Heavy metal-resistant rhizobacteria fosters to alleviate the cadmium toxicity in by upregulating the plant physiological responses.

This study was designed to investigate the role of strains in alleviating Cd stress in seedlings under controlled conditions. Both strains ABT3 (ON316873) and ABT9 (ON316874) strains isolated from salt-affected areas showed higher resistance against Cd and possess plant growth-promoting traits such as nitrogen fixation, indole-acetic acid production, ammonia production, phosphate solubilization, and, catalase, gelatinase and protease enzyme production. Plant inoculation assay showed that varying concentration of Cd (1.

Determination of Qnr allele frequencies in Fluoroquinolone resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from burn wounds.

Effective treatment of burn wound infections is precluded by high prevalence of nosocomial infections coupled with high resistance rates against commonly used antimicrobials. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an important nosocomial pathogen in burn infections due to high morbidity and mortality associated with it. We analyzed fluoroquinolone resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa for the presence of Qnr gene, owing to high genetic mobility of this plasmid-borne gene.

Mathematical modeling of cotton leaf curl virus with respect to environmental factors.

This study mathematically correlates incidence of cotton leaf curl virus (CLCuV), environmental factors (i.e., rainfall, humidity and temperature), and silverleaf whitefly population in agricultural system of Pakistan.

Unsymmetrically disubstituted urea derivatives: a potent class of antiglycating agents.

A series of unsymmetrically disubstituted urea derivatives 1-28 has been synthesized and screened for their antiglycation activity in vitro. Compounds 26 (IC(50)=4.26+/-0.