model yt = x 0 t + ut (t = 1 ;2; : : : ); (1) where xt and are K 1 and where the unobservable disturbances ut are autocorrelated but independen...

This note formalizes bias and inconsistency results for ordinary least squares (OLS) on the linear probability model and provides sufficient conditions for unbiasedness and consistency to hold. The conditions suggest that a btrimming estimatorQ may reduce OLS bias. D 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Combining orthogonal least squares (OLS) model selection with local regularisation or smoothing leads to efficient sparse kernel-based data modelling. By assigning each orthogonal weight in the regression model with an individual regularisation parameter, the ability for the OLS model selection to produce a very parsimonious model with excellent generalisation performance is greatly enhanced.

Tea leaves contain abundant flavan-3-ols, which include dihydroxylated and trihydroxylated catechins. Flavonoid 3'-hydroxylase (F3'H: EC 1.14.13.21) is one of the enzymes in the establishment of the hydroxylation pattern. A gene encoding F3'H, designated as CsF3'H, was isolated from Camellia sinensis with a homology-based cloning technique and deposited in the GenBank (GenBank ID: KT180309). Bi...