“…G. Robinson [1996] remarked that as an easy consequence of finite version of the Borel-Tits Theorem, if G is a finite group with a (B, N )-pair of rank n and characteristic p, then plr(G) = n. So we can determine the p-local ranks of finite groups of Lie type directly, where p is the defining characteristic of such groups. In fact, as an easy consequence of [Gorenstein et al 1994], we have:…”