Suitability of Swiss herb cultivars under Finnish climatic conditions

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Rupture gastrique secondaire à un barotraumatisme dans le cadre d'un accident de plongée. A propos d'une observation et revue de la littérature [Gastric rupture secondary to barotrauma in the framework of a diving accident. Apropos of a case report and literature review]

Gastric perforation secondary to barotrauma is rare. The case of a diver suffering from gastric rupture due to a decompression accident is presented here. This rupture was a linear one, localized on the lesser curvature and responsible for a large pneumoperitoneum. Rupture occurs with an excluded stomach, a condition implying cardio-pyloric occlusion. The expansion of intra-gastric air, further worsened by accelerated surfacing provokes excessive gastric dilatation leading to partial or complete rupture (by virtue of the Boyle-Mariotte law: Pressure x Volume = constant). The lesion is always on the lesser curvature. However, it is often difficult to locate, even when peroperative gastroscopy is performed

Genetic investigation of grapevine varieties ‘Ribolla Gialla’ (Italy), ‘Rebula’ (Slovenia) and ‘Robola’ (Ionian Islands)

'Ribolla Gialla' is a very old grape variety cultivated today in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region in northeastern Italy. The historical reputation of this variety in central Eastern Europe was strongly related to the vast distribution of the Venetian Republic markets. In the 1960s, the interest of Italian winegrowers in 'Ribolla Gialla' decreased and it was replaced by international varieties. Despite historical documents reporting the longstanding tradition of 'Ribolla Gialla' cultivation and winemaking in Friuli Venezia Giulia, the origin of this variety is still questionable. The aims of this work were to study the genetic identity of `Ribolla Gialla' and to investigate the possible genetic relationships with 'Rebula' and 'Robola' that have been traditionally cultivated in other European Countries (Goriska brda in Slovenia and Kefalonia Island in Greece). For this purpose, 35 SSR loci were analyzed to fingerprint 19 accessions with denominations or morphologies that are similar to `Ribolla Gialla'. The Italian `Ribolla Gialla' accessions (#5) and the Slovenian 'Rebula' accessions (#2) revealed identical genotypes in all 35 analyzed SSR markers, and can therefore be confirmed as synonyms. The group of Greek 'Robola' accessions resulted as the most heterogeneous, showing several distinct allelic profiles. By phylogenetic analysis, two 'Robola' accessions were clustered with 'Ribolla Gialla' (or 'Rebula'), and parentage analysis strongly suggested a full-siblings relationship between 'Ribolla Gialla' and 'Robola'

A parentage study of closely related ukrainian wine grape varieties using microsatellite markers

International audienceFour bred grapevine varieties released for commercial cultivation in Ukraine, namely ‘Antey Magarachs_ kii’, ‘Rubinovyi Magaracha’, ‘Granatovyi Magaracha’ and ‘Rubin Golodrigi’, and their putative parental forms were genotyped using six microsatellite loci. Genotypes were compared with breeding records to verify genetic rela_ tionships among varieties. Results of the analysis confirmed four of six parent_offspring relationships. Results of the analysis allow to assume that genotype ‘Seyve Villard 20347’ is the direct parent of ‘Antey Magarachskii’ instead of its grandparent. The first_studied accession believed to be that of ‘Granatovyi Magaracha’ was identified as impurity.In order to verify the parentage of ‘Granatovyi Magaracha’, rest accessions of that variety and its putative parent ‘Antey Magarachskii’ were additionally genotyped at 13 nuclear loci and at three chloroplast loci. The parent_off_ spring relationship was confirmed, as all ‘Granatovyi Magaracha’ accessions had a common allele with the parent variety ‘Antey Magarachskii’ at each locus and the same chlorotype A. Different ‘Granatovyi Magaracha’ accessions could have been obtained via vegetative propagation of two seedlings which arose from one crossing

study of genetic relationships between wild and domesticated grapevines distributed from the middle-east regions to european countries

Archaeobotanical-archaeological, cultural and historical data indicatethat grapevine domestication can be dated back from 6000 to 7000 yearsago and that it took place in the Caucasian and Middle East Regions. However,events leading to the domestication of this crop species are still an openissue. In this paper, 6 chloroplast microsatellites have been used to assessgenetic similarities among, and within, domesticated and wild grapevine accessions representative of 7 distinct geographical regions fromtheMiddle-Eastto Western Europe. Results show that 2 out of the 6 analyzed chloroplast lociare polymorphicwithin the 193 domesticated individuals and the 387 samplesof 69 wild populations. Allele variants of the Cp-SSR loci combine in a totalof 6 different haplotypes. The data show that the haplotype distribution is nothomogeneous: the 6 haplotypes are present in the domesticated varieties, butonly 5 (haplotype VI is absent) are observed in wild populations.The analysisof haplotype distribution allows discussion of the relationships between thetwo grape subspecies. The contribution of the wild grape germplasm to the domesticatedgene pool still growing in different geographical regions can be, incases, made evident, suggesting that beside domestication, gene introgressionhas also played a role in shaping the current varietal landscape of the Europeanviticulture