· Encouraging pipeline, with significant new contracts underpinning future growth, including at Montparnasse station in Paris, 29 Starbucks stores in the NS rail estate in the Netherlands, at Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo Guarulhos International Airports in Brazil, at Goa International Airport in India and in North America, at San Francisco and Seattle Airports.

Enestroburin16,17,18,19, SYP-162020,21, SYP-2815, and ZJ071222,23 are novel QoI fungicides have been recently developed in China (Fig. 1). For those novel QoI fungicides, mutants with high or moderate resistance have been obtained in the laboratory for the following combinations of QoI and pathogen: enestroburin and Pseudoperonospora cubensis19, enestroburin and Magnaporthe grisea24, SYP-1620 and M. grisea25, and ZJ0712 and Sphaerotheca fuliginea22. In our preliminary work, eight mutants of P. litchii with different resistance level resistant to three novel QoI fungicides (SYP-1620, SYP-2815, and ZJ0712) and azoxystrobin (as a known QoI fungicide) were obtained by exposing field isolates to fungicides or UV light in the laboratory26. The objectives of this study were to: (1) compare the point mutations in the CYTB of P. litchii that result in different levels of resistance to the fungicides; (2) investigate how the point mutations might affect QoI fungicide binding by constructing docking models.

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In the renewable biomass initiative, Kalion and the federal laboratory are creating the ability to scale up a production strain to generate an appropriate process.

Sure, it is “technically” possible to 3D print in stainless steel, titanium, etc. (see GE’s printed airplane turbine blades) but the machinery to do that is priced far beyond the reach of most.

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6. Key Chinese AA&AE Companies 6.1 Formosa Plastics Corporation 6.2 Shenyang Chemical Co., Ltd (000698) 6.3 Zhejiang Satellite Petrochemical Co., Ltd (002648) 6.4 SunVic Chemical Holdings Limited (A7S) 6.5 Shandong Kaitai Petrochemical Co., Ltd. 6.6 BASF-YPC Company Limited 6.7 Shanghai Huayi Acrylic Acid Co., Ltd. 6.8 Beijing Eastern Petrochemical Co.,Ltd

Our currency hedges protect us economically from foreign exchange rate fluctuations, and provide higher certainty for our earnings and cash flow, our ability to invest for growth, and our future shareholder distributions. Our non-GAAP, or core, results provided additional transparency into operations by using a constant currency rate aligned with the economics of our underlying transactions. We’re very pleased with our hedging program and the economic certainty it provides. We have received $1.7 billion in cash under our hedge contracts since our inception slightly over five years ago.

Let’s move to our fastest-growing segment, Optical Communications. Full year sales were $4.2 billion, up 18% for the second consecutive year. The business is on track to surpass its goal of $5 billion in 2020 sales. Net income was up 2% year-over-year. In the fourth quarter, sales exceeded $1 billion for the third consecutive quarter, and we were up 26% over 2017. Net income for the quarter was up 60% year-over-year. Sales growth for the year and the quarter were driven by multiyear data center and carrier projects, availability of new manufacturing capacity, as well as sales from the recently acquired 3M Communication Markets division. As planned, we are leveraging our capacity investments to drive higher volume and earnings. Our mid-year acquisitions of 3M’s Communication Markets division contributed about $200 million to 2018 sales. We are pleased with our progress on integrating this acquisition and continue to expect it to be accretive to EPS in 2019.

Thanks, Vijay. And I just want to close by saying thank you all for joining us. I also wanted to let you know that we’ll be at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference on February 12th, and we’ll be hosting an Investor Day in New York City on June 14th. We’ll also be hosting some virtual presentations and webcasts on business topics throughout the year. Finally, the web replay of today’s call will be available on our site starting later this morning. Once again, thank you all for joining us. Tanya, that concludes our call. Please disconnect all lines.

Arkema: As the world’s third-largest AA & AE manufacturer, Arkema in 2014 announced that it would cooperate with the Chinese acrylic acid giant – SunVic Chemical to establish a joint venture dubbed Sunke (controlled by Arkema), which was to take over SunVic Chemical’s acrylic acid production base in Taixing. The third 160 kt/a acrylic acid production line of Taixing Base is scheduled to go into operation in the first quarter of 2015, by then Arkema will boast acrylic acid capacity of 320 kt/a in China.

Chen, M., Ji, M. S., Zhao, L., Qi, Z. Q. & Wang, F. Baseline sensitivity and resistance risk of Magnaporthe grisea to enestroburin in Liaoning province. Modern Agrochemicals 7, 23–25, 32 (2008).