... stresses such as chlorophyll and fluorescence are highlighted in one of the chapters of the book Of special significance is the comprehensive state of the art understanding of plant response to heavy ... exploitation of natural genetic variations and generation of transgenic plants with novel genes or altered expression levels of the existing genes A fundamental biological understanding and knowledge of ... source of Fig Percentage of irrigated lands damaged by salinity Salinity Stress and Salt Tolerance 23 salts in many landscape soils comes from ice melters used on roads and sidewalks The addition of...
... filled with a 1:1 (v/v) mixture of sand and blond peat, fertilized with 2.0 g of Nutricote 100 (N/P/K: 13/13/13) and complemented with a mixture of oligoelements, and g of magnesium chalk The plants ... seedlings (fig 2): Q petraea reached the highest rates of A and g fol, w lowed by Q cerris and Q rubra All species exhibited similar rates of change in A and g ψ decreased Decreases in A w wp as began ... The decline of g was much steeper, reaching w -1 -2 values below 0.025 mol m s at -1.5 MPa in all species Differences in the decline rates of g and A may be due to CO w limitation of A and supra-optimal...
... Laboratory of Biocontrol and Key Laboratory of Gene Engineering of the Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China 2Department of Botany and Plant ... isolation of total RNA and analysis of transcripts using qRT-PCR Expression level was defined as the ratio of qRT-PCR result of treated sample to its respective mock The means and standard errors ... B Ratio of GUS activities (+/- DEX) Transcription-regulating activity of WRKY18, WRKY40 and WRKY60 Page of 15 Figure The effect of ABA and SA on the transcriptionregulating activities of WRKY18,...
... and F Forastiere (Italy); D Zmirou and F Balducci (Grenoble, France); J Schouten and J Vonk (The Netherlands); J Pekkanen and P Tittanen (Finland); L Clancy and P Goodman (Ireland); A Goren and ... S-plus software (Mathsoft Inc, Seattle, WA) Results Table shows the ten cities, their populations, the study period in each location, and the mean and standard deviation of the number of daily ... size of the pool over longer time scales by increasing the intensity of illness in general None of these studies provided any direct estimate of what the time course of the rise and fall of mortality...
... events, resistance and improvement and coordination of patient information systems Development of staffing norms and standards for the delivery of antiretroviral therapy and assessment of human resource ... prevention and treatment of TB and other opportunistic infections Upgrading of the national health laboratory system to handle a significant increase in diagnostic testing and monitoring of patient ... into account the value of those life years to society Given that the costs of treating and also of not treating PLHIV with ARVs has been made and an estimate of the number of life years has also...
... gender, closeness of relationship and status of the interlocutors and the kinds of responses to questions - putting forward some implications for teaching and learning the functions of responses to ... always consists of a first part and a second part The utterance of a first part immediately creates an expectation of the utterance of a second part of the same pair There is a class of first pair ... Australia, America, and England; another group consist of Vietnamese people All of them are working in RMIT University and American International College (AIC), World Bank Office of Road Project...
... point of view and offers systematic categorization of particular types of evaluation Besides this, I have compared the outcomes of this theory with related concepts in the field of linguistics and ... based on the description of common markers of attribution in English and Vietnamese in terms of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic features 3.2 DATA COLLECTION AND DESCRIPTION OF THE CORPORA The data ... in English and Vietnamese in terms of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic aspects A wide range of linguistic devices was studied on different structures of verbs, adverbs, adjectives and nouns in...
... ratios of internal standards in the test and reference samples The presence of the internal standard probes at different locations of the array allowed quantification of the local background and ... 2–8 or 2–7 of the antisense strand) was shown to be sufficient to induce off-target silencing [6,7,10] Hence, we searched for regions of sequence homology between the guide strands of the five ... standard deviations, lack of standard deviations, and ⁄ or insufficient number of replicates Nevertheless, the most interesting observation is that about 60% of siRNA off-target effects are dependent...
... Hopke J, Ranjeva R, Boland W & Mithofer A (2007) Structural require¨ ments of jasmonates and synthetic analogues as inducers of Ca2+ signals in the nucleus and the cytosol of plant cells Angew ... production or by the release of oxylipins from storage compounds (vide infra) go hand in hand with the considerable cell toxicity of these compounds Rapid trapping and sequestration of the partially toxic ... dnOPDA and JA production, showed that the concurrent absence of those compounds restored the wild-type sensitivity of flu to cell death Hence, OPDA and ⁄ or dnOPDA are seemingly necessary and able...
