Bromeliads are of great economic importance in flower production; however little information is available with respect to genetic characterization of cultivated bromeliads thus far. In the present study, a selection of cultivated bromeliads was characterized via inter-simple sequence repeat (ISSR) markers with an emphasis on genetic diversity and population structure. Twelve ISSR primers produc...

Cultural Effects on Sorghum Varieties Grown, Traits Preferred, and Seed Management Practices in Northern Ethiopia. Agrobiodiversity is fundamentally shaped by farmers’ preferences management practices, these are again the social cultural background. This study investigates variety seed practices crop sorghum ( bicolor ) among Kunama Tigrayan ethnolinguistic groups living side Surveys were condu...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs), which play crucial regulatory roles in plant secondary metabolism and responses to the environment, could be developed as promising biomarkers for different varieties and production areas of herbal medicines. However, limited information is available for miRNAs from Lonicera japonica, which is widely used in East Asian countries owing to various pharmaceutically active secon...

A Kuga fiber variety is a family of abelian varieties parametrized by a locally symmetric space and is constructed by using an equivariant holomorphic map of Hermitian symmetric domains. We construct a complex torus bundle T over a Kuga fiber variety Y parametrized by X and express its cohomology H∗(T ,C) in terms of the cohomology of Y as well as in terms of the cohomology of the locally symme...

Weedy rice is a conspecific form of cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.) that infests rice fields and results in severe crop losses. Weed strains in different world regions appear to have originated multiple times from different domesticated and/or wild rice progenitors. In the case of Malaysian weedy rice, a multiple-origin model has been proposed based on neutral markers and analyses of domestic...

Some Swedish spring wheat varieties have recently been shown to carry a rare wildtype (wt) allele of the gene NAM-B1, known to affect leaf senescence and nutrient retranslocation to the grain. The wt allele is believed to increase grain protein concentration and has attracted interest from breeders since it could contribute to higher grain quality and more nitrogen-efficient varieties. This stu...

used to make a beverage by the indigenous populations of the arealong before the first Spanish colonists arrived early in the sixteenth century. Jesuit priests who arrived in the middle of the century graduaUy took over control of IDost of the producing areas and began cultivation of selected varieties to ensure supply. Virtually aIl of Argentinian and Brazilian production is now cultivated, wh...