A study was conducted to determine gene actions controlling yield and other qualitative traits of tomato (Lycopersicon lycopersicum) as well combining ability among selected genotypes at the Teaching Research Farm Ladoke Akintola University Technology, Ogbomoso during 2017 2018 cropping seasons. Five ten offspring (F1), obtained from a 5×5 diallel crosses were sown in plots, arranged Randomized...

Xinjiang is a vast area of moun tains and desert bas ins that formed the main route for con tact be tween early China and the West. The south ern Talimu Ba sin is well known for the re mark able or ganic pres er va tion there of buri als and aban doned set tle ments. Lesser known is the north ern Zhunge’er Ba sin that lay across the route out to the Eur asian steppes. From at least as early as ...

Most of the bacterial genes involved in nodulation of legumes (nod, nol and noe ) as well as nitrogen fixation (nif and fix ) are carried on pNGR234a, the 536 kb symbiotic plasmid (pSym) of the broad-host-range Rhizobium sp. NGR234. Putative transcription regulators comprise 24 of the predicted 416 open reading frames (ORFs) contained on this replicon. Computational analyses identified 19 nod b...

BACKGROUND Although concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) coupled with image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) is associated with a theoretical benefit in non-operated localized esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (NOL-ESCC) patients, there is currently no clinical evidence to support this. RESULTS The study population in the primary analysis comprised 866 patients who were well balanced in terms of th...