Genome Biology and Evolution - 4 (12), 2012

Contents:

Research Articles

        Kyanne R. Reidenbach, Daniel E. Neafsey, Carlo Costantini, N’Fale Sagnon, Frédéric Simard, Gregory J. Ragland, Scott P. Egan, Jeffrey L. Feder, Marc A. T. Muskavitch, and Nora J. Besansky
    Patterns of Genomic Differentiation between Ecologically Differentiated M and S Forms of Anopheles gambiae in West and Central Africa
  
        Onuralp Soylemez and Fyodor A. Kondrashov
    Estimating the Rate of Irreversibility in Protein Evolution
  
        David Williams, J. Peter Gogarten, and R. Thane Papke
    Quantifying Homologous Replacement of Loci between Haloarchaeal Species
   
        Yu-Ping Poh, Chau-Ti Ting, Hua-Wen Fu, Charles H. Langley, and David J. Begun
    Population Genomic Analysis of Base Composition Evolution in Drosophila melanogaster
   
        Jarrett D. Morrow and Vaughn S. Cooper
    Evolutionary Effects of Translocations in Bacterial Genomes
  
        David Alvarez-Ponce and Mario A. Fares
    Evolutionary Rate and Duplicability in the Arabidopsis thaliana Protein–Protein Interaction Network
   
        Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, Adam D. Kennedy, Craig Martens, Stephen F. Porcella, Frank R. DeLeo, and Franklin D. Lowy
    Toward an Understanding of the Evolution of Staphylococcus aureus Strain USA300 during Colonization in Community Households
  
        Sabrina Simon, Apurva Narechania, Rob DeSalle, and Heike Hadrys
    Insect Phylogenomics: Exploring the Source of Incongruence Using New Transcriptomic Data
    
        José R. López Arriaza, and Rachel Lockridge Mueller
    Slow DNA Loss in the Gigantic Genomes of Salamanders
   
        Danielle Venton
    Highlight—Making It Big: Salamanders Keep DNA Near and Dear
 
        Christopher Grosche, Helena T. Funk, Uwe G. Maier, and Stefan Zauner
    The Chloroplast Genome of Pellia endiviifolia: Gene Content, RNA-Editing Pattern, and the Origin of Chloroplast Editing
   
        Aitor Gonzaga, Ana-Belen Martin-Cuadrado, Mario López-Pérez, Carolina Megumi Mizuno, Inmaculada García-Heredia, Nikole E. Kimes, Purificación Lopez-García, David Moreira, David Ussery, Mila Zaballos, Rohit Ghai, and Francisco Rodriguez-Valera
    Polyclonality of Concurrent Natural Populations of Alteromonas macleodii
   
        Olga K. Kamneva, Stormy J. Knight, David A. Liberles, and Naomi L. Ward
    Analysis of Genome Content Evolution in PVC Bacterial Super-Phylum: Assessment of Candidate Genes Associated with Cellular Organization and Lifestyle
   
        Julia F. Hopkins, David F. Spencer, Sylvie Laboissiere, Jonathan A.D. Neilson, Robert J.M. Eveleigh, Dion G. Durnford, Michael W. Gray, and John M. Archibald
    Proteomics Reveals Plastid- and Periplastid-Targeted Proteins in the Chlorarachniophyte Alga Bigelowiella natans
   
Letter

        Yuri I. Wolf and Eugene V. Koonin
    A Tight Link between Orthologs and Bidirectional Best Hits in Bacterial and Archaeal Genomes
   
        Thomas Schott, Pradeep Kumar Kondadi, Marja-Liisa Hänninen, and Mirko Rossi
    Microevolution of a Zoonotic Helicobacter Population Colonizing the Stomach of a Human Host before and after Failed Treatment
   
        Ibrar Ahmed, Patrick J. Biggs, Peter J. Matthews, Lesley J. Collins, Michael D. Hendy, and Peter J. Lockhart
    Mutational Dynamics of Aroid Chloroplast Genomes
    
        Patrícia Isabel Marques, Rui Bernardino, Teresa Fernandes, Eric D. Green, Belen Hurle, Victor Quesada, Susana Seixas and NISC Comparative Sequencing Program
    Birth-and-Death of KLK3 and KLK2 in Primates: Evolution Driven by Reproductive Biology
   
        Niyaz Yoosuf, Natalya Yutin, Philippe Colson, Svetlana A. Shabalina, Isabelle Pagnier, Catherine Robert, Said Azza, Thomas Klose, Jimson Wong, Michael G. Rossmann, Bernard La Scola, Didier Raoult, and Eugene V. Koonin
    Related Giant Viruses in Distant Locations and Different Habitats: Acanthamoeba polyphaga moumouvirus Represents a Third Lineage of the Mimiviridae That Is Close to the Megavirus Lineage
  
Erratum

        Danielle Venton
    Highlight—Lowly Sea Cucumber Leads the Evolutionary Race
   
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Grana - 51 (4), 2012

Contents:

Presence of the protruding oncus is affected by anther dehiscence and acetolysis technique
Yan-Feng Kuang, Bruce K. Kirchoff & Jing-Ping Liao

Forecasting the Poaceae pollen season in eastern Poland
Krystyna Piotrowska

Detection and quantification of airborne inoculum of Pyrenopeziza brassicae in Polish and UK winter oilseed rape crops by real-time PCR assays
Zbigniew Karolewski, Joanna Kaczmarek, Malgorzata Jedryczka, Hans J. Cools, Bart A. Fraaije, John A. Lucas & Akinwunmi O. Latunde-dada

Variations and trends of birch pollen seasons during 15 years (1996–2010) in relation to weather conditions in Poznań (western Poland)
Łukasz Grewling, Bogdan Jackowiak, Małgorzata Nowak, Agnieszka Uruska & Matt Smith

Cladosporium airborne spore incidence in the environmental quality of the Iberian Peninsula
María Jesús Aira, Francisco-Javier Rodríguez-Rajo, María Fernández-González, Carmen Seijo, Belén Elvira-Rendueles, Montserrat Gutiérrez-Bustillo, Ilda Abreu, Elena Pérez-Sánchez, Manuela Oliveira, Marta Recio, Julia Morales & Adolfo-Francisco Munoz-Rodríguez

Pollen analysis of Agathirsia wasps
Gretchen D. Jones & Thomas M. Pucci

Contributions to the European Pollen Database
17. Lake Skakavitsa (Bulgaria): Late Holocene vegetation dynamics in north-western Rila Mountains
Maria Lazarova & Dimiter Ivanov

Miscellaneous

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Genome Biology and Evolution - 4 (1), 2012

Contents:

Research Articles

        C. J. Jackson, S. G. Gornik,and R. F. Waller
    The Mitochondrial Genome and Transcriptome of the Basal Dinoflagellate Hematodinium sp.: Character Evolution within the Highly Derived Mitochondrial Genomes of Dinoflagellates
   
        David Roy Smith, Ehsan Kayal, Angel A. Yanagihara, Allen G. Collins, Stacy Pirro, and Patrick J. Keeling
    First Complete Mitochondrial Genome Sequence from a Box Jellyfish Reveals a Highly Fragmented Linear Architecture and Insights into Telomere Evolution
   
        Apurva Narechania, Richard H. Baker, Ryan Sit, Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis, Rob DeSalle, and Paul J. Planet
    Random Addition Concatenation Analysis: A Novel Approach to the Exploration of Phylogenomic Signal Reveals Strong Agreement between Core and Shell Genomic Partitions in the Cyanobacteria
  
        Danielle Venton
    Highlight: Tiny Bacterial Genome Opens a Huge Mystery: AT Mutational Bias in Hodgkinia
  
        James T. Van Leuven and John P. McCutcheon
    An AT Mutational Bias in the Tiny GC-Rich Endosymbiont Genome of Hodgkinia
 
        Yogeshwar D. Kelkar and Howard Ochman
    Causes and Consequences of Genome Expansion in Fungi
 
        Ehsan Kayal, Bastian Bentlage, Allen G. Collins, Mohsen Kayal, Stacy Pirro, and Dennis V. Lavrov
    Evolution of Linear Mitochondrial Genomes in Medusozoan Cnidarians
  
Letters

        Huabin Zhao, Dong Xu, Shuyi Zhang, and Jianzhi Zhang
    Genomic and Genetic Evidence for the Loss of Umami Taste in Bats
   
        Laura E. Williams and Jennifer J. Wernegreen
    Purifying Selection, Sequence Composition, and Context-Specific Indel Mutations Shape Intraspecific Variation in a Bacterial Endosymbiont
   
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Euphytica - 187 (2), 2012

Contents:

    Germplasm evaluation and transfer of Verticillium wilt resistance from Pima (Gossypium barbadense) to Upland cotton (G. hirsutum)
    Jinfa Zhang, S. Sanogo, R. Flynn, Jit B. Baral, S. Bajaj, S. E. Hughs

    Genetic effects of nine Gossypium barbadense L. chromosome substitution lines in top crosses with five elite Upland cotton G. hirsutum L. cultivars
    Johnie N. Jenkins, Jack C. McCarty Jr., Jixiang Wu, Russell Hayes

    QTL identification for molecular breeding of fibre yield and fibre quality traits in jute
    Moumita Das, Sumana Banerjee, Niladri Topdar, Avijit Kundu, Reyazul Rouf Mir

    Mapping quantitative trait loci for cottonseed oil, protein and gossypol content in a Gossypium hirsutum × Gossypium barbadense backcross inbred line population
    Jiwen Yu, Shuxun Yu, Shuli Fan, Meizhen Song, Honghong Zhai, Xingli Li

    Development of a core set of SSR markers for the characterization of Gossypium germplasm
    John Z. Yu, David D. Fang, Russell J. Kohel, Mauricio Ulloa, Lori L. Hinze

    Physiological and biochemical dissection of fiber development in colored cotton
    Shuna Yuan, Shuijin Hua, Waqas Malik, Noreen Bibi, Xuede Wang

    Analysis of QTL for yield-related traits in cassava using an F1 population from non-inbred parents
    Xin Chen, Yuhua Fu, Zhiqiang Xia, Li Jie, Haiyan Wang, Cheng Lu, Wenquan Wang

    Cytological and genetic analysis of a virescent mutant in upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)
    Meizhen Song, Zhaoguang Yang, Shuli Fan, Haiyong Zhu, Chaoyou Pang

    Germplasm for genetic improvement of lint yield in Upland cotton: genetic analysis of lint yield with yield components
    Linghe Zeng, Jixiang Wu

    Genome-wide selection in cassava
    Eder Jorge de Oliveira, Marcos Deon Vilela de Resende

    Diallel analysis of field resistance to brown streak disease in cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) landraces from Tanzania
    H. P. Kulembeka, M. Ferguson, L. Herselman, E. Kanju, G. Mkamilo, E. Masumba

    Detecting epistatic effects associated with cotton traits by a modified MDR approach
    Jixiang Wu, Johnie N. Jenkins, Jack C. McCarty, Karl Glover

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Euphytica - 185 (1), 2012

Contents:

Can Mediterranean durum wheat landraces contribute to improved grain quality attributes in modern cultivars?
Ruyman Nazco, Dolors Villegas, Karim Ammar, Roberto Javier Pena, Marc Moragues

Mapping stripe rust resistance gene YrSph derived from Tritium sphaerococcum Perc. with SSR, SRAP, and TRAP markers
Shi-Sheng Chen, Guo-Yue Chen, Hua Chen, Yu-Ming Wei, Wei Li, Ya-Xi Liu

AFLP genetic diversity analysis in Russian wheat aphid resistant wheat accessions
G. Srinivas, Yinghua Huang, Brett F. Carver, Do Mornhinweg Pages 

QTL associated with barley (Hordeum vulgare) feed quality traits measured through in situ digestion
Peter W. Gous, Anke Martin, Wendy Lawson, Alison Kelly, Glen P. Fox

Molecular mapping of partial resistance to powdery mildew in winter wheat cultivar Folke
Morten Lillemo, Asmund Bjornstad, Helge Skinnes 

Elite durum wheat genetic map and recombination rate variation in a multiparental connected design
Laurence Vaissayre, Morgane Ardisson, Christiane Borries, Sylvain Santoni

QTL analysis of main and epistatic effects for flour color traits in durum wheat
Pablo F. Roncallo, Gerardo L. Cervigni, Carlos Jensen, Rubén Miranda

Quantitative trait loci for resistance to Fusarium head blight in the Chinese wheat landrace Huangfangzhu
Tao Li, Guihua Bai, Shuangye Wu, Shiliang Gu 

Selection of genetically diverse sea oats lines with improved performance for coastal restoration in the northern Gulf of Mexico
Sarah E. Bertrand-Garcia, Carrie A. Knott, Niranjan Baisakh

Agronomic effects of a reciprocal translocation in a widely grown Spanish barley variety
A. Farré, A. Visioni, I. Lacasa-Benito, L. Cistué, J. Jansen, I. Romagosa 

Effects of inter-varietal diversity, biotic stresses and environmental productivity on grain yield of spring barley variety mixtures
Lars P. Kiar, Ib M. Skovgaard, Hanne Ostergard 

Combining ability for grain chemistry quality traits in a white oat diallelic cross
Maraisa Crestani, Solange Ferreira da Silveira Silveira

Crop & Pasture Science - 63 (1), 2012

Contents:

   
Break-crop benefits to wheat in Western Australia – insights from over three decades of research

Mark Seymour, John A. Kirkegaard, Mark B. Peoples, Peter F. White and Robert J. French


Yield performance of late-maturing winter canola (Brassica napus L.) types in the High Rainfall Zone of southern Australia

Penny Riffkin, Trent Potter and Gavin Kearney


Water and thermal regimes for field pea in Australia and their implications for breeding

V. O. Sadras, L. Lake, K. Chenu, L. S. McMurray and A. Leonforte


Growth dynamics and agronomic-economic benefits of pea–oat and pea–barley intercrops

Christos A. Dordas, Dimitrios N. Vlachostergios and Anastasios S. Lithourgidis


Does phosphorus stimulate the effect of elevated [CO2] on growth and symbiotic nitrogen fixation of grain and pasture legumes?

