Ploidy studies of tumors are a diagnostic and prognostic aid. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the DNA content of palate aggressive pleomorphic adenomas (PA) and adenocarcinomas of the salivary glands. Twelve cases of salivary gland tumors of the palate were selected from the archives of the Oral Pathology Department, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Buenos Aires (1966-2001). Six...

Chromosome doubling of microspore-derived plants is an important factor in the practical application of microspore culture technology because breeding programs require a large number of genetically stable, homozygous doubled haploid plants with a high level of fertility. In the present paper, 29 populations of microspore-derived plantlets from cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) and brocc...

Ploidy level is important in biodiversity studies and in developing strategies for isolating important plant genes. Many herbicide-resistant weed species are polyploids, but our understanding of these polyploid weeds is limited. Japanese foxtail, a noxious agricultural grass weed, has evolved herbicide resistance. However, most studies on this weed have ignored the fact that there are multiple ...

Ploidy and Allelic Variation Affects Fungal Pathogen Virulence in a Nematode Host By Dorian J. Feistel Genotype-by-genotype interactions between hosts and pathogens can play a significant role in determining pathogen virulence. In addition to allelic variation, ploidy is an important component of an individual genotype. Thus, the relative contributions of pathogen ploidy and allelic composition...

PURPOSE Deoxyribonucleic acid ploidy correlates with the biological behavior of prostate carcinoma. However, the usefulness of ploidy on needle biopsies that show prostate cancer has not been established to our knowledge. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively determined ploidy on needle biopsies of 159 men with prostate carcinoma treated surgically at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Ploidy was det...

Examination of white blood cell indicators for three different ploidy level sturgeon species reared in an indoor recirculation aquaculture system one year | E Salkova, D Gela, P Pecherkova, M Flajshans Agricultural Journals

Centaurea solstitialis L. (yellow starthistle, Asteraceae) is a Eurasian native plant introduced as an exotic into North and South America, and Australia, where it is regarded as a noxious invasive. Changes in ploidy level have been found to be responsible for numerous plant biological invasions, as they are involved in trait shifts critical to invasive success, like increased growth rate and b...