A male flower-specific gene SlMF1 was isolated from male flower buds of the dioecious plant Silene latifolia. SlMF1 is expressed in all the floral meristems at the very early stage of development in both male and female flower buds. At the mature stage of development in male flower buds, SlMF1 transcripts were specifically accumulated in pollen mother cells, tapetal cells, and the developing ti...

The mother of your child’s best friend. The man who waited on you at the hardware store last week. Your brother-in-law. The woman in front of you in the check-out line at the market. Your favorite teacher in high school. The homeless woman who’s always at your subway stop. Your doctor. The eight year old son of the family three doors down. Your co-worker at the plant who brings doughnuts for ev...

Jatropha curcas belongs to the Euphorbiaceae family and is found in the coastal areas of tropics. The leaves, fruits and seeds of the plant are used for various ailments. There are few reported cases of its poisoning in paediatric age but we didn't come across any case report for its poisoning in adults. However we found a family of 5 members (mother, father and three sons) affected by the pois...

A doctor conducts a thyroid examination on 4-year-old Maria Sakamoto, brought by her mother to the office of Iwaki Radiation Citizen Centre, south of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The not-for-profit organisation offers free thyroid examinations for children from Fukushima. As the World Health Organization says children in Fukushima may have a higher risk of develop...

We have hydrodistilled the essential oil (EO) from the aerial parts of the Bhutanese medicinal plant, Pleurospermum amabile using a Clevenger apparatus and evaluated this EO by GC/GC-MS and NMR analysis followed by testing for bioactivity. The GC-MS analysis identified 52 compounds with (E)-isomyristicin as a major component (32.2%). Repeated purification yielded four compounds; (E)-isomyristic...

Aim: Banana (Musa paradisiaca L.) is a member of the family Musaceae and order Zingiberales which 2nd most important crop in India after Mango. The plant expands rapidly. A few weeks planting, it begins to develop suckers, compete with parent for resources (such as nutrients water), hence reducing productivity. Therefore, growth regulators, addition desuckering, are required proper control deve...

Article: Parents’ physiological regulation may support infants’ regulation. Mothers (N = 152) and 6-month-old male and female infants were observed in normal and disrupted social interaction. Affect was coded at 1-s intervals and vagal tone measured as respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA). Maternal sensitivity was assessed in free play. Mothers and infants showed opposite patterns of RSA change. ...

Agriculture is the mother of all cultures. It played a vital role in the development of human civilization. But plant leaf diseases can damage the crops there may be economic losses in crops. Without knowing about the diseases affected in the plant, the farmers are using excessive pesticides for the plant disease treatment. To overcome this, the detected spot diseases in leaves are classified b...

passive smoking was long overlooked by those in the medical and legal professions as being harmful to one's health, but in recent years the negative effect of passive smoking has come to the fore in the media and laws have been changed so that less people are obliged to unwillingly suffer from passive smoking, particularly in the workplace and in indoor settings. to study the effects of environ...