Articles

Efficient callus formation and plant regeneration are heritable characters in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.)

Obtaining dedifferentiated cells (callus) that can regenerate into whole plants is not always feasible for many plant species. Sugar beet is known to be recalcitrant for dedifferentiation and plant regeneratio...

Authors: Hiroyo Kagami, Kazunori Taguchi, Takumi Arakawa, Yosuke Kuroda, Hideto Tamagake and Tomohiko Kubo

Whole genome SNP typing to investigate methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage in a health-care provider as the source of multiple surgical site infections

Prevention of nosocomial transmission of infections is a central responsibility in the healthcare environment, and accurate identification of transmission events presents the first challenge. Phylogenetic anal...

Authors: Chandler C. Roe, Kimberly S. Horn, Elizabeth M. Driebe, Jolene Bowers, Joel A. Terriquez, Paul Keim and David M. Engelthaler

Genetic diversity and occurrence of the F129L substitutions among isolates of Alternaria solani in south-eastern Sweden

Early blight, caused by the fungus Alternaria solani, occurs on potato mainly in the south-eastern part of Sweden, but also in other parts of the country. The aim of this study was to investigate the genetic dive...

Authors: Firuz Odilbekov, Eva Edin, Larisa Garkava-Gustavsson, Helena Persson Hovmalm and Erland Liljeroth

Insight into the genetic variability analysis and cultivar identification of tall fescue by using SSR markers

Genetic diversity of 19 forage-type and 2 turf-type cultivars of tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.) was revealed using SSR markers in an attempt to explore the genetic relationships among them, and examine...

Authors: Kaixin Fu, Zhihui Guo, Xinquan Zhang, Yan Fan, Wendan Wu, Daxu Li, Yan Peng, Linkai Huang, Ming Sun, Shiqie Bai and Xiao Ma

Genetic structure of Mount Huang honey bee (Apis cerana) populations: evidence from microsatellite polymorphism

The Mount Huang eastern honey bees (Apis cerana) are an endemic population, which is well adapted to the local agricultural and ecological environment. In this study, the genetic structure of seven eastern honey ...

Authors: Fang Liu, Tengfei Shi, Sisi Huang, Linsheng Yu and Shoudong Bi

Assessment of diversity and genetic relationships of Neonectria ditissima: the causal agent of fruit tree canker

Neonectria ditissima is one of the most important fungal pathogens of apple trees, where it causes fruit tree canker. Information about the amount and partitioning of genetic variation...

Authors: Marjan Ghasemkhani, Larisa Garkava-Gustavsson, Erland Liljeroth and Hilde Nybom

eRFSVM: a hybrid classifier to predict enhancers-integrating random forests with support vector machines

Enhancers are tissue specific distal regulation elements, playing vital roles in gene regulation and expression. The prediction and identification of enhancers are important but challenging issues for bioinfor...

Authors: Fang Huang, Jiawei Shen, Qingli Guo and Yongyong Shi

Assessment of genetic diversity in Nordic timothy (Phleum pratense L.)

Timothy (Phleum pratense L.), a cool-season hexaploid perennial, is the most important forage grass species in Nordic countries. Earlier analyses of genetic diversity in a collection of 96 genebank accessions of ...

Authors: Pirjo Tanhuanpää, Maria Erkkilä, Ruslan Kalendar, Alan Howard Schulman and Outi Manninen

Genetic variation, population structure and linkage disequilibrium in Switchgrass with ISSR, SCoT and EST-SSR markers

To evaluate genetic variation, population structure, and the extent of linkage disequilibrium (LD), 134 switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) samples were analyzed with 51 markers, including 16 ISSRs, 20 SCoTs, and 1...

Authors: Yu Zhang, Haidong Yan, Xiaomei Jiang, Xiaoli Wang, Linkai Huang, Bin Xu, Xinquan Zhang and Lexin Zhang

Cloning and characterization of an ABA-independent DREB transcription factor gene, HcDREB2, in Hemarthria compressa

Hemarthria compressa is a stoloniferous perennial tropical forage grass with a wide geographic distribution; however, environmental stress has a great influence on its growth. The DREB...

Authors: Yongxia Chen, Linkai Huang, Haidong Yan, Xinquan Zhang, Bin Xu and Xiao Ma

Leptin receptor gene polymorphisms and morbid obesity in Mexican patients

Human obesity is due to a complex interaction among environmental, behavioral, developmental and genetic factors, including the interaction of leptin (LEP) and leptin receptor (LEPR). Several LEPR mutations and p...

Authors: Martin Edgardo Rojano-Rodriguez, Jose Luis Beristain-Hernandez, Beatriz Zavaleta-Villa, Pablo Maravilla, Mirza Romero-Valdovinos and Angelica Olivo-Diaz

A preliminary phylogeny of the South African Lentulidae

The grasshopper family Lentulidae is endemic to eastern and southern Africa, with its center of diversity situated in South Africa, the highest diversity being found in the Cape Floristic Region, which is one ...

Authors: Daniela Matenaar, Linda Bröder and Axel Hochkirch

The Trp719Arg polymorphism of the KIF6 gene and coronary heart disease risk: systematic review and meta-analysis

Genetic factors play an important role in the pathogenesis of coronary heart disease (CHD). Kinesin-like protein 6 (KIF6) is a new candidate gene for CHD, since it has been identified as a potential risk facto...

Authors: David Ruiz-Ramos, Yazmín Hernández-Díaz, Carlos Alfonso Tovilla-Zárate, Isela Juárez-Rojop, María Lilia López-Narváez, Thelma Beatriz González-Castro, Manuel Eduardo Torres-Hernández and Manuel Alfonso Baños-González

Resurrection of Hereditas, a journal with almost 100 years of tradition

Authors: Stefan Baumgartner

Analysis of genetic diversity of Tunisian caprifig (Ficus carica L.) accessions using simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers

The common fig (Ficus carica L.) is a gynodioecious species with two sexual forms: male trees (caprifigs) with male and female flowers and female trees that produce only female flowers that will result in the edi...

Authors: Awatef Essid, Fateh Aljane, Ali Ferchichi and Jose Ignacio Hormaza