Seed coat color is determined by the type of pigment deposited in the seed coat cells. It is related to important agronomic traits of seeds such as seed dormancy, longevity, oil content, protein content and fiber content. In Brassica napus, inheritance of seed coat color is related to maternal effects and pollen effects (xenia effects). In this research we isolated a mutation of yellow seeded B...

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVCorrespondenceNEXTResponse to “Comment on Scientific Basis for Managing PFAS as a Chemical Class”Carol F. Kwiatkowski*Carol KwiatkowskiDepartment of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 27695, United StatesGreen Science Policy Institute, Berkeley, California 94709, States*Email: [email protected]More by Carol Kwiatkowskihttp://orcid.org...

The global population is predicted to grow by 25% and reach 10 billion the mid-21st century (Hickey et al., 2019Hickey L.T. A N.H. Robinson H. Jackson S.A. Leal-Bertioli S.C.M. Tester M. Gao C. Godwin I.D. Hayes B.J. Wulff B.B.H. Breeding crops feed billion.Nat. Biotechnol. 2019; 37: 744-754Crossref PubMed Scopus (216) Google Scholar). To meet food demands of growing with limited agricultural l...

EDITOR: We report the malfunction of an adjustable pressure limit (APL) valve on a KION (Siemens, SiemensElema AB, Solna, Stockholm, Sweden) anaesthesia workstation which occurred twice. The first time, the malfunction was detected during the pre-use manual check, but not by the automatic self-check. The second time, the malfunction occurred intermittently during ventilation of a patient but it...

T he recent untimely death of Professor Claudio Ciborra in February 2005 raises the question: how can his major contribution to the Information Systems (IS) field be consolidated, celebrated and progressed? His passing was honoured with many personal reminiscences and assessments of his contribution in a special issue of The European Journal of Information Systems (Volume 14 No. 5, 2005). In pl...

We propose a design by contract (DbC) approach to specify and maintain architectural level properties of software. Such properties are typically relevant in the design phase of the development cycle but may also impact the execution of systems. We give a formal framework for specifying software architectures (and their refinements) together with contracts that architectural configurations abide...

Tatiana Gateva-Ivanova, American University in BulgariaNoncommutative Grobner Bases in Skew-polynomial RingsWe study a class of graded standard nitely presented quadratic algebrasA over a xed eld K, called binomial skew polynomial rings. Followinga classical tradition (and recent trend), we take a combinatorial approachto study the algebraic properties of A. Our purpose...

One hundred and forty-seven primer pairs originally designed to amplify microsatellites, also known as simple sequence repeats (SSR), in black walnut (Juglans nigra L.) were screened for utility in persian walnut (J. regia L.). Based on scorability and number of informative polymorphisms, the best 14 loci were selected to analyze a diverse group of 47 persian walnut accessions and one J. hindsi...

Earth's Future thanks its reviewers who contributed in 2022 In this article, we are delighted to publish the names of 780 peer submitted reviews (italicized have 3 or more reviews). We express our deep appreciation for your thoughtful comments and suggestions on manuscripts Future. Your scholarly assessments were fundamental decisions, significantly improved quality published papers. As a trans...

Transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 from humans to animals has been reported for many domesticated species, including farmed minks. The identification novel spike gene mutations appearing in minks raised major concerns about potential immune evasion and challenges the global vaccine strategy. One genetic variant, known as “cluster five,” arose among Denmark resulted ...