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The mechanisms of reproductive isolation that cause phenotypic diversification and eventually speciation are a major topic of evolutionary research. Hybrid necrosis is a post-zygotic isolation mechanism in whi...
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Tef [Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter]
Tef [Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter] is the major food crop of Ethiopia in terms of production, consumption, and cash crop value and is also grown outside the Horn of Africa as a forage crop. In Ethiopia, tef pro...
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Indigenous crops also known as orphan crops are key contributors to food security, which is becoming increasingly vulnerable with the current trend of population growth and climate change. They have the major ...
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MicroRNAs are a class of post-transcriptional regulators of plant developmental and physiological processes and responses to environmental stresses. Here, we present the study regarding the annotation and char...
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Tef (Eragrostis tef), an indigenous cereal critical to food security in the Horn of Africa, is rich in minerals and protein, resistant to many biotic and abiotic stresses and safe for diabetics as well as suffere...
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OMA, A Comprehensive, Automated Project for the Identification of Orthologs from Complete Genome Data: Introduction and First Achievements
The OMA project is a large-scale effort to identify groups of orthologs from complete genome data, currently 150 species. The algorithm relies solely on protein sequence information and does not require any hu...
