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Use of auxotrophic mutants lines for transformation of fungi is a traditional practise but it does not enable future discrimination between the wild type and transgenic line. Could basta gene...
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Is it right to suppose that growing inbred cultivars of rice over years and without tight control on the seed fields allows weedy rice genotypes to evolve -by out-crossing and/or mutation- and be...
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Acids such as nitric or phosphoric are used to lower soil pH. Could citric acid be used for the same purpose? Nitric or phosphoric will change the nutrient balance in the soil by increasing N or P...
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I am thinking of buying an HPLC system. Could I have your suggestions on: 1- Which is better, an integrated or customized system? 2- which specifications of the pump, columns will give broad...
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What is the significance of photosynthetic cyclic electron transfer, which produces only ATP, in presence of non-cyclic electron transfer which produces both ATP and NADPH?
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It has been reported that a guard cell in a C4 plant contains both PEPC and Rubisco. Do single guard cells in C4 plants actually perform full photosynthesis?
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Is the relationship between the leaf relative water content and water potential linear over the range found in a living leaf? Will the leaf water potential continue decreasing as the RWC decreae...
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We are screening Arabidopsis seeds transformed with bar gene as a selectable marker. Can we use glyphosate instead of glufosinate for selection? Can the bar gene mediate the degradation of both...
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These is considerable evidence that C4 photosynthesis does not perform in the aquatic environments as effectively as in semi-dry ones. So, why run for C4 rice if rice is almost an aquatic plant?
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Traditional maize (zea mays) has evolved from teosinte (Zea Mexicana). Maize grains can synthesize and store lipids. Can teosinte grains do so?
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Does any colleague have pTOK233 or pSB134 and want to share?
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C4 photosynthesis exists in grasses, herbs and bushes but not in trees. We know that C4 photosynthesis has evolved several times, over the history of plants on earth, from C3 photosynthesis. But...
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When rice is grown in anaerobic soil, it develops barrier to radial oxygen from root to soil. This barrier is mainly suberin in the outer layers of root. Is it logical that this barrier does not...
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