Statement of the Problem The clinical success of ceramic depends on the quality of the bond between the zirconia and resin cement. Purpose In the present study, the effects of universal and conventional MDP-containing primers were evaluated on the shear bond strength of zirconia ceramic and nanofilled composite resin. Materials and Method Thirty blocks of zirconia ceramic (6mm×2mm) were pre...

Background: Silane-containing universal adhesives (UAs) are marketed as adhesion promotors for glass-ceramics. Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the priming capacity of γ-methacryloxypropyltrimethoxysilane (γMPTS)-containing and γ-methacryloxypropyltriethoxysilane (γMPTES)/3-(aminopropyl)triethoxysilane (APTES)-containing lithium disilicate ceramic (LDC). Materials Methods: Etched LDC di...

Rice is one of the most important food crops in the world. It is greatly affected by various abiotic stresses. Among them, to improve the complex stress salinity we introduced a desired gene katE, a catalase gene of Escherichia coli, and reporter gene GUS into the indica rice cultivar Kasalath. Plant survival under different salt water concentration was checked. Transformation was carried out u...

Blast disease, caused by hemibiotrophic fungus Pyricularia oryzae Sacc. (teleomorph: Magnaporthe oryzae (Hebert) Barr.), previously known as Magnaporthe grisea, is the most serious disease of rice and causes high yield losses in most rice growing regions every year. Blast is an endemic disease in all Iranian and Uruguayan rice fields, with yield losses up to 90 % that has been reported from som...

A method, termed hierarchical oligonucleotide primer extension (HOPE), is developed for quantitative, multiplexing detection of DNA targets present in PCR-amplified community 16S rRNA genes. It involves strand extension reaction and multiple oligonucleotide primers modified with different lengths of polyA at the 5' end and targeting 16S rRNA genes at different phylogenetic specificities. On ann...

Rice bean [Vigna umbellate (Thumb.) Ohwi and Ohashi] is an underutilized crop believed to be domesticated in the Myanmar-Thailand region of Asia. In India, rice bean is mainly cultivated in the North-Eastern Hills, which is a hotspot for biological diversity. A 5' anchored PCR was used to develop microsatellite markers in rice bean. Twenty-eight specific primer pairs were designed and employed ...

The research intended to explore the possibility of fortifying the soy flour and rice bran to formulate the functional biscuit which have the ability to improve the quality of food products due to various functional properties. Suplementation of wheat flour with soya and rice bran was tried at 10 %, 15%, 20%, 25% level each. Prepared biscuit is subjected to physical, Sensory and nutritional ana...

Among the abiotic stresses, drought is a serious limiting factor that reduces rice production and yield stability in rainfed ecosystems. Conventional breeding for drought resistance is slow in attaining progress due to poor understanding of genetic control of drought resistance. Molecular markers help in identification of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) associated with drought resistance traits ...