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    Currently, buildings in the U.S. account for more than 40 % of total primary energy. In China, the same figure is 20 %. Detailed building energy analysis and benchmarking based on energy monitoring are becoming vitally important for the evaluation of energy-efficient technologies and related policy making. This paper focuses on methods and challenges in energy benchmarking of office buildings between the U.S. and China, based on the experiences and outcomes of a joint research project under the …Read more
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    Defective pollen wall 2 encodes an acyl transferase required for rice pollen development
    with D. Xu, J. Shi, C. Rautengarten, X. Qian, M. Uzair, L. Zhu, Q. Luo, G. An, F. Waßmann, L. Schreiber, J. L. Heazlewood, H. V. Scheller, J. Hu, D. Zhang, and W. Liang
    © 2017 American Society of Plant Biologists. All rights reserved.Aliphatic and aromatic lipids are both essential structural components of the plant cuticle, an important interface between the plant and environment. Although cross links between aromatic and aliphatic or other moieties are known to be associated with the formation of leaf cutin and root and seed suberin, the contribution of aromatic lipids to the biosynthesis of anther cuticles and pollen walls remains elusive. In this study, we …Read more