Many strains of Bacillus cereus produce zwittermicin A, a novel antibiotic that contributes to the ability of B. cereus to suppress certain plant diseases. The purpose of this study was to identify molecular indicators of zwittermicin A production in B, cereus strains, contribute to an understanding of the ecology and evolution of this group of bacteria, and identify potential agents for contro...

Eggplant is a major crop in Turkey, which produces more of this crop than all of Europe; consequently, germplasm resources are of concern for the country. Molecular characterization of eggplant genotypes collected from different geographical regions of Turkey was carried out using SSR and RAPD markers. With amplification of five SSR loci, the number of alleles per microsatellite locus ranged fr...

Simple Sequence Repeats (SSR) and Sequence-Related Amplified Polymorphism (SRAP) were used to analyze the genetic diversity of 26 genotypes from 15 Chinese wild grape species and one interspecific hybrid of Vitis L. A total of 90 alleles were amplified by ten SSR primers, and primer heterozygosity varied from 0.653 to 0.883. Twelve out of 169 SRAP primer combinations were selected for SRAP anal...

Marker Name. Pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC). Genus and Species. Sus scrofa. Source and Description of Primers. Primers were designed to amplify pig genomic DNA from exon 2 to exon 3 using porcine POMC cDNA sequence (Genbank accession no. X03561), based on exon/intron boundary and intron size information of bovine (Genbank J00019) and human (Genbank J00291, J00292) POMC sequences. Primer Sequences....

The level of polymorphism among twelve selected progenies of Gymnema sylvestre was investigated through AFLP markers by multiplexing PCR reactions using 64 (8x8) primer combinations. Fourteen primer combinations were selected as the most suitable combination for G. sylvestre. Analysis of the 12 progenies with these 14 primer pairs produced 1689 fragments of which 972 (57.5%) were polymorphic an...

OBJECTIVE Results of recent studies suggest a link between neuronal excitatory or inhibitory unbalance and depression. To investigate this relation, we studied the rest activity and the cortical excitability of the cerebral areas dedicated to hand control in 12 patients with depression. METHODS Brain activity was recorded from the Rolandic region in both hemispheres of 12 depression patients ...

Cross-species amplification of Simple Sequence Repeats (SSRs) loci is considered as a cost-effective approach for developing microsatellite markers for new species. We examined the transferability of eucalyptus SSR loci to the economically important members of the Casuarinaceae family. Ten primer pairs targeting (GA)n, (CTT)n, (TGA)n and (GAA)n motifs were screened in Allocasuarina littoralis, ...

Synthetic dodecasill H, 34 Si02 . 3 M12 . 2 MI2 . 1 M20, with M12 and M12' = N2 and M20 =piperidine, is hexagonal with space group P6/mmm and a = 13.783(4) and e = 11.190(3) A. Structure refinement with 658 independent reflexions led to a weighted Rw = 0.056. The clathrate compound has a silica host framework and organic guest molecules M within three different types of cages. It is the simples...