The basic diversity data of landraces has been found important to monitor the dynamics of crop genetic resource management. The diversity data generated in time and space have been valuable to communtities, scientists and policy managers to formulate and implement conservation strategies of in situ, on-farm as well as ex situ conservation and management of genetic resources. In this paper, we d...

The Gram-positive genus Clavibacter harbors economically important plant pathogens infecting a variety of agricultural crops, such as potato, tomato, corn, barley, etc. Here, we report five new genome sequences, those of strains CFIA-Cs3N, CFIA-CsR14, LMG 3663T, LMG 7333T, and ATCC 33566T, from different subspecies of Clavibacter michiganensis All these genomic data will be used for reclassific...

We investigated the prevalence of malaria and associated risk factors in children living in urban Ghana. Malaria prevalence was associated with low hemoglobin concentration, low socioeconomic status, and higher age. Our findings indicate that African urban poor are seriously affected by malaria and that irrigated agriculture may increase this risk.

Costs for workers’ compensation benefits in California have increased sharply in recent years, following periods of decline and stability. California was already one of the most expensive states for total costs per injured worker and for a number of types of testing and treatment in the midto late 1990s. For example, a series of multi-state studies revealed that California has the second highes...

1 Ginseng & Medicinal Crops Division, National Institute of Crop Science, Rural Development Administration, Suwon 441-100, Republic of Korea; 2 Kohwang Medical Research Institute, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 130-701, Republic of Korea; 3 Department of Psychiatry, East-West Neo Medical Center, School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 134-727...

microRNAs(miRNAs) play critical regulatory roles mainly through cleaving targeted mRNAs or repressing gene translation during plant developments.Grapevine is amongst the most economically important fruit crops with whole genome available, and the study on grapevine miRNAs(Vv-miRNAs) have also been emphasized. mieroRNAs(miRNAs)Play eritieal regulatory roles mainly through eleaving targeted mRNAs...

The following information was missing from the funding section: BBSRC, DEFRA, NERC, the Scottish Government and the Wellcome Trust, under the Insect Pollinators Initiative crops project. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Figures 1a, 1b and 1c are in the wrong order. Here are the corrected Figures 1a, 1b ...