Before discussing today’s topic matter, let’s take a step back and situate ourselves with respect to the big picture. As mentioned in Lecture 1, a primary focus of this course is optimal inference. As a first step toward reasoning about optimality, we began to examine which statistics of the data that we observe are actually relevant in a given inferential task. We learned about lossless data r...

plants are naturally exposed to frequent changes in environmental conditions such as salt stress affecting their growth and development, and consequently a considerable reduction in total productivity. monodehydroascorbate reductase (mdhar), a key enzyme in ascorbate-glutathione cycle, serves as an important antioxidative enzyme in scavenging of reactive oxygen spices (ros). in this study, mdha...

Rhizobial symbionts were isolated from the surface (0–0.5 M) and phreatic (3.9–5.0 M) root environments of a mature mesquite woodland in the Sonoran Desert of Southern California, and from variable depths (0–12 m) of non-phreatic mesquite ecosystems in the Chihuahuan Desert of New Mexico. They were tested for their ability to tolerate high salinity, and respire NO3 2 as mechanisms of free-livin...