production of transgenic cotton (gossypium hirsutum l.) was studied utilizing agrobacterium-mediated strain lba4404 and pbi121 plasmid. this plasmid contains gus as a reporter gene driven by the camv35s promoter and nptii gene driven by nos as selection marker. in this study, the inheritance of gus gene was evaluated using selective media, pcr and gus staining in the second genertaion (t1) of t...

Phosphate (Pi) deficiency is one of the leading causes of loss in crop productivity. Plants respond to Pi deficiency by increasing Pi acquisition and remobilization involving organic and inorganic Pi transporters. Here, we report the functional characterization of a putative organic Pi transporter, Glycerol-3-phosphate permease (G3Pp) family, comprising five members (AtG3Pp1 to -5) in Arabidops...

OBJECTIVE Gastric ulcers (GUs) can be caused by a malignancy, and endoscopists are challenged with the question of how to rule out underlying malignancy. Although routine endoscopic surveillance is not advised, it is still overused. The purpose of this study was to explore the practice in our tertiary referral center during the last 3 years. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed all inpatient a...

A gene-trapping vector carrying a GUS/Luciferase dual reporter gene was developed to establish an efficient and convenient screening system for T-DNA-based gene trapping in plants. A key feature of this gene trap scheme is to place two different types of reporters, luciferase (Luc) and beta-glucuronidase (GUS), as a fusion protein within a trapped gene to probe the activity of the gene. Luc is ...

We constructed a protein expression vector with an improved enoA promoter that harbored 12 tandem repeats of the cis-acting element (region III) of Aspergillus oryzae. The improved promoter yielded reporter beta-glucuronidase (GUS) activity approximately 30-fold of the original promoter. Northern blot analysis confirmed that GUS expression was increased at the transcriptional level. The transfo...

Precise cellular localization of the GUS stain is notoriously difficult in Arabidopsis seeds. Here we report an improved protocol for the clearing of seeds after GUS staining. Incubation in ethanol–acetic acid (EtAc) and Hoyer’s medium allows reliable cellular localization of the GUS, even in seeds from late developmental stages. This method also leads to the staining of nucleoli in the endospe...

We constructed small high-yielding binary Ti vectors with a bacterial tetracycline resistance gene to facilitate efficient cloning afforded by the Gateway Technology (Invitrogen) for Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of higher plants. The Gateway Technology vectors are kanamycin-based, thus tetracycline-based destination and expression vectors are easily selected for the antibio...

The expression of the tobacco root-specific gene TobRB7 was characterized. Gel blot hybridizations to RNA isolated from various tobacco tissues demonstrated that steady-state TobRB7 mRNA is not detected in expanded leaf, stem, or shoot apex tissue. To determine the spatial pattern of expression, in situ hybridization to root sections revealed that TobRB7 expression is localized to root meristem...

0020-0255/$ see front matter 2010 Published b doi:10.1016/j.ins.2010.03.015 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +90 312 2901625; f E-mail addresses: [email protected] (E. D Get-Successors (GS) which retrieves all successors of a junction is a kernel operation used to facilitate aggregate computations in road network queries. Efficient implementation of the GS operation is crucial since the dis...