FPS Tour to Rwanda and Zaire

Taxonomic Results of the BRYOTROP Expedition to Zaire and Rwanda 20. Grimmiaceae, Funariaceae, Bartramiaceae (Philonotis), Amblystegiaceae, Plagiotheciaceae

1. Plants acrocarpous, growing erect in tufts. Capsule immersed with columella falling with attached operculum after dehiscence. Annulus absent. Central strand present. Lamina cells with straight walls, irregularly quadrate throughout and only short rectangular at the base .........................................Schistidium rivulare 1. Plants cladocarpous, prostrate in mats. Capsule exserted w...

To Rwanda and Back:

Zaire and Sudan

Eradication programmes in a group of contiguous countries of western and westcentral Africa began in 1967 and 1968, with support primarily from the USA and technical assistance provided by the United States Communicable Disease Center. East of this area lay two of Africa's largest countriesZaire and the Sudan (Fig . 18 .1). (Zaire was named the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1960 to 1971...

TOR tour to auxin.

Auxin is a principal growth hormone in plants. A study by Schepetilnikov et al (2013) now reports that TOR is activated by auxin and regulates expression of auxinresponsive genes by facilitating translation reinitiation of mRNAs with uORFs at their 50 UTRs. In this way, TOR acts at the crossroad of the plasma membrane and nuclear auxin signalling pathways to link auxin with general nutrient sig...

The FPS fingerprint format and chemfp toolkit

During GCC 2010 poster session I presented a draft version of the FPS format for storing dense binary fingerprints. That format is now stable, and supported by RDKit [1], CACTVS [2], and other software. The chemfp package is a set of command-line tools and a Python library for fingerprint generation and high-speed Tanimoto search. It can extract pre-computed fingerprints from an SD tag or use O...