The majority of adult human epithelial cancers exhibit evidence of genetic instability, and it is widely believed that the genetic instability manifested by aneuploidy or microsatellite instability plays an essential role in the genesis of these tumors. Indeed, most experimental models of cancer also show evidence of genomic instability. The resulting genetic chaos, which has widespread effects...

Switchgrass is one of the most important biomass/bioenergy crops. For its improvement as a feedstock through biotechnological approach, we have developed a high throughput Agrobacterium-mediated transformation system for cv. Alamo and two new elite cultivars, Performer and Colony. Highly regenerable and transformation-competent embryogenic calli were identified and used for genetic transformati...

Through the lens of supply chain management, integrating process planning decisions and scheduling plans becomes an issue of great challenge and importance. Dealing with the problem paves the way to devising operation schedules with minimum makespan; considering the flexible process sequences, it can be viewed as a fundamental tool for achieving the scheme, too. To deal with this integration, t...

Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation of plants, a unique example of transkingdom DNA transfer, requires the presence of several proteins encoded by the host cell. One such cellular factor is VIP1, an Arabidopsis protein proposed to interact with and facilitate import of the bacterial DNA-protein transport (T) complexes into the plant cell nucleus. Thus, VIP1 is required for transient e...

Genetic transformation in insects holds great promise as a tool for genetic manipulation in species of particular scientific, economic, or medical interest. A number of transposable elements have been tested recently as potential vectors for transformation in a range of insects. Minos is one of the most promising elements because it appears to be active in diverse species and has the capacity t...

Wheat is the world’s largest volume crop traded internationally. Foliar diseases are the main biotic restriction reducing yield in wheat crops. Wheat productivity can be enhanced through controlling foliar disease through the use of resistant cultivars. Plant breeders are providing considerable attention to wheat genetic improvement from the past few years to minimize losses due to pests and pa...

Plant genetic engineering has become one of the most important molecular tools in the modern molecular breeding of crops. Now a days, production of transgenic plants is a routine process in some crop species. Transgenes are delivered into plants to confer novel traits such as improving nutritional qualities, resistance to pests. It is possible to insert genes from plants at evolutionary distant...

In this paper, we present a technique for characterizing CMOS analog circuits based on directed intervals. The technique consists of an analog performance es-timator and a characterization table generator. This characterization information may be eeciently used by the constraint transformation step in an analog synthesis system. We present a genetic algorithm based constraint transformation met...