... Understanding Plant Response to Heavy Metal Stress Zhao Yang and Chengcai Chu 39 59 Chapter Plant N Fluxes and Modulation by Nitrogen, HeatandWater Stresses: AReviewBasedonComparisonofLegumes ... Responses in Cereals 395 Aliki Kapazoglou and Athanasios Tsaftaris Chapter 18 C4 Plants Adaptation to High Levels of CO2 and to Drought Environments 415 Mar a Valeria Lara and Carlos Santiago Andreo ... Carillo Chapter 14 Plant Metabolomics: A Characterisation of Plant Responses to Abiotic Stresses 309 Annamaria Genga, Monica Mattana, Immacolata Coraggio, Franca Locatelli, Pietro Piffanelli and Roberto...
... ED, Hall AE (1982) Stomatal responses, water loss and CO assimilation rates ofplants in contrasting environments In: Physiological Plant Ecology II Water Relations and Carbon Assimilation (Lange ... oversaturation of the leaf disks Drought effects on stomatal conductance and net CO assimilation rate Stomatal conductance to water vapor (ψ ) w and net CO assimilation rates (A) dis2 played ... photosynthetic capacity Physiol Plant 71, 142-149 Krause E (1990) Stomatal and nonstomatal limitation of photosynthesis by leaf water deficits in three oak species: acomparisonof gas exchange and chlorophyll...
... WRKY18 and WRKY60 act as transcriptional activators and functional as positive regulators of plant ABA and abiotic stress responses By contrast, WRKY40 acts as a transcriptional repressor and functional ... T, Kamiya A, Nakajima M, Enju A, Sakurai T, Satou M, Akiyama K, Yamaguchi-Shinozaki K, Carninci P, Kawai J, Hayashizaki Y, Shinozaki K: Monitoring the expression pattern of around 7,000 Arabidopsis ... that the inhibited effect of ABA on root growth involves pathways mediated by other plant hormones such as ethylene, auxin and jasmonic acid The relationship between ABA signaling and salt and...
... Mediterranean region An earlier paper23 examined the association of particulate air pollution in all available cities and addressed the issue of heterogeneity in response That analysis did not examine ... pollution and daily deaths in the Air Pollution and Health: A European Approach (APHEA-2) study.22,23 This analysis focuses on particulate air pollution in a multicity hierarchic model Subjects and ... APHEA-2 methodology.23 Because of AIR POLLUTION AND MORTALITY DISPLACEMENT 89 the substantial variability in seasonal patterns and weather between, for example, Stockholm and Tel Aviv, separate...
... patients on ARVs and associated costs and total costs Year New cases starting ARVsa Total cases on ARVsa Total ARV diagnostic costs (ZAR million)b Total ARV drug costs (ZAR million)c Total plan costs ... political ally Minister Tshabalala-Msimang placed her emphasis on broad public health goals, seeing AIDS as only one aspect of that effort and one which, because of the financial costs of treatment, ... Historically, the first attempts at valuing lives saved used the human capital approach In this approach, a human being is regarded as an asset with a capital value based (as is the case for any asset)...
... conversation analysis and discourse analysis 5 1.2.1 Conversation analysis Many conversational analysis researchers have defined ordinary conversation as the kind of casual, social talk that routinely ... such a way they form a pair type They call them an adjacency pair The adjacency pair always consists ofa first part anda second part The utterance ofa first part immediately creates an expectation ... effective means of gathering a large amount of data quickly, creating an initial classification of semantic formulas and ascertaining the structures of speech acts under consideration. However, a major...
... source of information in English and Vietnamese was basedon the description of common markers of attribution in English and Vietnamese in terms of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic features 3.2 DATA ... a functional model of interpersonal meaning at the level of discourse semantics The framework of appraisal theory accommodates analysis of stance as positioning in relation to values and voices ... concept of attribution and its characteristics in syntax, semantics and pragmatics are still inaccessible to many of us 2 THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 2.2.1 Overview of Appraisal Theory The Appraisal...
... 5¢-CTGTGACCAGCACTGTCT CAGTTT-3¢; reverse, 5¢-CCCAGTGAGGATTGGATGA ACTA-3¢), SPARC (forward, 5¢-GAGACCTGTGACCT GGACAATG-3¢; reverse, 5¢-GGAAGGAGTGGATTTAG ATCACAAGA-3¢), TGFBR2 (forward, 5¢-TGGACCCT ACTCTGTCTGTGGAT-3¢; ... siRNA2, LAMP2 ⁄ siRNA1 and LAMP2 ⁄ siRNA2 are 5¢UGACUUCCCUGGCCUAUUUUU-3¢, 5¢-ACAUUGAGC UCCUCUCUUGUU-3¢, 5¢-GAUAAGGUUGCUUCAGU UAUU-3¢ and 5¢-ACAGUACGCUAUGAAACUAUU-3¢, respectively As a negative control, ... two arrays ona glass slide and three identical subarrays (triplicate spots) per array The reliability of hybridizations and experimental data was evaluated using several positive and negative...