Shu Kee Lam, Deli Chen, Rob Norton and Roger Armstrong


A modelling analysis to identify plant traits for enhanced water-use efficiency of pasture

T. A. White and V. O. Snow


Resistance of pasture production to projected climate changes in south-eastern Australia

B. R. Cullen, R. J. Eckard and R. P. Rawnsley


Seed production, mass, germinability, and subsequent seedling growth responses to parental warming environment in Leymus chinensis

Song Gao, Junfeng Wang, Zhijing Zhang, Gang Dong and Jixun Guo

        
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Cladistics - 28 (5), 2012

Contents:


    Molecular phylogeny of the New World Dipsadidae (Serpentes: Colubroidea): a reappraisal (pages 437–459)

    Felipe G. Grazziotin, Hussam Zaher, Robert W. Murphy, Gustavo Scrocchi, Marco A. Benavides, Ya-Ping Zhang and Sandro L. Bonatto

   
    A phylogenetic analysis of Pleurodema (Anura: Leptodactylidae: Leiuperinae) based on mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences, with comments on the evolution of anuran foam nests (pages 460–482)

    Julián Faivovich, Daiana P. Ferraro, Néstor G. Basso, Célio F.B. Haddad, Miguel T. Rodrigues, Ward C. Wheeler and Esteban O. Lavilla

  
    Analysis and visualization of H7 influenza using genomic, evolutionary and geographic information in a modular web service (pages 483–488)

    Daniel A. Janies, Laura W. Pomeroy, Jacob M. Aaronson, Samuel Handelman, Jori Hardman, Kevin Kawalec, Thomas Bitterman and Ward C. Wheeler

 
    Statistical approaches to assess intraspecific variations of morphological continuous characters: the case study of the family Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) (pages 489–502)

    Marie-Stephane Tixier

  
    GB-to-TNT: facilitating creation of matrices from GenBank and diagnosis of results in TNT (pages 503–513)

    Pablo A. Goloboff and Santiago A. Catalano

  
    Indel information eliminates trivial sequence alignment in maximum likelihood phylogenetic analysis (pages 514–528)

    John S.S. Denton and Ward C. Wheeler

   
    Homology and errors (pages 529–538)

    Andrew V.Z. Brower and Mario C.C. de Pinna

  
    More on errors (pages 539–544)

    Kevin C. Nixon and James M. Carpenter

  
    Early Wagner trees and “the cladistic redux” (pages 545–547)

    James S. Farris

 
    Evolutionary biogeography of Chile (pages 548–549)

    Juan J. Morrone

  

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Chinese Journal of Tropical Crops - 1, 2012

Contents:


Characterization of O-ß-glucosidase Activity in Vanilla planifolia and the change during the Curing Crocess of Vanilla Beans
WANG Qinghuang;NONG Han;CHU Zhong;TAN Lehe;ZHANG Jiaming

Analysis and Evaluation of the Nutritional Components in Aquilaria sinensis Seed
WU Jing;QIAN Dawei;DUAN Jinao;LI Xiangming;ZHANG Guobin

The Difference in the Stress to the Aluminum of Four stylosanthes Varieties
HUANG Dongfen;WANG Peng;WEN Xi;BAI Chuangjun;LIU Guodao;HUAN Hengfu

Genetic and Cytological Analysis on Male Sterile Mutant TP79 in Rice
PENG Miaomiao;DU Lei;CHEN Faju;ZHANG Dechun

Cloning and Sequence Analysis of GBSS ? and SS? from the Leaves in Musa spp.
KUANG Yunbo;LAI Zhongxiong

Oxidizable Organic Carbon and Light Fraction Organic Carbon of Artificial Plantation Land and Artificial Grassland in Hainan Province
LIN Xiaodong;QI Zhiping;TANG Shumei;MENG Lei

Protein Removal from Fortunella margarita Polysaccharides by Protease
ZHANG Yi;ZENG Hongliang;ZENG Shaoxiao;LIN Yufei;ZHENG Baodong

Cloning and Bioinformatical Analysis of Phospholipase D?1 Gene and Its Promoter in the Latex of Rubber Tree (Hevea brasiliensis Muell.Arg.)
XIA Kecan;KANG Guijuan;LI Yu;NIE Zhiyi;DAI Longjun;DUAN Cuifang;ZENG Rizhong

Flower Characteristics of Two Cultivars of Dimocarpus longan Lour
LIU Liqin;LI Weicai;WANG Yicheng;WEI Yongzan;SHI Shengyou

Effects of Late Rice Rhizospheric Soil Characteristics on CH4 and N2O Emission from Paddy Field
FU Zhiqiang;ZHU Huawu;CHEN Can;HUANG Huang

Isolation and Expression Pattern Analysis of KcPIP2;1 from Karelinia caspica
LIU Chen;LI Huiliang;GUO Dong;WANG Minjie;PENG Shiqing

Different Bud Direction of Horizontal Planting Cutting on the Yield of Cassava
HUANG Jie;LU Xiaojing;YAN Qingxiang;XU Ruili;FAN Weifeng
 
Construction of OsRus1 Yeast Two-Hybrid Bait Vectors and Detection of Their Self-activated Activity
PAN Jiaqiang;HOU Xuewen

Effects of Different Modes of Planting and Feeding on Soil Nutrients in Coconut Plantations
CHEN Siting;YANG Weibo;WANG Ping;LIU Liyun;NIU Cong

Heat Tolerance of Coconut Leaf Beetle, Brontispa longissima
CHEN Qing;LU Fuping;XU Xuelian;LU Hui;JING Fulin;PENG Zhengqiang

Identification and Biological Characteristics of the Blight Pathogen of Mango Tree
HU Meijiao;YANG Dongping;YANG Bo;LI Min;GAO Zhaoyin;ZHANG Zhengke;PU Jinji

Cloning and Sequence Analysis of the Chitinase Gene Upstream from Isaria fumosorosea
TANG Qiang;LIU Yujun;FANG Ling;LI Zengzhi;HUANG Bo

Establishment of an Efficient Regeneration System of Amorphophallus konijac
SUN Jihua;YANG Chao;LIU Juhua;ZHANG Jing

Preparation of Nano-crystalline Cellulose from Pineapple Leaf Fiber
CHEN Honglian;GAO Tianming;ZHENG Long;LIAO Jianhe;HUANG Maofang

Technique for Microscopical Slides of Cassava Leaf for Chromosome Observation
ZHANG Jian;GUO Junhui;CHEN Xiongting;WANG Ying;WANG Wenquan;LAI Hanggui;WU Kunxin;NI Yanyan;HUANG Qin

Antioxidant Activity of the Extractives from Coconut Testa Oil
ZHAO Xiaoli;CHEN Weijun;ZHAO Songlin;TANG Minmin

Isolation of Actinomycetes and Identification of Their Antagonistic Strains to Pathogen Causing Stem Bleeding Disease of Coconut in Soil of Cocos nucifera L.Forest
NIU Xiaoqing;YU Fengyu;BAO Shixiang;LIN Qian;TANG Qinghua;SONG Weiwei;ZHU Jun

Reproductive System, Parasitic Habits and Larval Development of Coccobius azumai Tachikawa (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae)
WANG Zhuhong;HUANG Jian

Estimation of Rubber Plantation Age Using Statistical and Artificial Neutral Network Approaches with Landsat TM Data
CHEN Bangqian;XIE Guishui;WANG Jikun;WU Zhixiang;CAO Jianhua

Determination of 4 Phytohormones in Latex of Hevea brasiliensis bv HPLC
WANG Bin;ZHU Junqiang;SHI Fameng;LIN Weifu

Complete Sequence of a Full-length DNA and Molecular Characterization of one Plasmid from Periwinkle Little Leaf Phytoplasma
ZHENG Wenhu;CHE Haiyan;FU Ruiyi;YANG Yi;LUO Daquan

Antibacterial Activity of Three Kinds of Molecular Weight Chitosan on Fusarium oxysporum f.sp.cubense
ZHAN Wei;ZHANG Xin;LV Yanchao;ZHANG He;WANG Fang;QIU Xiaocong;XIE Yixian

Necessity and Advantage of Pesticide Environmental Risk Assessment in Hainan Province
HUAN Zhibo;LUO Jinhui;LV Daizhu;ZHANG Yue;WU Qiong

Cloning and Expression Study of PAL in Longan Leaves
ZHENG Jiehong;QIU Dongliang

The Change of Cell Wall Enzymes and Fruit Texture during the Development and Maturation of Eriobotrya japonica
HUANG Zhiming;LIN Suying;FU Minglian;CHEN Yu;CAI Liqin;WU Yanwang;WU Lingyao;WU Jincheng

Research Progress on Heat Tolerance in Crucifer Vegetable Crops
FAN Aili;HUANG Rukui;ZHANG Lugang;XU Yujian;ZHU Lin

Studies on the Symbiotic Bacteria of Spiralling Whitefly
HUANG Wuren;NIU Liming;ZHU Wenjing;HAN Dongyin;ZHANG Fangping;FU Yueguan

Mineral Elements of Tender Coconut Meat in Four Coconut Cultivars
LI Yan;WANG Ping;CHEN Siting;LIU Liyun;DONG Zhiguo

Correlation Analysis between Color Compounds in Infusion and Chromatic Values of Green Tea
LAI Lingling;GUO Yaling

Morphological Variations of Different Phyllanthus emblica L.Provenances in Yunnan
ZHAO Qiongling;LI Li;SHA Yucang;DUAN Yuetang;YANG Zixiang;MA Kaihua

Research Progress of Postharvest Physiology of Banana Fruits
JIA Caihong;JIN Zhiqiang;LIU Juhua;ZHANG Jianbin;XU Biyu

Application of the FracRoot Model in the Root Study of Rubber Tree Species
TIAN Yaohua;YUE Hai;LONG Yunfeng;CHEN Guoyun

Effect of ENTEC Stabilized Nitrogen on the Yield and Quality of Banana under Fertigation
XIAO Yanbo;WAN Qiyu;GE Xu

Effect of Line-width and Planting Density to Sugarcane Varieties
LUO Jun;ZHANG Hua;GUO Wei;YANG Yingying;LI Wenping;LIN Zhaoli

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Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society - 167 (2-4), 2011

Contents:


Correspondence

 
    Changes to publication requirements made at the XVIII International Botanical Congress in Melbourne – what does e-publication mean for you? (pages 133–136)

    SANDRA KNAPP, JOHN MCNEILL and NICHOLAS J. TURLAND

 
Original Articles


    Phylogenetic analysis of the Brazilian microendemic Paepalanthus subgenus Xeractis (Eriocaulaceae) inferred from morphology (pages 137–152)

