pyramiding genes related to grain quality and resistance through marker assisted selection (mas) is an important approach in rice breeding programs. marker-assisted selection can be used for monitoring the presence or absence of these genes in breeding populations and can be combined with conventional breeding approaches. this study is a part of cultivar development program in iran through inte...

the russian wheat aphid (rwa), diuraphis noxia (mordvilko), is a significant insect pest of wheat worldwide. the objective of this study was to assess the genetic variation within and between f2-derived families for reaction to rwa using f3 and f4 families originating from individual f2 plants of a cross between the susceptible line (synthetic hexaploid-11) and the resistance cultivar (‘halt’)....

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First, a quick review of the background: while working in a malaria-control campaign in the northern section of the state of Minas Gerais, we came across a large bug locally called “barbeiro,” which, like the bedbug, infests homes and attacks man at night, when the lights are out. Since this was a blood-sucking insect and such insects are of importance in human and animal pathology as vectors o...

BACKGROUND Chitin and cuticle coatings are important to the environmental and immune defense of honey bees and insect pollinators. Pesticides or environmental effects may target the biochemistry of insect chitin and cuticle coating. Denaturing of chitin involves a combination of deacetylation, intercalation, oxidation, Schweiger-peeling, and the formation of amine hydrochloride salt. The term "...

Members of the entomophagous fungi are considered very crucial in the fungal domain relative to their natural phenomenon and economic perspectives; however, inadequate knowledge of their mechanisms of interaction keeps them lagging behind in parallel studies of fungi associated with agro-ecology, forest pathology and medical biology. Ophiocordyceps sinensis (syn. Cordyceps sinensis), an intrica...

E. O. Wilson proposed in Sociobiology that similarities between human and animal societies reflect common mechanistic and evolutionary roots. When introduced in 1975, this controversial hypothesis was beyond science's ability to test. We used genomic analyses to determine whether superficial behavioral similarities in humans and the highly social honey bee reflect common molecular mechanisms. H...