Association mapping in rice: basic concepts and perspectives for molecular breeding

State Transition Dynamics: Basic Concepts and Molecular Computing Perspectives

Classical dynamics concepts are analysed in the basic mathematical setting of state transition systems where time and space are both completely discrete and no structure is assumed on the state’s space. Interesting relationships between attractors and recurrence are identified and some features of chaos are expressed in simple, set theoretic terms. String dynamics is proposed as a unifying conc...

Neurotransmitter Imaging: Basic Concepts and Future Perspectives

Neurochemistry of human cognition remains uninvestigated because neuroimaging techniques have limited ability to detect neurochemical changes associated with cognitive processing. In recent years investigators have used molecular imaging to develop methods for detection, mapping and measurement of neurotransmitters released acutely during cognitive processing in the live human brain. Most of th...

Quantitative trait loci for rice blast resistance detected in a local rice breeding population by genome-wide association mapping

Plant breeding programs aim to develop cultivars with high adaptability to the specific conditions in a local region. As a result, unique genes and gene combinations have been accumulated in local elite breeding populations during the long history of plant breeding. Genetic analyses on such genes and combinations may be useful for developing new cultivars with more-desirable agronomic traits. H...

Basic concepts of molecular evolution

The phenotype of living organisms is always a result of the genetic information that they carry and pass on to the next generation and of the interaction with the environment. The genome, carrier of this genetic information, is in most organisms deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), whereas some viruses have a ribonucleic acid (RNA) genome. Part of the genetic information in DNA is transcribed into RNA,...

Rice Germplasm in Korea and Association Mapping