To explore the function of light-harvesting complex protein (LHCP) in Arabidopsis growth and development, the Leclere and Bartel seed collection was screened. In this collection randomly cloned cDNAs are expressed under the CaMV35S promoter. A pale green line has been identified and characterized in more details. Analysis of the inserted cDNA in the pale green line showed it encodes LHCB1 prote...

Dichlorodimethoxy-/?-benzoquinone (DCDMQ) was tested for its site of action in the photo­ synthetic electron transport chain. Hill reaction mediated by DCDMQ was insensitive to DBMIB (1 nm) but sensitive to DCMU, suggesting its site of action before plastoquinone but after Q the primary electron acceptor of photosystem II. Extraction of freeze-dried chloroplasts with heptane and analyzing their...

In the present work, we address a major challenge facing the modeling of biochemical reaction networks: when using stochastic simulations, the computational load and number of unknown parameters may dramatically increase with system size and complexity. A proposed solution to this challenge is the reduction of models by utilizing nonlinear reaction rate laws in place of a complex multi-reaction...

In this paper, we aim at evaluating the impact of the starting point of a basic local search based on the first improvement strategy. We define the coverage rate of a configuration as the proportion of the search space from which a particular configuration can be reached by a strict hill-climbling with a non-zero probability. In particular, we compute the coverage rate of fitness landscapes glo...

Background:   To assess the outcome of the remplissage arthroscopic surgical method in patients with anterior shoulder dislocation associated with Hill-Sachs lesion.     Methods:   Ten patients with anterior shoulder dislocations and Hill-Sachs lesions were entered into this study and were operated on by the remplissage arthroscopic surgical method. They were followed up 22 months after surgery...

Crowley et al. (Reports, 13 March 2015, p. 1237) propose that abyssal hill topography can be generated by variations in volcanism at mid-ocean ridges modulated by Milankovitch cycle-driven changes in sea level. Published values for abyssal hill characteristic widths versus spreading rate do not generally support this hypothesis. I argue that abyssal hills are primarily fault-generated rather th...