Plastid Terminal Oxidase as a Route to Improving Plant Stress Tolerance: Known Knowns and Known Unknowns.

Role of Exogenous Application of Auxin on Antioxidant Enzyme Activities in Rice Under Salt Stress

Phytohormones such as auxin are known to be involved in alleviating the detrimental effects of salinity by modulating the activity of enzymatic antioxidants and improving antioxidant system, which help in sustaining plant growth. The present study envisaged revealing the role of exogenous application of indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) in improving defense mechanisms in two genotypes (FL485 and IR29,...

“Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, & Unknown Unknowns”: Computational Science challenges for analysis of multi-dimensional DNA matrices in Evolutionary & Population Genomics

The advent of so-called NextGen DNA sequencing methods has massively increased the rate at which DNA sequence information can be generated, and the volume and complexity of the data matrices that apply to biological questions, including molecular and organismal evolution and population biology. One such approach is the analysis of complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genomes from multiple species...

High-Tc Superconductivity: Known Knowns and Unknowns

Known knowns, known unknowns, unknown unknowns and unknown knowns in DNA barcoding: a comment on Dowton et al.

RUPERT A. COLLINS1∗ AND ROBERT H. CRUICKSHANK2 1Laboratório de Evolução e Genética Animal, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Av. Rodrigo Otávio, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil and 2Department of Ecology, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Lincoln University, Lincoln 7647, Canterbury, New Zealand ∗Correspondence to be sent to: Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Fed...

The impact of terminal heat stress on yield and heat tolerance of bread wheat

In arid and semi-arid regions of the world bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) yield is highlylimited due to late season heat stress, mostly occurring during the reproductive phase. Hence thecurrent study was conducted to evaluate the effect of late season heat stress on grain yield andyield components of 20 spring bread wheat cultivars. For this purpose, a stripe block experimentincluding four ...