Inspired by mammalian skins, soft hybrids integrating the merits of elastomers and hydrogels have potential applications in diverse areas including stretchable and bio-integrated electronics, microfluidics, tissue engineering, soft robotics and biomedical devices. However, existing hydrogel-elastomer hybrids have limitations such as weak interfacial bonding, low robustness and difficulties in p...

Fusion of Cloudman S91 melanoma cells with macrophages results in hybrids with increased metastatic potential. Here, we report that such hybrids acquire new pathways for motility. Compared to parental melanoma cells and low metastatic hybrids, the metastatic hybrids showed far stronger responses to 3T3- and lung fibroblast-conditioned media, primary lung slices, fibronectin (FN), and a Mr 120,0...

Host suitability of commercial sunflower hybrids to Pratylenchus zeae was studied in the field and greenhouse. For comparison, one maize and one grain sorghum inbred line, both susceptible to P. zeae, were included in the greenhouse experiments. Pratylenchus zeae densities extracted from the roots of sunflower hybrids grown in naturally infested soil were low. In the first greenhouse experiment...

A b s t r a c t T h e structural gene (/3GALA) coding for lysosomal t3-galactosidase-A (EC 3.2.1.23) has been assigned to human chromosome 3 using man-mouse somatic cell hybrids. Human t3-galactosidase-A was identified in cell hybrids with a species-specific antiserum to human liver/3-galactosidase-A. The antiserum precipitates fl-galactosidase-A from human tissues, cultured cells, and cell hyb...

An attempt was made to regenerate bulblets from ex vitro node explants of hybrid lilies in the year 2007. Node sections (3-4 mm) isolated from the middle part of the stem in hybrid lilies were cultured on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with several combinations of NAA and BA. Growth regulator-free medium was not effective in inducing bulblet regeneration. A significant increase in...

Two experiments were conducted to determine the influence of chemical and physical corn kernel traits on digestibility and feedlot cattle performance. Seven commercially available corn hybrids representing a range in kernel traits were evaluated for a variety of chemical and physical traits that included test weight, 1,000-grain weight, kernel size, starch, CP, amylose, Stenvert Hardness tests ...

Eggplant (Solanum melongena) is related to a large number of wild species that are a source of variation for breeding programmes, in particular for traits related to adaptation to climate change. However, wild species remain largely unexploited for eggplant breeding. Detailed phenotypic characterization of wild species and their hybrids with eggplant may allow identifying promising wild species...

The Laxa group of the Panicum genus contains species which have CO(2) exchange and anatomical characteristics intermediate to C(3) and C(4) photosynthetic types (C(3)/C(4)), and also species characterized as C(3). Hybrids were made between two of the C(3)/C(4) species and two C(3) species. Carbon dioxide exchange and morphological, leaf anatomical, and cytogenetic characteristics of F(1) hybrid...

As wild boars (Sus scrofa L.) are progenitors of pigs (Sus domesticus), they can copulate reciprocally and give prolific progeny. However, wild boar and pig not only have different appearance, but also different biological features. In 2004 – 2008, in stockyard located in Telšiai district (Lithuania), two groups of investigated animals were formed: I – Lithuanian Whites copulated with a wild bo...

New PNA analogues derived from aminoethylpyrrolidin-5-one backbone show stabilization of aepone-PNA:DNA hybrids and destabilization of the corresponding RNA hybrids compared to unmodified PNA.