[The nucleotide sequence features of the mature microRNA seem to be responsible for the affinity to human Ago2 AND Ago3 proteins].

Mature miRNA of 20-24 nt in length are the endogenous sncRNA. They programs RISC to regulate functioning of mRNA with complimentary sites for these miRNAs. In case of Ago3 protein present in human RISC miRNAs direct inhibition of translation, whereas in case of Ago2 is in RISC, than mRNA cleavage in the middle of miRNA/mRNA heteroduplex is also possible.

[Genetics of plant development: integrating data from different observations and experiments in databases].

Genetics of plant development as a scientific discipline integrates experimental evidence from such different fields of biology as embryology, plant anatomy, molecular biology, and genetics, and studies their relationships with ontogeny. To date, traditional publication of scientific studies in form of articles is supplemented by presenting the results of extensive genome-scale experiments in genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and phenomics in databases. The information burst, cased both by genome-scale studies and growth in the number of publications, requires the development of general standards of annotating data from different sources for their integration and comparison.

[Mathematical model of auxin distribution in the plant root].

Regulation of plant growth and development by auxin is mediated by the hormone controlled distribution and dose-dependent mechanisms of its action. A mathematical model is proposed, which described the distribution of auxin in the cells extending along the central axis of the Arabidopsis thaliana root. This model reproduces qualitatively both auxin distribution in cells of the root central axis under the normal conditions and under the conditions of decreased active transport and the recovery of auxin distribution and related meristem restoration during root regeneration after ablation of its tip.

[Effect of substituting chromosome 5A with an supernumary chromosome 5B in offspring of a somaclonal common wheat line monosomic for 5A].

Cytogenetic analysis was employed in studying the cause of generation of fertile awned forms in the progeny of plants, which were selected from a speltoid somaclonal wheat line monosomic for chromosome 5A (2n = 41 = 20II + I), had speltoid spikes, and were reproduced by self pollination. On cytogenetic and genetic evidence, chromosome 5A was eliminated and the copy number of chromosome 5B increased in the plants examined. The appearance of an extra chromosome 5B is probably caused by nondisjunction of bivalent 5B in the presence of a telocentric originating from the long arm of chromosome 5A.