BACKGROUND Globally, the loss of forests now contributes almost 20% of carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere. There is an immediate need to reduce the current rates of forest loss, and the associated release of carbon dioxide, but for many areas of the world these rates are largely unknown. The Soviet Union contained a substantial part of the world's forests and the fate of those forests a...

An important aspect of foraging ecology is the extent to which different individuals or genders within a population exploit food resources in a different manner. For diving seabirds, much of this information relates either to short-term dietary data or indirect measures such as time budgets. Moreover, dietary specialisation can be difficult to detect due to biases associated with conventional s...

Kenaf is an important bast fiber crop. In order to diversify the available kenaf simple sequence repeat (SSR) molecular markers and generate potentially useful for breeding, we developed expression tag (EST-SSR) based on lead-stressed transcriptome sequencing data spliced unigene sequences. Additionally, distribution of SSRs in potential functions SSR-containing genes were determined. Moreover,...

sclerotinia stem rot (ssr), caused by sclerotinia sclerotiorum, is the most important diseases of canola (brassica napus) in iran. in order to study of the impact of ssr on canola yield, infection situation and yield of 80 fields in four different regions of golestan province (gorgan, ali abad, kalaleh and gonbad) in north of iran, was recorded during two growing seasons (2006 and 2007). ssr se...

Simple sequence repeat (SSR) and Single Nucleotide Polymorphic (SNP), the two most robust markers for identifying rice varieties were compared for assessment of genetic diversity and population structure. Total 375 varieties of rice from various regions of India archived at the Indian National GeneBank, NBPGR, New Delhi, were analyzed using thirty six genetic markers, each of hypervariable SSR ...