Can anyone help identifying the causal agent?

I observed the attached symptoms on Eucalyptus. Do you have any idea what causes these symptoms? When I tried to remove it, in was hard to be removed. It looks like tumors. Thanks in...

01 February 2020 1,430 11 View

How much voltage/current should I set to transfer minigel in Western blot?

11 December 2015 9,742 5 View

How can I find a point on a trend line in Excel chart?

I have some data that I need to find 50% value for. The chart consists of the period (days) as X axis values and percentages as Y axis values. I was trying to find a way to determine the 50% value...

06 July 2015 1,228 9 View

Is there any specific procedure to purify a plasmid from Agrobaterium?

31 December 2014 2,724 9 View

Does the kind of tube used in diluting ELISA solutions affect the test?

Is there any difference between using an eppindorf plastic tube and using a glass tube for diluting the antibodies and the conjugate that are using in ELISA test? I have heard that if I use a...

07 August 2014 3,071 11 View

How can I store aphid samples?

06 July 2014 817 13 View

Do you think that RG should be used as one of the scientific institutions' criteria?

Hi, I have heard that some universities started using RG score as one of the criteria that evaluate the excellence of their faculty members. They are thinking about making the RG score in their...

04 May 2014 8,497 10 View

As a researcher, do you spend more time in your lab or office than you are supposed to?

Some researchers stay at their labs until midnight or maybe later. Some of these people enforce their students to do so, but I see that none of them produce more than other people who leave their...

04 May 2014 8,160 7 View

What are the Pros and Cons of publishing in a high impact factor journal?

Can anybody suggest a scientific journal (or journals) in Biology or Agriculture accepting review articles without invitation (article submitted directly and reviewed)? I am looking for a free of...

04 May 2014 6,837 20 View

How can I separate agarose gel electrophoresis close band sizes?

I have a clone cut by an enzyme and the result of that cut is two bands, which are 12000 bp and 8000 bp. On 1% agarose I was not able to isolate DNA from gel because they appear at the same site...

03 April 2014 5,082 24 View

Can we classify HV and LV lines based on line length?

I have dataset which shows the length of power lines. I need to classify the lines based on the line length. Is there a rule to classify the High voltage (HV) and low voltage (LV) lines based on...

03 March 2021 4,116 4 View

Why are the velocities so high in my Boussinesq approximation Fluent simulation?

Hello, I have a mechanism where air rises due to convective flows. In this simulation, nothing is driving the air except this. I understand that the Boussinesq approximation only works for small...

02 March 2021 4,910 3 View

Is there a powerful system for the security of the systems distributed on IoT systems?

Is there a powerful system for the security of the systems distributed on IoT systems?

02 March 2021 3,858 10 View

How Relativistic effects is one reason for lanthanide contraction?

The Lanthanide contraction which is the decrease in ionic radii of the elements in the lanthanide series from atomic number 57, lanthanum, to 71, lutetium, is due to poor shielding of the 4f...

01 March 2021 2,272 4 View

What are the countries most affected by extreme rainfall as a result of climate change?

Increased heat, drought and insect outbreaks, all associated to climate change, have increased wildfires. Decreasing water supplies, declined agricultural yields, health impacts in cities owing to...

01 March 2021 7,168 9 View

What test should I use to compare two or three means, if data is not normally distributed but sample size is > 30 in each group?

I personally feel this as a most confusing question. As per my understanding, if sample size is > 30, and sample is skewed, we can still use paramteric approach, as it will follow Z...

01 March 2021 1,587 6 View

How to accurately quantify chitin?

Hi all, I have been working on the quantification of chitin in insect samples and feed for a while but I can notice that the quantification methods (e.g. exposure to HCl, NaOH, and weighing sample...

01 March 2021 1,843 2 View

Where to find data on trees in tropical agroforestry?

Hi, I'm looking for data (mainly related to management: growth rate, canopy size, soil and climate preferences, etc.) about tropical trees used in tropical agroforestry. Have you ever heard about...

28 February 2021 7,356 8 View

Distribution of particles in metal matrix?

How would define the "good" and "poor" distribution of particles within the matrix. Is there a quantitative solution to assess the distribution of the particles, which then having denotation of...

28 February 2021 7,397 8 View

Genome-wide gene identification protocol ?

Is there any book chapter/book, webpage or research article available to understand genome-wide gene identification?

28 February 2021 8,095 1 View