brassica napus is an important oilseed crop and the yield loss due to fungal disease stem rot caused by sclerotinia sclerotiorum is a serious problem in cultivation of this crop. the pathogenesis-related (pr) protein, glucanase, hydrolyzes a major cell wall component, glucan, of the pathogenic fungi and acts as a plant defense barrier. in this study, a β-1,3-glucanase (bgn13.1) gene was isolate...

Ustiloxins A (1a), B (1b), C (1c), D (1d) and E (1e), antimitotic peptides, have been isolated from the water extract of false smut balls caused on the panicles of rice plant by a fungus Ustilaginoidea virens. The structure of 1b was assigned from its spectral property and its amino acid analysis in relation to 1a whose structure was determined previously by a combination of X-ray crystallograp...

Photosymbiotic ascidian fauna were surveyed in the subtidal zone off Pari Island in the Thousand Islands (Java Sea, Indonesia). Nine species were recorded: Didemnum molle, Trididemnum miniatum, Lissoclinum patella, L. punctatum, L. timorense, Diplosoma gumavirens, D. simile, D. simileguwa, and D. virens. All of these species have been previously recorded in the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. Diplos...

REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SUBFAMILY BRUCHINAE (COLEOPTERA Chrysomelidae) are usually small and inconspicuous, with only a few species drawing the attention. Here we deal with several unusually colored species of Amblycerus Thunberg, 1815, one of the two most diverse bruchine genera in the Western hemisphere. We define the virens group that consists of five species whose bodies are covered with a g...

Allele-specific expression of imprinted genes in mouse migratory primordial germ cells 157 SM22b encodes a lineage-restricted cytoskeletal protein with a unique developmentally regulated pattern of expression 161 Developmental and cell type-specific expression of the zinc finger transcription factor Krüppel-like factor 4 (Klf4) in post-natal mouse testis 167 Expression pattern of IAPP and proho...