Age-Neutral Measurement Of Personality Functioning and Maladaptive Personality Traits.

As previous studies have shown that personality disorder (PD) assessment in older adults is often hampered because assessment tools are tailored toward younger adults, establishing the age-neutrality of novel tools is crucial. This study primarily aimed to evaluate the age-neutrality of the Level of Personality Functioning Brief Form (LPFS-BF 2.0) and the Personality Inventory for -5 Modified + (PID-5-BF+M), using a sample of 254 community-dwelling adults.

Why old duplicated genes are not thrown away in (paleo)polyploids? Example from the petC gene in Brassica napus.

Duplication of genes at different time period, through recurrent and frequent polyploidization events, have played a major role in plant evolution, adaptation and diversification. Interestingly, some of the ancestral duplicated genes (referred as paleologs), have been maintained for millions of years, and there is still a poor knowledge of the reasons of their retention, especially when testing the phenotypic effect of individual copies by using functional genetic approaches. To fill this gap, we performed functional genetic (CRISPR-Cas9), physiological, transcriptomic and evolutionary studies to finely investigate this open question, taking the example of the petC gene (involved in cytochrome b6/f and thus impacting photosynthesis) that is present in four paleologous copies in the oilseed crop Brassica napus.

[Integration of the DSM-5 and ICD-11 Maladaptive Traits in Older Adults: Construct Validity of the PID-5-BF+M].

Background: The Personality Inventory for DSM-5 Brief Form + Modified (PID-5-BF+M) is a self-report questionnaire measuring maladaptive personality traits, as defined by the dimensional classifications of personality disorders in DSM-5 Section 3 and ICD-11. The instrument combines both classifications to capture six personality domains and 18 underlying personality facets, operationalized by two items each. This study examined the construct validity of this questionnaire in older adults, by examining the factor structure and the reliability of the domains and facets.

Facilitating gene editing in potato: a Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) map of the Solanum tuberosum L. cv. Desiree genome.

Genome editing is a powerful tool for plant functional genomics allowing for multiallelic targeted mutagenesis. The recent development of Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR associated protein 9 (Cas9) systems for gene editing in plants allows for simple, cost-effective introduction of site-specific double-stranded DNA breaks. The nuclear genomes of a homozygous doubled-monoploid potato clone (DM) and a heterozygous diploid clone (RH) have been sequenced in 2011.

NegFluo, a Fast and Efficient Method to Determine Starch Granule Size and Morphology in Plant Chloroplasts.

Starch granules that accumulate in the plastids of plants vary in size, shape, phosphate, or protein content according to their botanical origin. Depending on their size, the applications in food and nonfood industries differ. Being able to master starch granule size for a specific plant, without alteration of other characteristics (phosphate content, protein content, etc.