Tag: Grain

Bioconductor – GmicR

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.GmicR     This package is for version 3.13 of Bioconductor; for the stable, up-to-date release version, see GmicR. Combines WGCNA and xCell readouts with bayesian network learrning to generate a Gene-Module Immune-Cell network (GMIC) Bioconductor version: 3.13 This package uses bayesian network learning to detect relationships between Gene…

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Diet induced the change of mtDNA copy number and metabolism in Angus cattle

Abstract Grass-fed and grain-fed Angus cattle differ in the diet regimes. However, the intricate mechanisms of different beef quality and other phenotypes induced by diet differences are still unclear. Diet affects mitochondrial function and dynamic behavior in response to changes in energy demand and supply. In this study, we examined…

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A graph-based genome and pan-genome variation of the model plant Setaria

Variation and evolution in Setaria We collected genome-wide resequencing data for 630 wild (S. viridis), 829 landrace and 385 modern cultivated accessions from the Setaria genus with an average sequencing depth of ~15×, of which 1,004 were newly generated and 840 were from previous studies16,21 (Supplementary Table 1). After aligning…

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Using Genomics To Unlock The Full Potential Of Industrial Hemp

Plant biologist Alex Harkess, PhD, and his lab at HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology are on a mission to change the future of food and fiber crops, one flowering plant species at a time. Much of plant breeding and global food production relies on the pollination of flowers to produce fruits…

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Refining the evolutionary tree of the horse Y chromosome

Reporting MSY haplogroups in horse populations around the globe A previously-released fine-scale MSY HT topology23,24 provided the basis for the selection of 16 MSY diagnostic markers for major haplogroups (mjHGs) in modern horse breeds. Genotyping these markers helped to differentiate Przewalski’s horses’, as well as six non-Crown and three Crown…

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Mozambique Key Message Update: Maize prices are declining slowly despite the start of the 2023 main harvest, May 2023 – Mozambique

Attachments Key Messages Most poor and very poor households in Mozambique face Minimal (IPC Phase 1) outcomes as the ongoing harvest improves food access and availability. However, in the southern and central areas most affected by droughts, storms, and floods, very poor households are likely Stressed (IPC Phase 2) following…

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python – Pytorch T5 training loss not changing

I am trying to fine tune a T5 model for more accurate summarization, but my loss is very high and does not change with each epoch. I have tried increasing the learning rate, but the model still does not train. It seems like there is some issue with the code…

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Reveal the microbial communities and functional prediction during the fermentation of Fen-flavor Baijiu via metagenome combining amplicon sequencing | Annals of Microbiology

Amplicon sequencing Microbial community diversity Figure 1 shows the relative abundance of microorganisms at the phylum and genus level for bacteria and fungi based on amplicon sequencing. Firmicutes was the dominant phylum in all samples at the phylum level of bacteria (Fig. 1A). In Daqu, the dominant phyla were mainly Firmicutes (69%),…

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Southern Africa Key Message Update: Green harvests are improving food access, but Crisis (IPC Phase 3) outcomes remain in southern Africa, April 2023 – Madagascar

Attachments Key Messages Across much of the region, the start of the green harvest is beginning to reduce food consumption gaps as the lean season ends. In Madagascar, households in the Grand South are facing Crisis! (IPC Phase 3!) outcomes as they remain reliant on humanitarian assistance to mitigate worse…

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Uncovering new mechanisms for wheat rust resistance

From left: Professor Brande Wulff, Guotai Yu, Yajun Wang and Professor Simon Krattinger collaborated to reveal new insights into wheat rust resistance. Credit: © 2023 KAUST; Anastasia Serin. Researchers have cloned the wheat rust resistance genes Lr9 and Sr43 and identified that they encode unusual kinase fusion proteins. The research,…

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Getting index for clusters in system – User discussions

GROMACS version: 2021.2GROMACS modification: No After the simulation, I have gro file in which 7 clusters (micelles) are formed by surfactant molecules. I want to get the index of all the 7 clusters for post processing. I found that gmx clustsize -cut 0.7 option gives me correct number of clusters…

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Fabrica X opens ‘Biomaterials Reimagined’ exhibition

Fabrica X, the gallery and concept store for sustainable brands within the innovation hub, The Mills Fabrica, has opened a new exhibition spotlighting biomaterials and craftsmanship as part of London Craft Week 2023. The ‘Biomaterials Reimagined’ exhibition runs until August 31 and pays homage to traditional techniques while celebrating a…