    LIVIA ECHTERNACHT, PAULO TAKEO SANO, MARCELO TROVÓ and JEAN-YVES DUBUISSON

  
    A partial revision of Allium (Amaryllidaceae) in Korea and north-eastern China (pages 153–211)

    HYEOK JAE CHOI and BYOUNG UN OH


    Seed morphology of Iranian annual species of Euphorbia (Euphorbiaceae) (pages 212–234)

    AMIR HOSSEIN PAHLEVANI and HOSSEIN AKHANI

  
    The occurrence of the fossil genus Graminidites in the Maastrichtian Scollard Formation, Alberta, Canada, and its palaeoecological and palaeogeographical significance (pages 235–248)

    SATISH K. SRIVASTAVA

  
Book Reviews

  
    Flowering plants. A concise pictorial guide (page 249)

    M. F. FAY

  
    Darwin and the evolution of flowers (pages 249–250)

    M. F. FAY

   
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Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society - 167 (3), 2011



Contents:
     
    Original Articles


        Size, structure and nitrogen content of seeds of Fabaceae in relation to nodulation (pages 251–280)

        HAROLD D. L. CORBY, DAVID L. SMITH and JANET I. SPRENT

      
        Molecular phylogenetics of the juno irises, Iris subgenus Scorpiris (Iridaceae), based on six plastid markers (pages 281–300)

        NURSEL IKINCI, TONY HALL, M. DOLORES LLEDÓ, JAMES J. CLARKSON, NICO TILLIE, ARNIS SEISUMS, TAKESHI SAITO, MADELINE HARLEY and MARK W. CHASE

      
        Conservation genetics of the critically endangered Round Island bottle palm, Hyophorbe lagenicaulis (Arecaceae): can cultivated stocks supplement a residual wild population? (pages 301–310)

        CONNY B. ASMUSSEN-LANGE, MICHAEL MAUNDER and MICHAEL F. FAY

      
        A revised classification of subtribe Helianthinae (Asteraceae: Heliantheae) II. Derived lineages (pages 311–331)

        EDWARD E. SCHILLING and JOSE L. PANERO

      
        The effect of shade on leaf structure and physiology of tree seedlings from a mixed dipterocarp forest (pages 332–343)

        MARK S. ASHTON, C. V. SAVITRI GUNATILLEKE, I. A. U. NIMAL GUNATILLEKE, HEATHER P. GRISCOM, PETER S. ASHTON and BALANGODA M. P. SINGHAKUMARA

      
        Nocturne for an unknown pollinator: first description of a night-flowering orchid (Bulbophyllum nocturnum) (pages 344–350)

        ANDRÉ SCHUITEMAN, JAAP JAN VERMEULEN, ED DE VOGEL and ART VOGEL

      
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Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society - 167 (4), 2011



Contents:


    Editorials
      

        How will changes to the International Code affect the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society and authors? (pages 351–352)

        MICHAEL F. FAY and DEBBIE WRIGHT

      
        Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911) – a great Linnean (pages 353–356)

        MICHAEL F. FAY

      
    Original Articles


        Growing coffee: Psilanthus (Rubiaceae) subsumed on the basis of molecular and morphological data; implications for the size, morphology, distribution and evolutionary history of Coffea (pages 357–377)

        AARON P. DAVIS, JAMES TOSH, NICOLAS RUCH and MICHAEL F. FAY

      
        Campos de Cima da Serra: the Brazilian Subtropical Highland Grasslands show an unexpected level of plant endemism (pages 378–393)

        JOAO R. V. IGANCI, GUSTAVO HEIDEN, SILVIA TERESINHA S. MIOTTO and R. TOBY PENNINGTON

      
        Taxonomic revision of Stipa section Smirnovia and section Subsmirnovia (Poaceae) (pages 394–448)

        RAÚL GONZALO, CARLOS AEDO and MIGUEL ÁNGEL GARCÍA

      
        The genus Cyrtomium (Pteridophyta: Dryopteridaceae) in Africa and Madagascar (pages 449–465)

        JACOBUS P. ROUX

     
        Where do Sardinian orchids come from: a putative African origin for the insular population of Platanthera bifolia var. kuenkelei? (pages 466–475)

        GIUSEPPE PAVARESE, VALENTINA TRANCHIDA-LOMBARDO, ANNALENA COGONI, ANTONIA CRISTAUDO and SALVATORE COZZOLINO

      
    Book Reviews

  
        Succulent flora of Southern Africa (pages 476–477)

        P. E. BRANDHAM

      
        The Anatomy of Palms (pages 477–478)

        PAULA J. RUDALL

      
        Flora indicativa Ökologische Zeigerwerte und biologische Kennzeichen zur Flora der Schweiz und der Alpen / Ecological indicator values and biological attributes of the flora of Switzerland and the Alps (pages 478–479)

        ALJOS FARJON

      
        Weeds: in defense of nature's most unloved plants (pages 479–480)

        M. F. FAY

      
        Plant Galls. The New Naturalist Library No. 117 (pages 480–481)

        J. A. WEARN

      
        Woodland Creation for Wildlife and People in a changing climate. Principles and Practice (pages 481–482)

        RICHARD SCOTT

      
        Alpines from mountain to garden (page 482)

        M. F. FAY

      
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Biology Bulletin - 39 (4)

Contents:


    Cell Biology

    Specific features of the melanophore system in different color morphs of larvae of the common toad (Bufo bufo L.)

    L. A. Zakharova, G. S. Surova and K. N. Timofeev
        

    Developmental Biology

    Evolutional principles of homology in regulatory genes of myogenesis

    N. D. Ozernyuk and N. S. Myuge
       

    Genetics

    Phylogeography of red deer (Cervus elaphus): Analysis of MtDNA cytochrome b polymorphism

    M. V. Kuznetsova, A. A. Danilkin and M. V. Kholodova
        

    Microbiology

    Septicaemia of chironomid larvae (Diptera: Chironomidae) promoted by Bacillus cereus and Bacillus thuringiensis

    V. P. Khodyrev
        

    Zoology

    Congruence analysis and combining of molecular genetic and morphological data in zoological systematics

    V. Yu. Kovaleva, S. A. Abramov, T. A. Dupal, V. M. Efimov and Yu. N. Litvinov
        

    Zoology

    Functional features of microbial communities in the digestive tract of field voles (Microtus rossiaemeridionalis and Clethrionomys glareolus)

    E. S. Manaeva, E. I. Naumova, N. V. Kostina, M. M. Umarov and T. G. Dobrovol’skaya
        

    Zoology

    Behavioral interactions of adult females of the common shrew (Sorex araneus) with conspecifics on familiar territory

    V. Yu. Oleinichenko
        

    Animal and Human Physiology

    Involvement of calmodulin in realization of vasoconstrictive effects of serotonin and norepinephrine

    L. M. Kozhevnikova and P. V. Avdonin
        

    Ecology

    The role of the floodplain gradient in structuring of testate amoebae communities in the Ilych River

    Yu. A. Mazei, E. A. Malysheva, E. M. Lapteva, A. A. Komarov and A. A. Taskaeva
        

    Ecology

    Specific features of the numbers and structure of the population of Proteocephalus longicollis (Zeder 1800) (Cestoda: Proteocephalidea)—A mass parasite of whitefish Coregonus lavaretus L. under conditions of technogenic pollution of the water body

    L. V. Anikieva, E. P. Ieshko, N. V. Il’mast, D. I. Lebedeva and Ya. A. Kuchko
        

    Brief Communications

    The mushroom bodies of the lower nematocera: A link between those of the higher diptera and other mecopteroids

    A. A. Panov
        

    Brief Communications

    Areal of Callipogon relictus Semenov, 1899 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) in the Russian Far East

    A. V. Kuprin and V. G. Bezborodov
        

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Biogeosciences - 9 (3), 2012

Contents:

The imprint of surface fluxes and transport on variations in total column carbon dioxide
G. Keppel-Aleks, P. O. Wennberg, R. A. Washenfelder, D. Wunch, T. Schneider, G. C. Toon, R. J. Andres, J.-F. Blavier, B. Connor, K. J. Davis, A. R. Desai, J. Messerschmidt, J. Notholt, C. M. Roehl, V. Sherlock, B. B. Stephens, S. A. Vay, and S. C. Wofsy

Revisiting four scientific debates in ocean acidification research
A. J. Andersson and F. T. Mackenzie

A model study of the seasonal and long–term North Atlantic surface pCO2 variability
J. F. Tjiputra, A. Olsen, K. Assmann, B. Pfeil, and C. Heinze

Tracing the transport of colored dissolved organic matter in water masses of the Southern Beaufort Sea: relationship with hydrographic characteristics
A. Matsuoka, A. Bricaud, R. Benner, J. Para, R. Sempéré, L. Prieur, S. Bélanger, and M. Babin

Silicate weathering and CO2 consumption within agricultural landscapes, the Ohio-Tennessee River Basin, USA
S. K. Fortner, W. B. Lyons, A. E. Carey, M. J. Shipitalo, S. A. Welch, and K. A. Welch

Sea-to-air and diapycnal nitrous oxide fluxes in the eastern tropical North Atlantic Ocean
A. Kock, J. Schafstall, M. Dengler, P. Brandt, and H. W. Bange

Process based model sheds light on climate sensitivity of Mediterranean tree-ring width
R. Touchan, V. V. Shishov, D. M. Meko, I. Nouiri, and A. Grachev

Insignificant enhancement of export flux in the highly productive subtropical front, east of New Zealand: a high resolution study of particle export fluxes based on 234Th: 238U disequilibria
K. Zhou, S. D. Nodder, M. Dai, and J. A. Hall

Macrobenthic assemblage structure and organismal stoichiometry control faunal processing of particulate organic carbon and nitrogen in oxygen minimum zone sediments
W. R. Hunter, L. A. Levin, H. Kitazato, and U. Witte

How do variations in the temporal distribution of rainfall events affect ecosystem fluxes in seasonally water-limited Northern Hemisphere shrublands and forests?
I. Ross, L. Misson, S. Rambal, A. Arneth, R. L. Scott, A. Carrara, A. Cescatti, and L. Genesio

A universal carbonate ion effect on stable oxygen isotope ratios in unicellular planktonic calcifying organisms
P. Ziveri, S. Thoms, I. Probert, M. Geisen, and G. Langer

Integrative analysis of Geobacter spp. and sulfate-reducing bacteria during uranium bioremediation
M. Barlett, K. Zhuang, R. Mahadevan, and D. Lovley

Environmental control on the variability of DMS and DMSP in the Mauritanian upwelling region
C. Zindler, I. Peeken, C. A. Marandino, and H. W. Bange

Subsidence and carbon loss in drained tropical peatlands
A. Hooijer, S. Page, J. Jauhiainen, W. A. Lee, X. X. Lu, A. Idris, and G. Anshari

Low temporal variation in the intact polar lipid composition of North Sea coastal marine water reveals limited chemotaxonomic value
J. Brandsma, E. C. Hopmans, C. J. M. Philippart, M. J. W. Veldhuis, S. Schouten, and J. S. Sinninghe Damsté

Budget of N2O emissions at the watershed scale: role of land cover and topography (the Orgeval basin, France)
G. Vilain, J. Garnier, P. Passy, M. Silvestre, and G. Billen

Erosion, deposition and replacement of soil organic carbon in Mediterranean catchments: a geomorphological, isotopic and land use change approach
E. Nadeu, A. A. Berhe, J. de Vente, and C. Boix-Fayos

The variability of radiative balance elements and air temperature over the Asian region of Russia
E. V. Kharyutkina, I. I. Ippolitov, and S. V. Loginov

Biogeography in the air: fungal diversity over land and oceans
J. Fröhlich-Nowoisky, S. M. Burrows, Z. Xie, G. Engling, P. A. Solomon, M. P. Fraser, O. L. Mayol-Bracero, P. Artaxo, D. Begerow, R. Conrad, M. O. Andreae, V. R. Després, and U. Pöschl

Factors influencing the stable carbon isotopic composition of suspended and sinking organic matter in the coastal Antarctic sea ice environment
S. F. Henley, A. L. Annett, R. S. Ganeshram, D. S. Carson, K. Weston, X. Crosta, A. Tait, J. Dougans, A. E. Fallick, and A. Clarke

Understanding why the volume of suboxic waters does not increase over centuries of global warming in an Earth System Model
A. Gnanadesikan, J. P. Dunne, and J. John

