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Truffle Research in the Post-Genomics Era
The results originated in the frame of the genome sequencing project of the black truffle of Périgord ( Tuber melanosporum ) were published in 2010....
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Adaptation of Pathogenic Microorganisms to Dry Conditions
Pathogenic microorganisms surviving in dry products are responsible for numerous foodborne disease outbreaks, but a complete understanding of...
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Molecular Analysis of Drought Tolerance in Tea by cDNA-AFLP Based Transcript Profiling
A cDNA-AFLP approach was used to identify transcript and/or genes specifically expressed in response to drought in tea. Drought was artificially...
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Bamboo: an overview on its genetic diversity and characterization
Genetic diversity represents the heritable variation both within and among populations of organisms, and in the context of this paper, among bamboo...
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Plants as Bioreactors for Human Health Nutrients
One of the biggest challenges in the coming years is to reduce the impact of chronic diseases. Unhealthy eating is an increasing problem and...
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Genetics and Molecular Biology of Olives
Olive is one of the most important fruit crops in the Mediterranean basin, where it has been cultivated since ancient times for its high-value oil...
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Regulation of Water-Soluble Phenolic Acid Biosynthesis in Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge
Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge (Lamiaceae) root, generally called Danshen, is an important herb in Chinese medicine widely used for treatment of various...
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Advances in biotechnology and genomics of switchgrass
Switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum L.) is a C 4 perennial warm season grass indigenous to the North American tallgrass prairie. A number of its natural and...
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A gDNA Microarray for Genoty** Salvia Species
Salvia is an important genus from the Lamiaceae with approximately 1,000 species. This genus is distributed globally and cultivated for ornamental,...
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Identification of Aluminum-Regulated Genes by cDNA-AFLP Analysis of Roots in Two Contrasting Genotypes of Highbush Blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum L.)
To investigate the molecular mechanisms of Al 3+ -stress in blueberry, a cDNA-amplified fragment length polymorphism (cDNA-AFLP) analysis was employed...
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Association genetics of chilling injury susceptibility in peach (Prunus persica (L.) Batsch) across multiple years
Peach and nectarine ( Prunus persica L.) are highly perishable; they ripen and deteriorate quickly at ambient temperature. Storage at low temperature...
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Molecular techniques for detecting and ty** of bacteria, advantages and application to foodborne pathogens isolated from ducks
In recent times, several foodborne pathogens have become important and a threat to public health. Surveillance studies have provided data and a...
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Development and Characterization of Intron-Flanking EST-PCR Markers in Rubber Tree (Hevea brasiliensis Muell. Arg.)
With a long-term goal of constructing a linkage map enriched with gene-specific markers in rubber tree ( Hevea brasiliensis Muell. Arg.), we utilized...
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Differential Expression of the Transcripts of Spartina alterniflora Loisel (Smooth Cordgrass) Induced in Response to Petroleum Hydrocarbon
Petroleum hydrocarbons (PHC) in soil are potentially toxic to plants and exert negative effect on the environment and human health. To understand the...
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RAPD Fingerprint to Appraise the Genetic Fidelity of In Vitro Propagated Araucaria excelsa R. Br. var. glauca Plantlets
Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) was used as a tool to assess the genetic fidelity of in vitro propagated Araucaria excelsa R. Br. var....
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Bioinformatic analysis of fruit-specific expressed sequence tag libraries of Diospyros kaki Thunb.: view at the transcriptome at different developmental stages
We present here a systematic analysis of the Diospyros kaki expressed sequence tags (ESTs) generated from development stage-specific libraries. A...
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Ty** of Genetic Markers Involved in Stress Response by Fluorescent cDNA-Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Technique
Identification of genetic markers involved in stress response to physical factors or chemical substances in organisms is a challenging task. Ty**...
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Musa Genetic Diversity Revealed by SRAP and AFLP
The sequence-related amplified polymorphism (SRAP) technique, aimed for the amplification of open reading frames (ORFs), vis-â-vis that of the...
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Transcriptomics in ecotoxicology
The emergence of analytical tools for high-throughput screening of biomolecules has revolutionized the way in which toxicologists explore the impact...
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A Silver-Staining cDNA-AFLP Protocol Suitable for Transcript Profiling in the Latex of Hevea brasiliensis (Para Rubber Tree)
cDNA amplified fragment length polymorphism (cDNA-AFLP) is a powerful transcript-profiling tool widely used in diverse plant species. When applied to...
