More efficient resource use, especially nitrogen (N) in agricultural fields could considerably reduce the losses and spillover effects on environment. Cereal-legume mixtures can lead to more uptake of growth-limiting resources, increase stabilize yields, due variation functional traits that facilitate partitioning niche space. Here we identify crop with optimal N use two selected cereal-legume ...

We introduce and explore the asymmetric inclusion process (ASIP), an exactly solvable bosonic counterpart of the fermionic asymmetric exclusion process (ASEP). In both processes, random events cause particles to propagate unidirectionally along a one-dimensional lattice of n sites. In the ASEP, particles are subject to exclusion interactions, whereas in the ASIP, particles are subject to inclus...

The capacity of human sensory systems for transmitting information has been approximated in the past by using statistical estimators. However, a substantial margin of error remained. The problem is that the error can be reduced to a negligible level only by increasing the number of human trials or tests to the order of about 10(4). Since a human subject can perform at peak only in the order of ...

Labor force participation rates of married women have increased substantially since 1950s; and the educational gender gaps for cohorts born after 1950 have also witnessed a shrinkage and, in fact, a reversal. In this paper, we advance a novel connection between the two trends: the decrease in the maternal time input in the children’s education as a result of the increase in maternal employment ...

Tillering (branching) is a major yield component and, therefore, a target for improving the yield of crops. However, tillering is regulated by complex interactions of endogenous and environmental signals, and the knowledge required to achieve optimal tiller number through genetic and agronomic means is still lacking. Regulatory mechanisms may be revealed through physiological and molecular char...

Whole!plant responses to elevated CO1 throughout the life cycle are needed to understand future impacts of elevated atmospheric CO1[ In this study\ Triticum aes! tivum L[ leaf carbon exchange rates "CER# and carbo! hydrates\ growth\ and development were examined at the tillering\ booting\ and grain!_lling stages in growth chambers with CO1 concentrations of 249 "ambient# or 699 "high# mmol mol[...