The rapidly growing world population has a greatly increasing demand for plant biomass, thus creating a great interest in the development of methods to enhance the growth and biomass accumulation of crop species. In this study, we used zinc finger artificial transcription factor (ZF-ATF)-mediated genome interrogation to manipulate the growth characteristics and biomass of Arabidopsis plants. We...

Site index is an important forest inventory attribute that relates productivity and growth expectation of forests over time. In forest inventory programs, site index is used in conjunction with other forest inventory attributes (i.e., height, age) for the estimation of stand volume. In turn, stand volumes are used to estimate biomass (and biomass components) and enable conversion to carbon. In ...

We show that the norm graph constructed in [13] with n vertices about 1 2n 2−1/t edges, which contains no copy of Kt,(t−1)!+1, does not contain a copy of Kt+1,(t−1)!−1.

In this paper we investigate the closure ~-* under substitution-composition of a family of graphs ~,, defined by a set Lr of forbidden configurations. We first prove that ~-* can be defined by a set L~* of forbidden subgraphs. Next, using a counterexample we show that ~* is not necessarily a finite set, even when .~ is finite. We then give a sufficient condition for ~* to be finite and a simple...

Logical structures for modeling agents’ reasoning about unawareness are presented where it can hold simultaneously that: (i) agents’ beliefs about whether they are fully aware need not be veracious with partitional information; and (ii) the agent is fully aware if and only if she is aware of a fixed domain of formulae. In light of (ii), all states are deemed “possible”. Semantics operate in two...

We characterise t-perfect plane triangulations by forbidden induced subgraphs. As a consequence, we obtain that a plane triangulation is h-perfect if and only if it is perfect.

A circle graph is the intersection graph of a family of chords on a circle. There is no known characterization of circle graphs by forbidden induced subgraphs that do not involve the notions of local equivalence or pivoting operations. We characterize circle graphs by a list of minimal forbidden induced subgraphs when the graph belongs to one of the following classes: linear domino graphs, P4-t...

In this note, we prove that all 2× 2 monotone grid classes are finitely based, i.e., defined by a finite collection of minimal forbidden permutations. This follows from a slightly more general result about certain 2× 2 having two monotone cells in the same row.

The primary barrier to low-cost biological conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to renewable fuels and chemicals is plant recalcitrance, that is to say, resistance of cell walls to deconstruction by enzymes or microbes [1,2]. However, the discovery and use of biomass species with reduced recalcitrance, when combined with optimized pretreatment processes and enzyme mixtures, could potentially i...

Because they are strong and stable, lignocellulosic supramolecular structures in plant cell walls are resistant to decomposition. However, they can be degraded and recycled by soil microbiota. Little is known about the biomass degradation profiles of complex microbiota based on differences in cellulosic supramolecular structures without compositional variations. Here, we characterized and evalu...