Garlic (Allium sativum) is used worldwide in cooking and industry, including pharmacology/medicine and cosmetics, for its interesting properties. Identifying redundancies in germplasm blanks to generate core collections is a major concern, mostly in large stocks, in order to reduce space and maintenance costs. Yet, similar appearance and phenotypic plasticity of garlic varieties hinder their mo...

The Michurinsk State Agrarian University (Michurinsk SAU) is one of the leading centers for breeding apple clonal rootstocks. A diverse collection rootstocks, founded in 1930s by V.I. Budagovsky, maintained at SAU. In present study, 87 rootstocks from this were analyzed using 18 SSR markers to assess their genetic diversity and relatedness. detected polymorphism level was rather high compared p...

Although in situ hybridization has been used to examine the distribution of messenger RNA for somatostatin receptor subtypes (sst) in human tumors, the cellular localization of sst1 and sst2A receptors has not been reported. In this study, we describe the cellular localization of human sst1 and sst2A receptor proteins in both cryostat- and paraffin-embedded sections of 25 human tumor tissues us...

Cloud parameters (cloud mask, effective particle radius, and liquid/ice water path) are the important inputs in estimating surface solar radiation (SSR). These parameters can be derived from MODIS with high accuracy, but their temporal resolution is too low to obtain high-temporalresolution SSR retrievals. In order to obtain hourly cloud parameters, an artificial neural network (ANN) is applied...

An SSR problem has been noticed and caused repeated triggering of the protection. A study indicated that SSR conditions might appear for some network configurations. Thyristor Controlled Series Capacitor (TCSC) was found to eliminate the problem. The paper discusses the problem and introduce different types of protective relays for mitigation of SSR.

A genome-wide search was performed to identify simple sequence repeat (SSR) loci among the available sequence databases from four strains of Xylella fastidiosa (strains causing Pierce's disease, citrus variegated chlorosis, almond leaf scorch, and oleander leaf scorch). Thirty-four SSR loci were selected for SSR primer design and were validated in PCR experiments. These multilocus SSR primers, ...

Subsynchronous resonance (SSR) problems appeared due to resonance between the turbine and the series capacitor on transmission line is damped by installing superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) unit which the parameters are optimized by quantum behaved particle swarm optimization (QPSO). The proposed objective function is comprehensive damping index (CDI) of SSR damping. To accommodate...

The starvation survival response (SSR) of Listeria monocytogenes EGD is induced under glucose- or multiple-nutrient-, but not amino-acid limitation. 0.01-0.2% of the population remain viable even after 20 d and the survivors show a reduced cell size and increased cross-protection to several environmental stresses. The development of the SSR may therefore be important in L. monocytogenes surviva...

ABSTRACT Isolates of Puccinia triticina collected from common wheat in the Central Asia countries of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan and the Caucasus countries of Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia were tested for virulence to 20 isolines of Thatcher wheat with different leaf rust resistance genes and molecular genotype at 23 simple sequence repeat (SSR) loci. After clone corre...

Background Eucalypts are the most widely planted hardwood trees in the world, occupying globally more than 18 million hectares, as an important source of carbon neutral renewable energy and raw material for pulp, paper and solid wood. Intensive planting programs of Eucalyptus grandis have been carried out in the Argentinian Mesopotamia. Linkage maps are useful tools for quantitative trait loci ...