ROLE OF CELLULAR NADP+/NADPH RATIO IN THE ACCLIMATIVE MECHANISM OF TWO COMMON BEAN CULTIVARS TOWARD SALT STRESS

Role of cellular NADP+/NADPH ratio in the acclimative mechanism of two common bean cultivars toward salt stress

This study is aimed to evaluate the adaptive mechanism in two common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) cultivars, cv.Bronco and cv.Paulista subjected to different concentrations of NaCl (0, 25, 50 and 75 mM).Salt treatments resulted in a significant decrease in the fresh and dry biomasses of shoots and roots as well as leaf relative water content (RWC)

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A model for a chikungunya outbreak in a rural Cambodian setting: implications for disease control in uninfected areas.

Following almost 30 years of relative silence, chikungunya fever reemerged in Kenya in 2004.It subsequently spread to the islands of the Indian Ocean, reaching Southeast Asia in 2006.The virus was first detected in Cambodia in 2011 and a large outbreak occurred in the village of Trapeang Roka Kampong Speu Province in March 2012, in which 44% of the

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CLASP promotes stable tethering of endoplasmic microtubules to the cell cortex to maintain cytoplasmic stability in Arabidopsis meristematic cells.

Following cytokinesis in plants, Endoplasmic MTs (EMTs) assemble on the nuclear surface, forming a radial network that extends out to the cell cortex, where they attach and incorporate into the cortical microtubule (CMT) array.We found that in these post-cytokinetic cells, the MT-associated protein CLASP is enriched at sites of EMT-cortex attachmen

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