Although prison rape has been recognised for years, it began to receive increased attention in the U. S. following the passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act. In addition to prevalence and victimisation estimates, several researchers have examined the attitudes of correctional personnel toward prison rape. However, few have surveyed the opinions of those not currently working in the crimina...

OBJECTIVE The bystander approach to rape prevention is gaining popularity on college campuses, although research is limited. This study explored bystander attitudes and their relationship with rape myths in a sample of college students. PARTICIPANTS Surveys from 2,338 incoming undergraduate students at a large, northeastern university were analyzed. METHODS Participants completed revised ve...

Imported genetically modified (GM) canola (Brassica napus) is approved by Japanese law. Some GM canola varieties have been found around importation sites, and there is public concern that these may have any harmful effects on related species such as reduction of wild relatives. Because B. juncea is distributed throughout Japan and is known to be high crossability with B. napus, it is assumed to...

Low boron (B) seriously limits the growth of oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.), a high B demand species that is sensitive to low B conditions. Significant genotypic variations in response to B deficiency have been observed among B. napus cultivars. To reveal the genetic basis for B efficiency in B. napus, quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for the plant growth traits, B uptake traits and the B effic...

S locus glycoprotein (SLG) and S locus receptor kinase (SRK) cDNAs were isolated from an S allele present in a number of self-compatible Brassica napus lines. This Aí0 allele did not segregate with self-incompatibility in crosses involving other self-incompatible B. napus lines. The SLG-Aí0 cDNA was found to contain an intact open reading frame and was predicted to encode an SLG protein with se...

Phytoene synthase (PSY) has been shown to catalyze the first committed and rate-limiting step of carotenogenesis in several crop species, including Brassica napus L. Due to its pivotal role, PSY has been a prime target for breeding and metabolic engineering the carotenoid content of seeds, tubers, fruits and flowers. In Arabidopsis thaliana, PSY is encoded by a single copy gene but small PSY ge...

A novel plant protein kinase, designated Brassica napus kinase 1 (BNK1), was isolated from a lambda-pistil cDNA library. The deduced BNK1 protein contains all eleven conserved subdomains of a kinase and encodes a functional serine/threonine protein kinase. Phylogenetic analysis of several plant protein kinase subfamilies showed that BNK1 is most closely related to the NAK subfamily of protein k...

This study explores how allopolyploidization reshapes the biased expression and asymmetric epigenetic modification of homoeologous gene pairs, examines regulation types basis bias. We analyzed four modifications (DNA methylation, H3K4me3, H3K27me3 H3K27ac) 29 976 pairs in resynthesized, natural allopolyploid Brassica napus an silico ‘hybrid’. comprehensively elucidated expression, generational ...

sclerotinia stem rot (ssr), caused by sclerotinia sclerotiorum, is one of the most important diseases of canola (brassica napus) in golestan province, the leading canola producer in iran. in order to assess the yield loss of canola caused by ssr, 80 fields were surveyed in four different regions of the province (gorgan, ali abad, kalaleh and gonbad) during 2006-2007, and ssr intensity was recor...