The causal gene of a novel small and round seed mutant phenotype (srs3) in rice was identified by map-based cloning and named the SRS3 gene. The SRS3 gene was grouped as a member of the kinesin 13 subfamily. The SRS3 gene codes for a protein of 819 amino acids that contains a kinesin motor domain and a coiled-coil structure. Using scanning electron microscopy, we determined that the cell length...

The recently acquired archaeological record for soybean from Japan, China and Korea is shedding light on the context in which this important economic plant became associated with people and was domesticated. This paper examines archaeological (charred) soybean seed size variation to determine what insight can be gained from a comprehensive comparison of 949 specimens from 22 sites. Seed length ...

Let a seed, S, be a string from the alphabet {1, ∗}, of arbitrary length k, which starts and ends with a 1. For example, S = 11 ∗ 1. S occurs in a binary string T at position h if the length k substring of T ending at position h contains a 1 in every position where there is a 1 in S. We say that the 1s at the corresponding positions in T are covered. We are interested in calculating the probabi...

Motivated by the problem of how to communicate over a public channel with an active adversary, Dodis and Wichs (STOC’09) introduced the notion of a non-malleable extractor. A non-malleable extractor nmExt : {0, 1} × {0, 1} → {0, 1} takes two inputs, a weaklyrandom W and a uniformly random seed S, and outputs a string which is nearly uniform, given S as well as nmExt(W,A(S)), for an arbitrary fu...

We concentrate on the generalized string regularities and study the minimum approximate λ-cover problem and the minimum approximate λ-seed problem of a string. Given a string x of length n and an integer λ, the minimum approximate λ-cover (resp. seed) problem is to find a set of λ substrings each of equal length that covers x (resp. a superstring of x) with the minimum error, under a variety of...

The randomized result was obtained by viewing random bit sequences as vertices of an expander graph and performing a random walk upon choosing a start vertex uniformly at random, and casting a majority vote. The error (probability of majority vote resulting in error) exponentially decreases with the length of the random walk. We also saw a stronger statement based on Chernoff bounds for random ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the evaluating the potential of seed priming techniques in improving germination and early seedling growth of Aeluropus Macrostachys under salinity stress condition. This study was performed at the Islamic Azad University in Baft city which is located in southeast of kerman province (2250 meters above the sea level, 92º 17 N latitude and 56º 36 E longitu...

The purpose of this study was to examine the evaluating the potential of seed priming techniques in improving germination and early seedling growth of Aeluropus Macrostachys under salinity stress condition. This study was performed at the Islamic Azad University in Baft city which is located in southeast of kerman province (2250 meters above the sea level, 92º 17 N latitude and 56º 36 E longitu...

In order to study of the effect of seed inoculation with PGPR on nitrogen and phosphorus use efficiency of spring wheat in different levels of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers, an experimental was conducted at the Research Farm of Mohageh Ardabili University, Ardabil, Iran during 2012 year. The combination of nitrogen fertilizer in three levels (0, 40 and 80 kg N/ha as urea) and phosphorus f...

There is substantial diversity in Achillea biebersteinii plants in Iran. It has considerable different biological activities including antibacterial, antifungal, antioxidant, insecticidal, herbicidal and wound healing. Research improvement for medicinal plants depends on the available genetic diversity. The assessment of genetic variability could increase the information for breeding programs. ...