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Open AccessEnergy Production Features of Miscanthus Pellets Blended with Pine Sawdust
The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the qualities of Miscanthus pellets blended with pine sawdust at various ratios (Miscanthus/pine sawdust—0:100, 25:75, 50:50, 75:25, and 100:0) and relate them ...
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Open AccessGenome biology of the paleotetraploid perennial biomass crop Miscanthus
Miscanthus is a perennial wild grass that is of global importance for paper production, roofing, horticultural plantings, and an emerging highly productive temperate biomass crop. We report a chromosome-scale ass...
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Field Performance of Saccharum × Miscanthus Intergeneric Hybrids (Miscanes) Under Cool Climatic Conditions of Northern Japan
Physiological susceptibility to early- and late-season chilling limits commercial production of sugarcane (Saccharum spp. hybrid), a major crop for lignocellulosic biomass, refined sugar, and bioethanol, to tropi...
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Open AccessEvaluation of genomic selection and marker-assisted selection in Miscanthus and energycane
Although energycane (Saccharum spp. hybrids) is widely used as a source of lignocellulosic biomass for bioethanol, breeding this crop for disease resistance is challenging due to its narrow genetic base. Therefor...
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Establishment of Miscanthus sinensis with decreased lignin biosynthesis by Agrobacterium–mediated transformation using antisense COMT gene
This study was to determine a transformation system for Miscanthus sinensis, and to optimize factors and conditions required for expression of an antisense caffeic acid O-methyltransferase gene in the M. sinensis
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Acetaminophen and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs interact with morphine and tramadol analgesia for the treatment of neuropathic pain in rats
Although non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and acetaminophen have no proven efficacy against neuropathic pain, they are frequently prescribed for neuropathic pain patients. We examined whether the combinat...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
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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Chapter and Conference Paper
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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Chapter and Conference Paper
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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Comparative study of transgenic Brachypodium distachyon expressing sucrose:fructan 6-fructosyltransferases from wheat and timothy grass with different enzymatic properties
Fructans can act as cryoprotectants and contribute to freezing tolerance in plant species, such as in members of the grass subfamily Pooideae that includes Triticeae species and forage grasses. To elucidate th...
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Genetic Analysis of Putative Triploid Miscanthus Hybrids and Tetraploid M. sacchariflorus Collected from Sympatric Populations of Kushima, Japan
Miscanthus ×giganteus, a triploid hybrid between tetraploid M. sacchariflorus and diploid M. sinensis, has considerable potential as a bioenergy crop. Currently only one genotype is widely culti...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
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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Chapter and Conference Paper
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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Open AccessNAAG peptidase inhibition in the periaqueductal gray and rostral ventromedial medulla reduces flinching in the formalin model of inflammation
Metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) have been identified as significant analgesic targets. Systemic treatments with inhibitors of the enzymes that inactivate the peptide transmitter N-acetylaspartylgluta...
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Environmental Tolerances of Miscanthus sinensis in Invasive and Native Populations
Miscanthus sinensis is a moderately invasive ornamental grass species being considered as a bioenergy species in the USA and elsewhere. In this study, we show the range of environmental condition...
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Comparison of Antifungal Activities of Gentian Violet and Povidone-Iodine Against Clinical Isolates of Candida Species and Other Yeasts: A Framework to Establish Topical Disinfectant Activities
We evaluated antifungal activity as assessed by the contact time in topical use of gentian violet (GV) and povidone-iodine (PI) against Candida strains. A total of 102 yeast isolates were used in this study. A ma...
