Bean bruchids are among the most devastating insect pests of common bean that can inflict huge losses in storage. To identify potential resistance to these pests, screening was performed at Sokoine University Agriculture. Two resistant landraces were identified, viz Kalubungula and KK25. Recombinant inbred (RI) KSy, KSw ML populations created from crosses between Soya × Kalubungula, Sowor...

To elucidate the molecular mechanism underlying high metastasis rate of brain for non-small cell lung cancer patients and to establish a comprehensive differential gene profile metastasis. The differentially expressed genes were systematically investigated. enriched biological processes signaling pathways explored. protein-protein interaction network was constructed. Compared with primary cance...

The rpoA gene, encoding the alpha subunit of RNA polymerase, was cloned from Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2). It is preceded by rpsK and followed by rplQ, encoding ribosomal proteins S11 and L17, respectively, similar to the gene order in Bacillus subtilis. The rpoA gene specifies a protein of 339 amino acids with deduced molecular mass of 36,510 Da, exhibiting 64.3 and 70.7% similarity over its ...

The maize (Zea mays L.) floury-2 (fl2) mutation is associated with a general decrease in storage protein synthesis, altered protein body morphology, and the synthesis of a novel 24-kD alpha-zein storage protein. Unlike storage proteins in normal kernels and the majority of storage proteins in fl2 kernels, the 24-kD alpha-zein contains a signal peptide that would normally be removed during prote...