The extent to which epistasis contributes to adaptation, population differentiation, and speciation is a long-standing and important problem in evolutionary genetics. Using recombinant inbred (RI) lines of Arabidopsis thaliana grown under natural field conditions, we have examined the genetic architecture of fitness-correlated traits with respect to epistasis; we identified both single-locus ad...

Pumpkin is a popular vegetable crop and exhibits broad diversity in fruit shape size. Fruit-related traits are the decisive factors determining consumer acceptance market value of pumpkin cultivar. As result, deciphering genetic basis fruit-related great importance for breeding. To address this problem, F2 population was generated by two Cucurbita moschata inbred lines with contrasting shapes, ...

Path coefficient analysis has been widely used to understand production better and determine the relationships between fruit their constituents. This study evaluated correlations mass other physical characteristics, contributes selecting cape gooseberry fruit. The attributes assessed were total of (TM) (fruit with husk), (FM) without husk (HM), length (HL), largest transverse diameter (LD), (FD...

this study was conducted to investigate the effects of irrigation frequency and substrates on some parameters of greenhouse tomato (cv. hamra) during 1381-1382 at research greenhouse of agriculture college, in ferdowsi university of mashhad. the experiment was based on split plots in the form of completely randomized design and in four replications. irrigation frequency in three levels of 12, 8...

Telomere length reflects lifetime cumulative oxidative stress from environmental exposures, such as cigarette smoking and chronic inflammation. Shortened telomere length is thought to cause genomic instability and has been associated with several cancers. We examined the association of telomere length in peripheral leukocyte DNA with gastric cancer risk as well as potential confounding factors ...

A rich history of investigation documents various Drosophila-yeast mutualisms, suggesting that Drosophila suzukii similarly has an association with a specific yeast species or community. To discover candidate yeast species, yeasts were isolated from larval frass, adult midguts, and fruit hosts of D. suzukii. Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (TRFLP) technology and decimal diluti...

Despite the advances in the physiology of fruit ripening, the role and contribution of water pathways are still barely considered. Our aim was therefore to characterize aquaporins, proteins that render the molecular basis for putative regulatory mechanisms in water transport. We focused our work on strawberry (Fragaria xananassa) fruit, a non-climacteric fruit of special interest because of its...

BACKGROUND One of the main factors that reduce fruit quality and lead to economically important losses is oversoftening. Textural changes during fruit ripening are mainly due to the dissolution of the middle lamella, the reduction of cell-to-cell adhesion and the weakening of parenchyma cell walls as a result of the action of cell wall modifying enzymes. Pectins, major components of fruit cell ...

Rambutan tree (Nepheliumlappaceum L.) is an important but a lesser known fruit tree in Ghana and has several nutritional and medicinal uses. Efforts to establish plantation of Rambutan in Ghana to ensure its sustainable use is challenged with unavailable planting materials because the seeds are recalcitrant in nature, loses viability easily when exposed to dryness. Seeds are therefore sown dire...

This study aims to determine the growth response of eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) liquid organic fertilizer noni fruit (Morinda citrifolia grown in lebak swamps. In this study, a randomized block design (RBD) method was used which consisted 6 treatments and 4 replications. The concentration extract P0 = 0 ml, P1 P2 8 P3 10 P4 12 P5 14 ml. Observations were made on plant height, number branche...