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State of Success: National Washington Day

Historical Background  The WSU College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences (CAHNRS) traces its origins to our Land-grant University’s founding. Only five months after attaining statehood, the Washington State Legislature established the Washington State Agricultural College, Experiment Station and School of Sciences on March 28, 1890. Instruction began in…

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Error building package: graph from Bioconductor – shinyapps.io

Dear all,I come to a point where I need help. I am trying to deploy a shiny app and obtain the error below: Preparing to deploy document…DONEUploading bundle for document: 8572645…DONEDeploying bundle: 7200847 for document: 8572645 …Waiting for task: 1299182367building: Building image: 8559204building: Installing system dependenciesbuilding: Fetching packageserror: Building package:…

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Extraction of nutritious sugar by cell membrane permeabilization and electroporation of biomass using a moderate electric field: parametric optimization and kinetic modeling

Slavin JL, Lloyd B (2012) Health benefits of fruits and vegetables. Adv Nutr 3:506–516. doi.org/10.3945/an.112.002154 Article  Google Scholar  Sirisena S, Ng K, Ajlouni S (2015) The emerging Australian date palm industry: date fruit nutritional and bioactive compounds and valuable processing by-products. Compr Rev Food Sci Food Saf 14:813–823. doi.org/10.1111/1541-4337.12162 Article …

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Report: Gene-edited crop seed adoption to surge

UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS — Adoption of gene-edited crop seeds is expected to increase significantly in the next 5 to 10 years, according to a Rabobank report, with adoption rates expected to surpass 50% during that period. “GE technology has the potential to solve issues across the food supply chain for all…

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Acute Hunger Rose in 2022

ROME – The number of people experiencing acute hunger and requiring urgent food, nutrition and livelihood assistance increased for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, with over a quarter of a billion facing severe hunger and people in seven countries on the brink of starvation, according to the latest Global…

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Multimodal Analytical Platform on a Multiplexed Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging Chip for the Analysis of Extracellular Vesicle Subsets

This paper proposes a new generation of multiparametric analytical platforms with increased throughput for the characterization of extracellular vesicle subsets. The method is based on a combination of multiplexed biosensing methods with metrological and morphomechanical analyses by atomic force microscopy, coupled with Raman spectroscopy, to qualify vesicular targets trapped on…

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Linkage between RFLP markers and genes affecting kernel hardness in wheat

American Association of Cereal Chemists (1989) Approved methods of the AACC: wheat hardness as determined by near-infrared reflectance. Method 39-70A, first approval August 1986, revised April 1987 and January 1989. The Association, St. Paul, Minnesota Google Scholar  Barlow KK, Buttrose MS, Simmonds DH, Vesk M (1973) The nature of the…

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Ground-breaking research set to establish better ryegrass management for Aussie grain farms

03 May 2023, AU: Researchers have made a scientific breakthrough which could significantly advance understanding herbicide resistance in ryegrass, with the new information set to help combat the weed for Australian grain growers. Scientists from the University of Melbourne and CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, have completed the sequencing of the ryegrass…

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Gold Medal flour officially linked to Salmonella outbreak stretching from coast to coast

The Food and Drug Administration has officially linked a Salmonella Infantis outbreak to Gold Medal flour produced by General Mills. The company recalled certain flour products on April 28 because of Salmonella Infantis contamination, but did not mention the outbreak in its recall notice. The company did not report how…

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Southern Africa – Integrated Food Security Analysis, April 2023 – Mozambique

Across much of the region, the start of the green harvest is beginning to reduce food consumption gaps as the lean season ends. In Madagascar, households in the Grand South are facing Crisis! (IPC Phase 3!) outcomes as they remain reliant on humanitarian assistance to mitigate worse outcomes, while Crisis…

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Unlocking global supply chains

A technician at Applied DNA Sciences testing samples to trace the raw materials. JOHNNY MILANO /The New York Times At a cotton gin in the San Joaquin Valley, in California, a boxy machine helps to spray a fine mist containing billions of molecules of DNA onto freshly cleaned Pima cotton….

