Fruit development of three guava cultivars (Psidium guajava L.).

The knowledge of guava fruiting cycle is of great interest not only due to its biological aspects but also as an important datum for the application of cultural practices. This paper was carried out in the submedio Sao Francisco region on four-year old plants, from the germplasm bank of EMBRAPA-CPATSA. The objective was to study the fruit growth pattern of the guava cultivars Patillo, Paluma and Red Selection of Florida. Fruit length and diameter were monitored on twenty-day intervals, resulting on double sigmoidal curves, and characterizing three growth periods, for the cultivars. The results showed that, within the experimental period, the cultivars Red Selection of FLorida and Paluma had about the same diameter and length growth rate, with a mean value of 0.036 cm/day and 0.042 cm/day, respectively. However ,the biggest fruit size was observed for the cv. Red Selection of Florida. The cv. Patillo had the lowest fruit growth rate, with an increment of 0.027 cm/day in diameter and 0.033 cm/day in lenght

SMSLib - biblioteca C++ do Sting Millennium Suite.

Organização lógica do SMS. Descrição da SMSLib. Leitura de arquivos PDB. Leitura de arquivos HSSP. Leitura de arquivos com parâmetros simples. Cálculo e leitura de contatos. Cálculo e leitura de Dihedral Angels.bitstream/CNPTIA/9898/1/comuntec39.pdfAcesso em: 30 maio 2008

STING Millennium: a web-based suite of programs for comprehensive and simultaneous analysis of protein structure and sequence.

Sting Millennium suite intrinsics. SMS organization. Sting Millennium Modes. Sting Millennium Modules. Millennium Features. Example of Sting Millennium Application.Na publicação: Paula R. Kuser

HLA-class I markers and multiple sclerosis susceptibility in the Italian population

Previous studies reported an association with multiple sclerosis (MS) of distinct HLA-class I markers, namely HLA-A*02, HLA-Cw*05 and MOG-142L. In this work, we tested the association with MS of A*02 and Cw*05 in 1273 Italian MS patients and 1075 matched controls, which were previously analyzed for MOG-142, and explored the relationship among these three markers in modulating MS risk. HLA-A*02 conferred a statistically robust MS protection (odds ratio, OR=0.61; 95% confidence intervals, CI=0.51–0.72, P<10−9), which was independent of DRB1*15 and of any other DRB1* allele and remained similar after accounting for the other two analyzed class I markers. Conversely, the protective effect we previously observed for MOG-142L was secondary to its linkage disequilibrium with A*02. Cw*05 was not associated considering the whole sample, but its presence significantly enhanced the protection in the HLA-A*02-positive group, independently of DRB1: the OR conferred by A*02 in Cw*05-positive individuals (0.22, 95% CI=0.13–0.38) was significantly lower than in Cw*05-negative individuals (0.69, 95% CI=0.58–0.83) with a significant (P=4.94 × 10−5) multiplicative interaction between the two markers. In the absence of A*02, Cw*05 behaved as a risk factor, particularly in combination with DRB1*03 (OR=3.89, P=0.0006), indicating that Cw*05 might be a marker of protective or risk haplotypes, respectively