The role of sucrose in maintaining pollen viability and germinability in Corylus avellana L.: a possible strategy to cope with climate variability.

In this work, we propose a possible correlation between carbohydrate content in hazelnut pollen (wild type) and viability/germinability, also in a perspective of adaptation to climate variability. Samples from four different cultivation fields in Italy showed values of pollen viability characterized by high levels, ranging between 77.3 and 98.

Development, characterization, and transferability of SSR markers for (Bromeliaceae) based on RNA sequencing.

Premise Of The Study: Expressed sequence tag-simple sequence repeat (EST-SSR) markers were isolated for , an endemic bromeliad from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. These SSR loci may be used to investigate the genetic diversity and population structure of this species and related bromeliads.

Methods And Results: Based on the transcriptome data of , 30 primer pairs were designed and selected for initial validation.

Assessment of a blood preservation protocol for use in ferrets before transfusion.

Blood transfusion has been described in ferrets as a treatment for oestrus-associated anaemia and as a life-saving therapy following trauma, iatrogenic (usually surgery-induced) anaemia, autoimmune haemolytic anaemia and pure red cell aplasia. Although blood banking is a common method for storage of feline and canine blood it is not currently done with ferret blood. The aim of this study was to determine the shelf-life of ferret blood using the anticoagulant citrate-phosphate-dextrose-solution with adenine (CPDA).