Evaluation of Durum Wheat Genotypes for Resistance against Root Rot Disease Caused by Moroccan Fusarium culmorum Isolates.

Fusarium culmorum is one of the most important causal agents of root rot of wheat. In this study, 10 F. culmorum isolates were collected from farms located in five agro-ecological regions of Morocco.

Smoking and Promoter-Specific Deoxyribonucleic Acid Methylation of the Atrial Natriuretic Peptide Gene: Methylation of Smokers and Non-Smokers Differs Significantly during Withdrawal.

Background: Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) is well known in psychiatric disorders to modulate hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity. Disturbances of ANP have been described in early abstinent alcohol-dependent patients. This is the first longitudinal investigation on cytosine-phosphatidyl-guanine (CpG)-island promoter methylation of the ANP gene in the blood of tobacco-dependent patients.

Contribution to the study of the chemical composition of Verticillium albo-atrum secretions in liquid media.

Verticillium albo-atrum culture filtrates contain numerous metabolites such as enzymes and toxins. Their purification was carried out by high phase liquid chromatography (HPLC). In this study, we set out to look for other lighter metabolites that could be identified by gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC-MS).