Molecular basis of resistance to leaf spot disease in oil palm.

Introduction: Leaf spot disease caused by the fungal pathogen is one of the most common diseases found in oil palm () nurseries in South East Asia, and is most prevalent at the seedling stage. Severe infections result in localized necrotic regions of leaves that rapidly spread within nurseries leading to poor quality seedlings and high economic losses.

Methods: To understand the molecular mechanisms of this plant-pathogen interaction, RNA-Seq was used to elucidate the transcriptomes of three oil palm genotypes with contrasting pathogen responses (G10 and G12, resistant and G14, susceptible) following infection with spores.

The magnetic structure and spin-reorientation of ErGa.

The magnetic structure of the intermetallic compound ErGa has been determined using high-resolution neutron powder diffraction. This compound crystallizes in the orthorhombic (Cmcm, No. 63) CrB-type structure and orders ferromagnetically at 32 (2) K, with the Er moments initially aligned along the b axis.

The Longer the Therapy, the Worse the Severity of the Adverse Drug Reactions that Occur in Drug-Resistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients.

Background: It is estimated that drug-resistant (DR) Tuberculosis (TB) (DR-TB) patients in Indonesia are 2.40% of all new TB patients and 13% of previously treated TB patients with a total incidence of DR-TB cases of 24,000 people. The adverse drug reactions (ADRs) of DR-TB are still a problem that can certainly affect the success of therapy.

High-temperature concomitant metal-insulator and spin-reorientation transitions in a compressed nodal-line ferrimagnet MnSiTe.

Symmetry-protected band degeneracy, coupled with a magnetic order, is the key to realizing novel magnetoelectric phenomena in topological magnets. While the spin-polarized nodal states have been identified to introduce extremely-sensitive electronic responses to the magnetic states, their possible role in determining magnetic ground states has remained elusive. Here, taking external pressure as a control knob, we show that a metal-insulator transition, a spin-reorientation transition, and a structural modification occur concomitantly when the nodal-line state crosses the Fermi level in a ferrimagnetic semiconductor MnSiTe.