The moisture response of soil heterotrophic respiration: interaction with soil properties
F. E. Moyano, N. Vasilyeva, L. Bouckaert, F. Cook, J. Craine, J. Curiel Yuste, A. Don, D. Epron, P. Formanek, A. Franzluebbers, U. Ilstedt, T. Kätterer, V. Orchard, M. Reichstein, A. Rey, L. Ruamps, J.-A. Subke, I. K. Thomsen, and C. Chenu

Coupled CO2 and O2-driven compromises to marine life in summer along the Chilean sector of the Humboldt Current System
E. Mayol, S. Ruiz-Halpern, C. M. Duarte, J. C. Castilla, and J. L. Pelegrí

High nitrate to phosphorus regime attenuates negative effects of rising pCO2 on total population carbon accumulation
B. Matthiessen, S. L. Eggers, and S. A. Krug

Critical loads of nitrogen deposition and critical levels of atmospheric ammonia for semi-natural Mediterranean evergreen woodlands
P. Pinho, M. R. Theobald, T. Dias, Y. S. Tang, C. Cruz, M. A. Martins-Louçao, C. Máguas, M. Sutton, and C. Branquinho

Carbon dynamics in the western Arctic Ocean: insights from full-depth carbon isotope profiles of DIC, DOC, and POC
D. R. Griffith, A. P. McNichol, L. Xu, F. A. McLaughlin, R. W. Macdonald, K. A. Brown, and T. I. Eglinton

Organohalogen emissions from saline environments – spatial extrapolation using remote sensing as most promising tool
K. Kotte, F. Löw, S. G. Huber, T. Krause, I. Mulder, and H. F. Schöler

Intra- versus inter-site macroscale variation in biogeochemical properties along a paddy soil chronosequence
C. Mueller-Niggemann, A. Bannert, M. Schloter, E. Lehndorff, and L. Schwark

210Pb-226Ra chronology reveals rapid growth rate of Madrepora oculata and Lophelia pertusa on world's largest cold-water coral reef
P. Sabatier, J.-L. Reyss, J. M. Hall-Spencer, C. Colin, N. Frank, N. Tisnérat-Laborde, L. Bordier, and E. Douville

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Bangladesh Journal of Botany - 40 (2), 2011

Contents:

Bacteriological and physico-chemical properties of the Gulshan Lake, Dhaka    
Mihir Lal Saha, Tahmina Bari, Mahbubar Rahman Khan, Sirajul Hoque    

Taxonomic revision of the genus Morinda L. (Rubiaceae) in Bangladesh    
Sujit C Das, M Atiqur Rahman    

Cluster analysis of submontane forest along western slope of Frasers' Hill Research Centre in Raub District, Malaysia    
Jumaat H Adam, Liow Kah Ming, Mohd Afiq Aizat Juhari, Masdahila Ahmad Jalaludin, Wan Mohd Radzi Idris, ABD Rahim Othman, Siti Norhafizah Ahmad Tarmidzi

Physiology of seed yield in mungbean: growth and dry matter production    
MMA Mondal, MSA Fakir, M Nurul Islam, MA Samad    

Improvement of carboxymethyl cellulase production from Chaetomium cellulolyticum NRRL 18756 by mutation and optimization of solid state fermenttion    
Eman M Fawzi, Hossam S Hamdy    

Phenology and degree days of rice cultivars under organic culture    
MR Islam, S Sikder    

Comparative leaf anatomy of some endemic Crocus L. taxa from Turkey    
Nezahat Kandemir    

New record of planktonic diatoms from the Sundarban Mangrove Forests, Bangladesh    
Abdul Aziz    

Effects of soil water deficit on leaf nitrogen, chlorophylls and spad chlorphyll meter reading on growth stages of soybean    
Shakil Uddin Ahmed    

Ecological response of some Iris L. taxa (Iridaceae) in Turkey    
Nezahat Kandemir, Ali Çelik, Abdulkadir Sürücü    

Short Communications

Genetic variability of Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott.    
KK Paul, MA Bari, SC Debnath    

Airborne bio-particulate objects at Chittagong University Campus    
MK Pasha, Mohammad Sohrab Hossain    

Disease reaction of potato germplasms and true potato seeds against Rhizoctonia solani Kuhn    
Md Maniruzzaman Khandaker, Abul Khair, Md Khurshed Alam Bhuiyan    

Tree diversity as affected by salinity in the Sundarban Mangrove Forests, Bangladesh    
Ashfaque Ahmed, Abdul Aziz, AZM Nowsher Ali Khan, Mohammad Nurul Islam, Kazi Farhed Iqubal, M Nazma, Md Shafiqul Islam    
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Archives of Phytopathology and Plant Protection - 44 (3), 2011

Contents:

Potency of Bacillus thuringiensis and Bacillus subtilis against the cotton leafworm, Spodoptera littoralis (Bosid.) Larvae
 Abd El-Salam, A.M.E.; Nemat, Awad; Magdy, Attia

Antagonistic potential of Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus against Fusarium oxysporum in sweet potato (Ipomea batatus)
 Logeshwarn, P.; Thangaraju, M.; Rajasundari, K.

Effect of herbicide Imazethapyr (pursuit™) on chickpea seed germination
 Hoseiny-Rad, Manijeh; Jagannath, Shobha

Comparative study on the potential of Malathion 57% and selected pesticide safe alternatives in reducing fruit flies infestation in the New Valley Orchards
 Abdel-Galil, F. A.; Amro, M. A.; Abdel-Moniem, A. S. H.; Gameel, S. M. M.

Prevailing insects in Roselle plants, Hibiscus sabdariffa L., and their efficiency on pollination
 Abdel-Moniem, A. S. H.; Abd El-Wahab, T.E.; Farag, N. A.

The influence of some honeybee products as a diet substitute on the different stages of Coccinella undecimpunctata L. in Egypt
 Farag, N. A.; Abd El-Wahab, T.E.; Abdel-Moniem, A. S. H.

Effect of orange essential oil and its constitutes on late blight diseaes of potato plants under field conditions
 El-Gamal, Nadia

Induction of systemic resistance in rice to bacterial blight by 1,2,3-benzothiadiazole 7-carbothioic acid-S-methyl ester (BTH) treatments
 Karthikeyan, V.; Gnanamanickam, S. S.

Pseudaulacaspis cockerelli (Cooley) hyperparasitizing Dendrophthoe falcata (L.f) Ettingsh
 Mudgal, Gaurav; Mudgal, Brajesh; Gururani, Mayank Anand; Jelli, Venkatesh

Antifungal activity of Plumbago species against anthracnose fungus Colletotrichum gloeosporidodes (Penz.) of chilli
 Saravanakumar, P.; Karthikeyan, V.; Patharajan, S.; Kannabiran, B.

Bioactivity of Piper guineense Schum. & Thonn seed and Moringa oleifera Lam. leaf powder against Trogoderma granarium Everts (Coleoptera: Dermestidae)
 Babarinde, Samuel Adelani; Richard Pitan, Olufemi; Ogunfiade, Adekunle Tosin

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African Journal of Biotechnology - 10 (82), 2011

Contents:

Review


R. O. Anyasi and H. I. Atagana

Biological remediation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) in the environment by microorganisms and plants


Bing-Hua Liao, Sheng-Yan Ding, Nan Hu, Yan-Fang Gu, Xun-Ling Lu, Guo-Fu Liang, Jin Liu, Yu-Long Fan,Yan-Jie Zhai, Shun-Ping Ding and Sheng Ding

Dynamics of environmental gradients on plant functional groups composition on the northern slope of the Fu-Niu Mountain Nature Reserve


Research Articles

  
GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY


JIANG Xiang-Hui, Zhu Young-Hua, Xuan Ming Liu and SHE Chao-Wen

Karyotype analysis of three Solanum plants using combined PI-DAPI staining and double fluorescence in situ hybridization with 45S and 5S rDNA probes


Farhad Ali, Jehan Bakht, Saleem Khan, Muhammad Ali, Tahir Hussain, Muhammad Ali, Wajid Khan, Bilal Muhammad Khan and Muhammad Maroof Shah

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based molecular characterization of popular wheat varieties of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa (KPK) region of Pakistan


Behrouz Golein, Reza Fifaei and Malek Ghasemi

Identification of zygotic and nucellar seedlings in citrus interspecific crosses by inter simple sequence repeats (ISSR) markers


Dong-hui Cao, Xiang Gao, Jie Liu, Josphert N. Kimatu, Shu-juan Geng, Xiao-ping Wang, Jing Zhao and De-cheng Shi

Methylation sensitive amplified polymorphism (MSAP) reveals that alkali stress triggers more DNA hypomethylation levels in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) roots than salt stress


Saeidnia Soodabeh, Faraji Hoda, Sarkheil Pantea, Moradi-Afrapoli Fahimeh, Amin Gholamreza

Genetic diversity and relationships detected by inter simple sequence repeat (ISSR) and randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis among Polygonum species growing in North of Iran


PLANT AND AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY


Puspasree Puhan and Thirunavoukkarasu, M.

Direct organogenesis of Aegle marmelos (L.) Corr. from cotyledon explants


Yan Jin, Caohao Zhang, Hui Yang, Yuhong Yang, Chengjiang Huang, Yun Tian and Xiangyang Lu

Proteomic analysis of cold stress responses in tobacco seedlings


Yinshan Guo, Yuhui Zhao, Kun Li, Zhendong Liu, Hong Lin, Xiuwu Guo and Chengxiang Li

Embryo rescue of crosses between diploid and tetraploid grape cultivars and production of triploid plants


Xibing Jiang, Yuepeng Song, Xiaojun Xi, Bin Guo, Kaifeng Ma, Zeliang Wang, Bo Li, Deqiang Zhang, Xinmin An and Zhiyi Zhang

Physiological and biochemical responses to low temperature stress in hybrid clones of Populus ussuriensis Kom. × P. deltoides Bartr


Allah Wasaya, Muhammad Tahir, Abdul Manaf, Mukhtar Ahmed, Shuaib Kaleem and Ijaz Ahmad

Improving maize productivity through tillage and nitrogen management


Huanhuan Shao, Qinghua Cao, Xiang Tao, Yinghong Gu, Mengjie Chang, Chenglin Huang, Yizheng Zhang and Hong Feng

Cloning and characterization of ATP synthase CF1 ? gene from sweet potato


Shoufeng Sha, Juncai Li, Jun Wu and Shaoling Zhang

Effect of metabolic enzyme on organic acids in developing ‘Dangshansuli’ pear leaf


Vera Stojšin, Dragana Budakov, Barry Jacobsen, Ferenc Bagi, Eva Grimme and Oliver Neher

Analysis of Rhizoctonia solani isolates associated with sugar beet crown and root rot from Serbia


J. Emanuel de A. Bojórquez-Quintal, Lucila A. Sánchez-Cach, Naivy F. Gamboa-Tec, Fausto Quintal-Tun, Yereni Minero-García, Manuel Martínez-Estévez, Carlos F. de J. Fuentes-Cerda and César De los Santos-Briones.

Effect of plant growth regulators on in vitro germination of coffee zygotic embryos


Aihua Shen, Haibo Li, Ke Wang, Hongmei Ding, Xin Zhang, Lin Fan and Bo Jiang


Sequence characterized amplified region (SCAR) markers-based rapid molecular typing and identification of Cunninghamia lanceolata


Gul Jan, Mir Ajab Khan, Aman khan, Farzana Gul Jan, Rafiullah Khan1, Mushtaq Ahmad, Atta-Ur-Rehman, Muhammad Danish, Muhammad Asif, Saimdad Khan, Muhammad Zafar and Masood Jan

An Ethnobotanical Survey on Fuel Wood and Timber plant Species of Kaghan Valley, Khyber pakhtoonkhwa Province, Pakistan


Hossein Reza Rouhi, Mohammad Ali Aboutalebian, Ali Sepehri, Fatemeh Karim and Seyed Amir Moosavi

Effect of osmopriming on antioxidant activity of Bersim clover (Trifolium alexandrinum L.)


Mouaad Amine Mazri, Ahmed Elbakkali, Mouhssine Belkoura and Ilham Belkoura

Embryogenic competence of calli and embryos regeneration from various explants of Dahbia cv, a Moroccan olive tree (Olea europaea L.)


