Sex Expression and Growth in Muskmelon

Characterization of chitinase activity and gene expression in muskmelon seeds

Chitinase is often produced in higher plants as a general defence response after wounding or pathogenic attack. Since germinating seeds are exposed to soil pathogens, the activity and expression of chitinase in muskmelon (Cucumis melo L.) seeds was investigated. One acidic and three basic chitinase isoforms were detected, beginning 40 d after anthesis in developing and fully mature seeds. Both ...

Cathepsin D gene Expression in Stomach: Its Association with Age, Sex, and Menopausal status

Background & Objectives :Gastric cancer is 2-4 folds higher in men than women. Sex hormones are one of the leading causes of sexual dimorphism in incidence of gastric cancer. The aim of this study is to compare Cathepsin D and Caspase-7 gene expressions in the gastric tissue of normal men and women. Materials & Methods :In this cross-sectional study, gastric antrum tissue samples were collecte...

Primary root growth, tissue expression and co-expression analysis of a receptor kinase mutant in Arabidopsis

There is no functional annotation for the majority of the several hundreds of receptor-like kinases in plants. A direct way of inferring the function of these proteins is to study the phenotype that results from loss of function mutants such as T-DNA mutant lines. In this research a function (phenotype) to At2g37050 gene that encodes a receptor like kinase in Arabidopsis T-DNA line was...

Colonization of Muskmelon and Nonsusceptible Crops

Gordon, T. R., Okamoto, D., and Jacobson, D. J. 1989. Colonization of muskmelon and nonsusceptible crops by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. melonis and other species of Fusarium. Phytopathology 79:4095-1100. The ability of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. melonis to colonize roots abundance of the four fungi was similar on all seven crops; nonpathoof a susceptible muskmelon cultivar and six crop species rot...

Sexuality: Sex Ratio and Sex Expression