The genus Cosmos is native of America and is constituted by 34 species; 28 of them are endemic of Mexico. The cosmos are used as a nematicide, antimalarial, and antioxidative agent. The aim of this study was to estimate the genetic diversity among 7 cosmos species based on random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and inter-simple sequences repeats (ISSR) markers. With RAPD markers, the obtained ...

After briefly recapitulating two earlier German twin studies (BiLSAT and GOSAT), we present two new German twin studies with a longitudinal perspective: CoSMoS and TwinPaW. The twin study on Cognitive ability, Self-reported Motivation and School performance (CoSMoS) aims to investigate predictors and influences of school performance in a genetically sensitive design, beginning with children in ...

An important challenge in cancer genomics is precise detection of structural variations (SVs) by high-throughput short-read sequencing, which is hampered by the high false discovery rates of existing analysis tools. Here, we propose an accurate SV detection method named COSMOS, which compares the statistics of the mapped read pairs in tumor samples with isogenic normal control samples in a dist...

In 2011, a leaf blight disease was observed on cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus) leaves in Nonsan, Korea. The causal pathogen was isolated and identified based on morphological and molecular approaches. Morphological characteristics of the pathogen matched well with the Alternaria cosmosa and also easily distinguishable from Alternaria zinniae reported from cosmos seeds by producing branched beak. Phy...

apigenin is best known as an irreversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase (mao), an intracellular enzyme associated with the outer membrane of mitochondria. the purpose of this study is to establish a reliable and quick method for the assignment of apigenin in cosmos bipinnatus, apium graveolens and petroselinum crispum by high performance liquid chromatography with ultraviolet detection (hplc-u...

Apigenin is best known as an irreversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase (MAO), an intracellular enzyme associated with the outer membrane of mitochondria. The purpose of this study is to establish a reliable and quick method for the assignment of Apigenin in Cosmos bipinnatus, Apium graveolens and Petroselinum crispum by high performance liquid chromatography with ultraviolet detection (HPLC-U...

abstract myzus persicae sulzer is one of the serious pests in potato fields which has the ability of transmitting several viruses to the potato crop. throughout summer of 2008, field studies were carried out in ardabil to evaluate the seasonal population fluctuation of this aphid on 10 potato cultivars: granola, satina, moren, aozonia, cosima, agria, cosmos, kondor, diamant and savalan. density...

The design of environmentally-sensitive products and manufacturing facilities is considered by some members of the industrial community to be one of the current frontiers of engineering practice, while others consider it to be another fad. Here today but gone tomorrow. This paper examines this topic from a biological stance by asserting that humankind’s activities should emulate nature’s flora ...

We present a catalog of 246 radio sources found in the central 1 degree of the COSMOS field at 1.4GHz. The VLA pilot project data have a resolution of 1.9×1.6 and an rms noise limit of ∼ 25-100μJy/beam covering 0.837 deg. About 20 radio sources are clearly extended and most of them appear to be double-lobed radio galaxies. We find evidence for a cluster of 7 radio sources with an extent of ∼10 ...