Pollen germination of Vitis vinifera L., of the family Vitaceae was examined in fresh and stored pollen upto 48 weeks at different temperature i.e., refrigerator (+4C), freezer (-20C, -30C) and freeze drier (-60C). Pollen stored at low temperature showed better germination percentage as compared to pollen stored at +4C and fresh. Freeze dried pollen (-60C) showed the highest germination percent...

LetQ be a connected and simply connected domain on the Riemann sphere, not coinciding with the Riemann sphere and with the whole complex plane C. Then, according to the Riemann Theorem, there exists a conformal bijection between Q and the exterior of the unit disk. In this paper we find an explicit form of this map for a broad class of domains with analytic boundaries. 2000 Math. Sabj. Class. 3...

Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC), the most frequent subtype of renal cell cancer, is characterized by mutation of the von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) tumor suppressor gene, which results in stabilization of hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) α proteins. In this issue of Cancer Discovery, Mathew and colleagues report that miR-30c-2-3p and miR-30a-3p downregulation in ccRCC promotes increased expressi...

We study the rheology of semi-dilute solutions of the sodium salt of calf-thymus DNA in the linear and nonlinear regimes. The frequency response data can be fitted very well to the hybrid model with two dominant relaxation times τ0 and τ1. The ratio (τ0=τ1) 5 is seen to be fairly constant on changing the temperature from 20 to 30C. The shear rate dependence of viscosity can be fitted to the Car...

A microporous polypropylene (PP) hollow fiber membrane contactor was used as a reactor to biodegrade phenol in high-salinity solutions by Pseudomonas putida CCRC14365 at 30C. Suspended cells grew only at a NaCl concentration below 2.5 wt%. On the other hand, cells within hollow fibers completely degraded 0.5 g/L of phenol in solution containing NaCl up to 8.6 wt%, likely due to the fact that th...