... Geographic Area (%) Upland Area Cultimated as a % of Total as a % Valley-Fringe of Total Area Georgraphic Area (%) (%) Cultivated as a % of Total Upland Area (%) A Parakou and Tchaourou region of ... Geographic Area (%) Cultivated as a % of Total Valley-Bottom Area (%) as a % of Total Geographic Area (%) Cultivated as a % of Total Valley-Fringe Area (%) as a % of Total Geographic Area (%) Cultivated ... I Agroecological and Soil Zones Valley-Fringe Area % of Entire Study Area (% of Full Scene) as a % of Total Geographic Area (%) Cultivated as a % of Total ValleyBottom Area (%) as a % of Total...
... Africa (FARA), Kano, Nigeria; and Jim Gockowski is Coordinator, Sustainable Tree Crop Program, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Accra, Ghana Office of the Chief Economist Abstract ... Asia: A collection of Research Papers Based on the ADB/NACA Farm Performance Survey, Hayami, Yujiro (1969) Sources of Agricultural Productivity Gap Among Selected Countries American Journal of ... d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, and Cameroon A baseline survey of major cocoagrowing regions of West and Central Africa was conducted to provide baseline parameter estimates of production systems in...
... Gabon, Cape Verde and Equatorial Guinea Angola does not belong to one of the two regions (CEMAC and ECOWAS) and presents a special case Detailed data on the local market were not available Angola’s ... on the animals so that one woman can easily take care of 500 animals Poultry farming means an important advantage for the poor female population of rural areas: Poultry unlike other forms of live ... statistical figures gives additional indications, complaining in detail about the reliability of the counting of livestock They are mainly based 64 FAOSTAT, Data source, e.g Cameroon, Quality and...
... Whether, a lack of staining may come from an absence of receptor/transporter or an altered accessibility remains to be determined In any case, lack of staining reflects major changes in the transporter ... to be immunostained using an antibody raised against the C-terminal part of the protein [25,26] Cell surface antibodies directed against metabolite transporters are rare because of high interspecies ... ml) (labelling for intracellular membranes) (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) 10 minutes at RT Negative controls were used for each reactive Animals Acquisition and restoration of the images Brain...
... sequencing with an ABI PRISM 3100-Avant DNA Sequencing system (Applied Biosystems, Japan) were performed as described previously (Osaka et al., 2006) A database search was conducted using BLAST from ... Betaproteobacteria and the Alphaproteobacteria (3) For the Alphaproteobacteria, the genera Amaricoccus, Beijerinckia, Hyphomicrobium, and Paracoccus, which have the ability both to accumulate PHB and ... Hiraishi, A (2002) Members of the family Comamonadaceae as primary poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate)degrading denitrifiers in activated sludge as revealed by a polyphasic approach, Appl...
... Brown algae Seagrass or Green macroalgae Seagrass 20:5n3 Diatom 22:6n3 LCFAs Dinoflagellates Terrestrial or Vascular plants Ref Meziane et al (2000), Alfaro et al (2006) Arts et al (1998), Jaschinski ... seagrass (Zostera japonica) canopy structure on associated fauna: a study using artificial seagrass units and sampling of natural beds, J Exp Mar Biol Ecol., 259, 23-50 Matsuo H., Ariyama H., ... the each parts of leaves and stems in Z japonica and Z marina Z jap: Zostera japoncia, Z mar: Zostera marina, HK: Hokkaido Pref, MG: Miyagi Pref, NG: Niigata Pref, KT: Kyoto Pref, KG: Kagawa Pref...
... (5¢-CTTCCTCCGCTTCCATGA-3¢) and QaCgClp1 (5¢-CCATGAAGTCCGCGAATC-3¢); and QsCgClp2 (5¢-GCATAGCGATGTGGACGA-3¢) and QaCgClp2 (5¢-GAGGACCGAGACCGTGAA-3¢) The abbreviations ‘Qs’ and ‘Qa’ refer, respectively, ... cycles, a resulting 147 bp fragment was isolated Full-length cDNA was generated by 5¢and 3¢-RACE using the Marathon cDNA amplification kit (Clontech, Takara, Mountain View, CA, USA) Doublestranded ... Sesbania rostrata Plant Physiol 127, 78–89 Hakala BE, White C & Recklies AD (1993) Human cartilage gp-39, a major secretory product of articular chondrocytes and synovial cells, is a mammalian...
