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Showing 1 to 20 of 319 for “"Conferring"”.
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Power-Conferring Norms and Law's Normative Guidance
… by virtue of amplifying the role of power-conferring norms in explaining the core official legal practices, the efficacy of law, the social basis of law, the authority structure of law, and the reason-giving force of law respectively. One’s committed attitude toward an empowering norm is …
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Characterisation of Rare Genetic Variants Conferring Susceptibility to Psoriasis
Psoriasis is an immune-mediated skin disorder that is inherited as a complex trait. Although genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified a number of common disease susceptibility alleles, a substantial fraction of psoriasis heritability remains unexplained, suggesting the possibility …
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Empirical investigation of de novo mutations conferring herbicide resistance
… was to calculate the de novo mutation rate conferring herbicide resistance in a natural plant population, and, specifically, test the hypothesis that the mutation rate increases when plants are stressed by sub-lethal exposure to herbicides. For this purpose, we used a method to discover …
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The genetics of glucosamine in yeast : cytoplasmic determinants conferring resistance
… phenomena. 8. unlike yeast carrying resistance conferring episomes GR6 and GR10 were not resistant to venturicidin or oligomycin and the GR factor exhibited genetic behaviour different from that of the episomal determinants. These results 7--+8 suggested that glucosamine resistance was not …
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Identifying loci conferring quantitative disease resistance in sorghum and maize against fungal foliar pathogens
There are multiple mechanisms by which hosts defend themselves against pathogens. Broadly disease resistance can be split into qualitative and quantitative resistance. In qualitative resistance the presence of a single resistance gene (R gene) confers complete resistance against the pathogen. R …
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Student Perceptions in Conferring: A Phenomenographic Exploration of Student Perceptions on Teacher-Student Writing Conferences
… connected to the students and their writing by conferring, I have rarely considered what they thought about the conference. After our conference, do they feel like they truly learned something? I want to know their thoughts about how to make conferring about writing better for them. The research …
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Isolation and characterization of a novel lectin gene, Allium triquetrum agglutin, conferring insecticidal properties against Myzus persicae
… first isolated monocot mannose-binding lectin, conferring properties of resistance to sap-sucking or homopteran pests. The aim of the project described in this thesis was to identify and express a novel lectin in Arabidopsis thaliana and to assess the performance of the green peach aphid, Myzus …
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Validation of Loci Conferring Adult Plant Resistance to Powdery Mildew in Wheat Cultivar Massey and Identification of Diagnostic Molecular Markers
Powdery mildew, caused by the pathogen Blumeria graminis (DC) Speer (Syn. Erysiphe graminis DC) f. sp. tritici, is a major disease of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Race-specific resistance is easily identified in the field due to its qualitative phenotype and it is easy to incorporate because it is …
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Validation, Saturation, and Marker-Assisted Selection of Quantitative Trait Loci Conferring Adult Plant Resistance to Powdery Mildew in an Elite Wheat Breeding Population
Powdery mildew caused by <i>Blumeria graminis</i> f. sp. <i>tritici</i> is one of the most devastating diseases in wheat (<i>Triticum aestivum</i>) worldwide. Hypersensitive, race specific genes primarily have been deployed to control the disease, however recent efforts have shifted to breeding for …
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Identifying genes that confer ethanol tolerance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
… biofuel industries. The key genes involved in conferring ethanol tolerance in S. cerevisiae are unknown. One strategy used to identify genes conferring ethanol tolerance, was to create ethanol-tolerant (ET) mutants from a laboratory yeast strain and use these to identify ethanol-tolerance …
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Colonisation with extended spectrum beta-lactamase producing and carbapenem-resistant enterobacterales in children admitted to a paediatric referral hospital in South Africa
… rectal swab for EBSL-PE and CRE. The resistance-conferring genes were identified using polymerase chain reaction technology. Risk factors for colonisation were also evaluated. Results: Overall, 48% (96/200) of the children were colonised with at least one ESBL-PE, 8 of these with 2 ESBLPE, and …
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Molecular characterization of ABC-type multidrug efflux systems in Bifidobacterium longum subsp. longumT JCM 1217
… antibiotic therapy and they are able to continue conferring health benefits on the host. To better understand the mechanisms these bacteria utilize in conferring antibiotic resistance, genes which confer multidrug resistance by the active hydrolysis of ATP were studied here. These genes belong to …
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Steady states in rapidly evolving populations
Populations are subject to mutations conferring beneficial effects, as well as mutations conferring deleterious effects. Even if deleterious mutations occur much more frequently than beneficial mutations, the contribution of deleterious mutations to the overall rate of change of the population-wide …
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Characterization of the Xerophyta humilis desiccation induced-1 (Xhdsi-1voc) gene : a member of the Vicinal Oxygen Chelate (VOC) metalloenzyme superfamily upregulated in X. humilis (BAK) DUR and SCHINZ during desiccation
… genes which play an important role in conferring desiccation tolerance in plants. In this study, the expression of a novel gene named desiccation induced-1 (dsi-1VOC) during desiccation in X. humilis and desiccationsensitive plants is characterised.
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Transformation of a Transposon Construct into Tomato for Functional Genomics Studies
… (2005). The construct consists of the BAR gene conferring resistance to herbicide Basta, hygromycin (HYG) gene conferring resistance to the antibiotic hygromycin and the green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene, which are driven by specific plant promoters. The selectable marker genes such as HYG …
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Coat Protein -Mediated Resistance of Apple Mosaic Virus in Nicotiana Benthamiana
… plants carrying the full-length ApMV-CP and conferring resistance to ApMV suggested that transgenic coat protein accumulation was involved in eliciting the ApMV resistance response. Protein accumulation of lower-truncated ApMV-CP did not induce resistance against ApMV inoculation, thus …
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Genetic Regulation of Maize and Sorghum under Abiotic Stress
… crops and understand the genetic mechanisms conferring adaptation to water-limited environments.
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Investigating the role of neuropeptides in plant parasitic nematodes
… in Meloidogyne incognita and Globodera pallida conferring resistance to tomato seedlings. This thesis demonstrated Bacillus subtilis signal peptide optimisation using NLP-15b. NLP-15b showed a potent effect during initial studies conferring host resistance from Meloidogyne incognita and …
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Modified heptose synthesis in the Campylobacter jejuni capsule and its involvement in virulence
… possesses a capsule, which is important in conferring virulence. The capsule of some C.jejuni species contains unusual modified heptoses. The genes cjl427c, cj1428c and cj1430c putatively encode enzymes involved in modifying heptose. We hypothesize that modified heptoses play a role in …
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Molecular Engineering of a Single-Chain FV Antibody Fragment to Femtomolar Affinity
… cytometry. Analysis of the nature of mutations conferring binding improvements suggests a potentially general strategy for engineering scFv antibodies for high affinity binding to target ligands. The results of these studies clearly demonstrate the robustness of the yeast surface display system …
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