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PGPR in Managing Root Rot Disease and Enhancing Growth in Mandarin (Citrus reticulata Blanco.) Seedlings
Decline in general plant-health and fruit production in mandarin influenced by abiotic and biotic factors is a major threat to cultivars grown in Darjeeling and Sikkim hills. Fusarium root rot, caused by F. oxysporum, is one of the most serious diseases afflicted during early plant growth stage in Citrus. To address this, seven PGPR isolates - Pseudomonas poae (RMK03), Bacillus stratosphericus (RHS/CL-01), Ochrobactrum anthropi, Paenibacillus lentimorbus, Bacillus pumilus, Bacillus megaterium and Bacillus amyloliquefaciens were isolated from the rhizosphere of Citrus reticulata, C. limonia and Camellia sinensis, and used for evaluating their effect on growth of mandarin seedlings. Pseudomonas poae showed in vitro antagonism to Fusarium oxysporum. Better growth enhancement was noticed with P. poae, B. stratosphericus, O. anthropi and B. pumilus. Enhanced activity of chlorophyll, total protein, phenol, four major defense enzymeschitinase, β-1, 3-glucanase, peroxidase and phenyalanine ammonia lyase was observed upon application of PGPR. P. poae also suppressed root rot caused by Fusarium oxysporum. Use of PGPR, which promote growth besides reducing disease severity to some extent, may lead to use of eco-friendly approaches for controlling plant diseases
On the Complexity of Temporal-Logic Path Checking
Given a formula in a temporal logic such as LTL or MTL, a fundamental problem
is the complexity of evaluating the formula on a given finite word. For LTL,
the complexity of this task was recently shown to be in NC. In this paper, we
present an NC algorithm for MTL, a quantitative (or metric) extension of LTL,
and give an NCC algorithm for UTL, the unary fragment of LTL. At the time of
writing, MTL is the most expressive logic with an NC path-checking algorithm,
and UTL is the most expressive fragment of LTL with a more efficient
path-checking algorithm than for full LTL (subject to standard
complexity-theoretic assumptions). We then establish a connection between LTL
path checking and planar circuits, which we exploit to show that any further
progress in determining the precise complexity of LTL path checking would
immediately entail more efficient evaluation algorithms than are known for a
certain class of planar circuits. The connection further implies that the
complexity of LTL path checking depends on the Boolean connectives allowed:
adding Boolean exclusive or yields a temporal logic with P-complete
path-checking problem
Spin Polarizations at and about the Lowest Filled Landau Level
The spin polarization versus temperature at or near a fully filled lowest
Landau level is explored for finite-size systems in a periodic rectangular
geometry. Our results at which also include the finite-thickness
correction are in good agreement with the experimental results. We also find
that the interacting electron system results are in complete agreement with the
results of the sigma model, i.e., skyrmions on a torus have a topological
charge of and the Q=1 solution is like a single spin-flip excitation.
Our results therefore provide direct evidence for the skyrmionic nature of the
excitations at this filling factor.Comment: 4 pages, REVTEX, and 4 .ps files, To be published in Europhysics
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Magnetic properties of interacting, disordered electron systems in d=2 dimensions
We compute the magnetic susceptibilities of interacting electrons in the
presence of disorder on a two-dimensional square lattice by means of quantum
Monte Carlo simulations. Clear evidence is found that at sufficiently low
temperatures disorder can lead to an enhancement of the ferromagnetic
susceptibility. We show that it is not related to the transition from a metal
to an Anderson insulator in two dimensions, but is a rather general low
temperature property of interacting, disordered electronic systems.Comment: 5 pages, 6 figure
Temperature dependence of spin polarizations at higher Landau Levels
We report our results on temperature dependence of spin polarizations at
in the lowest as well as in the next higher Landau level that compare
well with recent experimental results. At , except having a much smaller
magnitude the behavior of spin polarization is not much influenced by higher
Landau levels. In sharp contrast, for filling factor we predict
that unlike the case of the system remains fully spin polarized
even at vanishingly small Zeeman energies.Comment: 4 pages, REVTEX, and 3 .ps files, To be published in Physical Review
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