Biofortification of Cereals and Pulses Using New Breeding Techniques: Current and Future Perspectives.

Cereals and pulses are consumed as a staple food in low-income countries for the fulfillment of daily dietary requirements and as a source of micronutrients. However, they are failing to offer balanced nutrition due to deficiencies of some essential compounds, macronutrients, and micronutrients, i.e.

Harnessing the potential of plant transcription factors in developing climate resilient crops to improve global food security: Current and future perspectives.

Crop plants should be resilient to climatic factors in order to feed ever-increasing populations. Plants have developed stress-responsive mechanisms by changing their metabolic pathways and switching the stress-responsive genes. The discovery of plant transcriptional factors (TFs), as key regulators of different biotic and abiotic stresses, has opened up new horizons for plant scientists.

Outcomes of patients treated with noninvasive ventilation by a medical emergency team on the wards.

Background: Initiation of noninvasive ventilation (NIV) on the wards is not universally accepted. Medical emergency teams (METs) provide acute care and monitoring to deteriorating patients on the general wards. Whether it is safe for an MET to start NIV in ward patients with respiratory distress remains unclear.

Using spirometry to rule out restriction in patients with concomitant low forced vital capacity and obstructive pattern.

Background: Different formulas have been proposed to exclude restriction based on spirometry, however none of them have specifically tested the patients whose spirometry show both obstruction and a low forced vital capacity (FVC).

Study Objective: The study was designed to create an algorithm that would better predict the absence of restriction in such patients.

Design: Retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data.