Rice, maize, sorghum, wheat, barley and the other
major crop grasses from the family Poaceae
(Gramineae) are mankind’s most important source
of calories and contribute tens of billions of dollars
annually to the world economy (FAO 1999, http://www.fao.org; USDA 1997, http://www.usda.gov).
Continued improvement of Poaceae crops is necessary
in order...
Now in its 10th year, the Gramene database (http://www.gramene.org) has grown from its primary focus on rice, the first fully-sequenced grass genome, to become a resource for major model and crop plants including Arabidopsis, Brachypodium, maize, sorghum, poplar and grape in addition to several species of rice. Gramene began with...
Gramene (www.gramene.org) is a curated resource
for genetic, genomic and comparative genomics
data for the major crop species, including rice,
maize, wheat and many other plant (mainly grass)
species. Gramene is an open-source project.
All data and software are freely downloadable
through the ftp site (ftp.gramene.org/pub/gramene)
and available for use...
Razor clams from Clatsop Beach (Tillamook Head to Columbia River) were sampled regularly from March through September and periodically the rest of the year. Sport and commercial diggers were interviewed to obtain data on number, age composition of clams dug and harvest area. Data from other beaches south of Tillamook...
Inherited age is defined herein as the difference between times of carbon fixation in a material and deposition
of that material within sediments from which it is eventually sampled in order to estimate deposit age via
radiocarbon dating. Inheritance generally leads to over-estimation of the age by an unknown amount...
The Generation Challenge programme (GCP) is a global crop research consortium directed toward crop improvement through the
application of comparative biology and genetic resources characterization to plant breeding. A key consortium research activity
is the development of a GCP crop bioinformatics platform to support GCP research. This platform includes the...
n-Type In-filled CoSb₃ is a known skutterudite compound that has shown promising thermoelectric (TE) properties resulting in high dimensionless figure of merit values at elevated temperatures. Use in various waste heat recovery applications will require survival and operation after exposure to harsh thermal cycling environments. This research focused on uncovering...
All existing sea otter, Enhydra lutris, populations have suffered at least one historic population bottleneck stemming from the fur trade extirpations of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. We examined genetic variation, gene flow, and population structure at five microsatellite loci in samples from five pre-fur trade populations throughout the sea...
Background: Statins substantially reduce cardiovascular disease risk and are generally well-tolerated, but many patients discontinue therapy. A better understanding of the characteristics of current and former statin users may be helpful for formulating strategies to improve long-term adherence.
Objective: The Understanding Statin Use in America and Gaps in Education (USAGE)...
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