Yokoi returned to Japan in February 1972 to a hero’s welcome. The former soldier, however, found the transition from lone straggler to celebrated hero a difficult one. He arrived in Tokyo where, surrounded by media, he appeared bewildered and unable to answer questions posed to him. His fir...
Quantitative Realtime PCR (qRT-PCR) analysis was performed using the 2−ΔΔCt method (Livak and Schmittgen, 2001) [69], and the expression level was calculated relative to rice UBQ5 gene according to the previous methods [70]. Genes were identified through homology search with the reported...