The objective was to evaluate the effect of winter cover crops on agronomic performance maize during five crop seasons in a clayey Inceptisol with reduced mineral nitrogen (N) inputs. treatments were seven single crops: white oats (Avena sativa L.), black strigose Schreb.), ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum canola (Brassica napus vetch (Vicia fodder radish (Raphanus sativus L. and red clover (Trifol...

The cereal disease Fusarium crown rot (FCR), caused by the fungal pathogen pseudograminearum, is a worldwide major constraint to winter production but especially in Australia’s northern grain’s region (NGR) of NSW and Queensland. Conventionally, FCR induced yield penalties are associated with semi-arid water-limited conditions during flowering grain-filling. In this study, infection were found ...

Growth inhibition in the central nervous system (CNS) is a major barrier to axon regeneration. Recent findings indicate that three distinct myelin proteins, myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG), Nogo, and oligodendrocyte-myelin glycoprotein (OMgp), inhibit axon growth by binding a common receptor, the Nogo66 receptor (NgR), and likely converge on a common signaling cascade.

Abnormal tumor vasculature and endothelial cell anergy limit tumor/T-cell interactions. We have found that NGR-TNF, a tumor vasculature-homing derivative of TNF, selectively activates endothelial cells in neoplastic tissues and induces the release of chemokines that favor tumor infiltration by T cells, thereby enhancing the efficacy of active and adoptive immunotherapy.

Rubrerythrin is a nonheme iron protein of unknown function isolated from Desulfovibrio vulgaris (Hildenborough). We have sequenced a 3.3-kbp Sal1 fragment of D. vulgaris chromosomal DNA containing the rubrerythrin gene, rbr, identified additional open reading frames (ORFs) adjacent to rbr, and shown that these ORFs are part of a transcriptional unit containing rbr. One ORF, designated fur, lies...

This portfolio deals with the work I have been undertaking for past 20 years. Investigating sense of place at Belas Knap Neolithic long barrow, Cotswolds, England. taken an holistic approach in creation art that aims to bridge sensory experience archaeology, memory and culture. Over last twenty years responding through my memory, mapping, interpreting connecting seasonal changes Knap, a lateral...