Rüdiger Simon received his Diplom in Biology, and later his PhD from the University of Cologne under the guidance of Peter Starlinger. He then performed post-doctoral work with Enrico Coen at the John Innes Centre in Norwich from 1991 to 1993, with Martin Ganal at the IPK in Gatersleben from 1993 to 1994, and with George Coupland at the John Innes Centre from 1994 to 1996. In 1996 he started an...

We propose resolution progressive Three-Dimensional Set Partitioned Embedded bloCK (3D-SPECK), an embedded wavelet based algorithm for hyperspectral image compression. The proposed algorithm also supports random Region-Of-Interest (ROI) access. For a hyperspectral image sequence, integer wavelet transform is applied on all three dimensions. The transformed image sequence exhibits a hierarchical...

The Pto gene in tomato confers gene-for-gene resistance to Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato, the causative agent of bacterial speck disease. Pto was first introgressed from a wild species of tomato into cultivated tomato varieties over 60 years ago and is now widely used to control speck disease. Cloning of the Pto gene revealed that it encodes a cytoplasmically localized serine-threonine protei...

PAGES+ is a family of block ciphers based on block ciphers Speck [2] and PAGES [9]. The block length was increased vom 128 bit to 512 bit and additional rounds were introduced to make the cipher more resistent against attacks. The number of rounds are 64, 96, and 128. The key size are 1024 bit, 1536 bit, and 2048 bit, respectively. The size of variables, as with PAGES, is 128 bit. Thus the vari...