The stalk, ear and root rot (SERR) of maize caused by Fusarium verticillioides (Fv) severely impacts crop production in tropical and subtropical regions. The aim of the present work was to screen bacterial isolates in order to find novel native biocontrol agents against Fv. A culturable bacterial collection consisting of 11,520 isolates enriched in Firmicutes and Proteobacteria was created from...

Using information gained from (i) the relative HPLC retention of an abnormal insulin present in the serum of a hyperinsulinemic diabetic patient and (ii) the loss of an Mbo II restriction site in one of the patient's insulin gene alleles, it was recently predicted that the mutant insulin contained a serine-for-phenylalanine substitution at position B24 or B25. We have now prepared human [SerB24...

Authors would like to thank the Institute of Education Sciences Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain) for supporting Teaching Innovation Group e-MACAFI and financial support through PIME Project PIME/2018/B25 PIME/2018/B26

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects gases emitted by blends biodiesel with petroleum diesel at intermediate concentrations (between 10 % and 40 %) on biochemistry lichen Cladonia verticillaris (Raddi) Fr. Samples respective species were exposed during a period sixty minutes, using stationary engine, 20 (B20), 25 (B25) 30 (B30) biodiesel, from oil cotton, diesel. In 30, 60 90...

The Grand Transition (GT) view claims that many institutional changes can be understood astransitions occurring at roughly the same level (zone) of development. The Primacy ofInstitutions (PoI) view claims that economic development is a consequence of an exogenousselection of institutions. Our survey of the empirical evidence and our own estimates revealthat it is easy to fi...

The presence of a pentose cycle has been demonstrated in almost all organisms that have been critically examined. However, it is yet to be demonstrated in a saprophytic mold. Sih and Knight (1956) have reported that Penicillium chrysogenum strain NRRL 1951 B25 contained significant quantities of pentose and heptulose phosphates, and Heath and Koffier (1956) showed that ribose-5-phosphate was me...

The presence of a tricarboxylic acid cycle in Penicillium chry8ogenum, as yet, has not been demonstrated conclusively. Ajl (1951) stated that of the mechanisms proposed for oxidation of the 2 carbon fragment in mold metabolism, the evidence for a tricarboxylic acid cycle is the least convincing. This paper presents a study of some of the enzymes of the tricarboxylic acid cycle in cell-free prep...

Serological markers were used to determine the infective agents causing acute viral hepatitis in 246 patients. The frequencies of the five viral infections investigated were: non-A, non-B hepatitis 99 patients (40.2%); hepatitis A 98 patients (39.8%); hepatitis B 43 patients (17.5%); cytomegalovirus » 4 patients (1.6%); and EpsteinBarr virus 2 patients (0.8%). The log mean ages of presentation ...

This essay considers the nature and evolution of both the old and the new institutional economics and considers the possibility of dialogue or even convergence between these schools. It also considers shifts of thinking inside and outside mainstream economics that have altered the conception of the economic agent, even within mainstream theory. In particular, the stipulation of endogenous prefe...