The heterotic hybrid offspring of Arabidopsis accessions C24 and Landsberg erecta have altered methylomes. Changes occur most frequently at loci where parental methylation levels are different. There are context-specific biases in the nonadditive methylation patterns with (m)CG generally increased and (m)CHH decreased relative to the parents. These changes are a result of two main mechanisms, T...

Theorem A (Landsberg) Let H be an irreducible compact Hermitian symmetric space of rank 2, different from the hyperquadric Qn ⊂ Pn+1. Let H ⊂ PN be a minimal non-degenerate equivariant embedding, equivalently, an embedding of H in PN defined by the complete linear system associated to the ample generator of Pic(H) ∼= Z. Let M ⊂ PN be a (not necessarily closed) complex sub-manifold with dim(M) =...

The Arabidopsis 194 gene encoding a protein containing sequence similarity to an N-terminal region of the clathrin-assembly protein AP180 has been identified in a 4.9-kb region of genomic DNA upstream of the gene encoding the high mobility group protein HMG-I/Y. The gene consists of 12 exons and 11 introns, identified by comparison with partial cDNAs and using the NetPlantGene programme, and en...

Capital flows are responsible for a strong influence on the foreign exchange rates and stock prices macroeconomic parameters. In volatile economies, capital flows can change due to several types of social, political and economic events, provoking oscillations on these parameters, which are recognized as economic crises. This work aims to investigate how these two macroeconomic variables are rel...

Natural variation for primary root growth response to high Ca stress in Arabidopsis thaliana was studied by screening a series of accessions (ecotypes) under high Calcium (40 mM CaCl2) conditions. The genetic basis of this variation was further investigated by QTL analysis using recombinant inbred lines from Landsberg erecta (Ler) × Cape Verde Islands (Cvi) cross. Four QTLs were identified in c...

The de Rham curves are a set of fairly generic fractal curves exhibiting dyadic symmetry. Described by Georges de Rham in 1957[3], this set includes a number of the famous classical fractals, including the Koch snowflake, the Peano spacefilling curve, the Cesàro-Faber curves, the Takagi-Landsberg[4] or blancmange curve, and the Lévy C-curve. This paper gives a brief review of the construction o...

Despite its importance, all proofs of the correctness of Strassen's famous 1969 algorithm to multiply two 2x2 matrices with only seven multiplications involve some more or less tedious calculations such as explicitly multiplying specific 2x2 matrices, expanding expressions to cancel terms with opposing signs, or expanding tensors over the standard basis. This is why the proof is nontrivial to m...

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