... economic sectors, and their skills and demographic profiles, is fundamental to an understanding of the impact of HIV/AIDS on various sectors and the demand and supply of labour and skills The economic ... counterparts of 50 years and above (16.4% of males and 9.1% of females respectively); both single males and females reported higher use of condoms (57.1% and 53.0% respectively) than did those of other ... impact of HIV/AIDS on the demand and supply of skills (N = 12) 87 Table 6.1 Profile of employer respondents 92 Table 6.2 Profile of employees by occupational category, population group and sex...
... profits For a critique of the economic model of decision-making, see Simon (1957) and March and Simon (1958) For a more extensive discussion of the concept of rationality, see Section 2.5 of ... properties of the system (Weick and Quinn, 1999) The concept of first- and second-order change is very popular and powerful, and its fruits have been many To give but a brief sample of some of the ... most of the variations in organizational structures occur through the creation of new organizations and organizational forms, and the demise of old ones (Hannan and Freeman, 1977, 1989; Freeman and...
... from the initial set of 50 subjects and with sera from an independent set of 50 randomly selected subjects who adhered to CEE and that were obtained at baseline and after year of oral ET Methods ... Mass spectrometer parameters were: capillary voltage of 2.1 KV; capillary temperature of 200ºC; resolutionof 100,000; and FT target value of 1,000,000 Protein identification Protein fractionation ... remarkable size of the serum protein dataset is a result of the extensive fractionation and large number of mass spectra collected in these experiments The number of proteins identified and quantified...
... of two periods of active root growth, namely during spring and early autumn The two periods of slowest root growth occur during winter and summer, and coincide with lowest soil temperatures and ... stands, Tharandt (Germany) is a spruce stand, Hyytiọlọ (Finland) and Loobos (The Netherlands) are Scots pine stands lower sensitivity to vpd, probably because stomata are fully closed and residual ... reduction of KL Figure Time course of net ecosystem CO2 exchange (NEE, daily data) andof relative extractable soil water (REW) in: (a) beech stands (Soroe, Hesse and Hainich), (b) coniferous stands...
... experiment consisted of a total of 20 randomly selected plants, chosen for repeated sampling of gas exchange, light absorption, height, leaf number, stem caliper, and canopy width Of the 20 plants, ... CO2 response model of Farquhar and von Caemmerer [11] and Kirschbaum and Farquhar [23] were used The model estimated the maximum rate of carboxylation (Vcmax ), the maximum rate of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate ... portion of the initial part of the light response curve and axis intercepts Model parameters of convexity (k) and light saturation (Isat ) were obtained from least squares curve fitting and Rday...
... Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan Authors’ contributions JK participated in the study design and data ... Density of CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells and ratio of tumor reduction and histological response to CRT The density of immunoreactive T cells was determined in three different biopsy samples, and mean ... the Ethics Committee of the University of Tokyo, and written informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this case report and accompanying images A copy of the written consent...
... which was supervised by RMM and PKM SGC, CHYF, MW, DP have been involved in data management and analysis SGC and CHYF prepared the first draft of the manuscript, and all authors read and have ... successive random permutation of the diagnostic labels of subjects The p-value of the experimental accuracies was Page of 10 computed using the resulting null-hypothesis distributions Because of the ... Association; 1994 19 Andreasen NC: Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms University of Iowa, Iowa City; 1984 20 Andreasen NC: Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms University of Iowa, Iowa...
... protein and truncated variants thereof Western blot reactivity towards the N protein and truncated variants thereof (A) Schematic presentation of the full length and deleted variants of the RVFV ... and a human virus isolate of RVFV attenuated in cell culture by 5-fluorouracil treatment, MP12 [13,14] Although Clone 13 and MP12 were shown to be safe and immunogenic in mice and in cattle and ... (0.1, 0.3, 1.0 and 3.0 μg/ml) each vaccine group were consolidated and evaluated together In the groups of mice immunised with the N or the GN/GC constructs, four of eight and five of eight animals,...
... gtmij and gtfij represent the current genotypes of the parents of i; gti = [gti1 gti2 gtij−1 gij gt−1 gt−1 ]; iN ij+1 (13) Oi is the set of offspring of i; gtkj is the current genotype of offspring ... where Ni is the set of non terminal offspring of i; gtok j is the current genotype of the other parent of k at locus j; gtol j is the current genotype of the other parent of l at locus j; (15) ... [21], where the genotypes of sires and their terminal offspring are sampled jointly For sire i with a set Ti of terminal offspring, gij was sampled conditional on y and all other genotypes except...
... rollicked • Rustle of trees and ripple of rain, roaring of rivers across the plain • Richard gave Robin a rap in the ribs for roasting his rabbit so rare • Strawberries, raspberries and redcurrants ... cheese and cherries • Cheerful children chant charming tunes • One must not touch the Dutch too much • The child watched his teacher and fetched him the chalk • Charles and Richard chewed cheese and ... 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 smelt?...