Introduction Pentachloronitrobenzene (PCNB, C6Cl5NO2, CAS No. 82-68-8), also known as quintozene or terrachlor, is a fungicide commonly used in many countries including China. PCNB is included neither in the USEPA list of pesticides with the potential to contain dioxin impurities, nor in the UNEP Toolkit 1 . However, a survey conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAF...

The small Maf proteins (MafG, MafK, and MafF), which serve as heterodimeric partner molecules of CNC family proteins for binding in vitro to MARE sites, have been implicated in the regulation of both transcription and chromatin structure, but there is no current evidence that the proteins fulfill these functions in vivo. To elucidate possible contributions of the small Maf proteins to gene regu...

Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae is an important plant pathogen which causes bacterial blight of rice. To facilitate genome studies of this bacterium, we have constructed a bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) library of strain MAFF 311018. It consisted of 750 clones representing 16 genome equivalents, and had an insert size ranging from 20 to 220 kb with an average size of 107 kb. This library i...

Built-up areas and buildings are two main targets in remote sensing research; consequently, automatic extraction of built-up has attracted extensive attention. This task is usually difficult because boundary blur, object occlusion, intra-class inconsistency. In this paper, we propose the multi-attention feature fusion HRNet, MAFF-HRNet, which can retain more detailed features to achieve accurat...

to estimate the grazing capacity in each region it is necessary to determine animal requirement based on forage quality and animal unit weight of dominant sheep breed. in present study animal unit weight of farahani sheep breed was investigated. two herds were selected. thirty animals including 15 three and four years' old ewes, 5 nine months old lambs, 5 six months old lambs, 5 three and four ...

Inovirus XacF1 (7325 nucleotides) is integrated into the genome of Xanthomonas citri pv. citri (Xcc) strains at the host dif site (attB) by the host XerC/D recombination system. The XacF1 attP sequence is located within the coding region of ORF12, a possible phage regulator. After integration, this open reading frame (ORF) is split into two pieces on the host genome. We examined dynamic integra...