Behzad Babazadeh Darjazi

Morphological and pomological characteristics of fig (Ficus carica L.) cultivars from Varamin, Iran


Lei Wang, Ke Zhang, Wei Huang, Wei Han and Chang-Yan Tian

Seed oil content and fatty acid composition of annual halophyte Suaeda acuminata: A comparative study on dimorphic seeds


ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

 
Tawadchai Suppadit, Napassawan Sunthorn and Pakkapong Poungsuk

Use of anthocyanin extracted from natural plant materials to develop a pH test kit for measuring effluent from animal farms


Kekan Yao, Siming Song, Zhenming Zhang, Jing Xu, Rong Zhang, Jiakai Liu, Lixia Cheng and Jinglan Liu

Vegetation characteristics and water purification by artificial floating island


FOOD TECHNOLOGY


Esref IŞIK and Halil UNAL.

Some engineering properties of white kidney beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)


José Luis Montanez Soto, José Venegas González, Aurea Bernardino Nicanor and Emma Gloria Ramos Ramírez

Enzymatic production of high fructose syrup from Agave tequilana fructans and its physicochemical characterization


Yan Jin, Mu Wang, Songyi Lin, Yang Guo, Jingbo Liu and Yongguang Yin

Optimization of extraction parameters for trehalose from beer waste brewing yeast treated by high-intensity pulsed electric fields (PEF)


APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY

 
Qiang Tan, Yewang Zhang and Dongzhi Wei

Characterization and stability of D-amino acid oxidase and catalase within the permeabilized recombinant Pichia pastoris cells


MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

 
Tanmoy Sinha and A. Bandyopadhyay

Induction of callogenesis in Ipomoea obscura (L.) Ker-Gawl, a little known medicinal plant


Yong Peng, Qing-Wang Li and Jian Li

Antitumor activity of Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi total flavonoids on mice bearing U14 cervical carcinoma


Jinous Asgarpanah, Saeed Mohammadi Motamed, Avishan Farzaneh, Bahareh Ghanizadeh and Simin Tomraee

Antioxidant activity and total phenolic and flavonoid content of Astragalus squarrosus Bunge


FISHERY SCIENCE


Hadi Raeisi, Moslem Daliri, Seyed Yousef Paighambari, Mohamad Javad Shabani, Mehdi Bibak and Reza Davoodi

Length-weight relationships, condition factors and relative weight of five fish species of Bushehr waters, Northern Persian Gulf


BIOTECHNIQUES

 
Norha Saifudin, Nurina Anuar and Nazlina Ibrahim

Long-term stability of ß-galactosidase protein expression in the absence of selective growth conditions in transfected Chinese hamster ovary cell


Jinfeng Yang, Ju-Sung Kim, Hyun Ju Jeong, Hak-Hee Kang, Jun-Cheol Cho, Hun-Myeong Yeom and Myong Jo Kim

Determination of antioxidant and ?-glucosidase inhibitory activities and luteolin contents of Chrysanthemum morifolium Ramat extracts


Shih-Chun Yang, Wenny M. Kao, Chyi-Jang Wu, Yenliang Kuo, Gwan-Han Shen, Chwen-Jen Shieh, Shiou-Ping Yu and Jiann-Hwa Chen

Detection and partial identification of proteins in pearls formed in Hyriopsis cumingii (Lea)


PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES


Mahrukh Sanai and Nageen Hussain

Levels of inflammatory markers (complement C3, Complement C4 and C-reactive protein) in smokers


ANIMAL SCIENCE

 
N. Najafi, A. R. Seidavi, S. Z. Mirhosseini, S. Gharahveysi, M. Mavvajpour and M. Salehi Nezhad

Analysis of genetic divergence for classification and evaluation of 37 productive performances in 54 oval cocoon strains of Iran silkworm germplasm


Hamideh Hashemipour, Vahid Khaksar and Hassan Kermanshahi

Application of probiotic on egg production and egg quality of chukar partridge


Sayyed Shahram Miraghaee, Behzad Heidary, Hossein Almasi, akbar shabani, Mazda Elahi and Mohamad Hadi Modaber Nia

The effects of Nigella sativa powder (black seed) and Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench extract on performance, some blood biochemical and hematological parameters in broiler chickens


WORD PRESERVATION

 
Ergun Baysal

Combustion properties of wood impregnated with commercial fertilizers

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African Journal of Biotechnology - 10 (60-61), 2011

African Journal of Biotechnology - 10 (60), 2011


Contents:

Review

 
GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

 
Miro Ferreri, Weijie Qu2 and Bo Han

Phylogenetic networks: A tool to display character conflict and demographic history


Research Articles


GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY


Jiandong Yang, Rong Hou, Fujun Shen, Xuyu Yang, Liang Zhang, Limin Chen, Wanli Chen, Wenping Zhang, Qing Zhu and Zhihe Zhang

Microsatellite variability reveals significant genetic differentiation of giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) in the Minshan A habitat


Zhang Bao-Yi, Wei Xiao-Lan, Yang Fu-Yu and Zhang Yun-Wei

Effects of space flight factors on genetic diversity of Buchloe dactyloides seeds


Abbas Doosti and Payam Ghasemi Dehkordi

The p53 codon 72 polymorphism and association to prostate cancer in Iranian patients


Bizhan Nomanpour, Arash Ghodousi, Toraj Babaei, Seyd AliJavad Mousavi, Soroor Asadi and Mohammad Mehdi Feizabadi

Detection and quantification of Streptococcus pneumoniae from Iranian patients with pneumonia and individual carriers by real time PCR


Sanlei Li, Dongdong Xu, Bao Lou, Hanxiang Xu, Feng You, Wei Zhan and Zhi Geng

Genetic differentiation in Japanese flounder in the Yellow Sea and East China Sea by amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) and mitochondrial DNA markers


Junwu Li, Junyuan Gong, Xin Liu, Qiuping Ye, Dong Song and Renjie Xiao

Construction of a fusion gene containing hepatitis B virus L gene and Mycobacterium tuberculosis Ag85B gene and its expression in Pichia pastoris


Shengjie Guo, Yanmei Li, Jin Chu, Li Wang, Xihong Zhao, Nanjing Zhong,Shaopeng Qiu, Junxing Chen and Yanyan Li

First observation of excision and integration in Class 1 integron in staphylococci


Cheng-kui Qiang, Chang-chun Li, Ren-de Qi, Bao-ya Zhou, Yue-hua Qin and Yu-zhou Du

Cloning and bioinformatics analysis of an ubiquitin gene of the rice stem borer, Chilo suppressalis Walker (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)


Fang Li, Long Zhou, Fangquan Xiao, Kang Liao and Jianfang Hu

Characterization of the psoRPM1 gene for resistance to root-knot nematodes in wild myrobalan plum (Prunus sogdiana)


PLANT AND AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY

 
Cervenski Janko, Gvozdanovic-Varga Jelica, Glogovac Svetlana and Mladenovic Gojko

Stability of head weight in cabbage accessions (Brassica oleracea var. capitata L.)


Amin Azadi, Eslam Majidi Hervan, Seyed Abolghasem Mohammadi, Foad Moradi, Babak Nakhoda, Mojtaba Vahabzade and Mohsen Mardi

Screening of recombinant inbred lines for salinity tolerance in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)


M. Motior Rahman, Abdou A. Soaud, Fareed H. AL Darwish Faruq Golam and M. Sofian-Azirun

Growth and nutrient uptake of maize plants as affected by elemental sulfur and nitrogen fertilizer in sandy calcareous soil


Aysen Akay

Effect of zinc fertilizer applications on yield and element contents of some registered chickpeas varieties


M. M. A. Mondal, M. A. Hakim, Abdul Shukor Juraimi, M. A. K. Azad and M. R. Karim

Contribution of morpho-physiological attributes in determining the yield of mungbean


Emel Çolak, Recep Kara, Tülay Ezer, Gökçen Yuvali Çelik and Büşra Elibol

Investigation of antimicrobial activity of some Turkish pleurocarpic mosses


Majid Khayatnezhad and Roza Gholamin

Effects of salt stress levels on five maize (Zea mays L.) cultivars at germination stage


Alpaslan Kusvuran

The effects of different nitrogen doses on herbage and seed yields of annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum cv. caramba)


Busani Moyo, Patrick J. Masika, Arnold Hugo and Voster Muchenje

Nutritional characterization of Moringa (Moringa oleifera Lam.) leaves


ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY


Zhulai Wang

A research on ceramsite obtained from blast furnace slag and sewage sludge


Zhao-Xiang Han, Meng Zhang and Chun-Xia Lv

Toxicokinetic behaviors and modes of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctane acid (PFOA) on tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)


INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY

 
Rahim Saneifard and Nader Hassasi

Clinical effect of fuzzy numbers based on center of gravity


FOOD MICROBIOLOGY

 
Faten, S. Mansour, Khaled S.Nagy, Amal A.Taqi and Kasim Abass Askar

Factors affecting the fungal contamination of some fruit juices packaged in Tetra Pak


FOOD TECHNOLOGY

Amal Taqi, Kasim Abass Askar, Khaled Nagy, Lucia Mutihac and Ioan Stamatin

Effect of different concentrations of olive oil and oleic acid on the mechanical properties of albumen (egg white) edible films


APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY

 
Zaved Ahmed khan and Asit Ranjan Ghosh

Withaferin-A displays enhanced anxiolytic efficacy without tolerance in rats following sub chronic administration


Zahra Rodbari, Masoud Alipanah, Hamid Reza Seyedabadi and Cyrus Amirinia

Identification of a single nucleotide polymorphism of the pituitary-specific transcriptional factor 1 (Pit 1) gene and its association with body composition trait in Iranian commercial broiler line


MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

 
Alipour Mohammad Reza, Ahmadiasl Naser and Khamnei Saeed

Transient post-exercise hyper-perspiration of forehead area


Lan-jun Bai, Wings TY Loo, Yiding Dou, Min Wang, Hao Liang, Mary NB Cheung and Ziyuan Luo

Effects of various forms of lipopolysaccharide on the expression of inflammatory mediators and cardiac biomarkers in human cardiac fibroblasts and human coronary smooth muscle cells


Wei Ping and Jin Hong-mei

Blueberries extract supplementation improves physical performance and decreases oxidative stress in mice


Yuehong Wang, Zhangui Tang, Suping Zhao, Xiaoli Xie, Zhigang Yao, Chenghui Liu, Binbin Qu, Yan Chen, Zhixiang Xiao and Guiyuan Li

Proteomic analysis of human oral verrucous carcinoma


Juliana Soares Oliveira, Tatiana Araujo Aguiar, Hygor Mezadri and Orlando David Henrique dos Santos

Attainment of hydrogel-thickened nanoemulsions with tea tree oil (Melaleuca alternifolia) and retinyl palmitate


BIOTECHNIQUES

 
Hu Jian-jiang, Zhang Qian, Hou Yan-ming, Wang Xin-rui, Ma Hui and Wang Yi

Studying arsenic trioxide-induced apoptosis of Colo-16 cells with two-photon and confocal laser scanning microscopy


G. O. Adewuyi, A. O. Abafe and A. I. Ayede

Development and validation of a thin layer chromatographic method for the determination of artesunate and amodiaquine in tablet formulations


ANIMAL SCIENCE

 
Ali Asghar Saki, Pouya Zamani, Mojtaba Haghighat and Mohammad Kazemifard

Intestinal DNA concentration and protein synthesis in response to low quality diets in two strains of Leghorn layers


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African Journal of Biotechnology - 10 (61), 2011


Contents:

 

Research Articles

 
GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

 
Rongshu Zhang, Yucheng Wang, Chao Wang, Zhigang Wei, Dean Xia, Yuefeng Wang, Guifeng Liu and Chuanping Yang

Temporal expression of genes involved in the biosynthesis of gibberellins in birch (Betula platyphylla)


Lucica Mihalte, Radu E. Sestras and Gyorgy Feszt

Morphological characterization and phylogenetic distance among several genotypes of Rebutia, Aylostera, Mediolobivia and Sulcorebutia (Cactaceae)


M. Kholghi, I. Bernousi, R. Darvishzadeh and A. Pirzad

Correlation and path-cofficient analysis of seed yield and yield related trait in Iranian confectionery sunflower populations


Haddad El Rabey and Abdulrahman L. Al-Malki

Application of randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers and polyphenol oxidases (PPO) genes for distinguishing between the diploid (glaucum) and the tetraploid (leporinum) accessions in Hordeum murinum complex


Ezatollah Farshadfar, Mehrzad Allahgholipour, Laila Zarei and Masoud Kiani

Genetic analysis of field and physiological indicators of drought tolerance in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) using diallel mating design


Greguła-Kania, Monika

New allelic variant of the ovine calpastatin gene


PLANT AND AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY

 
Mohammad Ali Shirazi Kharrazi and Mohammad Reza Naroui Rad

Evaluation of sorghum genotypes under drought stress conditions using some stress tolerance indices


Aysen Akay

Effect of zinc fertilizer applications on yield and element contents of some registered chickpeas varieties


Chae-In Na, Muhammad Hamayun, Abdul Latif Khan, Yoon-Ha Kim, Kwang-Il Choi, Sang-Mo Kang, Sung-Il Kim, Jung-Tae Kim, Jong-Gun Won and In-Jung Lee

Influence of prohexadione-calcium, trinexapac-ethyl and hexaconazole on lodging characteristic and gibberellin biosynthesis of rice (Oryza sativa L.)


ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

 
Zheng Zi-Cheng, He Shu-Qin, LI Ting-Xuan and Wang Yong-Dong

Effect of land use patterns on stability and distributions of organic carbon in the hilly region of Western Sichuan, China


Zheng Jiang, Li Zhongbao, Lu Yinghua, Tang Xuemin, Lu Bin, Li Yuanyue, Lu Zhiqiang, Lin Yaojiang and Zhou Jixin

Cultivation of the microalga, Chlorella pyrenoidosa, in biogas wastewater


Mohamed Anwar K. Abdelhalim, Mohsen M. Mady, Magdy M. Ghannam, Mohammed S. Al-Ayed and A. S. Alhomida

The effects of gold nanoparticles size and concentration on viscosity, flow activation energy, dielectric and optical properties


Devgoswami, Ch.R., Kalita, M. C., Talukdar, J., Bora, R. and Sharma, P.

Studies on the growth behavior of Chlorella, Haematococcus and Scenedesmus sp. in culture media with different concentrations of sodium bicarbonate and carbon dioxide gas


INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY

 
Muhannad I. Massadeh and Fatima M. Sabra

Production and characterization of lipase from Bacillus stearothermophilus


Tan Wee Yee, Nagendra G. Prabhu, Jain, K. and Darah Ibrahim

Process parameters influencing tannase production by Aspergillus niger using mangrove (Rhizophora apiculata) bark in solid substrate fermentation


Hu Jian-jiang, Zhang Qian, Hou Yan-ming, Wang Xin-rui, Ma Hui and Wang Yi

Studying arsenic trioxide-induced apoptosis of Colo-16 cells with two-photon and confocal laser scanning microscopy


Wei-wei Huang, Bing-zhi Dong, Zhuo-ping Cai and Shun-shan Duan

Growth effects on mixed culture of Dunaliella salina and Phaeodactylum tricornutum under different inoculation densities and nitrogen concentrations


Wang Gang, Chen Guang and Wu Ming

Biochemical properties and potential applications of an organic solvent-tolerant lipase isolated from Bacillus cereus BF-3


FOOD TECHNOLOGY


Yang Zhou, Hong Wang, Ruili Yang, Hui Huang, Yuanming Sun, Yudong Shen, Hongtao Lei and Hong Gao

Effects of Litchi chinensis fruit isolates on prostaglandin E2 and nitric oxide production in J774 murine macrophage cells


APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY


S. Kassouar and M. B. Baba Hamed

Heterologous expression and partial purification of calcium and calmodulin dependant protein kinase (CCaMK) of Medicago truncatula


Baoming Tian, Fang Wei, Haiyan Shu, Qiaoling Zhang, Xin Zang and Yuli Lian

Decreasing erucic acid level by RNAi-mediated silencing of fatty acid elongase 1 (BnFAE1.1) in rapeseeds (Brassica napus L.)


Rosa del Carmen Rocha-Gracia, María Miriam Hernández Arroyo, Patricia Lozano Zaraín, Beatriz Hernández Carlos, Héctor Santiago Romero, Ernestina Cedillo Portugal, María Teresa Zayas Pérez and Jesús Francisco López-Olguín

Antibacterial activity of crude extracts from Mexican plants against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus


Mukun Wang, DaShi Yu, Xinhong Guo, Yi Cui, Xiushan Li, Jihong Zhang, Lijian Zhao, Hongping Chang, Shuai Hu, Chao Zhang, Junchao Shi and Xuanming Liu

Casein kinase 1-Like 3 is required for abscisic acid regulation of seed germination, root growth, and gene expression in Arabidopsis


MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

 
Qin Zhang, Yue-Min Xu, Hong-Bin Li, Min-Kai Xie and Ji-Hong Wang

Adipose tissue-derived stem cells in oral mucosa tissue engineering: Enhanced migration and proliferation in co-culture with oral keratinocytes in vitro


Oguntibeju, O. O., Akinola, F. F. and Okonkwo, K. G.

Effect of artemether on rat hepatocytes during acute damage


Xin Ge, Xifeng Luo, Yinggang Chen, Mingqi Li, Shixiong Jiang, and Xishan Wang

Rhein induces apoptosis of HCT-116 human colon cancer cells via activation of the intrinsic apoptotic pathway


ENTOMOLOGY

 
Senol Yildiz

Rotational and nematicidal effect of lupine (Lupinus albus L.: Leguminosae)


Orouj Valizadegan, Ali Asghr Pourmirza and Mohammad Hassan Safaralizadeh

The impact of microwaves irradiation and temperature manipulation for control of stored-products insects


FISHERY SCIENCE

 
Hongjian Lv, Xiumei Zhang, Peidong Zhang, Wentao Li and Zhenqing Miao

The implement of plastic oval tags for mark-recapture in juvenile Japanese flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) on the northeast coast of Shandong Province, China


BIOTECHNIQUES


Yuewei Zhang, Ping Fu, Jiahe Li, Fei Jiang, Jinxiang Li and Wenxue Wu

Development of loop-mediated isothermal amplification method for visualization detection of the highly virulent strains of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) in China


Muhammad Arif Nadeem Saqib, Munazza Fatima, Irum Nawaz Awan, Mirza Imran Shahzad, Syed Kumail Ali Rizvi, Muhammad Mukhtar and Azra Khanum

Optimized conditions for high-level solubilization and purification of recombinant camel growth hormone in Escherichia coli


Gökçen Yönter and Bülent Yagmur

Effect of Agri-SC as a soil conditioner on runoff, soil loss and crust strengths


Juan Men and Fa Cheng

Biodegradation and growth characteristics of a toluene-degrading strain


PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCE

 
Iqbal Hussain, Riaz Ullah, Jehangir Khan, Naeem Khan, Mohammad Zahoor, Naseem Ullah, Muneeb ur Rehman Khattak, Farhat Ali Khan, Abdul Baseer and Muhammad Khurram

Analysis of chemical constituents in medicinal plants of selected districts of Pakhtoonkhwa, Pakistan


Farah Mazhar, Mohtasheemul Hasan, Iqbal Azhar, M. Shaiq Ali, Misbah Zubair, Rabail Zahid and Muhammad Akram

Some biological studies on Hypnea pannosa J. Ag.


ANIMAL SCIENCE

 
Gholamreza Ghalamkari, Majid Toghyani, Ehsan Tavalaeian, Nasir Landy, Zahra Ghalamkari and Hadi Radnezhad

Efficiency of different levels of Satureja hortensis L. (Savory) in comparison with an antibiotic growth promoter on performance, carcass traits, immune responses and serum biochemical parameters in broiler chickens


S. Darmand, A. Lavvaf, A. R. Seidavi, N. Eila, S. Nematollahian and T. Farahvash

Estimation of genetic parameters in three commercial silk-worm lines of Iran


H. A. Abbasi, S. Gharavysi and R. Abdullahpour

Genetic polymorphism of exon 9-11 of the leptin gene receptor in breeder hens of Mazandaran native fowls


Jing Yuan, Chunlei Zhang, Xingtang Fang, Qin Wang, Lina Qian, Limin Shan Xiangyong Lan and Hong Chen

Determination of taste receptor type 1 member 1 (TAS1R1) gene polymorphism and association with some body measurements in goats


Nemat Ziaei, Hassan Kermanshahi and Mohammad PileVar

Effects of dietary crude protein and calcium/phosphorus content on growth, nitrogen and mineral retention in broiler chickens


H. A. Abbasi and M. Kazemi

Detection of polymorphism of the insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) gene in Mazandaran native chicken using PCR-RFLP method


FOOD AND NUTRITION SCIENCE

 
Hacer Savurdan and Nazan Aktaş

Developing knowledge level scale of functional foods: Validity and reliability study


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African Journal of Biotechnology - 10 (52-53), 2011

African Journal of Biotechnology - 10 (52), 2011


Contents:


Research Articles


GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY


Faiza Masmoudi-Allouche, Radhia Gargouri-Bouzid, Walid Kriaâ, Mohammed Najib Saidi, Hajer Jamoussi, Yosr Abdelkefi and Noureddine Drira

Investigation of genetic variability related to the in vitro floral hermaphrodism induction in Date palm (Phonix dactylifera L.)


Qian Wang, Jianli Sun, Li Bao, Jinpan Lian and Huixian Zhao

Twenty putative palmitoyl-acyl transferase genes with distinct expression patterns in Arabidopsis thaliana


PLANT AND AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY


Abdollah Bahrani, Hosein Heidari, Sharif Abad and Amir Aynehband

Nitrogen remobilization in wheat as influenced by nitrogen application and post-anthesis water deficit during grain filling


Iram Fatma Jafri, Ainul Haq Khan and Mohd Gulfishan

Genotoxic effects of 5-bromouracil on cytomorphological characters of Cichorium intybus L.


Periasamy Suranthran, Uma Rani Sinniah, Sreeramanan Subramaniam, Maheran A. Aziz, Nordin Romzi and Saikat Gantait

Effect of plant growth regulators and activated charcoal on in vitro growth and development of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq. var. Dura) zygotic embryo


Nasser E. Ibrahim, Hanan Shaaban and Andreas Krell

Studies on new antifreeze protein from the psychrophilic diatom, Fragilariopsis cylindrus


Sudarat Thanonkeo, Nuttaporn Chamnipa and Pornthap Thanonkeo

Induced accumulation of 20-hydroxyecdysone in cell suspension cultures of Vitex glabrata R.Br.


Junejo, N., Khanif, M. Y., Hanfi, M. M., Dharejo, K. A. and Wan, Z. W. Y.

Reduced loss of NH3 by coating urea with biodegradable polymers, palm stearin and selected micronutrients

 
Mostafa Ebadi and Alireza Iranbakhsh

The induction and growth of potato (Solanum tuberosum. L) microtubers (sante cultivar) in response to the different concentrations of 6-benzylaminopurine and sucrose

 
ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY


Soumaya Arraouadi, Mounawer Badri, Wael Taamalli, Thierry Huguet and Mohamed Elarbi Aouani

Variability salt stress response analysis of Tunisian natural populations of Medicago truncatula (Fabaceae) using salt response index (SRI) ratio

     
Shu-Cheng Liang, Min Zhao, Lei Lu, Chun-Lei Wang, Li-Yan Zhao and Wen-Jin Liu

Isolation and characteristic of an aerobic denitrifier with high nitrogen removal efficiency

   
Jaime Alioscha Cuervo-Parra, Montserrat Ramírez-Suero, Vladimir Sánchez-López and Mario Ramírez-Lepe

Antagonistic effect of Trichoderma harzianum VSL291 on phytopathogenic fungi isolated from cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) fruits


Shazia Nouren, Haq Nawaz Bhatti and Sadia Ilyas

Bioleaching of copper, aluminum, magnesium and manganese from brown shale by Ganoderma lucidum


Ghafoori, M., Nik M. Majid, Islam, M. M. and Sylvia Luhat

Bioaccumulation of heavy metals by Dyera costulata cultivated in sewage sludge contaminated soil

  
INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY


Ahmed M. El-Bondkly, Aboshosha, A. A. M., Radwan, N. H.2 and Dora, S. A.

Application and comparison of two different intraspecific protoplast fusion methods in Trichoderma harzianum and their effect on ß-glucosidase activity

   
Pornthap Thanonkeo, Sudarat Thanonkeo, Kannikar Charoensuk and Mamoru Yamada

Ethanol production from Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus L.) by Zymomonas mobilis TISTR548

  
FOOD TECHNOLOGY


Zi-Gang Li, Xiao-Yu Yue, Yan-Juan Liu and Yi-Xing Zhang

Effect of calcium salts and tri-sodium citrate on certain properties of calcium-fortified soy milk


Teramoto, Y., Koguchi, M., Wongwicharn, A. and Saigusa, N.

