Uso de bactérias diazotróficas na produção de mudas de cana-de-açúcar em diferentes substratos.

Dissertação (Mestrado) - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sistemas de Produção Agrícola Familiar. Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas-RS. Orientador: Sergio Delmar dos Anjos e Silva; Co-orientador: Carlos Rogerio Mauch; Veronica Massena Reis

Potencial da mistura de cinco bactérias diazotróficas no desenvolvimento e produção de cana-de-açúcar.

Este trabalho teve como objetivo estudar a influencia de uma mistura de cinco espécies de bactérias diazotróficas no desenvolvimento e na produção de variedades de cana-de-açúcar.Tese (Doutorado) - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sistemas de Produção Agrícola Familiar, Faculdade de Agronomia Eliseu Maciel, Universidade Federal de Pelotas. Orientador: Sergio Delmar dos Anjos e Silva (CPACT); Coorientadoras: Tânia Beatriz Gamboa Araújo Morselli; Veronica Massena Reis

Experimental observation of fractional topological phases with photonic qudits

Geometrical and topological phases play a fundamental role in quantum theory. Geometric phases have been proposed as a tool for implementing unitary gates for quantum computation. A fractional topological phase has been recently discovered for bipartite systems. The dimension of the Hilbert space determines the topological phase of entangled qudits under local unitary operations. Here we investigate fractional topological phases acquired by photonic entangled qudits. Photon pairs prepared as spatial qudits are operated inside a Sagnac interferometer and the two-photon interference pattern reveals the topological phase as fringes shifts when local operations are performed. Dimensions $d = 2, 3$ and $4$ were tested, showing the expected theoretical values.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure

Inv21p12q22del21q22 and intellectual disability

Chromosomal rearrangements are common in humans. Pericentric inversions are among the most frequent aberrations (1-2%). Most inversions are balanced and do not cause problems in carriers unless one of the breakpoints disrupts important functional genes, has near submicroscopic copy number variants or hosts "cryptic" complex chromosomal rearrangements. Pericentric inversions can lead to imbalance in offspring. Less than 3% of Down syndrome patients have duplication as a result of parental pericentric inversion of chromosome 21. We report a family with an apparently balanced pericentric inversion of chromosome 21. The proband, a 23-year-old female was referred for prenatal diagnosis at 16weeks gestation because of increased nuchal translucency. She has a familial history of Down's syndrome and moderate intellectual disability, a personal history of four spontaneous abortions and learning difficulties. Peripheral blood and amniotic fluid samples were collected to perform proband's and fetus' cytogenetic analyses. Additionally, another six family members were evaluated and cytogenetic analysis was performed. Complementary FISH and MLPA studies were carried out. An apparent balanced chromosome 21 pericentric inversion was observed in four family members, two revealed a recombinant chromosome 21 with partial trisomy, and one a full trisomy 21 with an inverted chromosome 21. Array CGH analysis was performed in the mother and the brother's proband. MLPA and aCGH studies identified a deletion of about 1.7Mb on the long arm of inverted chromosome 21q22.11. We believe the cause of the intellectual disability/learning difficulties observed in the members with the inversion is related to this deletion. The recombinant chromosome 21 has a partial trisomy including the DSCR with no deletion. The risk for carriers of having a child with multiple malformations/intellectual disability is about 30% depending on whether and how this rearrangement interferes with meiosis