Seasonal abundance and effect on onion yield reduction were studied for onion thrips, Thrips tabaci Lindeman, for two consecutive seasons (dry and rainy) to develop economic thresholds (ET) in Honduras. Overall, thrips populations were highest during the dry season, with average thrips per leaf per day 5.2 times higher than during the rainy season. In the two onion cultivars tested (Granex 429 ...

Rho-binding kinase and the myosin phosphatase targeting subunit regulate nonmuscle contractile events in higher eukaryotes. Genetic evidence indicates that the C. elegans homologs regulate embryonic morphogenesis by controlling the actin-mediated epidermal cell shape changes that transform the spherical embryo into a long, thin worm. LET-502/Rho-binding kinase triggers elongation while MEL-11/m...

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BACKGROUND/AIM Increasing evidences show that microRNAs are engaged in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The aim of this study was to investigate the role of miR-502-3P in HCC and to identify its underlying mechanism. METHODS The expression levels of miR-502-3P were assessed in multiple HCC cell lines and in liver tissues of patients with HCC. We further examined the effects of miR-502-3P on ma...

this study was conducted over a three-year period (1998, 1999 and 2000) to evaluate some drought tolerance indices and their relations with sugar yield in some sugar beet genotypes under early season drought and non-drought conditions. the experimental design was a split plot with a randomized complete block. the main plots consisted of two irrigation regimes: non-stress and water stress in ear...

Comprehensive studies that consolidate selective ligands, quantitative comparisons of G protein versus arrestin-2/3 coupling, together with structure-activity relationship models for G protein–coupled receptor (GPCR) systems are less commonly employed. Here we examine biased signaling at the nociceptin/orphanin FQ opioid receptor (NOPR), the most recently identified member of the opioid recepto...

Ubiquitin (Ub) is a highly conserved protein composed of 76 aa that can be covalently linked to a lysine residue of a target protein. Attachment of a single Ub monomer to one or several lysines of a protein (monoor multimonoubiquitylation, respectively) is notably involved in endocytosis and the regulation of histones (Hicke, 2001). Ub itself possesses several lysines that can be used for the a...

The mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) pathway is known to couple different environmental cues to the regulation of several energy-demanding functions within the cell, spanning from protein translation to mitochondrial activity. As a result, at the organism level, mTORC1 activity affects energy balance and general metabolic homoeostasis by modulating both the activity of neuronal ...