is a fast polysaccharide producer among species.

The selection of fast-growing and high-yield-producing strains is required to satisfy the market demand on fungal food supplements. To that aim, three strains deposited in our collection as and were screened for polysaccharide production and biomass yield. strains deposited as were identified as and by nuc rDNA internal transcribed spacer ITS1-5.

Transcriptomic response of durum wheat to cold stress at reproductive stage.

Understanding the genetic basis of cold tolerance is a key step towards obtaining new and improved crop varieties. Current geographical distribution of durum wheat in Argentina exposes the plants to frost damage when spikes have already emerged. Biochemical pathways involved in cold tolerance are known to be early activated at above freezing temperatures.

In Silico Analysis of Fatty Acid Desaturase Genes and Proteins in Grasses.

Fatty acid desaturases (FADs) catalyze the introduction of a double bond into acyl chains. Two FAD groups have been identified in plants: acyl-acyl carrier proteins (ACPs) and acyl-lipid or membrane-bound FAD. The former catalyze the conversion of 18:0 to 18:1 and to date have only been identified in plants.

Identification of genes induced by Fusarium graminearum inoculation in the resistant durum wheat line Langdon(Dic-3A)10 and the susceptible parental line Langdon.

The wheat recombinant chromosome inbred line LDN(Dic-3A)10, obtained through introgression of a Triticum dicoccoides disomic chromosome 3A fragment into Triticum turgidum spp. durum var. Langdon, is resistant to fusarium head blight (FHB) caused by Fusarium graminearum.

Hematological and molecular characteristics of Hb Sarrebourg [beta131(H9)Gln-->Arg (CAG-->CGG)] found in a Spanish family.

We report the hematological and molecular characteristics of Hb Sarrebourg [beta131(H9)Gln-->Arg (CAG-->CGG)] found in nine members of a Spanish family. All the carriers were heterozygous for the variant and hematologically normal. Up to now this hemoglobin (Hb) variant has only been reported once before, in a boy of Turkish origin.

Iron deficiency in obese postmenopausal women.

Objective: This study evaluates whether the iron deficiency suggested in children and adolescents with overweight is also present with increasing age.

Research Methods And Procedures: We examined 50 consecutive postmenopausal nondiabetic white women with a BMI > or =30 kg/m(2) and 50 non-obese seemingly healthy women as a control group. In addition to the traditional indices of iron status, we measured the soluble transferrin receptor (sTfR) levels, a sensitive and highly quantitative indicator of early iron deficiency not influenced by the acute phase response.

Heterozygous Hb Hope [beta136(H14)Gly --> Asp] in association with heterozygous beta0-thalassemia with apparent homozygous expression, in a Spanish patient.

Hb Hope [beta136(H14)Gly --> Asp (GGT --> GAT)] has been found alone or in combination with other globin gene mutations in several African-American families, as well as in Japanese, Thai, Laotian, Cuban and Mauritanian families. We report the hematological and molecular characteristics of a heterozygous association of Hb Hope with beta0-thalassemia (thal) in a Spanish patient, in whom the level of expression of abnormal hemoglobin (Hb) by cation exchange high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and electrophoresis suggested initially a homozygous expression of the abnormal Hb, although sequencing of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-amplified beta-globin gene demonstrated a heterozygous genotype for Hb Hope. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first description of a case of Hb Hope in a Spanish family.