Screening of twenty-four candidate plus trees from naturally available Pongamia pinnata genetic resources was carried out to elucidate the genetic variation and relationship of pod and seed traits on germination capacity to select the best planting material for higher productivity. The experiment conducted at Forest Research Centre, Institute of Forest Productivity Mandar, Ranchi during 2005-20...

Myopia, or near-sightedness, is our most common eye condition and the prevalence is increasing globally. Visual impairment will occur if uncorrected, whilst high myopia causes sight-threatening complications. Myopia is associated with higher intelligence. As both are heritable, we set out to examine whether there is a genetic correlation between myopia and intelligence in over 1,500 subjects (a...

OBJECTIVES Evaluation of the reliability of several V3-based genotypic predictors to infer viral tropism in patients infected with B and non-B strains of HIV-1. METHODS Several genotypic tropism predictors were evaluated in plasma (RNA) samples from 198 HIV-1-infected patients, taking as gold standard the results of the phenotypic recombinant virus assay Phenoscript((R)). In addition, for 37 ...

introduction obtaining varieties with acceptable yield and tolerant to different arid and semi-arid climate condition of iran is an important goal in canola breeding programs. selection of genotypes base on one or more traits without regarding to correlation between them, could biases the expected results. therefore, identifying of genetic correlation among traits especially in environmental st...

Abundant secondary metabolites, such as condensed tannins, and their interpopulation genotypic variation can remain through plant leaf senescence and affect litter decomposition. Whether the intrapopulation genotypic variation of a more diverse assortment of secondary metabolites equally persists through leaf senescence and litter decomposition is not well understood. We analyzed concentrations...