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Toshihiko Yamada
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Use of SSR Markers to Increase Forage Yield in Timoty (Phleum pratense L.)
Molecular markers may provide a tool to overcome the forage yield plateau in timothy (Phleum pratense L.) breeding. The objective of this study is a proposal for reciprocal recurrent selection (RRS) scheme with c...
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Candidate Gene Approach in Miscanthus spp. for Biorefinery
Cost-effective production of bioethanol and chemicals from lignocellulose, has attracted significant interest around the world. Rhizomatous and perennial warm-season C4 grasses such as Miscanthus spp. are poten...
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Relationship Between Emergence and Genome Content of Iranian Tall Fescue Entries Under Drought Stress
Tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.) is an important turf grass species for semiarid regions. We examined the effects of low soil moisture and relative genome content on the emergence and early establishment...
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Miscanthus
Miscanthus is a perennial rhizomatous warm-season C4 grass species and is native throughout Eastern Asia and Pacific islands, ranging from tropical Polynesia to southern Siberia. Conventionally, th...
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Prediction of Heat Recovery Characteristics of Oxyfuel Combustion Boiler Using CFD
Oxyfuel combustion is one of the promising technologies to reduce CO2 emission from pulverized coal fired power plant. In order to apply this technology to the commercial boiler, it is important to predict the bo...
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Application and Demonstration of Oxyfuel Combustion Technologies to the Existing Power Plant in Australia
Oxyfuel combustion is able to directly make the highly concentrated CO2 from the flue gas of pulverized coal fired power plant and, therefore, is expected as one of the promising technologies for CO2 capture. We ...
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The Gene Pool of Miscanthus Species and Its Improvement
For more than a thousand years, people have used Miscanthus from wild stands or managed landscapes, to feed their livestock, roof their homes, make paper, dye possessions, and beautify their gardens. In recent de...
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Insertion-Deletion Marker Targeting for Intron Polymorphisms
Insertion-deletion (indel) polymorphisms are the second most frequent type of polymorphisms in genomes following single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). As one of the types of indel markers to detect polymorph...
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Molecular Map** and Breeding for Genes/QTLS Related to Climate Change
Through selection by humans, crop plants are adapted to produce optimal yield in the areas where they are cultivated. Climate changes may cause stress to plants, disturb plant growth, and decrease plant yield....
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Miscanthus
The genus Miscanthus was first described in 1855 by Andersson (Öfvers Kungl Vet Adad Förh Stockholm 12:151–168, 1856). Its members are typical tall C4 grasses belonging to the Poaceae family, showing close relati...
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Festuca
The genus Festuca L. is one of the largest in Gramineae and is, along with Poa L., the largest genus of tribe Poeae. Festuca L. and its closely allied genus Lolium L. have long fascinated agronomists, evolutionis...
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Allelic Diversity for Candidate Genes and Association Studies: Methods and Results
The increasing ease with which molecular markers can be generated makes it possible for plant geneticists to use these genomic technologies for better exploitation of the available genetic variation in breedin...
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Transgenesis and Genomics in Forage Crops
Forage grasses and legumes are important for animal production as well as soil conservation and environmental protection. Grass species also provide opportunities for turf and amenity. Further recently some of...
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Introgression Breeding Program in Lolium/Festuca Complex Using Androgenesis
The genus Festuca L. and it is the closely allied genus Lolium L. have long fascinated agronomists, evolutionists and plant breeders. Intergeneric hybrids between closely related Lolium and Festuca species are be...
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Test Results of Oxy-fuel Combustion and Outline of Demonstration Project in Australia
Oxy-fuel combustion is expected to be one of the promising systems on CO2 capture from pulverized-coal fired power plant, and enable the CO2 to be captured in a more cost-effective manner compared to other CO2 ca...
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Introduction
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Cyclotomic algebras
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Properties of a schur algebra
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Schur algebras
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The brauer-witt theorem
