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EVALUATION OF SCAB RESISTANCE QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI (QTL) EFFECTS ON WHEAT
Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) of wheat (Triticum aestivum), caused by Fusarium graminearum, is a disease that periodically strikes the mid-Atlantic region of the USA. Breeding for resistant wheat cultivar is an effective method of disease control. McCormick, a genotype adapted to the mid-Atlantic region, was used in a backcross program with the Chinese cultivar Ning7840. Eight Near-Isogenic Lines (NIL) were developed by marker-assisted backcrossing. Three FHB resistance QTL on chromosomes 3BS, 2DL, and 5A were introgressed from non-adapted Ning7840 into the elite soft red winter wheat McCormick. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of QTL singly and in combination on FHB resistance. The 3BS+2DL NIL showed higher resistance and lower deoxynivalenol content than other NIL in both field and greenhouse studies. This suggests that the 3BS+2DL NIL can be used in the mid-Atlantic region to breed for improved FHB resistance
Massive and Red Objects predicted by a semianalytical model of galaxy formation
We study whether hierarchical galaxy formation in a concordance CDM
universe can produce enough massive and red galaxies compared to the
observations. We implement a semi-analytical model in which the central black
holes gain their mass during major mergers of galaxies and the energy feedback
from active galaxy nuclei (AGN) suppresses the gas cooling in their host halos.
The energy feedback from AGN acts effectively only in massive galaxies when
supermassive black holes have been formed in the central bulges. Compared with
previous models without black hole formation, our model predicts more massive
and luminous galaxies at high redshift, agreeing with the observations of K20
up to . Also the predicted stellar mass density from massive galaxies
agrees with the observations of GDDS. Because of the energy feedback from AGN,
the formation of new stars is stopped in massive galaxies with the termination
of gas cooling and these galaxies soon become red with color 5 (Vega
magnitude), comparable to the Extremely Red Objects (EROs) observed at redshift
1-2. Still the predicted number density of very EROs is lower than
observed at , and it may be related to inadequate descriptions of dust
extinction, star formation history and AGN feedback in those luminous galaxies.Comment: Accepted for Publication in ApJ, added reference
Probing the CP-even Higgs Sector via in the Natural NMSSM
After the discovery of a Standard Model (SM) like Higgs boson, naturalness
strongly favors the next to the Minimal Supersymmetric SM (NMSSM). In this
letter, we point out that the most natural NMSSM predicts the following CP-even
Higgs sector: (A) is the SM-like Higgs boson with mass
pushed-upward by a lighter with mass overwhelmingly within
; (B) GeV; (C)
has a significant coupling to top quarks and can decay to with a
large branching ratio. Using jet substructure we show that all the three Higgs
bosons can be discovered via at
the 14 TeV LHC. Especially, the LEP-LHC scenario with GeV has a
very good discovery potential.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures. Some typos corrected and reference adde
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