Wheat is a crop with spring and winter types and wide adaptability to different climate conditions. The wide adaptability of wheat is mainly controlled by three groups of genetic factors and among them vernalization (VRN) genes play pivotal role in determining spring and winter types. In this study, 395 Iranian wheat landraces were characterized with specific primer pairs designed based on VRN-...

Freshwater magnetotactic cocci within Alphaproteobacteria are of ecological interest due to their ubiquitous distribution in aquatic environments as well as their potential roles in iron cycling and the bulk magnetism of sediment. To effectively investigate the diversity and distribution of these cocci, specific primers (FMTCf and FMTCr) were developed. Their specificity, applicability, and eff...

A previous study reported the cloning of a putative Prevotella nigrescens-specific DNA probe, Pn23, using random shotgun method. The present study evaluated the species-specificity of Pn23 for P. nigrescens using the clinical strains of Prevotella intermedia and P. nigrescens to develop Prevotella nigrescens-specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers. The specificity was tested against 10...