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... Seed dormancy is an important breeding trait for the development of certain types of peanut cultivars. Peanut cultivars with seed dormancy can inhibit preharvest sprouting in which the sprouting may increase susceptibility to preharvest aflatoxin contamination. The recombinant inbred line (RIL) mapping population derived from a cross of Tifrunner, a dormant Runner type, and GT-C20, a non-dormant S ...
... Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) is an important oil seed with edible and potentially nutritional and medical uses in most countries and may show variability for bioactive concentrations. The objective of this study was to evaluate seed production weights, numbers, oil, protein, lignan, tocopherol, and fatty acid concentrations in seeds from 8 randomly diverse sesame genotypes with various seed coat co ...
Arachis hypogaea; cooking fats and oils; fatty acid composition; fatty acid metabolism; genes; genome-wide association study; genotype; linoleic acid; oilseed crops; oleic acid; peanuts; phenotypic variation; protein synthesis; quantitative trait loci; sequence analysis; single nucleotide polymorphism
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... Cultivated peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is a major oilseed crop providing edible oil and protein. Oil quality is determined by fatty acid composition including the ratio of oleic acid (C18:1) and linoleic acid (C18:2). A genome-wide association study with 13,382 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) was conducted to investigate the genetics basis of oil, protein, eight fatty acid concentrations, ...
... A better understanding of the genetic basis that governs the inheritance of biomass quality traits may help to improve sorghum (Sorghum bicolor [L.] Moench) varieties for energy purposes. Here, combining ability studies were conducted using three restorer lines (male) and 60 cytoplasmic male sterile (CMS) lines (female), at two locations in China, during 2017 and 2018. Both entries and environment ...
... Our previous research obtained purified recombinant porcine interferon-α (rPoIFN-α) containing thioredoxin (Trx) fusion tag in E. coli Rosetta (DE3). Here, we evaluate the efficacy of this rPoIFN-α to prevent piglets from the infection of the transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV) attack. In this experiment, twenty-five TGEV-seronegative piglets were randomly divided into five groups. Group 1 ...
acute toxicity; antiviral properties; blood serum; body temperature; body weight; cattle; cattle industry; chronic toxicity; histopathology; interferons; intravenous injection; necropsy; specific pathogen-free animals; tissue analysis; toxicity testing; veterinary medicine; China
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... Recombinant bovine interferon alpha (rBoIFN-α) has been demonstrated to have antiviral activity. However, no conduct of acute or chronic toxicity tests has been reported. Specific pathogen-free Sprague Dawley rats were administered doses at different concentrations through intraperitoneal or intravenous injection. After the administration (single for an acute toxicity test over 14 days or daily fo ...
... High oleate is an important seed quality trait frequently incorporated in peanut varieties. Crop wild relatives (CWR) are potentially useful genetic resources for cultivar improvement through genetic introgression; but for wild peanut species, many chemical or nutritional traits are not well characterized. A mutant from Arachis veigae S. H. Santana & Valls (2n = 2x = 20), with increased oleic and ...
... This research aimed to compare the effects of monosodium glutamate (MSG) and its alternatives on sensory characteristics of chicken soup. High‐performance liquid chromatography analysis was carried out to quantify umami substances in potential MSG alternatives. Two mushroom extracts (CE and MC), one tomato extract (TC), and one yeast extract (YE) powders were selected due to their high equivalent ...
boron; copper; genes; genome-wide association study; genotype; ionomics; mineral content; minerals; nutrition; peanuts; phenotypic variation; quantitative trait loci; sodium; sulfur; zinc; United States
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... Peanut is an important legume providing products with nutrient dense including mineral nutrition. However, the genetic basis underlying the variations in the mineral composition in peanut is still unknown. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of the concentrations of 13 mineral elements combined with coexpression network were performed using a diverse panel of 120 genotypes mainly selected from ...
Carica papaya; abscisic acid; auxins; environmental factors; enzymes; female flowers; females; flower buds; flowering time; gene expression; gene expression regulation; genes; genomics; hermaphroditism; male sterility; males; pollen; quantitative polymerase chain reaction; reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; sequence analysis; sex chromosomes; sex determination; sex reversal; signal transduction; transcription factors
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... BACKGROUND: Carica papaya is a trioecious plant species with a genetic sex-determination system defined by sex chromosomes. Under unfavorable environmental conditions male and hermaphrodite exhibit sex-reversal. Previous genomic research revealed few candidate genes for sex differentiation in this species. Nevertheless, more analysis is still needed to identify the mechanism responsible for sex fl ...
