A total of 93,682 BAC-end sequences (BESs) were generated from a dwarf model tomato, cv. Micro-Tom. After removing repetitive sequences, the BESs were similarity searched against the reference tomato genome of a standard cultivar, "Heinz 1706." By referring to the "Heinz 1706" physical map and by eliminating redundant or nonsignificant hits, 28,804 "unique pair ends" and 8,263 "unique ends" wer...

Myosin Va is a well known processive motor involved in transport of organelles. A tail-inhibition model is generally accepted for the regulation of myosin Va: inhibited myosin Va is in a folded conformation such that the tail domain interacts with and inhibits myosin Va motor activity. Recent studies indicate that it is the C-terminal globular tail domain (GTD) that directly inhibits the motor ...

umami (the fifth taste sensation)-component of tea and is contained 2—3% in tea leaves. Theanine is a glutamate derivative and is used extensively as supplements and beverages, because it has a brain nerve function such as a relaxing effect due to inducing alpha waves. But there are few reports about pharmacological action of theanine in comparison with catechin or caffeine, major tea component...

We present efficient algorithms for image restoration using Good’s roughness penalty. We assumed Gaussian or Poisson statistics for the noise and derived an algorithm for each case. Performance was tested using simulated three-dimensional imaging with a fluorescence confocal laser scanning microscope. Results were compared to those for algorithms that use Gaussian or entropy penalty terms, whic...

the years 1702–1706 brought into sharp contrast conflicting Šiews of the body in popular belief and Lutheran pastoral theology, and in the secularizing project of the early Enlightenment. The dispute centred on the practical, local implications of territorialism, a theory of church subordination to the state deŠeloped in the 1690s by the Saxon jurist Christian Thomasius (1655–1728), the most in...

Solanum lycopersicum ‘Heinz 1706’ is a pioneer model cultivar for tomato research, whose whole genome sequence valuable genomics studies available. Nevertheless, genetic transformation procedure this has not yet been reported. Meanwhile, various editing technologies such as transfection of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated (Cas) ribonucleoprote...