The classification of lung nodules is a challenging problem as the visual analysis and non-nodules revealed homogenous textural patterns. In this work, an Auxiliary Classifier (AC)-Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) based Lung Cancer Classification (LCC) system developed. proposed AC-GAN-LCC consists three modules; preprocessing, Lungs Region Detection (LRD), AC-GAN classification. A Wiener f...

S (PH D THESIS) Involvement of auxin distribution in root nodule development of Lotus japonicus (Graduate School of Agriculture, Laboratory of Plant Gene Expression, RISH, Kyoto University) Kojiro TAKANASHI Legumes (Fabaceae) constitute the third largest plant family with around 700 genera and 20,000 species. Legume plants form root nodules through symbiosis with a soil microbe called rhizobia....

Legumes are agronomically valuable crops for food and fodder production worldwide because they are rich in protein, oil, fiber, and micronutrients. In addition, legumes require less chemical fertilizer than other major crop plants since they can assimilate some nutrients through symbiotic interactions with soil microbes. These relationships are mutually beneficial for the partners because the p...

Long-distance auxin transport was examined in Medicago truncatula and in its supernodulating mutant sunn (super numeric nodules) to investigate the regulation of auxin transport during autoregulation of nodulation (AON). A method was developed to monitor the transport of auxin from the shoot to the root in whole seedlings. Subsequently, the transport was monitored after inoculation of roots wit...

Increased root exudation and a related stimulation of rhizosphere-microbial growth have been hypothesised as possible explanations for a lower nitrogen(N-) nutritional status of plants grown under elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations, due to enhanced plantmicrobial N competition in the rhizosphere. Leguminous plants may be able to counterbalance the enhanced N requirement by increased symbio...

Soil is exposed to hydrogen when symbiotic rhizobia in legume root nodules cannot recycle the hydrogen that is generated during nitrogen fixation. The hydrogen emitted is most likely taken up by free-living soil bacteria that use hydrogen as an energy source, though the bacteria that do this in situ remain unclear. In this study, we investigated the effect of hydrogen exposure on the bacteria o...

Jasmonic acid (JA), its derivatives and its precursor cis-12-oxo phytodienoic acid (OPDA) form a group of phytohormones, the jasmonates, representing signal molecules involved in plant stress responses, in the defense against pathogens as well as in development. Elevated levels of JA have been shown to play a role in arbuscular mycorrhiza and in the induction of nitrogen-fixing root nodules. In...

Biotic interactions can improve agricultural productivity without costly and environmentally challenging inputs. Micromonospora strains have recently been reported as natural endophytes of legume nodules but their significance for plant development and productivity has not yet been established. The aim of this study was to determine the diversity and function of Micromonospora isolated from Med...

Boron (B) is an essential micronutrient for the development of nitrogen-fixing root nodules in pea (Pisum sativum). By using monoclonal antibodies that recognize specific glycoconjugate components implicated in legume root-nodule development, we investigated the effects of low B on the formation of infection threads and the colonization of pea nodules by Rhizobium leguminosarum bv viciae. In B-...

salinity is one of the major environmental constraints on agriculture in many regions of the world (Boyer, 1982; Two cultivars of Cicer arietinum with differential tolerSerrano and Gaxiola, 1994). Chick-pea (Cicer arietinum ance to salinity have been compared by analysing L.) nodules are indeterminate (Hirsch, 1992) and export growth, photosynthesis, nodulation, nitrogenase activfixed N as amid...