Identity Implications of Relationship (Re)Definition Goals: An Analysis of Face Threats and Facework as Young Adults Initiate, Intensify, and Disengage from Romantic Relationships

Identity implications theory (IIT) is applied to analyze how young adults manage identity concerns associated with the goals of initiating, intensifying, and disengaging from romantic relationships. Participants wrote their responses to one of six hypothetical romantic (re)definition scenarios, indicated whether they actually would pursue the relational goal if their scenario were real, and rated degree of threat to both parties’ face. Responses were coded for positive and negative politeness strategies. Participants in different relational goal conditions perceived different face threats, varied in their likelihood of pursuing the relational goal, and employed different politeness strategies. Relationship (re)definition goal also moderated associations between perceived face threats and goal pursuit as well as politeness strategies. The findings show how multiple goal theories such as IIT can be applied to situations where relational goals are primary as well as how, to varying degrees, identity concerns shape and constrain how young adults pursue relational (re)definition goals

Inheritance of bacterial blight resistance in rice

We studied the inheritance and allelic relationships of the genes for resistance to bacterial blight in three rice breeding lines IR1330-3-2, IR944-102, IR1698-241, and in three cultivars, Pelita I/1, Kele, and Chinsurah Boro II. The study of F<SUB>1</SUB>, F<SUB>2</SUB>, F<SUB>3</SUB>, and reciprocal backcross populations of crosses between resistant parents and the susceptible cultivar Taichung Native 1 (TN-1) revealed that resistance in these rices is under monogenic control. The resistance of IR 1330-3-2 and Pelita I/1 is incompletely dominant, whereas that of Kele and Chinsurah Boro II is recessive. The genes that govern resistance in IR944-102 and IR1698-241 show recessive gene action with the method of inoculation used in this study. Evidence from allele tests with known genes for resistance indicates that Xa4 governs resistance in IR1330-3-2 and Pelita I/1, and xa5 in Kele and Chinsurah Boro II. Rice breeding lines IR944-102 and IR1698-241 have the same gene for resistance which is closely linked to Xa4