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Cuticle supplementation and nitrogen recycling by a dual bacterial symbiosis in a family of xylophagous beetles

Feldhaar H. Bacterial symbionts as mediators of ecologically important traits of insect hosts. Ecol Entomol. 2011;36:533–43. Article  Google Scholar  Douglas AE. Symbiosis as a general principle in eukaryotic evolution. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2014;6:a016113–a016113. Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar  Flórez LV, Biedermann PHW, Engl T, Kaltenpoth M. Defensive…

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DNA analysis finds undeclared grains, animals in dog food

Analysis of genetic material found in six dog food brands revealed the presence of undeclared species of animals and plants in all the diets tested. In most cases, the undeclared species contradicted the dog foods’ marketing and labeling, including grain-free claims. “Chicken species and wheat species were judged as present…

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Application of CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing for abiotic stress management in crop plants

1 Introduction Abiotic stresses such as drought, heat, cold, salt, pesticides, metals and metalloids deteriorate agro-ecological conditions and hence, negatively impact upon agricultural production. The abiotic stress impairs with regular growth and development of plant plants, thus limiting their yield and quality of produce (Boyer, 1982; Pandey et al., 2017). Plants…

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Marquette biological sciences professor receives USDA funding to increase cold tolerance in rice for an earlier planting season

April 18, 2023 MILWAUKEE — Dr. Michael Schläppi, professor of biological sciences in Marquette University’s Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, has received a $650,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study cold tolerance in rice with a goal of expanding the rice planting season to earlier in…

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Twisting a Graphene Nanoribbon – LAMMPS Beginners

wenu April 12, 2023, 12:45pm 1 Hi,I am working on twisting of single layer Graphene Nano Ribbon(GNR), while one end of the ribbon is fixed and other end is subjected to twist load.My targeted simulation is almost like this.( Anomalous twisting strength of tilt grain boundaries in armchair graphene nanoribbons…

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Early Grain Development in Bread Wheat Begins

Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a pivotal staple food crop, providing about 20% of calories consumed by humans. Grain weight is one of the three factors of wheat yield, and also the key index of wheat breeding for high yield. During grain development, the nucellus projection of wheat participates…

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Characterization of rumen microbiome and metabolome from oro-esophageal tubing and rumen cannula in Holstein dairy cows

All experimental procedures were conducted at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and followed protocols approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under protocol number 17172. All ARRIVE, and IACUC guidelines and regulations were followed during the entire duration of…

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2023-04-07 | NDAQ:APDN | Press Release

Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: APDN) (the “Company”), a leader in PCR-based DNA technologies, announced that its CertainT® supply chain traceability platform is featured in an article on the home page of the New York Times website today. The article, titled “How A.I. and DNA Are Unlocking the Mysteries of…

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How AI and DNA are unlocking the mysteries of global supply chains

At a cotton gin in the San Joaquin Valley, in California, a boxy machine helps to spray a fine mist containing billions of molecules of DNA onto freshly cleaned Pima cotton. That DNA will act as a kind of minuscule bar code, nestling amid the puffy fibres as they are…

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Agriculture and climate change: Taking the best of all farming systems could tip the carbon scale in the right direction

Agriculture contributes a significant portion of the world’s climate-changing greenhouse gases. In turn, changes in climate will reduce agricultural yields and make farming harder, just as increasing worldwide populations put pressure on the industry to produce more food. There are basically two ways to reduce agriculture’s impact on climate: decrease…

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Gene editing may accelerate sustainable ingredient development

KANSAS CITY — Gene-editing technology may change the food and agricultural industries by increasing yield, reducing the use of chemicals and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, including in commodity crops like wheat, soybeans and canola, said Rory Riggs, chief executive officer of Cibus Global Ltd. It could lead to the creation…

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Mycorrhizas drive the evolution of plant adaptation to drought

Rubinstein, C. V., Gerrienne, P., de la Puente, G. S., Astini, R. A. & Steemans, P. Early Middle Ordovician evidence for land plants in Argentina (eastern Gondwana). N. Phytol. 188, 365–369 (2010). Article  CAS  Google Scholar  Oliver, M. J. et al. Desiccation tolerance: avoiding cellular damage during drying and rehydration….

