the potential contribution of plant biotechnology to improving food quality
Overview of Plant Biotechnology from Its Early Roots to the Present
... compounds Most of these natural products are generally not essential for the basic metabolic processes of the plant but are often critical to the proper functioning of the plant in relation to its environment ... far identified, the total number of such compounds in the plant kingdom is estimated to be much higher Plants are Overview of Plant Biotechnology capable of producing a variety of pharmaceuticals, ... Saver.” This tomato has two distinct advantages over other tomato cultivars: first, it has a longer shelf life in storage, and second, the fruit of this tomato could be left on the plant until...
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Báo cáo y học: "Gene Therapy: The Potential Applicability of Gene Transfer Technology to the Human Germline"
... contributed to the embryo, the resultant offspring will be chimeric (up to ca 50% of animals) The ESC contribution to a mouse can high (up to ca 80% of the cells), and will often include the germline ... of minimal potential use, due to the high levels of mosaicism associated with these vectors However, the new generation of lentiviral vectors would avoid such problems [21, 22, 23] These vectors ... attributed to the fortuitous removal or inhibition of IF(s) [43] Seminal fluid reportedly contains an inhibitory factor (IF-1) that appears to actively block the binding of exogenous DNA to sperm and to...
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Tài liệu Male Reproductive Health Disorders and the Potential Role of Exposure to Environmental Chemicals pdf
... cryptorchidism (where the testis has descended into the top but not into the bottom of the scrotum, for example) and of hypospadias (where the urethral opening is displaced towards the edge of the glans ... important to delineate some of the weaknesses and problems that can affect the quality of studies investigating the potential causes of cryptorchidism and hypospadias Quality assessment of the various ... resolution of cryptorchidism occurs in many cryptorchid boys in the first three months of life, standardization of the time of diagnosis of cryptorchidism is important Therefore, the most reliable...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "The Contribution of Linguistic Features to Automatic Machine Translation Evaluation" docx
... 4) The vertical axis in Figure represents the ratio of errors in the set of low scored translations according to a given metric The horizontal axis represents the ratio of errors over the set of ... standard ontology are not enough to deal with them This conclusion motivates the incorporation of linguistic processing into automatic evaluation metrics In order to check the robustness of these ... instance, Table shows the best 10 metrics in CE05 according to their correlation with human judges at the system level, and then the ranking they obtain in the AE05 testbed There are substantial...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Investigation of the contribution of histidine 119 to the conduction of protons through human Nox2 pptx
... [13,14] To assess the contribution of histidines 119 and 111 to the conduction of protons through Nox2, the ability of CHO91H111/115L, CHO91H115/119L and CHO91H111/119L cells to conduct protons ... cells in the presence of a transmembrane gradient for the efflux of protons exhibited a very small conduction of protons following the addition of arachidonate (Fig 4E) The efflux of protons was ... enters the cells via endocytosis The M2 protein proton channel is opened by the acidic pH environment of the endosomes, resulting in a fall in pH of the viral particle, leading to dissociation of the...
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THE ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTION OF WISCONSIN PUBLIC LIBRARIES TO THE ECONOMY OF WISCONSIN pptx
... contribute to the Wisconsin economy and are of growing importance to the citizens of the state The total economic contribution of Wisconsin public libraries to the Wisconsin economy is $753,699,545 The ... from the market value of the services of public libraries and this contribution will be covered in the next chapter of this report A third chapter will tie together the two forms of economic contribution ... libraries contribute to the Wisconsin economy The other measure of value is the market value of public library services to consumers, businesses, governmental bodies and other sectors of the economy This...
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Funding Higher Education: The Contribution of Economic Thinking to Debate and Policy Development docx
... private sector The concept of “cost-sharing,” though not the term, was used by Harris (1964) who predicted that in the U.S the private share of the total costs of HE would exceed the public share ... rate of return studies did not, however, diminish the force of the argument in favor of a mixed system of financing for HE, for this rests on the concept of cost-sharing (the subject of the next ... Europe and the question of affordability of the current patterns of finance was becoming urgent Johnstone (1986, 6) started from the premise that regardless of the size or characteristics of the HE...
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Báo cáo khoa học: The relative contribution of mannose salvage pathways to glycosylation in PMI-deficient mouse embryonic fibroblast cells pdf
... to nearly half the initial amount On the other hand, the amount of glycoprotein in the medium did not differ substantially from the beginning to the end of the experiment, because the medium was ... other sources We then determined the variation of amount of glycoprotein in cells As shown in Fig 5E, although the total amount of protein in cells decreased to 87% after 48 h of incubation, the ... isomerized to Fru6P [10] Therefore, we consider the results of the mannose titration to be reasonable We then considered the relative contributions of diet, salvaging and glucose interconversion to glycoprotein...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "The Contribution of Stylistic Information to Content-based Mobile Spam Filtering" potx
... tend to use special character or patterns related to monetary matters, such as “$$$” or “%” Therefore, we also measured the ratio of special characters, the number of emoticons, and the number of ... feature vector x, the filter learns a vector of feature weight parameters w Given a test sample X with its feature vector x, the filer outputs the conditional probability of predicting the data as ... first created the idea of counting word lengths to judge the authorship of texts, followed by Yule (1939) and Morton (1965) with the use of sentence lengths In this paper, we measure the overall...
