Sugarcane (Saccharum hybrids spp.) is the most important sugar crop that accounts for ~75% of the world's sugar production. Recently, a whole-genome sequencing project was launched on the wild species S. spontaneum. To obtain information on the DNA composition of the repeat-enriched region of the centromere, we conducted a genome-wide analysis of the DNA sequences associated with CenH3 (a mutan...

Abstract Haplophyllum tuberculatum is a plant commonly used in folk medicine to treat several diseases including vomiting, nausea, infections, rheumatism, and gastric pains. In the current study, H. essential oils, hydrosols, pure compounds R-(+)-limonene, S-(−)-limonene, 1-octanol, as well their combinations R-(+)-limonene/1-octanol S-(−)-limonene/1-octanol, were screened for cytotoxicity on H...

In diploids, crop improvement has been assisted by genome maps, but the traditional maps based on visible mutations that are simply inherited cannot be applied to polyploids. In addition, morphological markers are few in number, they often interact epistatically and in a dominant.recessive manner, and may exert such a strong effect as to be undesirable in a breeding programme. Molecular marker ...

Four known and one new species of Onchium are described from bottom sediments collected in Skagerrak off the west coast of Sweden. The following known species are redescribed: Onchium ocellatum Cobb, 1920, O. metocellatum Wieser, 1956, O. parocellatum (Allgén, 1940) and O. robustum Gerlach, 1965. Onchium longispiculum sp. n. is characterised by the 1.34-1.77 mm long body, anterior body end with...

Sugarcane bacilliforin virus (SCBV) was detected in the world collection of sugarcane gerinplasm at Cannanore in recent years. The characteristic foliar syinptolns were freckles, chlorotic stripes of vaiying length, narrowing of leaves, stunted growth, presence of internodal cracks and a "buizclzy top" appearance. Among the different genotypes, those of Sacckarum oflcinaruin appear most prone t...