... Arabidopsis arenosa, Arabidopsis halleri, Arabidopsis petraea, Arabidopsis thaliana, Arabis pendula, Camelina microcarpa, Capsella rubella and Neslia paniculata, all members of the Brassicaceae, but ... dioica Jacq Planta 207, 470–479 44 Walter A, Mazars C, Maitrejean M, Hopke J, Ranjeva R, Boland W & Mithofer A (2007) Structural require¨ ments of jasmonates and synthetic analogues as inducers of ... 61 Davoine C, Douki T, Iacazio G, Montillet JL & Trian` taphylides C (2005) Conjugation of keto fatty acids to glutathione in plant tissues Characterization and quantification by HPLC-tandem mass...
... Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health Research Programme Yolande Shean Project Administrator Behavioural and Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Section Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health Research Programme ... Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Section Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health Research Programme Sean Jooste, MA Research Specialist (Doctoral Research Trainee) Behavioural and Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS ... and Health Research Programme Nomvo Dwadwa-Henda, MA Chief Researcher (Doctoral Research Trainee) Behavioural and Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Section Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health Research...
... various factors such as organizational commitment, job satisfactory and job motivation on the one hand and employees’ acceptance of organizational change on the other hand Another example is an ... the levels of inertia at the individual level Research has been done on organizational inertia, which examines the role and impact of organizational inertia on organizational structure and design.17 ... organization and the demands of the uncertain and changing environments (March and Olsen, 1976; Weick, 1976) The third view, basedon the rational adaptation theory developed by March and Simon...
... interpretation, and carried out immunoassays RP participated in the design of the study, statistical analysis, and data interpretation, and drafted the manuscript AA performed the statistical analysis ... and SJP participated in the data acquisition and interpretation QZ participated in the data analysis HW performed data acquisition MS and JK carried out immunoassays JR, RJ, JH, RC, and JM contributed ... RL, Manson JE, Wu L, Barad D, Barnabei VM, Ko M, LaCroix AZ, Margolis KL, Stefanick ML: Postmenopausal hormone therapy and risk of cardiovascular disease by age and years since menopause JAMA 2007,...
... forest stands (Fig 5) 2.3 Water balance andwater shortage The daily water balance model BILJOU [55] allows a computation ofwater uxes (tree transpiration, understorey evapotranspiration, rainfall ... corresponds to an adaptation of species to water limitation in deciduous angiosperms [94] This adaptation has been interpreted as a means to maximise water transfer and consequently carbon xation ... interface and leaves Leaf water potential decreases as evaporative demand (potential evapotranspiration) increases and also as soil dries As long as soil water supply is sucient to compensate for...
... Nagakura J., Shigenaga H., Akama A. , Takahashi M., Growth and transpiration of Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) and Hinoki cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa) seedlings in response to soil water ... a drought treatment and 10 plants were randomly assigned to a well-watered control 2.1.1 Substrate waterand measurements At thirty days from sowing, pots were watered to container capacity and ... photosynthetic carbon assimilation, stomatal conductance, and light absorption [19] Changes in climate have raised concerns about potential impacts of precipitation on forest response to decreased soil water...
... Technology of Japan, and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan Authors’ contributions JK participated in the study design and data retrieval and analysis KY, KK, ES participated in ... samples, and mean value was calculated in each case The longitudinal length of the rectal tumor was measured by barium enema study before and after CRT, and the ratio of tumor reduction was calculated ... and after CRT, the longitudinal dimension of the rectal tumor was measured on BE images before (A) and after (B) CRT, and the reduction rate was calculated as (A- B) /A Biopsy samples were obtained...
... extracting the beta estimate of activation at the voxel of peak activation for each cluster Machine learning classification analysis We additionally conducted a pattern classification analysis ... activation as antipsychotic and lithium treatment affect frontal activation [60,61] and antipsychotic medication has been linked to functional and structural changes, particularly in prefrontal areas ... Polli and colleagues [54] observed a negative correlation between error rate and anterior cingulate and putamen activation during an antisaccade paradigm in both schizophrenia and healthy controls...
... frequentist approach to BP, the conditional genotypic values are computed from the true values of the model parameters and genotype probabilities conditional on the data andon the true values of the ... effect ofa larger number of iterations on the accuracy of genetic evaluations was negligible Fernandez et al [11] showed that iterative peeling yields very good approximations for conditional genotype ... State of Iowa funds, and was partially funded by award No 2002-35205-1156 of the National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program of the USDA The helpful comments from an anonymous reviewer...
... silently ashore • Sammy Smellie smelt a smell of small-coal: Did Sammy Smellie smell a smell of small-coal? If Sammy Smellie smelt a smell of small-coal, Where's the smell of small-coal Sammy Smellie ... • The child watched his teacher and fetched him the chalk • Charles and Richard chewed cheese and chewed gum • Charles is a cheerful chicken-farmer He chuckles at the chance Ofa choice chicken ... Jolly Jack and joyful Jill jumping down the jagged hill • John Johnson joined jealous Jenny Jerry making apple-jelly • Jane and Jenny in their blue jackets are watching the jaguar in the cage •...