abstract an investigation was accomplished during 2007 and 2008 to test effect of hormonal treatment and cutting position on rooting of sebri , shekari and natanz cultivars of pear (pyrus pyrifolia.) the experimental design was a two way factorial in a completely randomized method and with pgr5 treatment (iba and iba with naa in four levels in the first year and four higher levels of iba in sec...

To properly apply approximate kinetic energy density functionals (KEDFs) used in orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) to the highly inhomogeneous electron density in transition metals, we introduce a decomposition scheme in which the electron density is partitioned into delocalized and localized parts, which makes it possible to apply a different physically justifiable KEDF to each d...

In order to elucidate which physiological event(s) are involved in the seasonal changes of carbohydrate dynamics during winter, we examined the effects of different low temperatures on the carbohydrate concentrations of Japanese pear (Pyrus pyrifolia (Burm.) Nakai). For four winter seasons, large increases in the sorbitol concentration of shoot xylem sap occurred during mid- to late December, p...