AIMS To identify several strains of Mesorhizobium amorphae and Mesorhizobium tianshanense nodulating Cicer arietinum in Spain and Portugal, and to study the symbiotic genes carried by these strains. METHODS AND RESULTS The sequences of 16S-23S intergenic spacer (ITS), 16S rRNA gene and symbiotic genes nodC and nifH were analysed. According to their 16S rRNA gene and ITS sequences, the strains...

induced hexagonal photonic lattices Sheng Liu, Yi Hu, Peng Zhang, Xuetao Gan, Cibo Lou, Daohong Song, Jianlin Zhao, Jingjun Xu, and Zhigang Chen The Key Laboratory of Space Applied Physics and Chemistry, Ministry of Education and Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Optical Information Technology, School of Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China The Key Laboratory of Weak-Ligh...

1School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 2School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guang Zhou 510006, China 3Faculty of Pharmacy, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa 4Center for Advanced Drug Research and Evaluation, College of Pharmacy, Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, CA 91766, USA 5Department of Cli...

Precise and reproducible surface nanopatterning is the key for a successful ordered growth of GaN nanocolumns. In this work, we point out the main technological issues related to the patterning process, mainly surface roughness and cleaning, and mask adhesion to the substrate. We found that each of these factors, process-related, has a dramatic impact on the subsequent selective growth of the c...

An unusually complete recovery of extensive electron-beam-induced damage in a thin film of a CaO-Al2O3-SiO2 glass was discovered. Nanoscale measurements show that the Ca ions migrate about 10 nm away during irradiation and return during recovery. Oxygen atoms are trapped largely as molecular oxygen and do not migrate. Electron energy loss measurements demonstrate that the glass returns complete...

Four new phenolic glycosides, including two flavonoid glycosides (1 and 2) and two lignan glycosides (3 and 4), were isolated from the traditional Chinese medicine formula, Baoyuan decoction. Their structures were established by detailed analysis of the NMR and HR-ESI-MS spectroscopic data and their absolute configurations were determined by the experimental electronic circular dichroism data a...