The Western corn rootworm (WCR) is one of the most economically important corn pests worldwide. One possibility for controlling this pest is the cultivation of Bt-corn. However, widespread cultivation of Bt-corn may increase the probability of the development of pest populations resistant to the respective Bt toxins. To establish test systems for identifying resistance mechanisms in the case of...

Teachers are expected to act ethically and provide moral role models in performing their duties, even though teacher education has often relegated the cultivation of teachers’ ethical awareness and moral development to the margins. When it is addressed, the main theoretical assumptions have relied heavily on the cognitivist developmental theories of Piaget and Kohlberg. A major pedagogical prob...

Genome-scale metabolic models embody a significant advantage of systems biology since their applications as metabolic flux simulation models enable predictions for the production of industrially-interesting metabolites. The biotechnological production of lycopene from Yarrowia lipolytica is an emerging scope that has not been fully scrutinized, especially for what concerns cultivation condition...