Abstract: This application relates to methods and materials for providing a benefit to a seed or seedling of an agricultural plant (e.g., an agricultural grass plant), or the agricultural plant derived from the seed or seedling. For example, this application provides purified bacterial populations that include novel seed-origin bacterial endophytes, and synthetic combinations of seeds and/or seedlings (e.g., cereal seeds and/or seedlings) with heterologous seed-derived bacterial endophytes.

Abstract: A method of displaying graphics on a conformation portion of a container, said conformation portion having a non-uniform cross-section therethrough, said method comprising the steps of a) arranging graphics with respect to a planar covering for said conformation portion, said graphics comprising graphics in distorted proportion to compensate for non-uniformity of said conformation portion, and b) performing a process of application in which said planar covering is applied to said conformation portion such that said graphics in distorted proportion appear in normal proportion.

Abstract: In order to compensate for image distortion introduced into a digitally controlled raster-scan CRT by the finite video amplifier rise and fall times, the digital video drive waveform is subjected to selective pulse stretching to extend the duration of each pel which is immediately preceded by a pel of lower light intensity value (brightness). This is achieved by means of a comparator (14) which examines each current pel PEL(N) in the video data stream in relation to its immediately preceding neighbor PEL(N-1) in order to detect pel boundary transition therebetween representing an increase in brightness from the preceding pel to the current pel. Re-timing means (17, 19, 21, 22) is operably under control of the comparator output to cause advancement in time by a predetermined amount (dt) of any such pel boundary transition relative to remaining pel boundary transitions.