In order to understand the evolution of plastid genomes and to establish phylogenetic relationships among ferns, we sequenced the plastid genomes from three early diverging species: Equisetum hyemale (Equisetales), Ophioglossum californicum (Ophioglossales), and Psilotum nudum (Psilotales). A comparis...
Pesticides are toxic chemical compounds, combinations of substances, or biological agents that are deliberately introduced into the environment to manage, prevent, and eliminate populations of various plant-pathogenic organisms. These agents function by luring and then controlling pests. Over time, pests ...
The Schistes Lustrés form a large and complex unit at the top of the Penninic nappe stack of the Alpine belt. Calcschists, partly of Late Cretaceous age, constitute the dominant lithology. They are closely associated both with blueschist facies Piemont-Ligurian ophiolites and continent-derived...
toC. acuminata, camptothecin has been recognized to be produced from various plant genera namelyErvatamia,Merrilliodendron,OphiorrhizaandMostuea[7], inhabiting China and India, comparing to the other geographical niches. However, the tiny yield of this compound from these plants, with the heavy ma...
The RNA-Seq data of the brittle star and the genome assembly data of the green sea urchin form the basis of two newly developed tools, OphiuroidDB [22] and EchinoidDB [23], respectively, integrated within the EchinoDB application. An effective bioinformatics resource must keep up with new ...
Loneliness was assessed at baseline using an eight-item short-form measure of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Loneliness Scale (ULS-8) [41] which was reported to have a high level of validity and reliability [41,42,43]. This questionnaire evaluates feelings of loneliness ...
Camptothecin of Ophiorrhiza pumila and Camptotheca acuminata is a topoisomerase enzyme inhibitor, and has anti-cancer effect [20, 21]. Quinine of Cinchona species is a known anti-malarial drug [22, 23]. TIAs production in plants is generally low and difficult to synthesize chemically, limiting ...
lifestyle also led to the loss of gas exchange and mucous, which occurred approximately 340 million years ago [26]. The pleated-sheet beta-keratin polypeptides involved in creating sauropsid feathers, scales, and claws are distinct from the helical alpha-keratin polypeptides that form hair [25]...
and it is suspected that their pre-Mesozoic substrate may occur in the form of subducted basement slices, such as, for example, the different units of the Dora-Maira Internal Massif that have been attributed to the Briançonnais Domain by some authors (e.g. Vialon1966; Figs.1and11). De...
processes associated pathways regulation. Induction of the stress may stimulate expression or repression of stress-genes network through precise regulation that may result in the production of functional cellular molecules to accommodate the stress effect [61,62,63] which may be in the form of ...