The economically important plum or cherry genus (PRUNUS:) and the subfamily Amygdaloideae of the Rosaceae have a controversial taxonomic history due to the lack of a phylogenetic framework. Phylogenetic analysis using the ITS sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA (nrDNA) was conducted to construct the evolutionary history and evaluate the historical classifications of PRUNUS: and the Amygdaloideae. The analyses suggest two major groups within the Amygdaloideae: (1) PRUNUS: s.l. (sensu lato) and MADDENIA:, and (2) EXOCHORDA:, Oemleria, and PRINSEPIA: The ITS phylogeny supports the recent treatment of including EXOCHORDA: (formerly in the Spiraeoideae) in the Amygdaloideae. MADDENIA: is found to be nested within PRUNUS: s.l. in the parsimony and distance analyses, but basal to PRUNUS: s.l. in the maximum likelihood analysis. Within PRUNUS:, two major groups are recognizable: (1) the AMYGDALUS:-PRUNUS: group, and (2) the CERASUS:-LAUROCERASUS:-PADUS: group. The clades in the ITS phylogeny are not congruent with most subgeneric groups in the widely used classification of PRUNUS: by Rehder. A broadly defined PRUNUS: is supported.

This paper presents an interference management scheme for OFDMA Femtocell systems. Femtocell is recently introduced for indoor coverage extension. However, interference problem between the femtocell and the macrocell should be solved in advance. In this paper, we propose an efficient interference management scheme in the OFDMA femtocell systems using Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR) in order to minimize the interference between both cells. Under the pre-allocated frequency band within a macrocell through the FFR optimally, the proposed scheme allocates sub-bands the femtocells efficiently to consider macrocell having a priority over femtocells and total/edge throughputs. Simulation results show that proposed scheme enhances the throughputs performance in overall network, especially for the macrocell users and cell edge users.

The optical and electrochemical properties of the ruthenium phthalocyanine complexes [[(t-Bu)4Pc]Ru(4-Rpy)2], where R = NO2, Me, NH2, and NMe2, are reported. The electron density at the macrocycle may be adjusted using the axial ligand substituents, which have varying electron-donating/withdrawing strengths. Electrochemical data show that the axial pyridine ligand substituents exert significant influence over the phthalocyanine ring-based redox processes. The axial ligands also influence the electronic absorption properties of the complexes with influence also being observed in the electrogenerated oxidized and reduced species.

Pseudostellaria longipedicellata which belongs to Caryophyllaceae is endemic in South Korea. In this study, we presented first complete chloroplast genome of P. longipedicellata which is 149,626 bp and has four sub-regions: 81,292 bp of large single copy (LSC) and 16,984 bp of small single copy (SSC) regions are separated by 25,675 bp of inverted repeat (IRs) regions including 126 genes (81 CDS, eight rRNAs, and 37 tRNAs). The overall GC contents of the chloroplast genome were 36.5% and in the LSC, SSC and IR regions were 34.3%, 29.3%, and 42.4%, respectively. ARTICLE HISTORY