How can I keep fresh plant material for enzyme and phytohormone assays and gene extraction?

Greetings, I have to transport fresh vegetable matter for enzymes and phytohormones assay and gene extraction in a laboratory far from my laboratory, so how to keep this vegetable matter in its...

09 October 2019 10,044 5 View

What's the best method to inoculate seeds by PGPR?

I m doing a studies about the effects of PGPR on seeds and plants developing, by inoculation, so what's the best way to inoculates seeds by bacteria! Thank you

11 December 2018 3,525 0 View

What are the extraction and dosing techniques for bacterial osmoprotectants?

Greetings, I'm searching for methods to extract and dosing some of bacterial osmoprotectant such as ectoin and betaine glycine and proline from bacteria Thank you

11 December 2018 7,824 0 View

How find the same Osmotic pressure of two solutions of NaCl and PEG 6000 ?

I need to find the same osmotic effect (pressure) on a plant or seed exerted by two solutions one contained Nacl and other PEG 6000 ! how can i find the equivalence between NaCl and PEG 6000...

02 March 2018 7,345 7 View

How can i disinfect seeds without being imbibed or stressed by disinfection solution?

How can i disinfect seeds use to germination study under stress conditions (water stress or salinity) without being imbibed or stressed by disinfection solution? Thank you

02 March 2018 3,027 2 View

Does the disinfection of the soil make him lose these characteristics?

I need to work with disinfected soil, does putting this soil in an autoclave make it lose these characteristics? Is there any other techniques to obtain disinfected soil, without any microorganism?

31 December 2017 4,893 15 View

What's the best software to compare?

31 December 2015 5,650 0 View

Why don't we use colchicine to kill directly tumors instead of starving these cells?

11 December 2014 8,687 11 View

Can we regenerate human organs?

Plants and some animals are characterized by the system of regeneration and repair of damage in their bodies. Is it possible to use this feature for regeneration of human organs and regenerated...

04 May 2014 4,324 10 View

What is the best culture medium used in the in vitro culture of zygotic embryos of plants?

I already used the MS medium culture, and I had an induction of callus, and I want to try another culture medium if possible.

03 April 2014 7,537 7 View

What is this fern?

Please help me to identify this fern species. Thank you in advance.

24 February 2021 2,435 5 View

How to use Remote sensing and GIS applications for mapping the available medicinal plants within the locality/municipality?

Hello, I'm very interested in mapping and managing the conservation of the Philippine traditional medicinal plants, in which I think is very helpful in the field of medicine for further analysis...

21 February 2021 374 5 View

Can medicinal plants really play an inherent rule in the COVID-19 tackle?

Numerous scientific reports cited plant extracts with potential antiviral activity and even anti-COVID-19? Why these findings are neglected? I remember very well the warning released by the WHO to...

17 February 2021 2,141 9 View

Is there any solar electric power plant having the concentrated photovoltaic modules?

The solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant uses commercial (non-concentrated) PV modules which are quite simple in design and reliable. They can work on fixed orientation and don't need the moving...

16 February 2021 3,796 9 View

Apart from MOFA what other software is available for analysis of a multi-omic study?

Study bringing together genomics, proteomics etc together

02 February 2021 2,856 2 View

How do I measure Arabidopsis germination rate?

Hi there, I'm looking for a way to measure the Arabidopsis germination rate, like what media I should use to plant the seeds and what indicator I should see for germination. I'm planning to...

02 February 2021 4,785 3 View

Is it possible estimating environmental conditions with a Bayesian approach?

In ecology specific species can be used to get an indication/estimation of the environmental conditions. A simplistic example, lets assume I find a pike (Esox lucius). We know this species does...

01 February 2021 10,034 4 View

Is there any alternative to BUSCO for searching orthologues within genomes available?

I have a need to search for single-copy conservative orthologs within several plant genomes and used BUSCO tool for that. However, I found that the results produced by different versions on the...

29 January 2021 7,764 6 View

How to convert ng/ul of DNA concentration to pmol/ul ?

Dear researcher, After amplifying my target gene (1900bp) into the required cDNA by PCR,>cut specific gel bands and purify the gel and the concentration was 30ng/ul. Next, performed A-Tailing...

21 January 2021 2,671 3 View

What are the different subclasses in intermediate seeds?

I am currently working on an endemic tree species, that produces mature seeds (moisture content 51%) which shows both vivipary (30% of total harvested seeds from a tree) and dormancy (~40%) of...

20 January 2021 2,670 3 View