106 research outputs found
Mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci Associated with Resistance to Brown Planthopper in Rice by Means of a Doubled Haploid Population
ABSTRACT these major genes The brown planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens (Stå l) (Homotive resistance should be more durabl
Proteomic Analysis of Aneurysm Healing Mechanism after Coil Embolization: Comparison of Dense Packing with Loose Packing
Revolutionizing Crop Production: The Imperative of Speed Breeding Technology in Modern Crop Improvement
Speed breeding (SB) technology is an innovative solution to shorten the breeding cycle and accelerate crop improvement. The key factors of plant growth and development, including photoperiod, light intensity and quality, temperature, relative humidity, planting density and plant nutrition are manipulated in such a way as to stimulate flowering and seed set under controlled conditions. The development of SB technology may be challenging as crops tend to vary in their response to physiological manipulations. Therefore, crop-specific optimization is highly critical to developing successful SB technology in crops. The SB technology can also be synergistically integrated with cutting edge genomics and marker-assisted selection technologies to enhance genetic gain in crop breeding programmes. In this review, various aspects concerning the science and techniques underpinning SB technology, the successful implementation of SB technology in different crops, the inherent challenges faced, and the potential opportunities to integrate SB technology with cutting-edge genomics technologies towards accelerating crop improvement are discussed
Relearning old lessons for the future of food—by bread alone no longer: diversifying diets with fruit and vegetables
Diversifying diets and agricultural enterprises
with fruit and vegetables is a potent weapon
in the current global battle against malnutrition
and poverty. Agricultural science can contribute
substantially to enhance the development prospects
and health of not only disadvantaged and
vulnerable individuals at one end of the spectrum
but also the growth and equity of national
economies at the other. Moreover, with relatively
simple applied research, new crop species and
technologies can rapidly enter the development
pathway to benefi t even the poorest people or
nations. More upstream research can help to
guard fruit and vegetable production against the
vagaries of potential climatic uncertainty, which
is projected to become more prominent over
future decades. However, historical and continuing
widespread underinvestment in fruit and
vegetable research and development from the
national to the global level may severely compromise
the world’s ability to use such highvalue
species for crop diversifi cation and as a
major engine of development growth to ensure
global food and nutritional security
Evaluation of the Angiographic Grading Scale in Aneurysms Treated with the WEB Device in 80 Rabbits: Correlation with Histologic Evaluation
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The WEB Occlusion Score has been proposed to assess angiographic outcomes for intracranial aneurysms treated with the Woven EndoBridge (WEB) device. Using a large series of experimental aneurysms treated with the WEB, we had the following objectives: 1) to compare angiographic outcomes as measured by the WEB Occlusion Scale with histologic results, and 2) to assess interobserver and intraobserver agreement of the WEB Occlusion Scale
The contribution of international vegetable breeding to private seed companies in India
Radiosynthesis of no-carrier-added meta-[124I]iodobenzylguanidine for PET imaging of metastatic neuroblastoma
Relationship between survival and yield related traits in Solanum pimpinellifolium under salt stress
Proteomic Analysis of Aneurysm Healing Mechanism after Coil Embolization: Comparison of Dense Packing with Loose Packing
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: In clinical practice, durability of occlusion following coil embolization is superior in densely packed, compared with loosely packed, aneurysms. In a rabbit model, we probed, by using proteomics tools, the biologic mechanisms associated with densely packed and completely occluded aneurysms, compared with loosely packed and incompletely occluded aneurysms, to explore the biologic mechanisms of intra-aneurysmal healing following embolization
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