... of pyruvate kinase, and 2.5 lgámL)1 LDH in a total volume of mL The reaction was initiated by an addition of 50 ng of Na+/K+-ATPase Na+-dependent ATPase activity was also measured usingthe coupled ... transmembrane a helices, and a separation in the contact surface of membrane and protein due to the thickening and shrinkage of lipid bilayer For the last case, a quantitative estimation of the ... changes in membrane-bound Na+/K+-ATPase can be summarized as follows Pressure eects at 100 MPa or lower The decreased reaction rate of the Na+/K+-ATPase with an increase in pressure can be rationalized...
... Deamidations in recombinant human phenylalanine hydroxylase Identication of labile asparagine residues and functional characterization of AsnAsp mutant forms J Biol Chem [epub ahead of print on ... induced conformational transition in human phenylalanine hydroxylase as studied by surface plasmon resonance analyses The eect of terminal deletions, substrate analogues and phosphorylation Biochem ... Complementary mutagenesis (AsnAsp) analyses have demonstrated that the rate of phosphorylation is indeed dependent onthe extent of deamidation of a very labile Asn residue (Asn32) in the N-terminal autoregulatory...
... and his assistant, from The Asian Pangolin Conservation Program (APCP), Small Carnivore Conservation Program (SCP), Cuc Phuong National Park, Ninh Binh After Mr Thai found weaver ants to be the ... under the farmer’s normal management, and the other plot has weaver ants (using existing weaver ant colonies as much as possible) managed by the TOT trainers usingthe IPM program For each training ... were the crematogaster ant, Crematogaster sp with large numbers occupying one third of the trees in the IPM plot, and the small black ant, Tapinoma melanocephalum that was abundant onthe remaining...
... include the following aspects: the main cashew insect pests and their control, the main cashew diseases and their management, the natural enemies in cashew orchards, the use of weaver ants in cashew ... in the same cashew orchards as we did five months ago in Dong Nai, Ba Ria Vung Tau and Binh Phuoc The orchard in Ba Ria-Vung Tau was sprayed by the orchard owner, which was unexpected The data ... in the TOT training, and they includes the following aspects: the main cashew insect pests and their control, the main cashew diseases and their management, the natural enemies in cashew orchards,...
... Vietnam, there are at least 10 major insect pests and three diseases as well as many important species of natural enemies such as parasitoids and beneficial fungi in cashew orchards These data clearly ... project Farmers’ opinion towards the cashew IPM program using weaver ants asa major component The baseline survey was conducted by TOT trainees in their own provinces usinga standard questionnaire ... Summary A baseline survey was successfully conducted in eight main cashew growing provinces usinga standard questionnaire The survey concentrated on six aspects: Farmers’ opinion towards the cashew...
... factors in the cashew agroecosystem, the mutual relationships among cashews, animals and humans in cashew orchards, and up-to-date cashew cultivation techniques, especially variety selection and pruning ... preparation, controlling of competitive species of ants, identification of weaver ant colonies, transplantation of the ants into cashew orchards, and management and maintenance of the weaver ant ... Peng has worked out a control strategy (weaver ants, pruning and light-trapping) to manage the branch borer that has been one of the major concerns by all cashew growers in Vietnam He has already...
... base, and each larva excavated a chamber in which the calcareous pupal cell was formed from the excretions of the larva Pupation took place late in the year The pupa is about 35 mm long, creamy-white, ... the centre of the branch At a regular distance, the larva made a hole to the branch surface to get rid of the waste from the tunnel (Fig 7) The branch borer had only one generation per year Adults ... Tron oils, Abamectine and water, respectively Data analysis For field experimental data analyses, on each monitoring occasion, two plots (farmer and IPM) were ranked, based on mean percentage...
... TOT trainees A final examination at the end of each TOT training was held, and all the TOT trainees successfully passed their examinations In an assessment of the competence of 56 TOTs as trainers ... successfully passed their examinations Each of them was awarded a graduation certificate in the cashew IPM training Now, we have 112 TOT cashew IPM trainers, and they are distributed in ten cashew growing ... opinions onthe use of the cashew IPM program The results are summarised below: • Almost all farmers said that the cashew IPM program was just the one they need for their continuity of cashew...
... Parts and deal with the main cashew insect pests and diseases, their economical importance on cashew production, their natural enemies, their relationships with weaver ants, and their control strategies ... integrated cashew improvement (ICI) program using weaver ants asa major component - a manual for ICI program trainers and extension officers in Vietnam As planned, the manual includes cashew botany, ... Project Abstract Cashew is a very important crop in Vietnam, and the government has designated cashew development asa national priority Productivity of cashew has increased since 2002, but the extensive...
... pests and their natural enemies in the demonstration orchards has begun Because heavy rainfall in the wet season is one of the major factors responsible for the reduction of weaver ant populations ... monitoring all the activities, and he is also responsible for the implementation of the IPM program, for the part of the TOT training and for the field data analyses Dr Pham Van Bien and Mr La Pham Lan ... curriculum for the period of cashew monsoon flush A total of 175 photos of the main insect pests, diseases, natural enemies and cashew orchard management skills are ready for the preparation of cashew...
