Homeodomain protein ATHB6 is a target of the protein phosphatase ABI1 and regulates hormone responses in Arabidopsis.

ABI1, a protein phosphatase 2C, is a key component of signal transduction in Arabidopsis. It regulates diverse responses to the phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) such as stomatal closure, seed dormancy and inhibition of vegetative growth. By analysing proteins capable of interacting with ABI1, we have identified the homeodomain protein ATHB6 as a regulator of the ABA signal pathway.

The Applied Nutrition Project of eastern Kenya--an initiative for reducing hunger and malnutrition.

Sustainable development is the only kind of development possible for help in the third world. Due to various historical, political, geographic and climatic conditions the divergence between those countries providing and those receiving help is so vast that donations of labor and/or money is simply not enough. Rather, communities have to be taught to support and develop themselves during the receipt of aid and especially after the help pulls out.

Molecular pathology and structural features of enteroviral replication. Toward understanding the pathogenesis of viral heart disease.

Enteroviruses of the Picornaviridae and primarily coxsackieviruses of group B (CVB) can be detected in humans and various experimental murine models of acute myocarditis and chronic heart muscle diseases indicating enterovirus persistence in the myocardium. Persistent myocardial infection is characterized by restricted viral replication and gene expression in myocytes capable of sustaining chronic inflammation. Viral cytotoxicity was found to be crucial for organ pathology both during acute and persistent infection.

Ethnology as a play: a comparison of two schools of thought at the turn of the century.

The methods and theories of science are in a state of constant flux. With the perimeters of science changing so does the subject of inquiry. Ethnology, a relatively young science underwent a drastic change at the turn of the century as unillineal evolutionism of the preceding century became obsolete and gave away to diffusionism.

A novel mechanism of ion homeostasis and salt tolerance in yeast: the Hal4 and Hal5 protein kinases modulate the Trk1-Trk2 potassium transporter.

The regulation of intracellular ion concentrations is a fundamental property of living cells. Although many ion transporters have been identified, the systems that modulate their activity remain largely unknown. We have characterized two partially redundant genes from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, HAL4/SAT4 and HAL5, that encode homologous protein kinases implicated in the regulation of cation uptake.