Pea is an important food and feed crop and a valuable component of low-input farming systems. Improving resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses is a major breeding target to enhance yield potential and regularity. Genomic selection (GS) has lately emerged as a promising technique to increase the accuracy and gain of marker-based selection. It uses genome-wide molecular marker data to predict ...

Red clover (Trifolium pratense) is an important forage plant worldwide. This study was directed to broadening current knowledge of red clover's coding regions and enhancing its utilization in practice by specific reanalysis of previously published assembly. A total of 42,996 genes were characterized using Illumina paired-end sequencing after manual revision of Blast2GO annotation. Genes were cl...

BACKGROUND/AIM Dyslipidemia is one of the most important risk factors for coronary artery disease (CAD), and low-densitylipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) is used to measure dyslipidemia. Non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (non-HDL-C) seems to be an alternative parameter to LDL-C as it is not influenced by triglyceride (TG) levels. The aim of this study is to compare non-HDL-C and LDL-C leve...

A single intravenous injection of 0.1 mg of heat-killed Bacillus Calmette Guérin (BCG) in 0.1 ml of Bayol F produced an accumulation of activated alveolar macrophages (BCG induced). Cells were collected 3.5-4.0 wk after injection. Phospholipases A and three lysosomal marker enzymes (acid phosphatase, beta-glucuronidase, and lysozyme) were measured in homogenates, and the distribution of the pho...

basal stem rot caused by sclerotinia sclerotiorum (lib.) de bary is one of the most important diseases of sunflower. quantitative trait loci (qtl) implicated in partial resistance to two isolates of s. sclerotiorum (ssu107 and sskh41) were investigated using f9 recombinant inbred lines (rils) from the cross between sunflower parental lines pac2 and rha266. experiments were conducted in complete...

Reliability of genomic selection (GS) models was tested in an admixed population of Atlantic salmon, originating from crossing of several wild subpopulations. The GS models included ordinary genomic BLUP models (IBS-GS), using varying marker densities (1 to 220K) and a genomic IBD model (IBD-GS) using genomic relationships estimated through linkage analysis of sparse markers (ignoring LD). The ...

Plasma membranes from abscission zones of kidney bean seedlings were isolated on sucrose density gradients using cellulase and KCl-stimulated ATPase as marker enzymes. Following treatment of the seedling explants with 50 microliters per liter ethylene, an increase in the buoyant density of the plasma membrane fraction from 1.165 to 1.175 grams per cubic centimeter was observed. Such a change is...

Background Genetic linkage maps have been essential tools to examine the inheritance of qualitative and quantitative traits, to carry out comparative mapping and to provide markers for molecular breeding applications. Linkage maps for species of Eucalyptus have been reported for several pedigrees using different molecular marker technologies [1]. However improved marker density, throughput and ...

The metabolic syndrome consists of a cluster of metabolic disorders, many of which promote the development of atherosclerosis and increase the risk of cardiovascular disease events. Insulin resistance may lie at the heart of the metabolic syndrome. Elevated serum triglycerides commonly associate with insulin resistance and represent a valuable clinical marker of the metabolic syndrome. Abdomina...