Genome of Herbaspirillum seropedicae Strain SmR1, a Specialized Diazotrophic Endophyte of Tropical Grasses

The molecular mechanisms of plant recognition, colonization, and nutrient exchange between diazotrophic endophytes and plants are scarcely known. Herbaspirillum seropedicae is an endophytic bacterium capable of colonizing intercellular spaces of grasses such as rice and sugar cane. The genome of H. seropedicae strain SmR1 was sequenced and annotated by The Paraná State Genome Programme—GENOPAR. The genome is composed of a circular chromosome of 5,513,887 bp and contains a total of 4,804 genes. The genome sequence revealed that H. seropedicae is a highly versatile microorganism with capacity to metabolize a wide range of carbon and nitrogen sources and with possession of four distinct terminal oxidases. The genome contains a multitude of protein secretion systems, including type I, type II, type III, type V, and type VI secretion systems, and type IV pili, suggesting a high potential to interact with host plants. H. seropedicae is able to synthesize indole acetic acid as reflected by the four IAA biosynthetic pathways present. A gene coding for ACC deaminase, which may be involved in modulating the associated plant ethylene-signaling pathway, is also present. Genes for hemagglutinins/hemolysins/adhesins were found and may play a role in plant cell surface adhesion. These features may endow H. seropedicae with the ability to establish an endophytic life-style in a large number of plant species

Shakespeare & the universities, and other studies in Elizabethan drama,

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An introduction to the readings of Shakespeare,

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University drama in the Tudor Age /

From mediaevalism to humanism.--Biblical plays at Oxford.--Biblical plays at Cambridge.--Early academic comedy.--Queen Elizabeth at Cambridge (1564) and at Oxford (1566)--The Senecan chronicle-play at Cambridge.--Cambridge comedies of Italian origin.--The Oxford stage 1566-1582.--William Gager's later Christ Church plays.--Friends and foes of the university stage.--The Queen's second visit to Oxford (1592) and after.--More Italianate plays at Cambridge.--English topical comedies at Cambridge.--Conclusion.--Appendixes: Absalon (B.M. Stowe ms. 957)--Synedrium id est consessus animalium (Trin. Coll. Cam. ms. O. 3.25)--The Cambridge burlesque of the Romanist bishops before Elizabeth at Hinchinbrook, August 10, 1564.--A list of university plays in the Tudor period.--Some actor-lists.--Index.Mode of access: Internet

'The taming of a shrew': being the original of Shakespeare's 'Taming of the shrew',

"The text of the present edition is based on that of the quarto of 1594"With reproduction in photogravure of 1 p. of the 2d edition: A pleasant conceited historie, called The taming of the shrew ... Imprinted [!] at London by P. S. and are to be sold by Cuthbert Burbie, at his shop at the Royall Exchange, 1596.Added half title: portrait of Shakespeare with legend "The Shakespeare classics" within ornamental border.Vignette (Shakespeare's coat of arms) on half-title.Mode of access: Internet

Giles and Phineas Fletcher.

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