Production and antioxidative activity of alcoholic beverages made from Thai ou yeast and black rice (Oryza sativa var. Indica cv. Shiun)


APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY


Minoo Yaghmaei, Saeedeh Salimi, Mojgan Mokhtari, Anoosh Naghavi, Mohsen Saravani, and Farzaneh Farajian- Mashhadi

Endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene Glu298Asp polymorphism and risk of preeclampsia in South East of Iran


Nazmi Saritaş, Kadir Yildiz, Serdar Büyükipekci and Betül Coşkun

Effect of different levels of royal jelly on biochemical parameters of swimmers


Byung Hoon Park, Deok Jung Kim, Kun Woo Park, Mun Soo Park, Yo Han Son, Na Yeon Woo, Yoo Jin Yi, Hyoung Jun Lee, Yong Min Lee, In Sub Choi, Hyo Jeong Lee, Jae Won Park, Sung Mook Yoo, Su Chan Lee, Jae Deok Lee, Jae Shin Lim and Sangdeog A. Kim

Iron content in forage sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) measured on different slit widths with atomic absorption spectrometry

  
MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY


Salwa M. Abdel Rahman, Sawsan A. Abd-Ellatif, Sahar F. Deraz and Ashraf A. Khalil

Antibacterial activity of some wild medicinal plants collected from western Mediterranean coast, Egypt: Natural alternatives for infectious disease treatment


Swee Keong Yeap, Abdul Rahman Omar, Wan Yong Ho, Boon Kee Beh, Abdul Manaf Ali and Noorjahan Banu Alitheen

Immunomodulatory effect of Rhaphidophora korthalsii on mice splenocyte, thymocyte and bone marrow cell proliferation and cytokine expression


Ghaffari, J., Naghshvar, F., Nazari, Z.1, Farid, R., Torabizadeh, J. and Madani, F.

Seroprevalence of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 infection (HTLV1) in different patients in the north of Iran


Ruzanna Ab Kadir, Shahrul Hisham Zainal Ariffin, Rohaya Megat Abdul Wahab, Sahidan Senafi and Fahrul Zaman Huyop

Differentiation potential of human suspension mononucleated peripheral blood cells


FISHERY SCIENCE


Muhammad Naeem and Abir Ishtiaq

Proximate composition of Mystus bleekeri in relation to body size and condition factor from Nala Daik, Sialkot, Pakistan


BIOTECHNIQUES


Rodrigo da Silva Guedes, Tatiane Loureiro da Silva, Zanderluce Gomes Luis and Jonny Everson Scherwinski-Pereira

Initial requirements for embryogenic calluses initiation in thin cell layers explants from immature female oil palm inflorescences

   
Dongwu Liu, Xue Wang, Yousheng Lin, Liying Sun, Zhiwei Chen and Hongzhi Xu

Analysis of the effects of cerium on calcium ion in the protoplasts of Arabidopsis thaliana with confocal microscopy


Zhen Feng, Jing Ren, Yanhe Zhang and Sen Hu

Improved secretory production of calf prochymosin by codon optimization and disruption of PMR1 in Kluyveromyces lactis GG799


PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCE


M. Afzal, F. S. Mehdi, Fida M.Abbasi, Habib Ahmad, R. Masood, Inamullah, Jan Alam, Gul Jan, M. Islam , Noor Ul Amin , A. Majid1 , M. Fiaz and A.H.Shah

Efficacy of Avicennia marina (Forsk.) Vierh. leaves extracts against some atmospheric fungi

 
ANIMAL SCIENCE


Saied Habibian Dehkordi, Fatemeh Hosseinpour and Azizollah Ebrahimi Kahrizangi

An in vitro evaluation of antibacterial effect of silver nanoparticles on Staphylococcus aureus isolated from bovine subclinical mastitis

 
GENERAL AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY


Lejla Duraković, Andrea Skelin, Sanja Sikora, Frane Delaš, Mirna Mrkonjić-Fuka, Katarina Huić-Babić and Mihaela Blažinkov

Impact of new synthesized analogues of dehydroacetic acid on growth rate and vomitoxin accumulation by Fusarium graminearum under different temperatures in maize hybrid

       

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African Journal of Biotechnology - 10 (53), 2011


Contents:

Review


Susan Mir Najd Gerami, Safar Farajnia and Feridoun Mahboudi

Co-solute assistance in refolding of recombinant proteins


Research Articles


GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY


Işil Aydemir and Beyhan Gürcü

Histochemical determination of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) in normal and ethanol-induced chick embryo during neural tube development


Syed M. Shahid, Abid Azhar, Syeda N. Nawab, Rozeena Shaikh, Muhammad Ismail and Azam J. Samdani

Single nucleotide substitution mutations and polymorphisms in ECM1 gene in lipoid proteinosis in siblings of a Pakistani family

    
Ahmad-Reza Mehrabian, Masoud Sheidai, Zahra Noormohammadi, Younes Asrei and Valeyollah Mozafarian

Inter-simple sequence repeats (ISSR) and morphological diversity in Onosma L. (Boraginaceae) species in Iran

    
Saber Khederzadeh

Polymorphism of Calpastatin Gene in Crossbreed Dalagh Sheep Using PCR-RFLP

   
PLANT AND AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY

 
Montaser Fawzy Abdel- Monaim

Role of riboflavin and thiamine in induced resistance against charcoal rot disease of soybean


Tieniu Wu, Yunqiang Wang, Junwei Lv and Bo Zhang

Soil water characteristics of Middle Pleistocene paleosol layers on the loess Plateau


Sivanaswari, Chalaparmal, Thohirah, L. A., Fadelah, A. A., and Abdullah, N. A. P

Hybridization of several Aerides species and in vitro germination of its hybrid


Theerawut Wongwarat, Suchirat Sakuanrungsirikul and Piyada Theerakulpisut

Effective methods of preserving SCWL-diseased sugarcane leaves for genomic DNA extraction and molecular detection of phytoplasma

   
Seyed Habib Shojaei, Khodadad Mostafavi, Manouchehr Khodarahmi and Mohammad Zabet

Response study of canola (Brassica napus L.) cultivars to multi-environments using genotype plus genotype environment interaction (GGE) biplot method in Iran


Muammer Tepe and Tülin Aydemir

Antioxidant responses of lentil and barley plants to boron toxicity under different nitrogen sources


Liu Sheng-hui, Zang Xiao-ping and Sun Guang-ming

Changes in endogenous hormone concentrations during inflorescence induction and development in pineapple (Ananas comosus cv. Smooth Cayenne) by ethephon


Johari-Pireivatlou, Moharram and Maralian, Habib

Evaluation of 10 wheat cultivars under water stress at Moghan (Iran) condition

 
Xuan Chen, Tongkun Liu, Shan Hao, Wanping Fang, Yuhua Wang and Xinghui Li

Differential gene expression analysis of self-incompatible lines in tea by cDNA-AFLP


Mehrdad Yarnia, Narges Arabifard, Farrokh Rahimzadeh Khoei and Peiman Zandi

Evaluation of drought tolerance indices among some winter rapeseed cultivars

   
Lixia Zhang, Yajun Zhang and Liping Zhang

Structure and immunological activity of a novel polysaccharide from the spores of Ganoderma lucidum

   
ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY


Xue Hongqin, Jing Zhaoqian and Liu Xiaodong

Cr (VI) removal from aqueous solutions by fly ash and fly ash composite filter material: Factorial experimental design

   
Ihab Mohamed Ibrahim Moussa

Finger printing of community acquired-methicillin resistance Staphylococcus aureus recovered from King Saudi Arabia

  
Jing-wei Jin, Hui-chun Ye, Yue-fei Xu, Chong-yang Shen and Yuan-fang Huang

Spatial and temporal patterns of soil fertility quality and analysis of related factors in urban-rural transition zone of Beijing

 
Sema Alikamanoglu and Ayse Sen

Stimulation of growth and some biochemical parameters by magnetic field in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) tissue cultures


Myung Ja Kwak, Seong Han Lee and Su Young Woo

Growth and anatomical characteristics of different water and light intensities on cork oak (Quercus suber L.) seedlings

 
FOOD TECHNOLOGY


Olutayo Sunday Shokunbi, Ogochukwu Augustine Anionwu, Oluwatosin Sarah Sonug and Grace Oluwatoyin Tayo

Effect of post-harvest processing on the nutrient and anti-nutrient compositions of Vernonia amygdalina leaf

 
APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY


Otitoju, O., Onwurah, I. N. E., Otitoju, G. T. O., Ndem, J. I. and Uwah, A. F.

Effect of Bonny light crude oil contaminated diet on serum cholesterol and testosterone concentrations in Wistar albino rats

 
Shoeb Ahmad and Ravi Kant Upadhyay

Production of polyclonal antibodies against Indian honeybee (Apis indica) venom toxins and its efficacy in reversal of toxic effects

 
Guihong Lan, Zengting Li, Hui zhang, Changjun Zou, Dairong Qiao and Yi Cao

Relationship of microbial diversity from recycled injection water and high-temperature petroleum reservoirs analyzed by polymerase chain reaction denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (PCR-DGGE)

     
MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY


T. A. Tor-Anyiin, M. U. Akpuaka and H. O. A. Oluma

Phytochemical and antimicrobial studies on stem bark extract of Sterculia setigera, Del.

     
Wilfred Fon Mbacham, Leopold Djomkam Tientcheu, Veronique Beng Penlap, Christopher Kuaban, Sara Eyangoh, Hubert Wang, Jean Bickii, Palmer Masumbe Netongo, William Titi Lembe, Olama Abega, Njikam Njifutie, Teyim Pride and Baldip Khan

Detection of resistance-associated mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Cameroon using a dot-blot hybridisation technique

       
Baokang Huang, Zhiyong Chu, Weiping He and Luping Qin

IChemical composition, anti-inflammatory and analgesic activities of the petrol ether extract of Pinellia cordata


HaiLin Ren, Yan Sun, XiaoNa Li, HaiLong Hu, ShiBing Li, EnLi Liang and RuiFa Han

Expression of E2F3, miR-17-5p, miR-20a and their interplay in bladder cancer

  
FISHERY SCIENCE


Huriye Ariman Karabulut and N. Mevlut Aras

Effects of different water temperatures and growth agent (recombinant human somatotropin) (r-hGH) on features such as growth, condition factor, feed conversion ratio, survival rate and meat composition of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) fingerlings

  
Hmoud Fares Alkahemal-Balawi, Zubair Ahmad, Ali Suliman Al-Akel, Fahad Al-Misned, El-Amin Mohamad Suliman and Khalid Abdullah Al-Ghanim

Toxicity bioassay of lead acetate and effects of its sub-lethal exposure on growth, haematological parameters and reproduction in Clarias gariepinus

     
Muhammad Naeem, Amina Zuberi, Abdus Salam, Muhammad Ashraf, Noor Elahi, Muzaffar Ali, Abir Ishtiaq, Tayyaba Malik, Muhammad Jamshed Khan, Muhammad Mazhar Ayaz, Muhammad Javed Iqbal and Bilal Ahmad

Induced spawning, fecundity, fertilization rate and hatching rate of Grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) by using a single intramuscular injection of ovaprim–C at a fish hatchery Faisalabad, Pakistan


Muhammad Naeem, Abdus Salam, Muhammad Yunas Khokhar, Muhammad Farhan Nasir, Muhammad Fahad Nouman, Abir Ishtiaq and Razia Allah Yar

Evaluation of metal contents in female Oreochromis niloticus with emphasis on potential risk of consumption and relation to some biological aspects

     
BIOTECHNIQUES

 
Wen-rui Cao, Guo-li Gong, Xin-li Liu, Wei Hu, Zhi-feng Li, Hong Liu and Yue-zhong Li

Optimization of epothilone B production by Sorangium cellulosum using multiple steps of the response surface methodology


Muhammad Arshad, Muhammad Anjum Zia, Muhammad Asghar and HaqNawaz Bhatti

Improving bio-ethanol yield: Using virginiamycin and sodium flouride at a Pakistani distillery

   
ANIMAL SCIENCE


Sawsan A. Omer, Wafa A. I. Al-Megrin, Abdulaziz N. Alagaili, Mai A. Elobeid and Osama B. Mohammed

A new protocol for the treatment of Brucella melitensis in Neumann’s gazelle (Gazella erlangeri) from Saudi Arabia using oxytetracycline and streptomycin

     
Amina E. Essawy, Ashraf M. Abdel-Moneim, Ibrahim A. Gaaboub and Soad A. El-Sayed

Adverse effects of dimethyl disulphide on sciatic nerve of Swiss albino mice


     

Plant Growth Regulation - 65 (1-3), 2011

Plant Growth Regulation - 65 (1), 2011


Contents:


Suppression and overexpression of Lsi1 induce differential gene expression in rice under ultraviolet radiation

Chang-Xun Fang, Qing-Shui Wang, Yan Yu, Qing-Mao Li and Hai-Li Zhang, et al.


