The rhizobacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens SS101 inhibits growth of oomycete and fungal pathogens, and induces resistance in plants against pathogens and insects. To unravel regulatory pathways of secondary metabolite production in SS101, we conducted a genome-wide search for sRNAs and performed transcriptomic analyses to identify genes associated with the Rsm (repressor of secondary metabolite...

Abscisic acid (ABA), a key plant stress-signaling hormone, is produced in response to drought and counteracts the effects of this stress. The accumulation of ABA is controlled by the enzyme 9-cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase (NCED). In Arabidopsis, NCED3 is regulated by a positive feedback mechanism by ABA. In this study in peanut (Arachis hypogaea), we demonstrate that ABA biosynthesis is also ...

abstract: fifteen non-aflatoxigenic strains of aspergillus flavus, represent a wide range of geographic regions of iran (six provinces include fars, ardebil, guilan, golestan, kerman and semnan) and vegetative compatibility groups (vcgs), were collected from corn (zea mays l.), peanut (arachis hypogaea l.) and pistachio (pistachia vera l.) soils and kernels, were screened for the presence of af...

objective(s):  biosynthesis of gold nanoparticles (ngps) is environmentally safer than chemical and physical procedures. this method requires no use of toxic solvents and synthesis of dangerous products and is environmentally safe. in this study, we report the biosynthesis of ngps using streptomyces djakartensis isolate b-5.   materials and methods: ngps were biosynthesized by reducing aqueous ...

developing reliable and eco-friendly processes for the synthesis of metallic nanoparticles is an essential step in the field of application of nanotechnology .using natural factories such as biological systems is a way of developing such processes. nowadays, the synthesis of silver nanoparticles is very common due to its numerous applications in different fields. the synthesis of these nanopart...

interaction of chrysosporium sps. and aspergillus sps. with aqueous agno3 was investigated for synthesis of silver nanoparticles. biological reduction and extracellular synthesis of silver nanoparticles in 28 hour at 270c and ph 5.6 was done. the nanometallic dispersion was characterized by surface plasmon absorbance measuring at 424 – 530 nm for ag nanoparticles. high resolution transmission e...

the solanaceae plants produce a variety of interesting biologically active products including the steroid alkaloids solanidine, nicotine and tropane alkaloids. putrescine n-methyltransferase (pmt) is an enzyme that catalyses s-adenosylmethionine-dependent methylation of putrescine in one of the primary steps of nicotine and tropane alkaloids biosynthesis pathway. two tobacco members of the ap2/...

resistance to drug such as metronidazole is one the commonest causes of treatment failure while eradicating helicobacter pylori . considering the safety of ketoconazole and fluconazole and their inhibitory activity on biosynthesis of fatty acids from cholesterol in cell membrane of h.pylori , the idea of their efficacy against h.pylori is raising . the aim of this study is to evaluate susceptib...

In many animals, progression of developmental stages is temporally controlled by steroid hormones. Drosophila, the level ecdysone titer oscillates and stage transitions, such as larval molting metamorphosis, are induced at each peaks. Ecdysone also peaks mid-embryogenesis embryonic necessary for morphogenesis several organs, although regulatory mechanisms organogenesis dependent on signaling st...

In animal cells, nine aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are associated with the three auxiliary proteins p18, p38, and p43 to form a stable and conserved large multi-aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase complex (MARS), whose molecular mass has been proposed to be between 1.0 and 1.5 MDa. The complex acts as a molecular hub for coordinating protein synthesis and diverse regulatory signal pathways. Electron micros...