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báo cáo hóa học: " The contribution of activated astrocytes to Ab production: Implications for Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis" pot
... attempted to address certain aspects of these problems, but our study is the first to integrate these questions and address whether specific cytokine combinations and forms of Ab42 are capable of increasing ... ~300% of control at 24 h and stayed relatively constant for the duration of the experiment (96 h) BACE1 levels, on the other hand, took longer to increase and gave no indication of leveling off ... depending on the stimulation Overall, our results support the hypothesis that cytokine- and Ab42stimulated astrocytes could contribute significantly to the total burden of cerebral Ab in AD, potentially...
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Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "The contribution of remote sensing to the assessment of drought effects in forest ecosystems" ppsx
... estimators of the Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR), an indicator of the state and photosynthetic activity of vegetation Gobron et al [37] have shown that the vegetation ... the water content of soil, because the aerodynamic roughness of the tree canopy is high and the high tree cover fraction does not allow for a contribution of the understory [11] In the case of ... Monitoring for Environment and Security is expected to lead to the implementation of operational services such as the reporting on forest areas and changes in the framework of the Kyoto protocol...
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Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "The contribution of wood products to carbon sequestration in Portugal" pptx
... maximum values of the annual decay rates are the double of the default values (and, consequently, the lifetimes were reduced to half of the default values) The minimum values of the annual decay ... to estimate the total volume of stem The conversion factors and the bark fractions are those used by Winjum et al [45] and are given in the “default” column of Table I The carbon content in the ... order to assess the effect of modifying these default values, and to identify those contributing to the major changes in the estimates of carbon sequestration MATERIALS AND METHODS In the stock-change...
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Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Contribution of different solutes to the cell osmotic pressure in tap and lateral roots of maritime pine seedlings: effects of a potassium deficiency and of an all-macronutrient deficienc" pptx
... depending on the part of the root considered By contrast to the post-apex of the tap root (TRPA) and to the apex of the lateral roots (LRA), the apex of the tap root (TRA) seemed to be protected: ... contributed to 65-84 % of cell n (table I) 3.3 Effect of deficiencies on the contribution of solutes to the osmotic pressure In TRA, none of the deficiencies changed the osmotic pressure and the frac- ... mm of the TR, referred to as TR post-apex (TRPA); c) the apical 10 mm of the LR, referred to as LR apex (LRA); and d) the remaining part of the LR, referred to as LR post-apex (LRPA) For the...
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Báo cáo y học: "The differential contribution of tumour necrosis factor to thermal and mechanical hyperalgesia during chronic inflammation" pps
... was delivered to the plantar surface of the hind paw The time interval to lifting of the paw was recorded All assessments were performed with the assessor blinded with respect to treatment and ... for detection of ScFv binding ED-1-positive cells adjacent to neuronal somata were counted, and the results were expressed as the ratio of the number of positive cells to the number of neuronal ... boxes of wire mesh and von Frey hairs were applied to the plantar surface of the hind paw The lowest-weight von Frey hair to evoke a withdrawal from three consecutive applications was considered to...
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báo cáo khoa học: " Assessing the contribution of alternative splicing to proteome diversity in Arabidopsis thaliana using proteomics data" docx
... isoforms Indeed, the effect of lowering of the expected number of events would only further increase if unequal expression of isoforms would be taken into account and would therefore strengthen ... [13,14] The main goal of our study was to determine whether the contribution of AS events to proteome diversity as predicted using transcriptomics data, is indeed observed at the proteome level The ... existing gene structures and on the identification of new protein coding genes The main objective of our study is to assess whether the predicted contribution of AS to the proteome diversity in A...
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Báo cáo y học: "ahead at the potential benefits of biotechnology-derived allergen therapeutics" potx
... conjugation of synthetic versions of these DNA sequences to major short ragweed allergen (Amb a 1) has been shown to enhance the immunogenicity, while lowering the allegenicity, of the protein ... would further increase the safety and utility of SIT http://www.clinicalmolecularallergy.com/content/5/1/3 Biotechnology has the potential for the development of novel drugs for the treatment of allergies ... At the moment, the potential benefits of biotechnology in the field of allergy treatment can only be envisioned, and whether these benefits will indeed manifest still requires many years of research...
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Estimation of the contribution of atmospheric deposition to coastal water eutrophication
... current status of knowledge in the area of atmospheric deposition of nutrients The overall structure of the thesis is briefly explained below 1.1 Structure of thesis The thesis is organized in Chapters ... view of the growing incidence of forest fires and the resulting haze throughout the world, 13 there is need for a greater understanding of the various aspects of these phenomena, including their ... Hisham Hashim, 1998) At the end of October, the onset of the northeast monsoon (NEM, November to March) brought a sudden return to PSI levels below 50 and good air quality The annual mean pH calculated...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Models and mechanisms of O-O bond activation by cytochrome P450 A critical assessment of the potential role of multiple active intermediates in oxidative catalysis doc
... preferentially via the ễperoxide shuntế: the sluggish autodecomposition of HbO2 (k % 10)3 M)1ặs)1) in the presence of the anilines [166] to nally yield H2O2 together with the relatively low rate of peroxide ... [227] A key to the unique reactivity of the nonheme iron(II) site of BLM (Fig 5) toward O2 seems to reside in one of its equatorial ligands, the pyrimidine moiety [228] The mechanism of oxygen ... either NADPH-P450 reductase or the NADH-cytochrome b5 reductase/cytochrome b5 segment of the electron transfer chain in the presence of NAD(P)H [163,164] Under these conditions, addition to the...
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