Across western Europe and eastern North America, rates of acid deposition are falling in response to reductions in atmospheric S emissions (1, 2), and the water-quality of acidified surface waters is beginning to improve (1, 3). To aid in the management of S emissions, biogeochemical models designed to predict socalled “critical acid loads” (4), are now being used to predict the degree of water...

Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP)-based genetic linkage maps allow us to dissect the genetic control of quantitative traits (QT) by locating individual quantitative trait loci (QTLs) on the linkage map and determining their type of gene action and the magnitude of their contribution to the phenotype of the QT. We have performed such an analysis for two traits in common bean, invol...

‘‘The Cotton Diversity Database’’ (http://cotton.agtec.uga.edu) is a Web resource for cotton (Gossypium spp.) phenotypic and genomic data. A primary goal for this resource is to provide both a useful management tool for breeders and other applied scientists and a research tool for genetic and genomic scientists. The resource contains four interface suites that include displays for each of the a...

Purpose: To report case of a patient who developed intraoperative supero-nasal retinal detachment during surgery for idiopathic macular hole. Methods: Interventional Case report of a 62-year-old male who presented with macular hole in both eyes and underwent surgery for macular hole closure in RE. Results: On presentation, visual acuity was 20/60 in RE and 20/200 in LE. Optical coherence tomogr...

Morphological and habitat similarities among the five species of the terrestrial orchid genus Calopogon have led to nomenclatural and taxonomic confusion. The taxa are marked by subtle character differences and little apparent reproductive isolation. Here we investigate allozyme diversity at the species level and the partitioning of genetic variation within and among species and their populatio...

Microbial plant pathogens secrete effector proteins, which manipulate the host to promote infection. Effectors can be recognized by intracellular nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) receptors, initiating an immune response. The AVR-Pik from rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae is a pair of NLR Pik-1 and Pik-2. contains noncanonical integrated heavy-metal-associated (HMA) domain, direct...

Reduced complexity or reduced genomic representation library (RRL) approaches made the in-depth study of micro-evolutionary processes feasible giving rise to ecological population genomics (Luikart et al., 2019; Narum 2013). A growing number publications rely on cost-effective SNP discovery available through RRL (Leaché & Oaks, 2017). Arguably, most popular methods nowadays (Holliday 2019) are ...

Certain miscarriages result from immunologic factors, but there is no clear identification of the precise causes recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL). Miscarriages and RPL can arise a disruption maternal–fetal immune homeostasis. Remodeling maternal uterine spiral arteries one key steps for normal growth development fetus. An adequate oxygen supply necessary correct placentation, it accomplished by p...

The genus Nassella, as currently circumscribed, includes 116–117 American species. It is characterized by florets with a strongly convolute lemma, a conspicuous or inconspicuous crown, and a short palea. Using 53 species of Nassella and 22 outgroup species we conducted phylogenetic analyses to test the monophyly of Nassella and relationships among species. Two plastid (trnT-trnL and rpl32-trnL)...

A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article. Environmental fluctuations present a fundamental challenge to organisms as changing conditions may result in mismatch between environment and organismal phenotypes. One way which populations persist thrive is through their capacity adapt phenotypes on time frame relevant environmental variation. The ab...