There are varieties of factors which can affect wool (macro and micro elements of wool) in sheep directly or indirectly. Genetic and environmental factors are major factors influencing wool quality and quantity. There are some bacterial, viral, fungal and espically parasitic diseases which also affect the wool. Other factors are exogenous chemicals, hormones, weather and photo period. In the pr...

pended upon the quantity of the maltose and the dextran added as well as the average molecular weight of the dextran added. The combination of all three factors yielded dextran with a relative viscosity as low as 1.6. The decrease in viscosity occurred in an orderly manner. For the recovery of dextran of clinical size, only the addition of dextran was of any value. A yield of 34.6 per cent of t...

The quantity of penicillinase plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in various strains of Staphylococcus aureus has been determined by DNA-DNA reassociation kinetics. Specifically, 32P- or 125I-labeled denatured probes of purified plasmid DNA were reassociated in the presence of denatured DNAs isolated from the bacterial strains in question. The number of plasmid copies per cell was calculated fr...

Inoculation with Azospirillum brasilense Cd of two leguminous species, soybean (Glycine max) and cowpea (Vigna unguiculata), demonstrated that: (1) A. brasilense significantly increased proton efflux from their roots; (2) inoculation reduced plant membrane potential (in soybean), (3) inoculation changed the phospholipid quantity in plant membranes of calli (in cowpea), and (4) a low molecular w...

Pesticide effects on microbial community structure and activity in soil are reviewed, showing that methodological developments within the past few years have generated new possibilities for assessing pesticide effects. The first example is the use of mRNA quantification showing that nitrification processes are indeed very susceptible to some pesticides, and that there is correlation between the...

Most phenolic substances of plant origin are toxic to microorganisms and they confer some degree of protection to plants against phytopathogens. Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae, bacterial blight pathogen of rice (Oryza sativa) was treated with phenol (monohydroxy benzene) and its effects on the morphology and cytological changes of the bacterium were studied. Total lysis of cells occurred with 5 ...

In vitro and in vivo studies are presented to test the hypothesis that the synergistic action of the pristinamycins is not due to a catalytic effect of pristinamycin IIA (PIIA) on the bacterial ribosome. We demonstrate that there is a proportionality between the quantity of PIIA bound on the ribosome and pristinamycin IA (PIA) retained by it. Moreover in vitro and in vivo experiments correlated...