s previous work leading hiring discrimination investigations in the New York Attorney General's Civil Rights Bureau. The views expressed in this Article are the author's alone and do not reflect the views of the Bureau or the office. The author is grateful to Susan Plum and the Skadden Foundation for their unflagging support, to Maurice Emsellem, Noah Zatz, and Sharon Deitrich for helpful conve...

The Pax gene Pox meso (Poxm) was the first and so far only gene whose initial expression was shown to occur specifically in the anlage of the somatic mesoderm, yet its role in somatic myogenesis remained unknown. Here we show that it is one of the crucial genes regulating the development of the larval body wall muscles in Drosophila. It has two distinct functions expressed during different phas...

The article presents the results of research on genetic resources sweet cherry and plum in Nikita Botanical Gardens - National Scientific Center. Cultivars which are sources donors valuable economical biological traits: late flowering, its duration, winter hardiness, drought resistance, large-fruited, very early ripening fruit taste, resistance to cracking fruits have been identified. In order ...

The expression of gastrodianin antifungal protein (GAFP) in a form of its VNF isoform increases tolerance to Phytophthora root rot (Phytophthora cinnamomi) and the root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita) in transgenic plum lines. However, nothing is known about the potential of the GAFP lectin to confer disease resistance to the ring nematode, Mesocriconema xenoplax, in plum. Three transgeni...

Successful total RNA (totRNA) extraction is a prerequisite for a successful real-time PCR. In the present work we compared one manual and one automated totRNA extraction method for detection of Plum pox potyvirus (PPV) in leaves of different Prunus sp. using developed real-time RT-PCR assay. Advantages and disadvantages of compared methods are described in the view of sensitivity, reproducibili...

Many scientific applications involve grids that lack a uniform underlying structure. These applications are often also dynamic in nature in that the grid structure significantly changes between successive phases of execution. In parallel computing environments, mesh adaptation of unstructured grids ti_rough selective refinemcnttcoarsening has proven to be an effective approach. However, achievi...

Bone loss caused by ionizing radiation is a potential health concern for radiotherapy patients, radiation workers and astronauts. In animal studies, exposure to ionizing radiation increases oxidative damage in skeletal tissues, and results in an imbalance in bone remodeling initiated by increased bone-resorbing osteoclasts. Therefore, we evaluated various candidate interventions with antioxidan...