Among benthic foraminifera, the genus Ammonia is characterized by high morphological variability which makes it particularly challenging to recognize using traditional morphology-based taxonomy. Despite joint efforts made both molecular and taxonomists, still hard identify different phylotypes based on their morphology. A new method was developed recently discriminate three NE Atlantic of (T1, ...

Protein content is one of the main factors determining end-use quality wheat. NO APICAL MERISTEM-B1 (NAM-B1) a major gene regulating wheat grain protein content. The present study aimed to identify new genetic resources using wild-type NAM-B1 allele breed high-protein-content cultivars. We genotyped HIGH GRAIN PROTEIN CONTENT-B1 (GPC-B1) locus and in 165 A kompetitive allele-specific polymerase...

Introduction Bacterial wilts caused by Ralstonia solanacearum (Smith 1986) Yabuuchi et al. 1996 (formerly called Pseudomonas solanacearum) have long been a scourge of tropical agriculture because the pathogen is very widely distributed and has an unusually broad host range (7,13). Moreover, because R. solanacearum is a soilborne pathogen and host resistance is limited, bacterial wilt is very di...

In a retrospective study, 119 sedimentation dust samples stored between five and 35 years from various barns of intensive livestock farming were evaluated for the occurrence of cultivatable Escherichia coli. Growth of E. coli occurred in 54 samples. Successful cultivation was achieved in samples from as early as 1994. The frequency of detection increased from earlier to later time periods, but ...

This paper describes a method for merging behavior specifications modeled by transition systems. Given two behavior specifications B1 and B2, Merge(B1, B2) defines a new behavior specification that extends B1 and B2. Moreover, provided that a necessary and sufficient condition holds, Merge(B1, B2) is a cyclic extension of B1 and B2. In other words, Merge(B1, B2) extends B1 and B2, and any cycli...