Abstract Background The oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel), is the world’s most damaging (30–100%) pest infesting important fruits and vegetables. Its control highly challenging due to its polyphagous, multivoltine nature, unexposed developmental stages. No known fly-resistant guava germplasm reported so far worldwide. RNAi approach in against fly can provide an attractive alterna...

With an aim of enhancing drought tolerance using a marker-assisted backcrossing (MABC) approach, we introgressed the QTL-hotspot region from ICC 4958 accession that harbors quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for several drought-tolerance related traits into three elite Indian chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) cultivars: Pusa 372, 362, and DCP 92-3. Of eight simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers in regio...

Lo sviluppo professionale della docenza universitaria rappresenta una leva strategica per migliorare i risultati di apprendimento degli studenti e contribuire al progresso sociale. Le istituzioni universitarie hanno la responsabilità sostenere - attraverso azioni Faculty Development processi innovazione didattica qualificazione docenza. Una delle competenze chiave da implementare nei...

Nicolle H. Rekers *, Veronica Olivo Pimentel*, Ala Yaromina, Natasja G. Lieuwes, Rianne Biemans, Catharina M. L. Zegers, Wilfred T. V. Germeraad, Evert J. Van Limbergen, Dario Neri, Ludwig J. Dubois **, and Philippe Lambin** Department of Radiotherapy, The M-Lab group, GROW School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centr...

The erbK-2 (or III K-2 or neu i gene is amplified and overexpressed in approximately one-third of cancers of the breast, stomach, and ovary. Evidence is accumulating that erbK-2 overexpression is associated with decreased survival of breast cancer patients. In an effort to understand how erbß-2overexpression might impart a more malignant potential to breast cancer cells, we have searched for e...

Bridging a twofold gap in existing literature, this paper is situated at the interface between entrepreneurship research and studies about knowledge intensive business service firms (KIBS). On the one hand, in entrepreneurship research, there is a lack of studies examining explicitly the KIBS sector. On the other hand, most research dedicated to the study of KIBS does not consider processes of ...

Protein dynamics and the underlying networks of intramolecular interactions and communicating residues within the three-dimensional (3D) structure are known to influence protein function and stability, as well as to modulate conformational changes and allostery. Acylaminoacyl peptidase (AAP) subfamily of enzymes belongs to a unique class of serine proteases, the prolyl oligopeptidase (POP) fami...