The classification of bamboos based on floral morphology and reproductive characters is very hard due to erratic flowering behavior and unusually long reproductive cycle. The application of reliable and effective DNA molecular markers is highly essential to address this problem. In the present investigation, inter-simple sequence repeats (ISSR) markers were employed to study phylogenetic relati...

The Burkholderia cepacia'complex' (Bcc) presently comprises nine species and genomovars. In order to acquire a better comprehension of the species and genomovar distribution and of the genetic diversity among environmental Bcc bacteria, a natural population of 60 bacterial isolates recovered from the rhizosphere of maize and belonging to the Bcc has been characterised to assess the exact taxono...

Background: Investigating predictors of response to antiHCV therapy may avoid the current expensive therapy associated with various side effects. Aim of Work: To test for the hypothesis claiming that single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the IL-28B gene might affect the response to antiviral treatment. The SNP rs12979860 C>T in the IL-28B gene was assayed, and its influence on response to HCV...

The genetic diversity of 20 Iranian populations of Bunium persicum has been evaluated with random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) markers. Fresh leaves of seedlings from each population were used for genomic DNA extraction. Analysis of banding patterns of 15 RAPD primers and 17 AFLP primer combinations, revealed 192 (86%) and 228 (75%) polymorp...

background evidence indicates rfc1 g80a polymorphism as a risk factor for a number of cancers. increasing studies have been conducted on the association of rfc1 g80a polymorphism with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all) risk. however, the results were  controversial. the aim of the present study was to derive a more precise estimation of the relationship.  materials and method pubmed, embase, we...

Beauveria spp. (one Beauveria sp., two B. brongniartii, and 47 B. bassiana) isolated from insects and soil from Kenya and other 16 different countries, were obtained from the CABI Bioscience Genetic Resource Collection. DNA was extracted from the 50 isolates and their genetic variability was investigated using restriction analysis of the internal-transcribed-spacer ribosomal region restriction ...

background polymorphisms in the interferon λ (inf λ) genes on chromosome 19 have been associated with clearance of hepatitis c virus (hcv) induced by interferon and ribavirin therapy however there is no such data available for pakistani patients with hcv infection. objectives in this study, the effects of single nucleotide polymorphisms (snps) have been investigated in response to treatment wit...

Genetic improvement programs may improve disease resistance in animal production. The best-characterized genetic control of disease resistance and immune response in animals is the one associated with the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC). The ovine lymphocyte antigenof DRB1 gene encodes cell surface glycoproteins that initiate immune responses by presenting processed antigenic peptides to...

conclusions: according to our results, it is likely that the increased frequency of the fcγriiib-na1/na2 genotype is associated with impaired immune responses against vl and its subsequent clearance from the patient. results: our results indicated that polymorphisms within the fcγriiib gene (that lead to the expression of the na1/na2 isoforms) are significantly associated with vl. the results d...