Yoshiki Tsunesada, Nobuyuki Kanda, Hiroyuki Nakano, Daisuke Tatsumi, Masaki Ando, Misao Sasaki, Hideyuki Tagoshi, and Hirotaka Takahashi National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan Department of Mathematics And Physics, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, Osaka 558-8585, Japan Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Yukawa Institute...

Subtropical montane peatland is among several rare ecosystems that continue to receive insufficient scientific exploration. We analyzed the vegetation types and soil bacterial composition, as well surface carbon dioxide methane fluxes along a successional peatland-to-upland-forest series in one such ecosystem Taiwan. The Yuanyang Lake (YYL) study site characterized by low temperature, high prec...

Plant browning is a recalcitrant problem for in vitro culture and often leads to poor growth of explants and even failure of tissue culture. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying browning-induced physiological processes remain unclear. Medinilla is considered one of the most difficult genera for tissue culture owning to its severe browning. In the present study, intact aseptic plantlets ...

We summarize recent results on the construction of Killing forms on SasakiEinstein manifolds. The complete set of special Killing forms of the Sasaki-Einstein spaces are presented. It is pointed out the existence of two additional Killing forms associated with the complex holomorphic volume form of Calabi-Yau cone manifold. In the case of toric Sasaki-Einstein manifolds the Killing forms are ex...

Decursin and decursinol angelate are the major components in the alcoholic extract of the root of Angelica gigas Nakai. Our previous work convincingly demonstrated that both decursin and decursinol angelate were rapidly converted to decursinol in mice after administration by either oral gavage or i. p. injection. In the current study, we compared for the first time the plasma profiles of decurs...