... Some Senna species are important medicinal plants used worldwide and may show variation for sennoside concentrations. The USDA, ARS, PGRCU (United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit) curates several Senna species including candlebush [S. alata (L.) Roxb.], Alexandrian senna [S. alexandrina Mill.], S. angulata (Vogel) H.S. Irwi ...
... The level of oleic acid is an important parameter in determining seed nutritional quality and oil stability. The level of oleic acid in peanut is genetically controlled by a pair of fatty acid desaturase genes (FAD2A and FAD2B), but the environmental conditions of the production sites can also have a significant effect. To investigate the effect of gene and environment interaction, 45 accessions w ...
... Ovine interferon-tau (oIFN-τ) is a newly discovered type I interferon. This study used biochemical techniques to transform the oIFN-τ gene into Escherichia coli to obtain the mass and soluble expression of the recombinant protein. First, total RNA was extracted from fresh sheep embryonic tissues with TRIzol reagent and then used as a template to reverse transcribe and amplify the mature oIFN-τ gen ...
... Twenty-two health functional legumes and industrial crops contain several phytochemicals and extracts which have potential use as medicinal plants or functional foods in the United States and other countries worldwide. The objective of this study was to present a review of several legume species in the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Plant Genet ...
MingLiWang, et al. ; Hui Zhang; Ye Chu; Phat Dang; Yueyi Tang; Tao Jiang; Josh Paul Clevenger; Peggy Ozias-Akins; Corley Holbrook; Howard Campbell; Austin Hagan; Charles Chen; Show all 12 Authors
Arachis hypogaea; chromosomes; disease resistance; genetic factors; genome-wide association study; genomics; genotype; leaf spot; peanuts; phenotypic variation; quantitative trait loci; resistance genes; single nucleotide polymorphism; single nucleotide polymorphism arrays; United States
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... KEY MESSAGE: Two QTLs on ChrB09 significantly associated with both early and late leaf spots were identified by genome-wide association study in the US peanut mini-core collection. Early leaf spot (ELS) and late leaf spot (LLS) are two serious peanut diseases in the USA, causing tens of millions of dollars of annual economic losses. However, the genetic factors underlying resistance to those disea ...
... The original version of this article unfortunately contained an error in the number of unigenes reported in the Result section of Molecular Breeding article, “Development of SSR markers and assessment of genetic diversity of adzuki bean in the Chinese germplasm collection” (Mol Breeding (2015) 35:191, DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s11032-015-0383-5). ...
... Niger (Guizotia abyssinica, L.) is a desirable oilseed crop for birdseed, especially for finches (Spinus spp.) because of its high ratio of unsaturated to saturated fatty acids and relatively high oil content. In 2012, phenotypic traits, seed oil and fatty acid content measurements were made on 14 plant introductions (PIs) from the United States Department of Agriculture germplasm collection. The ...
... Control of currently circulating re-assorted low-pathogenicity avian influenza (LPAI) H9N2 is a major concern for both animal and human health. Thus, an improved LPAI H9N2 vaccination strategy is needed to induce complete immunity in chickens against LPAI H9N2 virus strains. Cytokines play a crucial role in mounting both the type and extent of an immune response generated following infection with ...
... Dry guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba L. Taub) seeds are primarily used to extract galactomannan gum for oil fracking, however, the immature pods are used as a vegetable in India and sold in ethnic grocery stores in the Atlanta, Georgia area. Nineteen guar genotypes were grown in the field at Griffin, GA, USA for two years (2010–2011). Since the determination of flavonoid concentration would add value ...
MingLiWang, et al. ; Siyang He; Chaochen Tang; Songbo Li; Boubacar Diallo; Yi Xu; Fangyuan Zhou; Lei Sun; Wenjun Shi; Guang Hui Xie; Show all 10 Authors
... Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is a high-yielding C4 crop used not only to produce grains for food, feed, and industrial uses but also biomass (i.e., leaf and stem) for biofuel production. To take better advantage of its heterosis for both grain and biomass dual-purpose use, the combining ability of 34 cytoplasmic male sterile lines (female) were tested with 3 cytoplasmic male fertile resto ...