Oat (Avena sativa L.) has a high concentration of oils, comprised primarily of healthful
unsaturated oleic and linoleic fatty acids. To accelerate oat plant breeding efforts, we sought to …

Discussion Despite several decades of cardiac surgery with heparin-based anticoagulation
for CPB, the target ACT that confers a level of safe anticoagulation has not been universally …

RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) and genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) were used for single
nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) identification from two economically important obligate plant …

Defining the contributions of dispersal, reproductive mode, and mating system to the population
structure of a pathogenic organism is essential to estimating its evolutionary potential. …

To assess the diversity of Xanthomonas campestris spp. infecting crucifers in New York, 154
isolates were collected over 10 years across the state. The goal was to determine if isolates …

Polygenic scores link the genotypes of ancient individuals to their phenotypes, which are
often unobservable, offering a tantalizing opportunity to reconstruct complex trait evolution. In …

The oomycete Phytophthora capsici is a destructive pathogen of a wide range of vegetable
hosts, especially peppers and cucurbits. A 94.17-Mb genome assembly was constructed …

Despite the formidable mutational capacity and sequence diversity of HIV-1, evidence
suggests that viral evolution in response to specific selective pressures follows generally …

Scaphirhynchus albus and S. platorynchus were studied in Missouri during 1978–1979 to
assess their distribution and abundance, to obtain information on their life histories, and to …

Air pollution in China is an ongoing concern, with subsets of the population (eg, asthmatic
children) especially susceptible to the associated health effects. In addition, people spend the …