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python – Parallelize or qsub a bash script

Background Just for everyone else SGE = Sun Grid Engine and is the qsub system mentioned in the title of the question. qsub: If by parallelising you mean multithreading a single job across loads of cores then the first thing is how many cores per node are there? Usually it…

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Annovis And Buntanetap: Asymmetric Risk/Reward Ahead Of Parkinson’s Data Readout (ANVS)

Ralwel Update as of 12:00PM ET, 3/30/23: Annovis Phase 3 interim data presentation rescheduled to Saturday (1/1/23) due to scheduling issues at the AD/PD 2023 conference, according to sources. Not yet confirmed. Intro With an interim readout of Phase 3 Parkinson’s disease (PD) data due today (3/30/23) and shares finishing…

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Downtown Library to host “Unboxing the Black Box” exhibit reception | Current Students

The WVU Art in the Libraries committee will host a reception for “Unboxing the Black Box: The Evolution of Microbial Ecology,” an exhibit by Chansotheary Dang, Monday, April 3, from 4-6 p.m. in the Downtown Library Graduate Commons.  The exhibit, which won Dang the 2022 WVU Art in the Libraries’ Graduate Student Exhibit Award,…

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Spatial multiomics map of trophoblast development in early pregnancy

Human samples Placental and decidual samples used for the in vivo and in vitro profiling were obtained from elective terminations from: The MRC and Wellcome-funded Human Developmental Biology Resource (HDBR, www.hdbr.org), with appropriate maternal written consent and approval from the Fulham Research Ethics Committee (REC reference 18/LO/0822) and Newcastle and…

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DataSheet1_Integrating and optimizing genomic, weather, and secondary trait data for multiclass classification.pdf

Modern plant breeding programs collect several data types such as weather, images, and secondary or associated traits besides the main trait (e.g., grain yield). Genomic data is high-dimensional and often over-crowds smaller data types when naively combined to explain the response variable. There is a need to develop methods able…

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Preadapted to adapt: underpinnings of adaptive plasticity revealed by the downy brome genome

Bradley, B. A. et al. Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) distribution in the intermountain western United States and its relationship to fire frequency, seasonality, and ignitions. Biol. Invasions 20, 1493–1506 (2018). Article  Google Scholar  Balch, J. K., Bradley, B. A., D’Antonio, C. M. & Gomez-Dans, J. Introduced annual grass increases regional fire…

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Integrating and optimizing genomic, weather, and secondary trait data for multiclass classification

1 Introduction Modern plant breeding programs are collecting an increasing amount of data of various types from several sources such as multiple secondary phenotypic traits (other than the main trait of interest), high-throughput phenotyping data, weather data, hyper-spectral images, and different types of -omics data such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics,…

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Two florigens and a florigen-like protein form a triple regulatory module at the shoot apical meristem to promote reproductive transitions in rice

Andrés, F. & Coupland, G. The genetic basis of flowering responses to seasonal cues. Nat. Rev. Genet. 13, 627–639 (2012). Article  PubMed  Google Scholar  Komiya, R., Ikegami, A., Tamaki, S., Yokoi, S. & Shimamoto, K. Hd3a and RFT1 are essential for flowering in rice. Development 135, 767–774 (2008). Article  CAS …

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Microorganisms | Free Full-Text | 16S-rRNA-Based Metagenomic Profiling of the Bacterial Communities in Traditional Bulgarian Sourdoughs

3.1. Physicochemical and Microbiological Characterization of Bulgarian Sourdoughs In the present study, we explored five samples of traditional sourdough collected from three geographical locations: sample D5 from Smolyan town (Rhodope mountains, South Bulgaria), samples D8 and D9 from Bansko town (at the foot of Pirin mountain, Southwest Bulgaria), and samples…

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[PATCH 1/2] edac: cpc925: Drop unused memory size DT parsing

[PATCH 1/2] edac: cpc925: Drop unused memory size DT parsing – Rob Herring From: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>, James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>, Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org> Cc: linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 1/2] edac: cpc925: Drop unused memory size DT parsing Date: Sun,…

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CRISPR: A Potential Savior for Threatened Rice Crops

CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is a revolutionary gene editing technique that allows scientists to make remarkable adjustments to the DNA of an organism with remarkable ease and precision. CRISPR enables the targeting and modification of specific genes, opening new possibilities for research and applications in areas such…

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A Potential “Savior” for Climate Change Threatened Rice Crops

CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is a revolutionary gene editing tool that allows scientists to make precise changes to the DNA of an organism with remarkable ease and accuracy. By using an enzyme called Cas9 guided by a small RNA molecule, CRISPR enables the targeting and modification of…

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5 questions to help you assess the ethics of future innovations

It seems like every day we’re bombarded with new inventions and innovations poised to transform the world. Quantum computers promise to exploit multidimensional spaces to solve previously impossible problems. 3-D printers promise to remodel the way we manufacture food, clothes, and spare parts. Synthetic biology promises to refashion entire organisms….

