Changes in lactic acid concentrations in culture media and its implications in the inhibition of fungal development.

Patients with Parkinsons disease are impaired at incremental reward-based learning. It is typically assumed that this impairment reflects a loss of striatal dopamine. However, many…

Self-incompatibility in flowering plants is a common mechanism that prevents self-fertilization and promotes outcrossing. In Brassicaceae, there is high genetic diversity at the locus controlling…

The fruitlets of loquat (Eriobotrya japonica Lindl.) are susceptible to freezing injury due to their developmental cycle encountering winter. Freezing stress severely damages the fruitlets,…

(+)-cis-12-oxo-phytodienoic acid (cis-OPDA) is a biosynthetic precursor of the plant hormone (+)-7-iso-jasmonoyl-L-isoleucine (JA-Ile). It functions as an endogenous chemical signal independent of the JA-Ile receptor…

The PepTSo transporter mediates the transport of peptides across biological membranes. Despite advancements in structural biology, including cryogenic electron microscopy structures resolving PepTSo in different…

Environmental moderators may amplify or suppress the heritability (i.e., the proportion of genetic variation) of a phenotype. This genetic sensitivity to the environment is called…

It has been proposed that capacity to generate variation can evolve by natural selection such that mutation becomes biased toward adaptive outcomes. However the idea…

Palm oil accounts for approximately 50% of global vegetable oil production, and trends in consumption have driven large-scale expansion of oil palm ( Elaeis guineensis…

Introduction: The frequency of vector-borne disease in human and animal populations has increased in recent years leading to concerns that even greater increases will occur…

Islet transplantation can cure type 1 diabetes, but peri-transplant beta cell death limits this procedure to those with low insulin requirements. Improving human beta cell…