Temperature is a major signal that governs plant distribution and shapes plant growth. High ambient temperature promotes plant thermomorphogenesis without significant induction of heat-stress responses. Although much progress of warm temperature-mediated plant growth has been made during recent years, the thermomorphogenic signalling pathway is not well understood. We previously revealed that P...

Light plays a vital role in seedling de-etiolation during which it remarkably inhibits hypocotyl growth and promotes cotyledon opening and the synthesis of chlorophyll and anthocyanin. After light perception, photoreceptors act to repress two main branches of the light signaling, PIFs and COP1-HY5. We recently identified PKL/EPP1, a chromatin remodeling factor, as a new component in regulating ...

TO THE EDITOR: In a recent paper by Bailey et al. (2), dietary nitrate supplementation was shown to reduce the oxygen cost during submaximal exercise and to increase the time to exhaustion during high-intensity exercise. These data confirm and expand on the surprising and original findings by Larsen et al. (4) of nitrate-induced improvement of exercise efficiency in humans. This newly discovere...

Three household observations and semistructured interviews (n = 14) were conducted with Bhutanese refugee mothers to understand food shopping and dietary practices in this group of the refugee populations. Participants were recruited through a resettlement agency and snowballing techniques. Observation results indicated that steaming and stir-frying were common cooking methods and spices such a...

Background: Intestine of pigs (chitterling) is one the important edible offal with substantial yield and accounts for 1.8% slaughter weight. At present its utilization as direct consumption limited only to some economically weaker section population. Therefore study was undertaken develop a shelf stable chitterling pickle recipe incorporated fermented bamboo shoot (FBS) lemon juice natural acid...

Objective Lifestyle changes may play an important role in the incidence reduction and delay of onset age of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in the Koza/Kozagawa/Kushimoto (K) area. The aim of this study was to evaluate recent lifestyle changes in the K area and to investigate the relationships between lifestyle and oxidative stress among the residents. Methods We conducted a medical checkup...

The evolutions of radially symmetric vortices and idealized easterly waves are compared using three simple convective parameterization schemes. The parameterizations are formulated for a model atmosphere consisting of three coupled, shallow, constant-density layers. The first was developed by Ooyama and later refined by DeMaria and Pickle (the ODP scheme). Their scheme uses horizontal convergen...