To evaluate the extent of the genetic change and its effects on the seed protein composition of soybean cultivars released during the past 60 years, representative ancestral cultivars and those derived from selective breeding were grown in a side-by-side comparison. Total seed protein content, determined by combustion analysis of nitrogen, revealed a decline in the protein content after decades...

Transposable elements (TEs) are a dominant feature of most flowering plant genomes. Together with other accepted facilitators of evolution, accumulating data indicate that TEs can explain much about their rapid evolution and diversification. Genome size in angiosperms is highly correlated with TE content and the overwhelming bulk (>80%) of large genomes can be composed of TEs. Among retro-TEs, ...

The Himalayan region serves as a land bridge between China and South Asia but is vulnerable to geopolitical factors. It important conduct risk assessments facilitate the restoration construction of traditional trade routes in region. Based on multisource natural, political, socioeconomic data, we selected 12 indicators, including topographic relief, landslide risk, multi-hazard index, populatio...

The Nepalese Mustang District is subject to profound environmental change. In recent decades, rising temperatures have been apparent, accompanied by increasing precipitation variability and a reduction in glacier extent. semi-arid climate, this reduces water availability threatens irrigation-based subsidence agriculture. addition, the region experiencing rapid socio-economic change due new road...

ABSTRACT We report a significant detection of the hot intergalactic medium in filamentary bridge connecting galaxy clusters Abell 399 and 401. This result is enabled by low-noise, high-resolution map thermal Sunyaev–Zeldovich signal from Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Planck satellite. The ACT data provide 1.65 arcmin resolution that allows us to clearly separate profiles clusters, whose cen...