Reproductive meristems and embryos display dormancy mechanisms in specialized structures named respectively buds and seeds that arrest the growth of perennial plants until environmental conditions are optimal for survival. Dormancy shows common physiological features in buds and seeds. A genotype-specific period of chilling is usually required to release dormancy by molecular mechanisms that ar...

A linkage map of rye, previously developed using DS2 x RXL10 F2 mapping population, was enriched with 179 AFLP and 19 RAPD marker loci. The current map covers 1386 cM and contains 480 markers including 200 RFLPs, 179 AFLPs, 88 RAPDs, 12 protein loci and one dwarfing gene. AFLPs generated by EcoRI/MseI primer combinations were distributed over the entire genome as distinct loci or clusters of 2-...

This paper presents transliteration mining on the ACL 2010 NEWS workshop shared transliteration mining task data. Transliteration mining was done using a generative transliteration model applied on the source language and whose output was constrained on the words in the target language. A total of 30 runs were performed on 5 language pairs, with 6 runs for each language pair. In the presence of...

Citrus Bent Leaf Viroid (CBLVd) and Dwarfing (CDVd), from genus Apscaviroid, are two of the widely distributed citrus viroids among eight reported to date. They have been found induce reduction in canopy volume fruit production trees on trifoliate orange hybrids rootstocks. Moreover, infected only with CBLVd or combinations Exocortis (CEVd), Hop Stunt (HSVd) CDVd associated a poor development r...

Lettuce is a major vegetable in western countries. Mutations generated genetic variations and played an important role in the domestication of the crop. Many traits derived from natural and induced mutations, such as dwarfing, early flowering, male sterility, and chlorophyll deficiency, are useful in physiological and genetic studies. Mutants were also used to develop new lettuce products inclu...

Nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPS), polyketide synthases (PKS), and hybrid NRPS/PKS are of particular interest, because they produce numerous therapeutic agents, have great potential for engineering novel compounds, and are the largest enzymes known. The predicted masses of known enzymatic assembly lines can reach almost 5 megadaltons, dwarfing even the ribosome (approximately 2.6 megadalt...

Osteoporotic-associated vertebral compression fractures are a major public health concern, dwarfing even hip fractures in incidence in the United States. These fractures carry a significant morbidity and mortality burden and also represent a major growing source of consumption of scarce heath resources. Percutaneous vertebroplasty remains a commonly used and safe technique for the symptomatic t...