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Use of inadequate data and methodological errors lead to a dramatic overestimation of the water footprint of Jatropha curcas
In their recent article, Gerbens-Leenes et al. (1) calculated the water footprint (WF, the amount of water required to produce 1 GJ of energy) of several bioenergy crops. One of the most remarkable…
Received 08 July 2009 10:20 UTC; Posted 08 July 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology, Ecology, Earth & Environment, Plant Biology
Detection of Sugarcane Yellow Leaf Luteovirus of India
A luteovirus was found associated with midrib yellowing symptoms of sugarcane in India. The virus was earlier identified as sugarcane yellow leaf virus (SCYLV) on the basis of particle morphology a…
Received 02 July 2009 05:51 UTC; Posted 02 July 2009
Posted to: Plant Biology
Herbal Drugs in Mirror of Alzheimer’s Disease
Commercially available Ginkgo biloba leaf extracts may lack specificity as to the binding of copper and zinc ions in human cells. This might be the reason why Ginkgo extracts have no predictable an…
Received 11 June 2009 07:38 UTC; Posted 11 June 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology, Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Plant Biology
Functional analysis of βC1 protein encoded by Tomato leaf curl Java virus, a monopartite begomovirus
Tomato leaf curl disease is among the most important limiting factors that affect tomato production in world wide including south East Asia. Recently, we have isolated tomato leaf curl Java virus, ...
Received 05 June 2009 15:14 UTC; Posted 08 June 2009
Posted to: Plant Biology
Effect of Stimulating Magenetic Field on Plants
A plant’s metabolism contains 90-95 percent of diamagnetic water and rest contains several apra, ferro and dia metals and non-metals.The present work is to study stimulating magnetic effect on plan…
Received 02 June 2009 14:21 UTC; Posted 08 June 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology, Plant Biology
A novel superior factor widely controlling the rice grain quality
Synthesis of storage starch and protein accumulation is the main action of endosperm organogenesis in term of the economic importance of rice. This event is strongly disturbed by abiotic stresses s…
Received 25 May 2009 07:42 UTC; Posted 26 May 2009
Posted to: Plant Biology
Ustilago and the accidental domestication of maize
Maize is the essential crop of the Americas. Maize appeared suddenly about 8,500 years ago as domesticated teosinte; however, there is no evidence (genetical, archaeological, linguistic or ethnobot…
Received 13 May 2009 01:27 UTC; Posted 14 May 2009
Posted to: Plant Biology, Evolutionary Biology
Assessing the Genotypic Differences for Seed Set and Seed Abortion in Tomato Genotypes
Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) is one of the most popular fruit vegetable around the world. Seed abortion where in only a small proportion of ovules in an ovary develops into matured seed…
Received 27 April 2009 11:05 UTC; Posted 28 April 2009
Posted to: Plant Biology, Evolutionary Biology
Future Predictions of Cyclamen Distribution in the Mediterranean Region
Cyclamen (Myrsinaceae) occupy the Mediterranean region, with highest diversity in Greece and Turkey, with a few species endemic to islands. Cyclamen species have a phenological preference for d…
Received 14 April 2009 23:01 UTC; Posted 15 April 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Plant Biology, Evolutionary Biology
Asymmetric development of Cotyledons of Tomato Embryo: Testing the prediction of Self-Organization
Developmental biologists have long strived to understand how organisms acquire shape and form. The architecture of the mature plant is established during embryogenesis. They have learned much about…
Received 27 March 2009 01:31 UTC; Posted 31 March 2009
Posted to: Plant Biology
