WILL EPIGENETICS BE A KEY PLAYER IN CROP BREEDING?

Will epigenetics be a key player in crop breeding?

If food and feed production are to keep up Pickleballs with world demand in the face of climate change, continued progress in understanding and utilizing both genetic and epigenetic sources of crop variation is necessary.Progress in plant breeding has traditionally been thought to be due to selection for spontaneous DNA sequence mutations that impa

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The precarious supply of physical therapists across Canada: exploring national trends in health human resources (1991 to 2005)

Abstract Background Health Human Resource (HHR) ratios are SCISSORS one measure of workforce supply, and are often expressed as a ratio in the number of health professionals to a sub-set of the population.In this study, we explore national trends in HHR among physical therapists (PTs) across Canada.Methods National population data were combined wit

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Obtention of viable cell suspensions from breast cancer tumor biopsies for 3D chromatin conformation and single-cell transcriptome analysis

Molecular and cellular characterization of tumors is essential due to the complex and heterogeneous nature of cancer.In Flax Seeds recent decades, many bioinformatic tools and experimental techniques have been developed to achieve personalized characterization of tumors.However, sample handling continues to be a major challenge as limitations such

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