U.S. Patent Literature Survey of Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation of Sweet Potato (Ipomoea Batatas)

A team of researchers and patent information scientists at Franklin Pierce Law Center were asked to evaluate the patent and literature landscape related to the Agrobacterium-mediated transformation in sweet potato with respect to the U.S. patents and patent applications. This report provides a patent landscape of the Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of sweet potato. The report includes the applicable methods of transformation and has also included certain patents and patent applications which claim a transformed plant by virtue of these methods. In certain cases, the claim structure covers Agrobacterium-mediated transformation technology via system and composition of matter claims and not the more prevalent method claims. Sweet potato plant (Ipomoea batatas) is adaptable to a broad range of agroecological conditions and fits in low input agriculture. It is highly productive even under adverse farming conditions. Sweet potato is grown in more than 100 countries as a valuable source of food, animal feed and industrial raw material. It is a staple crop in many South East Asian and African countries. Traditional plant breeding has contributed to the improvement of sweet potato, especially in developed countries such as the U.S.A. and Japan. Because of the biological complexities of sweet potato, sexual hybridization strategies have not been very effective in developing improved cultivars. Confidential Therefore, biotechnological tools, such as gene transfer, are very attractive in sweet potato improvement, as they enable direct introduction of desirable genes from other sources into preadapted cultivars

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: A LITERATURE REVIEW WITH A FOCUS ON PUBLIC SECTOR UNDERTAKINGS IN INDIA

Business dynamic of today’s market has changed and as a result, market need to focus on transparency in the business hence corporate governance has become important for all sectors including government organization.  Corporate Governance is steadily focusing on building the confidence of its various stake holders including Customers, Suppliers, employees, shareholders, Bankers and Society at large. As these public-sector organization (PSU) are socially responsible unit, it becomes utmost important for these organization to adhere to these clauses because these are run by tax payer money for its operation. A company is directed and controlled with the system of rules, practices and process of the corporate governance. The corporate Governance framework of any Public-Sector Undertakings depends upon the four pillars namely Transparency, Full disclosures, Independent monitoring and Fairness to all. Study examines the existing corporate Governance environment, practice and institutional framework in PSUs in India. It is a theoretic review of corporate governance of PSU in India. This paper attempts to understand the various reason for failure to hold governance of the PSUs in India and accordingly provide the solutions to improve the implementation of corporate governance. Though the public sector has unique characteristics but need to adhere the corporate governance to bring the accountability, transparency in business and enhance confidence of the stakeholders. This paper is based on purely secondary research from the various literature available in the journal. It is purely conceptual paper based on the authors recommendations

Effect of different feeds and water salinities on the cyst production of brine shrimp, Artemia sp.

Effect of different feeds and salinities on cyst production in Artemia sp. was studied. Among the 12 different feeds used, ragi powder suspension showed the best growth and cyst production. A wide range of salinity from 90 to 210‰ was used to study its effect on cyst production. Among all these treatments, 130‰ salinity was found suitable for induction of oviparity and cyst production in the San Francisco Bay strain of Artemia sp

Allostasis and the origins of adult-onset diabetes.

Physiological plasticity enables homeostasis to be maintained in biological systems, but when such allostasis fails, then disease can develop. In a new population-based study by Rolandsson et al (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-019-05016-3), autoimmunity, defined by an immunogenotype, predicted adult-onset non-insulin requiring diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is no longer viewed as a disease confined to children, with a significant proportion, maybe the majority, presenting in adulthood. Such cases masquerade as type 2 diabetes and their identification has clinical utility. Nevertheless, in this study, autoimmunity had a limited effect on the overall risk of adults developing diabetes