The apoplastic pH of intact Forsythiaxintermedia (cv. Lynwood) and tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) plants has been manipulated using buffered foliar sprays, and thereby stomatal conductance (g(s)), leaf growth rate, and plant water loss have been controlled. The more alkaline the pH of the foliar spray, the lower the g(s) and/or leaf growth rate subsequently measured. The most alkaline pH that wa...

In this communication, a novel, green, efficient and economically viable light mediated protocol for generation of Au-nanoparticles using most vital organelle, chloroplasts, of the plant system is portrayed. Thylakoids/chloroplasts isolated from Potamogeton nodosus (an aquatic plant) and Spinacia oleracea (a terrestrial plant) turned Au³⁺ solutions purple in presence of light of 600 µmol m⁻² s⁻...

This paper proposes a novel approach for analyzing the stability of polynomial fractional-order systems using frequency-distributed fractional integrator model. There are two types frequency and temporal stabilization methods that global semi-global conditions attain sum-of-squares (SOS) method. Substantiation asymptotical complicated systems. According to recent studies on nonlinear systems, t...

Abstract Background Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic and fatal disorder caused by abnormal extracellular matrix deposition, which results in increasing dyspnea loss of function. Pirfenidone (PFD) has antifibrotic properties that have been approved the US FDA for treatment IPF. currently delivered orally, drawbacks like reduced bioavailability presence food, gastrointestinal (dys...

To cite: Sagmeister ML, Miller G, Lewis TL. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2015212992 DESCRIPTION Polyostotic fibrous dysplasia (PFD) is a sporadic benign skeletal condition that typically presents with bone pain, deformities and pathological fractures. It preferentially affects long bones. Sarcomatous transformation, most commonly osteosarcoma, o...

We determine the indexes of all orthogonal Grassmannians of a generic 16dimensional quadratic form in I q . This is applied to show that the 3-Pfister number of the form is ≥ 4. Other consequences are: a new and characteristic-free proof of a recent result by Chernousov–Merkurjev on proper subforms in I q (originally available in characteristic 0) as well as a new and characteristic-free proof ...

Pancreas transportation between donor center and islet production facility is frequently associated with prolonged ischemia impairing islet isolation and transplantation outcomes. It is foreseeable that shipment of pig pancreases from distant centralized biosecure breeding facilities to institutes that have a long-term experience in porcine islet isolation is essentially required in future clin...

Second year needles of Lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta L.) were exposed for 6 weeks to either simulated control summer ['summer'; 25 °C/250 photon flux denisty (PFD)], autumn ('autumn'; 15°C/250 PFD) or winter conditions ('winter'; 5 °C/250 PFD). We report that the proportion of linear electron transport utilized in carbon assimilation (ETR(CO2)) was 40% lower in both 'autumn' and 'winter' pine ...