Fusarium wilt (FW), caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris and Ascochyta blight (AB), caused by Ascochyta rabiei are two major constraints to chickpea production. Therefore, two parallel marker-assisted backcrossing (MABC) programmes by targeting foc 1 locus and two QTL regions, ABQTL-I and ABQTL-II were undertaken to introgress resistance to FW and AB, respectively in C 214, an elite cult...

Shifting a yeast culture from an ethanol-based medium to a glucose-based medium causes a coordinate increase of the cellular levels of ribosomal protein mRNAs by about a factor 4 within 30 min. Making use of hybrid genes encompassing different portions of the 5'-flanking region of the L25-gene, we could show that the increase in mRNAs is a transcriptional event, mediated through DNA sequences u...

This paper examines the European Union’s (EU’s) economic relations with the Western Balkans (WB) in the light of the emerging debate on international public goods. The paper argues that the EU’s philanthropic approach to transition reforms in the WB is too discretionary to be efficient and/or equitable. We think that the concept of regional public goods (RPG) provides a good benchmark against w...

With the advantages of an engaged and authentic role-play game (RPG), this study aims to develop an RPGenhanced English for specific purposes (ESP) vocabulary-acquisition framework, providing teachers and students a systematic way to incorporate RPG into ESP learning. The framework is composed of five parts: goal, three-level vocabulary sets, RPG contexts, a vocabulary test, and a participation...

A pouca participação dos alunos em sala de aula é uma preocupação para os professores. Este um problema sem território, fronteiras e data final. É realidade irrefreável que a escola tradicional deve enfrentar. Nesse contexto o presente estudo traz proposta do desenvolvimento aptidões conhecimentos língua portuguesa através RPG, ferramenta envolve: socialização, cooperação, criatividade, interat...

Much of the literature on role-playing games (RPGs) focuses on their social, performative, experiential, and/or narrative aspects. The emphasis is on the playing of the roles, as it were, and less so on the game mechanics. Curiously, the phrase ‘RPG elements’ tends not to refer to the role-playing aspects of the genre, but to the rules, systems, and mechanisms that have been co-opted by other g...

To study the interdependence of Gcr1p and Rap1p, we prepared a series of synthetic regulatory sequences that contained various numbers and combinations of CT-boxes (Gcr1p-binding sites) and RPG-boxes (Rap1p-binding sites). The ability of the synthetic oligonucleotides to function as regulatory sequences was tested using an ENO1-lacZ reporter gene. As observed previously, synthetic oligonucleoti...

Regional warming, owing to urbanization, leads to earlier spring phenological events and may expose plants to hard freeze damage. This study examined the influence of urbanization on the risk of frost damage to spring flowers in South Korea from 1973 to 2015. For the analysis period, we categorized 25 cities into two groups: those showing rapid population growth (rPG) ≥ 200,000, including 13 ci...