Water deficit and exogenous ABA significantly affect grape and wine phenolic composition under in field and in-vitro conditions

Leonor Deis, Bruno Cavagnaro, Ruben Bottini, Rodolfo Wuilloud and M. Fernanda Silva


Antioxidant enzymatic protection during tobacco leaf ageing is affected by cytokinin depletion

Zuzana Mýtinová, Václav Motyka, Daniel Haisel, Zuzana Lubovská and Alena Trávníčková, et al.


Role of proline and glycinebetaine pretreatments in improving heat tolerance of sprouting sugarcane (Saccharum sp.) buds

Rizwan Rasheed, A. Wahid, M. Farooq, Iqbal Hussain and Shahzad M. A. Basra


Production of psoralen by in vitro regenerated plants from callus cultures of Psoralea corylifolia L.

P. Baskaran, N. Jayabalan and J. Van Staden


Calcium can moderate changes on membrane structure and lipid composition in cowpea plants under salt stress

Francisco Valderez Augusto Guimaraes, Claudivan Feitosa de Lacerda, Elton Camelo Marques, Maria Raquel Alcântara de Miranda and Carlos Eduardo Braga de Abreu, et al.


Identification and expression analysis of genes induced by phosphate starvation in leaves and roots of Brassica napus

Feng Ren, Liang Chen, Qian-Qian Guo, Hui Zhong and Yan Wu, et al.


Heat stress screening of peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) seedlings for acquired thermotolerance

Michael Gomez Selvaraj, Gloria Burow, John J. Burke, Vikas Belamkar and Naveen Puppala, et al.


Differential expression of farnesyl diphosphate synthase gene from Withania somnifera in different chemotypes and in response to elicitors

Parul Gupta, Nehal Akhtar, Shri Krishna Tewari, Rajender Singh Sangwan and Prabodh Kumar Trivedi


Alleviation of chilling-induced oxidative damage by salicylic acid pretreatment and related gene expression in eggplant seedlings

Shuangchen Chen, Liu Zimei, Jinxia Cui, Ding Jiangang and Xiaojian Xia, et al.


Overexpression of a maize dehydrin gene, ZmDHN2b, in tobacco enhances tolerance to low temperature

Xin Xing, Yukun Liu, Xiangpei Kong, Yang Liu and Dequan Li


Study of the antioxidant enzymatic system during shoot development from cultured intercalar meristems of saffron

Pedro Díaz-Vivancos, Khalid Majourhat, José Antonio Fernández, José Antonio Hernández and Abel Piqueras


Identification of candidate genes involved in responses of Arabidopsis to polychlorinated biphenyls based on microarray analysis

Xiao-Fen Jin, Jian-Jun Shuai, Ri-He Peng, Bo Zhu and Xiao-Yan Fu, et al.


Photosynthesis and metabolism of sugars from lettuce plants (Lactuca sativa L. var. longifolia) subjected to biofortification with iodine

B. Blasco, J. J. Rios, R. Leyva, R. Melgarejo and C. Constán-Aguilar, et al.


Pre-harvest foliar application of Prohexadione-Ca and gibberellins modify canopy source-sink relations and improve quality and shelf-life of ‘Bing’ sweet cherry

Caixi Zhang and Matthew Whiting


LEAFY COTYLEDON1, FUSCA3 expression and auxin treatment in relation to somatic embryogenesis induction in Arabidopsis

Agnieszka Ledwoń and Malgorzata D. Gaj


Vermicompost treatment differentially affects seed germination, seedling growth and physiological status of vegetable crop species

Gederts Ievinsh


Response of in vitro strawberry to antibiotics

Y. H. Qin, Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva, J. H. Bi, S. L. Zhang and G. B. Hu


Triacontanol-mediated regulation of growth and other physiological attributes, active constituents and yield of Mentha arvensis L.

M. Naeem, M. Masroor A. Khan, Moinuddin, Mohd. Idrees and Tariq Aftab


Brief communication


A novel Phytochrome B allele in Arabidopsis thaliana exhibits partial mutant phenotype: a short deletion in N-terminal extension reduces Phytochrome B activity

Scott J. Nicholson, Ute Hoecker and Vibha Srivastava


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Plant Growth Regulation - 65 (2), 2011


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The role of ethylene and brassinosteroids in the control of sex expression and flower development in Cucurbita pepo

Susana Manzano, Cecilia Martínez, Zoraida Megías, Pedro Gómez and Dolores Garrido, et al.


Micropropagation of Juniperus navicularis, an endemic and rare species from Portugal SW coast

Mário Rui Castro, Anabela Ferreira Belo, Anabela Afonso and Maria Amely Zavattieri


Effects of pre-harvest gibberellic acid spraying on gene transcript accumulation during peach fruit development

Camila Pegoraro, Fábio Clasen Chaves, Joceani Dal Cero, César Luís Girardi and Cesar Valmor Rombaldi


Cloning and characterization of an allene oxide cyclase, PpAOC3, in Physcomitrella patens

Takahiro Hashimoto, Kosaku Takahashi, Michio Sato, P. K. G. S. S. Bandara and Kensuke Nabeta


Effects of external ABA, GA3 and NAA on the tiller bud outgrowth of rice is related to changes in endogenous hormones

Yang Liu, Qiangsheng Wang, Yanfeng Ding, Ganghua Li and Junxu Xu, et al.


The interaction of light irradiance with auxin in regulating growth of Helianthus annuus shoots

Leonid V. Kurepin, Linda J. Walton, Edward C. Yeung and David M. Reid


Auxin stability and accumulation during in vitro shoot morphogenesis influences subsequent root induction and development in Eucalyptus grandis

Muhammad Nakhooda, M. Paula Watt and David Mycock


Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi can alter some root characters and physiological status in trifoliate orange (Poncirus trifoliata L. Raf.) seedlings

Qiang-Sheng Wu, Ying-Ning Zou, Xin-Hua He and Peng Luo


Effect of traumatic acid on antioxidant activity in Chlorella vulgaris (Chlorophyceae)

Anna Pietryczuk and Romuald Czerpak


Regulated alterations in redox and energetic status are the key mediators of salinity tolerance in the halophyte Sesuvium portulacastrum (L.) L

Vinayak H. Lokhande, Ashish K. Srivastava, Sudhakar Srivastava, Tukaram D. Nikam and Penna Suprasanna


Allelopathy of red pine: isolation and identification of an allelopathic substance in red pine needles

Hisashi Kato-Noguchi, Yoshiko Fushimi, Yukitoshi Tanaka, Toshiaki Teruya and Kiyotake Suenaga


Effects of the exogenous application of auxin and cytokinin on carbohydrate accumulation in grains of rice under salt stress

Majid Ghorbani Javid, Ali Sorooshzadeh, Seyed Ali Mohammad Modarres Sanavy, Iraj Allahdadi and Foad Moradi


Exogenous proline induces soluble sugar accumulation and alleviates drought stress effects on photosystem II functioning of Arabidopsis thaliana leaves

Michael Moustakas, Ilektra Sperdouli, Theodora Kouna, Chrysovalantou-Irene Antonopoulou and Ioannis Therios


Effect of 3-cyclopropyl-1-enlyl-propanoic acid sodium salt, a novel water soluble antagonist of ethylene action, on plant responses to ethylene

Raphael Goren, Moshe Huberman, Joseph Riov, Eliezer E. Goldschmidt and Edward C. Sisler, et al.


Regulation of source: sink relationship, fruit set, fruit growth and fruit quality in European plum (Prunus domestica L.)—using thinning for crop load management

Claudia Seehuber, Lutz Damerow and Michael Blanke


Identification of barley DWARF gene involved in brassinosteroid synthesis

Damian Gruszka, Iwona Szarejko and Mirosław Małuszynski


Implication of peroxidase activity in development of healthy and PPV-infected micropropagated GF305 peach plants

M. J. Clemente-Moreno, A. Piqueras and J. A. Hernández


Two calcium dependent protein kinases are differently regulated by light and have different activity patterns during seedling growth in Pharbitis nil

Krzysztof Jaworski, Adriana Szmidt-Jaworska and Jan Kopcewicz


In vitro induction and proliferation of protocorm-like bodies (PLBs) from leaf segments of Phalaenopsis bellina (Rchb.f.) Christenson

A. A. Khoddamzadeh, U. R. Sinniah, M. A. Kadir, S. B. Kadzimin and M. Mahmood, et al.


UV-B radiation induces changes in polyamine metabolism in the red seaweed Porphyra cinnamomea

K. Schweikert, J. E. S. Sutherland, C. L. Hurd and D. J. Burritt


Brief communication


Oxytocin influences the production of glycyrrhizin from cell cultures of Abrus precatorius Linn.

Vijai Singh Karwasara, Priti Tomar and Vinod K. Dixit


Ameliorative effect of brassinosteroid and ethylene on germination of cucumber seeds in the presence of sodium chloride

Baolan Wang, Jinli Zhang, Xiuzhi Xia and Wen-Hao Zhang


Strigolactone may interact with gibberellin to control apical dominance in pea (Pisum sativum)

Alessandro Luisi, Roberto Lorenzi and Carlo Sorce


Trichoderma harzianum strain T-22 induces changes in phytohormone levels in cherry rootstocks (Prunus cerasus × P. canescens)

Adriano Sofo, Antonio Scopa, Michele Manfra, Mauro De Nisco and Giancarlo Tenore, et al.



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Plant Growth Regulation - 65 (3), 2011


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Changes in cytokinin levels and metabolism in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) explants during in vitro shoot organogenesis induced by trans-zeatin and dihydrozeatin

Marek Klemš, Zdeňka Slámová, Václav Motyka, Jiří Malbeck and Alena Trávníčková, et al.


Down-regulation of Rubisco activity under combined increases of CO2 and temperature minimized by changes in Rubisco kcat in wheat

Pilar Pérez, Aitor Alonso, Gloria Zita, Rosa Morcuende and Rafael Martínez-Carrasco


Enhanced biomass and steviol glycosides in Stevia rebaudiana treated with phosphate-solubilizing bacteria and rock phosphate

Mamta Gupta, Shashi Bisht, Bikram Singh, Arvind Gulati and Rupinder Tewari


Local induction of senescence by darkness in Cucurbita pepo (zucchini) cotyledons or the primary leaf induces opposite effects in the adjacent illuminated organ

Kalina Ananieva, Evguéni D. Ananiev, Snejana Doncheva, Detelin Stefanov and Kiril Mishev, et al.


Improved growth performance of the mangrove Avicennia marina seedlings using a 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid deaminase-producing isolate of Pseudoalteromonas maricaloris

Khaled A. El-Tarabily and Tarek Youssef


Cell wall modification in 1-methylcyclopropene-treated post-climacteric fresh-cut and intact papaya fruit

Muharrem Ergun, Yasar Karakurt and Donald J. Huber


Characterization of strigolactones exuded by Asteraceae plants

Kaori Yoneyama, Xiaonan Xie, Takaya Kisugi, Takahito Nomura and Hitoshi Sekimoto, et al.


ß-Cyclodextrin-based nanosponges as carriers for 1-MCP in extending the postharvest longevity of carnation cut flowers: an evaluation of different degrees of cross-linking

Ludovica Seglie, Katia Martina, Marco Devecchi, Carlo Roggero and Francesco Trotta, et al.


New basal media for half-anther culture of Anthurium andreanum Linden ex André cv. Tropical

Budi Winarto, F. Rachmawati and Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva


Brief communication


Change in pH regimes and adventitious root induction in semi-hardwood cuttings of Gmelina arborea Roxb.

Pramod Kumar, Surendra Kumar Jharia and Shamim Akhtar Ansari