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Genome-wide identification, characterization and expression analysis of AGO, DCL, and RDR families in Chenopodium quinoa

Lisitskaya, L., Aravin, A. A. & Kulbachinskiy, A. DNA interference and beyond: Structure and functions of prokaryotic Argonaute proteins. Nat. Commun. 9, 5165 (2018). Article  ADS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar  Mello, C. C. & Conte, D. Jr. Revealing the world of RNA interference. Nature 431, 338–342 (2004). Article  ADS …

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Mapping DPD beads to atomistic – LAMMPS General Discussion

I have a CHARMM36 parameterized polymer which I would like to further study using DPD. I am new to LAMMPS and could not find any tutorial on how to map a DPD bead to a group of atoms and parameterize the beads in LAMMPS. Can anyone please point me to…

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Rumen metagenomics: An approach to understand digestion in ruminants

रुमेन मेटाजेनोमिक्स: जुगाली करने वालों में पाचन को समझने का एक तरीका The rumen is the first compartment of the stomach in ruminant animals, such as cows, sheep, and deer. It is responsible for storing, fermenting, and breaking down tough plant fibers through the action of microorganisms. …

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Gene editing technique highlighted as possible ‘savior’ for climate change threatened rice crops

A scientist inspects rice in China. Credit: CABI A review of gene editing techniques suggests that the CRISPR/Cas (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/Cas) method could be a possible “savior” for rice crops threatened by climate change and high food demand. The study, published in CABI Reviews, highlights that while…

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Researchers discover “saviour” for threatened rice crops

A gene editing technique has been discovered that researchers say could be a “saviour” for rice crops threatened by climate change. Researchers have carried out a review of gene editing techniques and have found that the CRISPR/Cas (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/Cas) method could act as a ‘saviour’ for…

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Druce Farm Roman villa: celebrating a community dig in the heart of Dorset

Druce Farm Roman villa lies 6.5km to the north-east of Dorchester in the parish of Puddletown, Dorset. The site could be described as a classic villa location, enjoying maximum sunshine on south-facing chalk downland that slopes to the River Piddle. There is a chalk spring close by, providing water of…

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Safe Bulkers to acquire a Japanese Kamsarmax dry-bulk vessel

The newbuild vessel is designed to meet the Phase 3 requirements of EEDI Safe Bulkers, Inc., an international provider of marine drybulk transportation services, says it has entered into an agreement for the acquisition of a Japanese, 81,800 dwt, dry-bulk, Kamsarmax class vessel at an attractive price with a scheduled…

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Metagenomic and machine learning-aided identification of biomarkers driving distinctive Cd accumulation features in the root-associated microbiome of two rice cultivars

Zhang J, Liu Y, Zhang N, Hu B, Jin T, Xu H, et al. NRT1.1B is associated with root microbiota composition and nitrogen use in field-grown rice. Nat Biotechnol. 2019;37:676–84. Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar  Philippot L, Raaijmakers JM, Lemanceau P, van der Putten WH. Going back to the roots:…

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Asia-Pacific Plant Breeding and CRISPR Plant Market Size worth

Data Bridge Market Research analyzes that the Asia-Pacific plant breeding and CRISPR plant market is expected to reach the value of USD 6.194.66 million by 2029, at a CAGR of 18.1% during the forecast period. Type accounts for the largest type segment in the market due to rapid demand of…

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First gene-edited wheat field trial successful, say scientists

Scientists have hailed the success of Europe’s first field trial of wheat which has been gene edited to remove a cancer-causing chemical. Rothamsted Research used Crispr/Cas9 gene-editing technology to create Cadenza wheat plants with a lower level of the naturally occurring amino acid asparagine in their grains. Once ground into…

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Giant Viruses Grew Out of Small Ones: Study

Most viruses are small and carry minimalist genomes. Even one of the largest small viruses, Vaccinia, measures merely one-fiftieth the size of a pollen grain and contains only 270 genes. Giant viruses flout these rules. With sizes that rival small bacteria and genomes that contain thousands of genes, their complexity…

