Seed germination is the stage in which plants are most sensitive to abiotic stress, including salt stress (SS). SS affects plant growth and performance through ion toxicity, decreasing seed percentage increasing time. Several priming treatments were used enhance under SS. The objectives of this study (1) identify shorten emergence period, (2) evaluate against SS, (3) induce synchronized germina...

Maize Hm1 gene encodes a NAD(P)H-dependent HC-toxin reductase, which detoxify HC-toxin produced by fungus Cochliobolus carbonum (Meeley and Walton 1991 Plant Phys 97: 1080). Measurements of ion leakage indicated that H2O2 treatment of a recessive mutant (hm1) of maize resulted in accelerated death in excised leaves. Furthermore, an hm1 maize showed quantitative decrease of NAD(H) level. Thus, t...

We developed room-temperature bonding of micro-nanofluidic device using fluorine induced plasma activation method. Fluorine was induced by O2 reactive ion etching (RIE) plasma treatment with Teflon Pieces which increased the bonding strength between fused silica glass substrates. The room-temperature bonded fused silica glass micro-nanofluidic device had high bonding strength as well as could w...

feel that the results we show, particularly in Figure 6, are on much more complex examples and that we have processed much larger number of buildings than reported in the previous literature ([5], [2], and [9]). We feel that our method has advantage over monocular systems such as ([5]) due to its ability to infer 3-D more directly and of having several views to validate the hypotheses. We feel ...

The interaction between sodium and calcium, magnesium and calcium and the combined effect of sodium, magnesium and calcium was observed on the growth and ion uptake of Hippophae rhamnoides L. The results demonstrated that an addition of sodium with calcium, (set a, Na 2.5 + Ca 5 mM) showed prominent increase in fresh weight of roots and shoots. The dry weight (average) of roots decreased an...

A 7-month-old girl with history of persistent left chylous pleural effusion was referred for lymphoscintigraphy. A previous chest computed tomography (CT) scan demonstrated a small to moderate-sized left pleural effusion but could not identify the lymphatic leakage site. Lymphoscintigraphy using filtered Tc sulfur colloid showed minimal focal activity in the lower chest. A correlative single-ph...

Human heat shock protein (hsp) 70 and bacterial protein groEL promote leakage of calcein from liposomes induced by human serum albumin signal peptide, by S. aureus alpha toxin or by diphtheria toxin. Hsp 70 and groEL, as well as two mycobacterial homologues hsp 71 and hsp 65, induce ion conducting pores across planar lipid bilayers at low or neutral pH. It is concluded that hsp induce pores in ...