... forms of MGA requires the availability ofa sensitive and specific enzyme assay Our data show that the hydratase reaction of AUH is favored over the dehydratase reaction (factor of 20) Hence, measuring ... oligonucleotides AUH FW 5¢-AGCTCATATTCTCTGTGCGAGTCCTCGATG GC-3¢ and AUH RP 5¢-GCCATCGAGGACTCGCACA GAGAATATGAGCT-3¢ (the c.719C>T mutation leading to the amino acid exchange A2 40V is underlined) The AUH genes ... nonisotopic assay of 3-MG-CoA hydratase (AUH) in cultured human skin fibroblasts 3-MG-CoA hydratase was tested in fibroblast homogenates using glutaconyl-CoA (10 lM) as a substrate The reaction was started...
... legitimate to apply the Scrutton and Utter equation [40] to the inhibition dataData analyses Data were analysed by means of sigmaplot 2001 (SPSS Science Software Gmbh, Erkrath, Germany) Data for ... These data are also reported in Tables and 3287 Bilitranslocase homologue in carnation petals S Passamonti et al Table Parameters of the Scrutton and Utter equation applied to data obtained under ... in rat liver has already been demonstrated [39] and, as shown in this work, this antibody also reacts with a structurally similar protein of carnation petals Unfortunately, a database search...
... of the 3Â-OH end of the cognate tRNA (Eqn 2) amino acid ỵ ATP $ aminoacyl-AMP + pyrophosphate 1ị amino acyl-AMP + tRNAaa $ AMP + aminoacyl tRNAaa 2ị Most aaRS catalyse the formation of the aminoacylAMP ... collection as the template in the presence of synthetic oligonucleotides pairs Primer 1: 5Â-AAGAAGAAGCATATGTCACCGTGCCCG ACCAGCTG-3Â Primer 2: 5Â-AAGAAGAAGCATATGACCGCCACGG AAACAGTCCGG-3Â The primers ... inactivation experiments of Sassetti et al [16] indicate that the putative GluRS, as well as glutamyltRNAGln amidotransferase and the enzymes of the C5 pathway of ALA biosynthesis are essential...
... higher than that of C papaya latex, while crude babaco (Vasconcellea · heilbornii ‘babaco’) latex revealed an equivalent or slightly higher proteolytic and lipolytic activity than that of papaya [22] ... that CC-I and papain have catalytic constants of the same order of magnitude on BAPNA and chromozyme [17], the marked increase in proteolytic activity of V cundinamarcensis latex can be explained ... than greenhouse plants In addition, it has been demonstrated that repeated mechanical wounding of the fruit profoundly affects Table Protein concentration and amidase activity of latex of Vasconcellea...
... Characterization of flavin in hexose oxidase T Rand et al of this action is not known The main reason for this is the lack ofa crystal structure and the lack ofinformation regarding the association ... polymorpha, also contains a His–FAD–Cys association, and if that was the case, to develop a method of characterizing this type of association without having a crystal structureA homology model of ... Journal 273 (2006) 2693–2703 ª 2006 DANISCO T Rand et al GOOX, a catalytic mechanism, which involves Tyr429 acting as a general base, and Asp355 facilitating the necessary abstraction ofa proton...
... media, but a number of isolates were also obtained from healthy, asymptomatic individuals Until now, no structural data has been available on LPS glycoform patterns from H influenzae strains that ... pulsed amperometric detection Samples were eluted usinga linear gradient of 0–500 mM NaOAc in 0.1 M NaOH over 20 and a flow rate of mLÆmin)1 Preparation of oligosaccharides O-Deacylation of LPS ... Milford, MA, USA) and subjected to sugar analysis or sequential analysis by multiple step tandem ESI-MS (ESI-MSn) The relative proportions of the various alditol acetates and partially methylated alditol...
