Auxinic herbicides (e.g. dicamba) are extensively used in agriculture to selectively control broadleaf weeds. Although cultivated species of Brassicaceae (e.g. Canola) are susceptible to auxinic herbicides, some biotypes of Sinapis arvensis (wild mustard) were found dicamba resistant in Canada. In this research, dicamba tolerance from wild mustard was introgressed into canola through embryo res...

In traditional optical imaging systems, the spatial resolution is limited by the physics of diffraction. The information on sub-wavelength features is carried by evanescent waves, never reaching the camera, thereby posing a hard limit on resolution: the so-called diffraction limit. Modern microscopic methods enable super-resolution, by employing florescence techniques. Stateof-the-art localizat...

Water scarcity in Egypt and globally makes producing new varieties having high grain yield using less water requirements is an important goal for wheat breeders. The present research was conducted to assess the response of sixteen bread genotypes under normal irrigation (five irrigations) low (one irrigation, 25 days, after sowing irrigation.) during 2018/19 2020/21 seasons at Experimental Farm...

This paper describes the development of a prototype of a low-cost digital fluorescent microscope built from commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components. The prototype was tested to detect malignant tumor cells taken from a living organism in a preclinical setting. This experiment was accomplished by using Alexa Fluor 488 conjugate dye attached to the cancer cells. Our prototype utilizes a torch ...

This study was conducted in Paras Hospital, Gurgaon, Haryana, India and was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of structured education on knowledge and attitude regarding florescence test colposcopy in the diagnosis of atypical metaplasia dysplasia and carcinoma in situ of the cervix among women of reproductive age.A pre–experimental one group pretest – posttest design was adopted for thi...

In 2006 June, the obscured low luminosity active galactic nucleus in the nearby Seyfert 1.9 galaxy NGC 4258 was observed with Suzaku for ∼ 100 ks. Utilizing the XIS and the HXD, the nucleus emission was detected over a ∼ 2 to ∼ 40 keV range, with an unabsorbed 2–10 keV luminosity of ∼ 8×10 erg s, and varied by a factor of ∼ 2 during the observation. Its 2–40 keV spectrum is reproduced by a sing...

4-Hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-enyl diphosphate reductase (HDR) catalyzes the last step of the 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol 4- phosphate (MEP) pathway to synthesize isopentenyl pyrophosphate (IPP) and dimethylallyl diphosphate (DMAPP). To date, little is known regarding effects of an increase or a decrease of a HDR expression on terpenoid and other metabolite profiles in plants. In our study, an Artemisia ...

Markers of cell cycle stage allow estimation of cell cycle dynamics in cell culture and during embryonic development. The Fucci system incorporates genetically encoded probes that highlight G1 and S/G2/M phases of the cell cycle allowing live imaging. However the available mouse models that incorporate Fucci are beset by problems with transgene inactivation, varying expression level, lack of co...

BACKGROUND small B-cell neoplasms can show plasmacytic differentiation and may potentially progress to aggressive lymphoma (DLBCL). Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection may cause the transformation of malignant cells in vitro. DESIGN AND METHOD we established VR09 cell line with plasmacytic differentiation, obtained from a case of atypical, non-CLL B-cell chronic lymphoproliferative disease wit...