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Afghanistan Key Message Update: Crisis! (IPC Phase 3!) outcomes persist amid drought, high food prices, and low labor demand, January 2023 – Afghanistan

As the peak of the lean season approaches, household purchasing power remains low due to both high staple food prices and low levels of income. While income-earning opportunities in both urban and rural areas are typically low at this time of year, poor economic conditions have driven a decline in…

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Novel Food Information: Herbicide Tolerant and Pest Resistant Maize line 4114

On this page Background Health Canada has notified Pioneer Hi-Bred Production LP that it has no objection to the food use of herbicide tolerant and pest resistant maize line 4114. The Department conducted a comprehensive assessment of this variety according to its Guidelines for the Safety Assessment of Novel Foods….

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Neolithic dental calculi provide evidence for environmental proxies and consumption of wild edible fruits and herbs in central Apennines

Asevedo, L. et al. Palynological analysis of dental calculus from Pleistocene proboscideans of southern Brazil: a new approach for paleodiet and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 540, 109523 (2020). Google Scholar  Cristiani, E. et al. Wild cereal grain consumption among Early Holocene foragers of the Balkans predates the arrival of…

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Twist Bioscience Gets Stung by Short Report

Someone once said it’s easier to fool people than convince them they’ve been fooled. For those who invest with conviction, nothing damages one’s pride more than accusations of being conned. Investors must be wary of letting such emotions get in the way of objectivity. Anyone who dismisses an entire short…

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South Sudan Key Message Update: Conflict and flooding continue to drive Crisis (IPC Phase 3) or worse outcomes, September 2022 – South Sudan

Attachments Key Messages: Crisis (IPC Phase 3) outcomes, with an increasing number of areas in Emergency (IPC Phase 4), are widespread across South Sudan due to the impacts of conflict, flooding, and macroeconomic challenges. In September, the availability and consumption of the first-season harvest in bimodal areas of southern South…

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GWAS, MWAS and mGWAS provide insights into precision agriculture based on genotype-dependent microbial effects in foxtail millet

GWAS identifies genetic variations associated with agronomic traits in foxtail millet A total of 827 foxtail millet cultivars collected from China were sequenced and genotyped using common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) based on a ~423 Mb Setaria italica cv. Zhanggu reference genome (v.2.3)27. In total, 161,562 SNPs were detected after stringent steps…

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Maize Shrek1 encodes a WD40 protein that regulates pre-rRNA processing in ribosome biogenesis

doi: 10.1093/plcell/koac216. Online ahead of print. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 The Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environmental Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China. 2 National Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, Collaborative Innovation Center of Henan Grain Crops, Henan…

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ASCT is no longer suitable for the majority of patients with DLBCL

Most patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) do not experience significant benefit from treatment with autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) and better treatment options are currently available for this population, according to a presentation at the Pan Pacific Lymphoma Conference 2022.1 “ASCT is lousy therapy in the modern age,”…

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Gann, Dharwadker Finalists in SIVB Research Competition; Gann Takes Second Place

Photo Submitted (Right) Peter James Gann, doctoral student, cell and molecular biology; (Left) Dominic Dharwadker, undergraduate student, honors biochemistry. Peter James Gann and Dominic Dharwadker presented their research papers during the Society for In Vitro Biology (SIVB) meeting in San Diego, California, on June 4-7, 2022, and…

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A Generalized Method for Determining Free Soluble Phenolic Acid Composition and Antioxidant Capacity of Cereals and Legumes

Phenolic acids are important phytochemicals that are present in whole grains. They possess bioactive properties such as antioxidant protective functions. This work aimed at reporting on a generalized method for the HPLC identification, total phenolic content estimation, and determination of the antioxidant capacity of phenolic acids in cereals and legumes….

