The key abiotic factor found to affect the percentage cover of nettles in this investigation was soil temperature, with a 0.734 Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient between the two variables (showing a significant correlation where P<0.05). This is thought to be due to the fact that an increase in soil temperature will cause an increase in the metabolic activities of the nettle. This include...

Another productive and busy year here at the Emory Infant and Child Lab, thanks to the joint effort of many individuals: the diligent care and supervision of our Lab Coordinator Theresa Nettles, all the good work from our visiting scholars, graduate, as well as volunteering undergraduate students. And again, thanks to the parents and children who came to visit the Lab and participated in our st...

Cotton leaf curl disease (CLCuD) is a severe disease of cotton that occurs in Africa and Pakistan/northwestern India. The disease is caused by begomoviruses in association with specific betasatellites that differ between Africa and Asia. During survey of symptomatic cotton in Sindh (southern Pakistan) Cotton leaf curl Gezira virus (CLCuGV), the begomovirus associated with CLCuD in Africa, was i...

Nettle consumption, as well as persimmon, orange, coconut etc. can lead to phytobezoar formation. Coke and cellulase-resistant phytobezoars should be removed either endoscopically or surgically, depending on their dimensions. The treatment of choice for giant phytobezoars (more than 10 cm) is gastrotomy.

Leaf senescence, the final stage of leaf development, is a complex and highly regulated process that involves a series of coordinated actions at the cellular, tissue, organ, and organism levels under the control of a highly regulated genetic program. In the last decade, the use of mutants with different levels of leaf senescence phenotypes has led to the cloning and functional characterizations...

ERα LBD structures may explain instability in the absence of ligand or with specific ligands 1,2,7,9. Nettles et al. 5 address this instability through use of a specific point mutation, Y537S, which stabilizes H12 in an agonist con-formation and is shown to overcome misfold-ing of the apo-ERα LBD. One might predict that stabilizing H12 on top of the ligand binding cavity with the Y537S mutation...

Abstract Sauvignon Blanc represents an important grape variety. The wine made from this variety is known to have a wide range of aroma profiles nettles tropical fruits. Beside the raw material quality (grapes), wines can be fundamentally influenced by technological conditions applied in making process. Yeast and other microorganisms play key role formation metabolites during alcoholic fermentat...

Platform technologies for measurement of CpG methylation at multiple loci across the genome have made ambitious epigenome-wide association studies affordable and practicable. In contrast to genetic studies, which estimate the effects of structural changes in DNA, and transcriptomic studies, which measure genomic outputs, epigenetic studies can access states of regulation of genome function in p...