Comparative functional genomics studies the evolution of biological processes by analyzing functional data, such as gene expression profiles, across species. A major challenge is to compare profiles collected in a complex phylogeny. Here, we present Arboretum, a novel scalable computational algorithm that integrates expression data from multiple species with species and gene phylogenies to infe...

Recent All America Selections (AAS) winners are promoted through a nationwide display garden program. The association of this author with the display garden program was discussed previously (Durham and Dutton, 2001). Display gardens have been grown at both the University of Kentucky–LexingtonFayette County Urban Government Arboretum (hereafter, the Arboretum), the Horticultural Research Farm in...

The Arboretum’s 75th AnniversAry seminAr explored the history and future of restoration—both science and practice. Under the supervision of Joy Zedler, Botany 950 students traced the development of key ecological concepts through history. Under Paul Zedler’s guidance, Environmental Studies 992 students brought their interdisciplinary approaches to bear on where the Arboretum could make its grea...

Tree location and tree attributes are valuable elements of municipal tree management systems. By creating the tree data in Geographic Information System, users have access to other digital data that can be used in conjunction with tree database. A study was conducted at the Universiti Putra Malaysia's arboretum with an objective to establish a computerized information system for Universiti Putr...

Interactive Narrative often involves dialogue with virtual dramatic characters. In this paper we compare two kinds of models of character style: one based on models derived from the Big Five theory personality, and the other derived from a corpus-based method applied to characters and films from the IMSDb archive. We apply these models to character utterances for a pilot narrative-based outdoor...

The article describes the Arboretum park as a specially protected natural territory in Jewish Autonomous region providing information about its conditions, arboretum history, stages of development and scientific research flora vegetation. Particular attention is paid to introduction woody plants their preservation area climatic conditions. It presented list from Russian Federation Red Books. au...

Managing tree health in urban environments is complicated due to the disconnect that exists between novel environmental conditions created by urbanization and those under which species evolved. Soils influence growth, but optimal nutrient pH recommendations are often informed agricultural horticultural norms do not typically include for forest species. At Arnold Arboretum Boston, Massachusetts,...

Arboretum virus (ABTV) and Puerto Almendras virus (PTAMV) are two mosquito-associated rhabdoviruses isolated from pools of Psorophora albigenu and Ochlerotattus fulvus mosquitoes, respectively, collected in the Department of Loreto, Peru, in 2009. Initial tests suggested that both viruses were novel rhabdoviruses and this was confirmed by complete genome sequencing. Analysis of their 11 482 nt ...

*Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan Herbarium, 3600 Varsity Drive, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108-2287, U.S.A.; yDepartment of Botany, California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California 94118, U.S.A.; zFlorida Museum of Natural History, Dickinson Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, U.S.A.; and §Arnold Arboretum, Harvar...

this study was carried out in order to investigate on chromosomal behavior during meiosis in herbaceum (iranian endemic), arboretum species, f1 hybrids of two species and bc4 genotypes. the endemic varieties used in this study were semnan and shahreza (herbaceum) and vtdl as arboretum cultivar. f1s investigations showed that in the adjacent and alternative quadrivalents frequently but the bc4 o...