Red blood cell Na+ content as well as ouabain-resistant Na+ and Rb+ (K+) transport (susceptible or resistant to inhibition by loop diuretics) were determined in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and normotensive Brown Norway (BN) rats the erythrocytes of which were incubated in either saline or Mg(2+)-sucrose medium. Elevated ouabain-resistant Na+ net uptake contrasted with slightly decreas...

In this report, we assess the humoral immune response in inbred strains of mice immunized with baculovirus-derived recombinant HIV-1 gp160 (rgp160). Six inbred strains of mice were each immunized with two different concns (5 and 50 micrograms) of rgp160, and the antibody response to rgp160 and synthetic peptides which define distinct gp160 epitopes was examined. Within a given inbred strain of ...

Field performance of herbaceous annual plants is largely determined by plant architecture and flowering performance. A Petunia axillaris × P. exserta F7 recombinant inbred line population was grown in four field environments across the United States, phenotyped for seven habit flowering-related traits: height (Height), maximum (MaxWid) minimum (MinWid) width, vigor, compactness (Comp), canopy c...

The two major protease inhibitors in mouse plasma are alpha 1-protease inhibitor (alpha 1-PI), putative inhibitor of neutrophil elastase, and contrapsin, an inhibitor in vitro of trypsinlike proteases. We have shown by nucleotide sequence analysis that these two inhibitors are related (R. E. Hill, P. H. Shaw, P. A. Boyd, H. Baumann, and N. D. Hastie, Nature (London) 311:175-177, 1984). Here, we...

The near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) combined with modified partial least squares (modified PLS) regression was used for determining the neutral detergent fiber (NDF) and acid (ADF) fractions of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) seed. Fifty accessions (24 desi 26 kabuli types) fifty recombinant inbred lines F5:6 derived from a × cross were evaluated NDF ADF, scanned by NIRS. ADF values regressed a...

Aryl hydrocarbon (benzo[a]pyrene) hydroxylase inducibility by benzo[a]anthracene was studied in 29 somatic cell hybrid clones, developed by fusing mouse spleen or peritoneal cells from four different inbred strains with hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase-deficient Chinese hamster E36 cells. Karyotype analysis plus 25 markers assigned to 16 autosomes and the X chromosome were examined. In 28...

Stripe rust (yellow rust) caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, one of the most dangerous diseases wheat. Marker assisted selection methods make it possible to accelerate resistance gene donors improve breeding material through their introduction into hybridization programs. The goal this study was determine presence/absence yellow genes in wheat recombinant inbred lines Almaly/Avocet ...

Abstract Sclerotinia blight is a soilborne disease caused by minor Jagger and can produce severe decrease in yield. Cultural management strategies chemical treatment are not completely effective; therefore, growing peanut‐resistant varieties likely to be the most effective control method for this disease. resistance has been identified wild Arachis species further transferred peanut elite culti...

In order to study the adaptation of rice lines to drought stress and to identify the tolerant and sensitive lines, 150 pure lines in RIL population each derived from a cross between two Iranian rice varieties Gharib and Sepidroud were investigated. Augment design based on the randomized complete block design (RCBD) was used with 6 check cultivars and 4 replications in 2013-2014 growing season. ...