Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is a persistent patency of a vessel normally present in the fetus that connects the pulmonary arterial system to the aorta. The ductus arteriosus fails to close at birth when breathing commences and placental blood circulation is removed. Closure of the ductus arteriosus arises in response to decline pulmonary vascular resistance and increased systemic vascular re...

As more plant genome sequences become available, researchers are increasingly using comparative genomics to address some of the major questions in plant biology. Such questions include the evolution of photosynthesis and multicellularity, the developmental genetic changes responsible for alterations in body plan, and the origin of important plant innovations such as roots, leaves, and vascular ...

Control methods alternative to synthetic pesticides are among the priorities for both organic and conventional farming systems. Plants potential sources of compounds with antimicrobial properties. In this study, antifungal potentialities saponins derived from Medicago species oat grains brassica sprouts have been explored control Verticillium dahliae, a widely distributed fungal pathogen that c...

Root-knot nematodes (RKN; Meloidogyne incognita) are phytoparasitic that cause significant damage to crop plants worldwide. Recent studies have revealed RKNs disrupt various physiological processes in host plant cells induce gall formation. However, little is known about the molecular mechanisms of formation induced by nematodes. We previously found RNA expression levels some genes related micr...

Plant vascular meristems are sets of pluripotent cells that enable radial growth by giving rise to vascular tissues and are therefore crucial to plant development. However, the overall dynamics of cellular determination and patterning in and around vascular meristems is still unexplored. We study this process in the shoot vascular tissue of Arabidopsis thaliana, which is organized in vascular b...

Plant identification from images has become a rapidly developing research field in computer vision and is particularly challenging due to the morphological complexity of plants. The availability large databases plant images, advancements image processing, pattern recognition machine learning, have resulted number remarkably accurate reliable image-based techniques, overcoming time expertise req...