... commercially available polyclonal antibodies (anti-PKAacat, antiPKAbcat and anti-PKAccat) and one monoclonal A T-cell Jurkat NT2 antibody (anti-Cmono) were immunoreactive to two protein bands of 40 and ... specificity (anti-PKAacat, anti-PKAbcat and anti-PKAccat; catalogue numbers sc903, sc904, sc905; Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Santa Cruz, CA, USA); a monoclonal anti-C antibody (anti-Cmono; catalogue ... PAGE in 12.5% gels, transferred to PVDF membranes and immunoblotted using three commercially available polyclonal antibodies: anti-PKAacat (i), anti-PKAccat (ii) and antiPKAbcat (iii), and a...
... purchase of quota, or the allocation of quota from a national reserve The transfer of milk quota may take place via a variety of administrative and market-based mechanisms including private sales ... 105 Table 50: Adjustments of raw data from ESTAT in the data consolidation procedure COCO in Italy, 1000 hds 107 Table 51: Adjustments of raw data from ESTAT in the data consolidation ... historical FADN (Farm Accountancy Data Network) records (data up to year 2005) and actual estimates of regional quota rents (i.e the difference between the farm milk price under quota and the marginal...
... surface Data are taken across an area of the surface and averaged to give a more accurate representation of the properties for the entire film For a spectroscopic ellipsometers, a range of light ... topographical features ofa surface A miniature tip (radius of curvature is 5-10 nm40), usually made of silicon or silicon nitride, taps along a prescribed area of the surface being imaged.33 Attractive ... Differential Scanning Cal orimetry Samples of PMMA were heated in a vacuum oven at 120°C for 24 hours to drive off any moisture that had been absorbed One sample of approximately 15 mg was placed in aluminum...
... Lipid raft proteomics of ALS J Zhai et al 32 Kim YJ, Nakatomi R, Akagi T, Hashikawa T & Takahashi R (2005) Unsaturated fatty acids induce cytotoxic aggregate formation of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-linked ... such as vesicular transport, neurotransmitter synthesis and release; cytoskeletal organization, and linkage to the plasma membrane; metabolism; and microglia activation and inflammation Many of ... independent sets of quantification data was obtained using Student’s t-test Significant changes were recognized as the ratios between WT and G9 3A samples with P-values < 0.05 The quantification data are presented...
... intracellular member of the immunoglobulin superfamily Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 87, 2157–2161 32 Noguchi J, Yanagisawa M, Imamura M, Kasuya Y, Sakurai T, Tanaka T & Masaki T (1992) Complete primary ... visible aggregates in transgenic mice at day 16 of age As mice aged, the extent of aggregation in the muscles increased By months of age, 7.7% of EDL and 65.13% of diaphragm myofibrils had aggregate ... respiration was determined after adding ADP to a final concentration of 200 lm, and state respiration was measured as the rate of oxygen consumption in the absence of ADP phosphorylation RCR, the ratio...
... skin at anagen III (4), anagen V (5) and catagen (6) phases of hair growth Arrow indicates AANAT-like immunoreactivity of 24 kDa anti-(rat AANAT) serum (anti-rAANAT25-200) in control rat brain, ... workstation CLASS-8000 software was used for system control and data acquisition (Shimadzu, Japan) Quantitative determination of N-acetylserotonin was made by comparing the observed peak areas with ... genetic loci Each isoform has at least 15 different allelic forms Expression of NAT-1 cDNA in mammalian or bacterial cells has demonstrated that the enzyme is capable of acetylating both endogenously...
... chromatography (Amersharm Pharmacia) A cDNA library was constructed usinga ZAP-cDNA Synthesis kit (Stratagene) and a Gigapack in vitro packaging kit (Stratagene) according to the manufacturer’s ... esterase activity repressive factor in the plasma of parasitized insect larvae J Biol Chem 265, 10813–10816 23 Hayakawa, Y., Yazaki, K., Yamanaka, A & Tanaka, T (1994) Expression of polydnavirus ... central nervous tissue Cell Tissue Res 300, 459–464 34 Yamanaka, A. , Hayakawa, Y., Noda, H., Nakashima, N & Watanabe, H (1996) Characterization of polydnavirus-encoded mRNA in parasitized armyworm...