Recent Studies on Gymnosperms

Evolution and biogeography of gymnosperms.

Living gymnosperms comprise only a little more than 1000 species, but represent four of the five main lineages of seed plants, including cycads, ginkgos, gnetophytes and conifers. This group has huge ecological and economic value, and has drawn great interest from the scientific community. Here we review recent advances in our understanding of gymnosperm evolution and biogeography, including ph...

A Review on Recent Findings on Amino Acids Requirements in Poult-Studies

Amino acids (AA) are important in poultry nutrition not only for protein deposition, but also for other metabolic functions; such as improving immune and gut functions. Although, some table values are available on amino acids requirement, AA requirements may vary due to changes in dietary composition and breeding selection. Thus amino acids requirements have remained an ongoing research topic. ...

Recent studies on albomycin, a new antibiotic.

Recent studies on bioactive natural products*

Isolation of a number of bioactive compounds from medicinal plants such as acetylcholinesterase inhibiting steroidal alkaloids, homomoenjodaramine and moenjodaramine from Buxus hyrcana, anti-epileptic terpenoids delphadienones I and II from Delphinium denudatum, and potent leishmanicidal compound ajoene from Allium sativum have been achieved through bioactivity-guided isolation.

Recent studies on music information processing

Music information processing has been widely deployed in music industries over the years. Of course, technologies oriented to musicians have long been studied including sound synthesis on music synthesizers, desktop music production based on MIDI sequencers, and various kinds of support for composing, performing, and recording music. Such tools have already become an essential part of the music...