Background: The biochemical characteristics of the follicular fluid (FF) play essential role in oocyte quality, the subsequent fertilization potential and embryo development. The oocyte quality and metabolism largely depends on follicular microenvironment. Present study aimed to investigate the relationship between oocyte quality and FF homocysteine (Hcy) level in women undergoing to IVF treatm...

in this research, allele frequency and polymorphism of 27 microsatellite markers linked to gene loci controlling grain quality were determined between 47 rice varieties from four different groups including 21 iranian local, 16 improved, 7 irri and 3 upland rice varieties. average number of polymorphic information content (pic) and shannon’s diversity index were 0.54 and 1.14, respectively. maxi...

Cotton is a valuable fiber crop which supplies raw material to more than 50 industries and produced in 70 countries worldwide. The superiority of cotton over other crops primarily dependent on its quality. However, further improvements length strength are required for modern processing technology maintain position the global market. Association mapping enables identification QTLs controlling qu...

Molecular genetic markers, such as those from fecal Bacteroides microorganisms, can link microbial pollution with its source, and have been used successfully in studies of sheltered aquatic environments. Their applicability to wave-driven, open coast environments has not been tested. We assessed the contribution of a tidal outlet to surf zone water quality in coastal Orange County, California, ...

Malting quality is an important trait in breeding barley (Hordeum vulgare L.). It requires elaborate, expensive phenotyping, which involves micro-malting experiments. Although there is abundant historical information available for different cultivars in different years and trials, that historical information is not often used in genetic analyses. This study aimed to exploit historical records t...

Marker based performance capture is one of the most widely used approaches for facial tracking owing to its robustness. In practice, marker based systems do not capture the performance with complete fidelity and often require subsequent manual adjustment to incorporate missing visual details. This problem persists even when using larger number of markers. Tracking a large number of markers can ...