Cross-species transferability and expressed sequence tags (ESTs) in public databases are cost-effective means for developing simple sequence repeats (SSRs) for less-studied species like medicinal plants. In this study, 11 EST-SSR markers developed from 742 available ESTs of Withania Somnifera EST sequences and 95 SSR primer pairs derived from other solanaceous crops (tomato, eggplant, chili, an...

Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) is a vegetable that holds high economic and nutritional value renowned for its distinct shape, color flavor. There has been considerable focus on enhancing the genetic makeup of eggplant, with specific attention given to breeding better agronomic characteristics. However, crop suffers from narrow base. As part efforts broaden gene pool chemical mutagenesis approa...

The class I chitinases are the vacuolar proteins capable of degrading the cell walls of invading phytopathogenic fungi and they have been implicated in the defense of plants against fungal pathogens. In the present study, class I rice endochitinase gene was introduced into eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) under the control of a constitutive CaMV 35S promoter by Agrobacterium-mediated transformat...

Eggplant latent viroid (ELVd) is a relatively small non-coding circular RNA that induces asymptomatic infections in eggplants (Solanum melongena L.). Like other viroid species that belong to the family Avsunviroidae, ELVd contains hammerhead ribozymes in the strands of both polarities that self-cleave RNAs producing terminal 5-hydroxyl and 2,3-cyclic phosphodiester groups. Available experimenta...

Eggplant latent viroid (ELVd) can form stable hammerhead structures in its (+) and (-) strands. These ribozymes have the longest helices I reported in natural hammerheads, with that of the ELVd (+) hammerhead being particularly stable (5/7 bp are G-C). Moreover, the trinucleotide preceding the self-cleavage site of this hammerhead is AUA, which together with GUA also found in some natural hamme...

Background and objective: Gastric cancer is the fourth common and the second deadliest cancer worldwide, which the major causes of its prevalence are genetic factors and the lifestyle, such as eating fast foods, physical inactivity, environmental pollution, and other natural factors. Method: This research was performed in human and animal cell bank of Iranian Biological Resource Center, and ...

The purpose of this study was to explore the possibilities improving chilling stress tolerance eggplant seedlings through exogenous melatonin (MEL) application. Eggplant (Hadrian F1) were treated with various concentrations (0, 1, 5 or 25 μM) MEL via soil drench after which they subjected at 5°C/10°C (night/day) for 3 days. Following imposition, efficacy applications on enhancing determined by ...

Under high temperature stress, a large number of proteins in plant cells will be denatured and inactivated. Meanwhile Hsfs Hsps quickly induced to remove proteins, so as avoid programmed cell death, thus enhancing the thermotolerance plants. Here, comprehensive identification analysis Hsf Hsp gene families eggplant under heat stress was performed. A total 24 Hsf-like genes 117 Hsp-like were ide...

abstract- the crop water stress index (cwsi) is the most common index to monitor and assess crop water stress, based on canopy temperature. to calculate cwsi, upper and lower baselines adaptable to different environments are needed. in this study, empirical and theoretical limiting baseline equations were developed to determine eggplant cwsi values at different levels of water deficit and salin...