Water samples were collected from various sampling sites surrounding the ship building industries in Goa and plated on Zobell marine agar (ZMA), Nutrient agar (NA) and Mineral salt medium agar (MSMA) containing 0.1 mM tributyltin chloride (TBTC). The physicochemical characteristics of the water samples were determined. The total viable counts of bacteria ranged from 58 × 10 cfu/ml in MSMA+TBTC ...

Internode length is one of the decisive factors affecting plant height (PH) and ear height (EH), which are closely associated with the lodging resistance, biomass and grain yield of maize. miRNAs, currently recognized as important transcriptional/ post-transcriptional regulators, play an essential role in plant growth and development. However, their roles in developing internodes under maize ea...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Anaerobic or low oxygen conditions occur when maize plants are submerged or subjected to flooding of the soil. Maize survival under low oxygen conditions is largely dependent on metabolic, physiological and morphological adaptation strategies; the regulation mechanisms of which remain unknown. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play critical roles in the response to adverse biotic or abioti...

Based on the modified gravity model and social network analysis method, evolution characteristics driving mechanism of logistics spatial structure in Zhengzhou metropolitan area (ZMA) from 2008 to 2019 are analyzed at county (district) scale. The research finds that: (1) distribution links counties (districts) ZMA has significant heterogeneity, showing a pattern “sparse east dense west”, concen...

Proteins of the G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) family present numerous attractive targets for rational drug design, but also a formidable challenge for identification and conformational modeling of their 3D structure. A recently performed assessment of blind predictions of adenosine A2a receptor (AA2AR) structure in complex with ZM241385 (ZMA) antagonist provided a first example of unbiased ...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small RNA molecules that regulate gene expression by inhibiting the protein translation or targeting the mRNA cleavage. They play many important roles in living organism cells; however, the knowledge on miRNAs functions has become more extensive upon their identification in biological fluids and recent reports on plant-origin miRNAs abundance in human plasma an...

In angiosperms, the endosperm nurtures the embryo and provides nutrients for seed germination. To identify the expression pattern of small interfering RNA in the developing maize endosperm, we have performed high-throughput small RNA transcriptome sequencing of kernels at 0, 3, and 5 days after pollination (DAP) and endosperms at 7, 10, and 15 DAP using B73 and Mo17 reciprocal crosses in previo...