Stripe (yellow) rust, caused by the biotrophic fungal pathogen Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), is emerging as a serious threat to wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production in many regions of North America. Genetic resistance stripe rust typically conditioned products genes that detect pathogen-associated molecular patterns and initiate cascade signalling events, culminating generation ...

Understanding of the diversity of skeletal loading regimes in vertebrate long bones during locomotion has been significantly enhanced by the application of planar strain theory (PST) to in vivo bone strain data. PST is used to model the distribution of longitudinal strains normal to the bone's transverse cross-section and the location of the neutral axis of bending. To our knowledge, the applic...

PURPOSE Interesterification of palm stearin and palm kernal (PSt/PK) is widely used by the food industry to create fats with desirable functional characteristics for applications in spreads and bakery products, negating the need for trans fatty acids. Previous studies have reported reduced postprandial lipaemia, an independent risk factor for CVD, following interesterified (IE) palmitic and ste...

Background: Pituitary stalk thickening (PST) used as an imaging diagnosis plays a major role in diagnosis and treatment of the hypothalamus and pituitary disease at an early stage. Up until now, several lines of systematic investigations have been conducted among adolescents, and the results indicated that PST is possibly one of the principal early manifestations of sellar region tumor. To char...

homologs are NAD + -dependent deacetylase enzymes that play important roles in a variety of physiological processes. However, the functions of the Sir2 family in plants are poorly understood. Here, we report that Arabidopsis AtSRT2, a homolog of yeast Sir2, negatively regulates plant basal defense against the pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 ( Pst DC3000). In response to Pst DC30...

SUMMARY The phytotoxin coronatine is a jasmonate mimic produced by Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato (Pst). Coronatine acts as a virulence factor in Arabidopsis and mutants insensitive to coronatine are resistant to Pst and have higher levels of salicylic acid (SA). In this work we used the SA-deficient lines NahG and sid2-2 to determine if coronatine acts directly as a virulence factor or indire...

The obligate bitrophic fungus Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst) causes stripe (yellow) rust on wheat worldwide. Here, we report a novel fungal strain able to hyperparasitize Pst. The strain was isolated from gray-colored rust pustules, and was identified as Alternaria alternata (Fr.: Fr.) keissler based on a combination of morphological characteristics and multi-locus (ITS, GAPDH, and R...

We have determined the complete nucleotide sequence of the Bacillus subtilis homologues of the Escherichia coli phosphate-specific transport (pst) genes in the framework of the international B. subtilis genome sequencing project. The pst genes in E. coli form an operon arranged in the order pstS, pstC, pstA, pstB and phoU. In the case of B. subtilis, there are also five ORFs presumably forming ...

We represent knowledge as integrity constraints in a formalization of probabilistic spatiotemporal knowledge bases. We start by defining the syntax and semantics of a formalization called PST knowledge bases. This definition generalizes an earlier version, called SPOT, which is a declarative framework for the representation and processing of probabilistic spatio-temporal data where probability ...