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Advanced Self-Healing Asphalt Reinforced by Graphene Structures: An Atomistic Insight

Graphene-modified asphalt nanocomposite has shown an advanced self-healing ability compared to pure asphalt. In this protocol, molecular dynamics simulations have been applied in order to understand the role of graphene in the self-healing process and to explore the self-healing mechanism of asphalt components from the atomistic level. This method can…

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A new functional ecological model reveals the nature of early plant management in southwest Asia

Willcox, G., Fornite, S. & Herveux, L. Early Holocene cultivation before domestication in northern Syria. Veg. Hist. Archaeobot. 17, 313–325 (2008). Article  Google Scholar  Fuller, D. Q., Willcox, G. & Allaby, R. G. Cultivation and domestication had multiple origins: arguments against the core area hypothesis for the origins of agriculture…

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Plant Breeding and CRISPR Plants Market Trends 2022, Global Industry Share, Size, Global Industry Analysis, Key Market Growth Analysis, Segments, Emerging Technologies, Opportunity and Forecast 2027

The “Plant Breeding and CRISPR Plants Market” research report 2021-2027 offering the complete outline of market size, share and growth opportunities, industry segmentation by product type, applications and geographical representation. The report highlights product development along with technological upgrades that can boost the market growth. The Plant Breeding and CRISPR…

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Researchers boost rice yield by overcoming tr

image: The mechanism of boosting rice yield by overcoming a trait trade-off beteen tiller number and panicle size view more  Credit: IGDB Crop breeding is largely constrained by tradeoffs among different agronomic traits. Since many of these tradeoffs are caused by gene pleiotropy, reducing gene pleiotropy may make it easier to…

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Gann and Dharwadker are Recipients of Awards by the Society for In Vitro Biology

Photo Submitted (Right) Dominic Dharwadker, undergraduate student, Honors Biochemistry; (Left) Peter James Gann, doctoral student, Cell and Molecular Biology. A doctoral Fulbright scholar from the Cell and Molecular Biology (CEMB) Program and an undergraduate student in Honors Biochemistry from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry are winners…

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dataframe – uwot is throwing an error running the Monocle3 R package’s “find_gene_module()” function, likely as an issue with how my data is formatted

I am trying to run the Monocle3 function find_gene_modules() on a cell_data_set (cds) but am getting a variety of errors in this. I have not had any other issues before this. I am working with an imported Seurat object. My first error came back stating that the number of rows…

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South-to-north migration preceded the advent of intensive farming in the Maya region

Moreno-Mayar, J. V. et al. Early human dispersals within the Americas. Science 362, eaav2621 (2018). ADS  PubMed  Google Scholar  Posth, C. et al. Reconstructing the deep population history of Central and South America. Cell 175, 1185–1197.e22 (2018). CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar  Raghavan, M. et al. Genomic evidence for…

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AlphaFold, GPT-3 and How to Augment Intelligence with AI

This is the first post in a two-part series. Read Part 2 here. Around the same time that Alan Turing was shaping his theories of machine intelligence in Manchester, another future giant of the computing world, Douglas Engelbart, was developing an alternative computing paradigm over 5,000 miles away in…

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Localization of small nuclear RNA by EM autoradiography in Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells

doi.org/10.1016/0014-4827(83)90345-2Get rights and content Abstract The ultrastructural localization of small nuclear RNA (snRNA) was studied by EM autoradiography in Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells. Conditions were set where most (>85 %) of the nuclear [3H]uridine label consisted of snRNA, the most abundant species being U1, U2 and the nucleolar species…

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r – RStudio session aborts when I run gRbase::stepwise function (undirected graphs)

I’m doing an R project on RStudio (RStudio 2021.09.1+372 “Ghost Orchid” Release for Windows), (R version 4.1.2). I’m working on Windows 10 x64. I want to create an Undirected Graph from a dataset: library(gRbase) library(gRim) library(gRain) data(BodyFat) BodyFat <- BodyFat[-c(31,42,48,76,86,96,159,169,175,182,206),] BodyFat$Age <- sqrt(BodyFat$Age) BodyFat$Weight <- sqrt(BodyFat$Weight) names(BodyFat)[names(BodyFat) == ‘BodyFat’] <-…

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Top 10 High Paying Jobs in Agriculture For 2022 With Salary Upto Rs 4,62,383

Agronomy Sales Manager Teaching Farmer About Their Land Agriculture is a versatile field that offers many job opportunities for youngsters. The best thing is that these agriculture jobs not only provide a good salary but many…

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Snp and a disease in the family : promethease

I hope any of this is of use to you: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/snp/rs121434448?horizontal_tab=true#frequency_tab There is only one publication associated with this area and it is linked on that site – but here is the full version: academic.oup.com/hmg/article/7/11/1671/2355991 & CORRECTION: academic.oup.com/hmg/article/7/12/1987/581729 It’s rather unfortunate that there have been no more recent studies into…

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