... coverage and completion of long mate-pair library sequencing will mark the end of the data collection phase and the start of assembly and analysis The end of this phase will be marked clearly onthe ... California Santa Cruz [32] and NCBI [33] genome browsers for public queries as soon as it is available and passes contamination analyses, and relevant announcements and links will be posted onthe snake ... genome that contains genic and near-genic regions that are assembled and annotated To provide a service to the broader research community, we have released a prepublication preliminary draft assembly...
... Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2008, 50:34 http://www.actavetscand.com/content/50/1/34 further data and demonstration material onthe pathogenesis of CSF In addition, the data are useful for the ... virus (ASFV) by using haemabsorption-inhibition test as well as ELISA The presence of BVDV was excluded by virus isolation and by immunoperoxidase tests (IPX) using monoclonal antibodies All assays ... as well as participated in the evaluation of the Page 12 of 13 (page number not for citation purposes) Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2008, 50:34 findings and had a major impact onthe manuscript...
... fermentation of agricultural resources such as corn [7, 8] and compostable as it easily degrades by simple hydrolysis under appropriate conditions Sunshine Carbon dioxide + Water Corn Fermentation ... hydrolysis at high temperature and humidity, particularly under alkaline conditions, than PET Materials and method The Ingeo Poly (lactic acid) fabric used for this investigation was supplied by Nature ... isomers using catalysis to enhance the rate and selectivity of the intra molecular cyclisation reaction [5] The molten lactide mixture is subsequently purified through vacuum distillation Tin catalyst...
... has been learned by common observation, as well by the peasant as by the man of erudition The fact, that man, "made of one blood, can dwell" in all the varieties of climate, "on the face of the ... cholic, in the iliac passion, and in stranguary As it is conceded that its efficacy as an antispasmodic depends upon its power to prostrate every vestige of tone and elasticity in the muscular fibre, ... especially to be adapted to the evacuation of some poisons; and it has this advantage, that it acts with equal certainty and expedition, when applied to the region of the stomach in the form of a...
... skeletal troponins containing similar TnI fragments Onthe other hand, the regulatory ability of Akazara scallop troponins dramatically decreased (Fig 6D), suggesting that Akazara scallop troponin ... (5¢-GCCAGAA CCATGGCGGAGGAAC-3¢) and ATnI292R, ATnI130F and ATnI252R (5¢-CAAGTTTGGGATCCTATTTGTTAA CTTTTC-3¢), and ATnI232F (5¢-CGAGATTAATGCC ATGGCACTTAAGG-3¢) and ATnI292R, respectively, were used These ... tropomyosin as indicated onthe abscissa The measurements were performed at 15 °C The results were expressed asa percentage of the ATPase activity obtained in the absence of TnI Each point is an average...
... material increased with the concentration of the profferred substrate; saturation was reached at a substrate concentration of less than mM The transformation of 14C-labeled cyclic diphosphate ... importance in the mevalonate pathway, in which formation of IPP and DMAPP take place in sequential steps; in contrast, the available evidence indicates that within the new pathway IPP and DMAPP are ... was developed with the same buffer Fractions were combined and concentrated usinga Centriprep-10 concentrator (Amicon) The final protein concentration was about 1–2 mg·mL21 The supernatant was...
... production can mitigate this potential problem Table 1: State Financial Incentives for Renewable Energy* STATE Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia ... energy-saving ideas and technologies, as well as other types of assistance that the agency can provide The trade-off, of course, is that outreach and personal attention increases the cost the program ... Dakota, Oregon, and Utah ‡ Arizona, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Rhode Island, and West Virginia...
... down one quarter of the consumers at two dollars a year, one quarter at five, one quarter at eight, and one quarter at ten dollars a year Then the several items will stand thus:-Half a million at ... I lay down, and the purpose at which I aim, are not popular But what then? Did Clarkson and Wilberforce abandon the cause of the enslaved African, when they found that abolition was unpopular ... mercury, and other articles of the materia medica He calls tobacco a "fashionable poison," in the various forms in which that narcotic is employed. He says, "The great increase of dyspepsia; the late...
... investigating receptor interactions, that was the case; FRET was observed only when the receptor was co-expressed with the appropriate a subunit of the G protein and not in the other case Although there ... the American Type Culture Collection (Manassas, VA, USA) All cell culture materials were purchased from Gibco (Carlsbad, CA, USA) ´ and Sigma (Poznan, Poland) Construction of fusion proteins The ... receptors dimerization mutants could potentially be responsible for their accumulation in the endoplasmic reticulum because only protein that has assumed its native conformation is available for recruitment...
... Because the aim of this study was to investigate the effect onthe fibrillation properties of the most extreme disease-associated extension of seven additional alanines, fibrillation kinetics and ... formation To test this assumption, fibril formation was investigated in the presence of increasing concentrations of fragmented N-(+7)Ala fibrils acting as seeds Clearly, an increase in seed concentration ... concentration resulted in faster fibrillation rates (Fig 2A) Quantification of fibrillation rates revealed an approximately linear correlation between seed concentration and fibril growth (Fig 2B) A similar...