BACKGROUND Grass pollen allergens are a major cause of allergic respiratory disease but traditionally prescribing practice for grass pollen allergen-specific immunotherapy has favoured pollen extracts of temperate grasses. Here we aim to compare allergy to subtropical and temperate grass pollens in patients with allergic rhinitis from a subtropical region of Australia. METHODS Sensitization t...

Germination is considered a critical step in the development cycle of plant. But no information available regarding seed priming with Putrescine, Jasmonic acid, Kinetin, Potassium Nitrate (KNO3), Salicylic acid at time aged and non-aged seeds sorghum cultivars. However, to know effect aforesaid chemicals cultivars on germination rate, vigour alpha-amylase activity, research was conducted under ...

Bamboo occupies an important phylogenetic node in the grass family and plays a significant role in the forest industry. We produced 1.2 Mb of tetraploid moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens E. Mazel ex H. de Leh.) sequences from 13 bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clones, and these are the largest genomic sequences available so far from the subfamily Bambusoideae. The content of repetitive...

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor [L.] Moench) has excellent agronomic traits and biological properties, such as heat and drought-tolerance. It is a C4 grass and potential bioenergy-producing plant, which makes it an important crop worldwide. With the sorghum genome sequence released, it is essential to establish a sorghum functional genomics data mining platform. We collected genomic data and some func...

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) is ranked fifth as a cereal crop after maize, rice, wheat, and barley based on global cultivation area. However, heat drought stresses cause improper fertility restoration inefficient pollination, severely affecting sorghum productivity. The discovery of cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) milestone for commercializing hybrids. This study assessed the pollen in ...

The objective of this study was to evaluate sorghum hybrids associated or not with Azospirillum brasilense and nitrogen fertilization (N) during planting on the yield, fermentative profile, nutritional value respective silages. Five (Volumax, 201813B, 201814B, 201709B, BRS716) were evaluated three strategies using urea (100 kg ha−1 N) brasilense, N)/A. in association. A randomized block design ...