A full-length cDNA of a 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate synthase (ACS) family member from Oncidium, named OnACS1 (GenBank accession No. JQ822087) was cloned and characterized by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction and rapid amplification of cDNA ends technology. The full-length cDNA was 1586 bp, including a 1308-bp open reading frame, a 105-bp 5' untranslated region (UTR), and 173...

In order to simulate the in vivo binding behavior of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors to the zinc-containing active center of ACE, the in vitro interaction between lisinopril and zinc or nickel ions was investigated in aqueous solutions of different pH by using attenuated total reflection (ATR)/Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy with second-derivative IR spectral anal...

The documentation process is very important for identifying yield constraint factors and yield gap. For this purpose, all managing practices were recorded by monitoring of paddy rice fields in Sari region, Iran from 2015 to 2016. Field identifications were undertaken in such a way that they included all the main production procedures with variations in management viewpoints. The results reveale...

The development of a new software system involves extensive tests of the software functionality in order to identify possible failures. Also, a software system already built requires a fine tuning of its configurable options to give the best performance in the environment where it is going to work. Both cases require a finite set of tests that avoids testing all the possible combinations (which...