Canavanine Content Quantification in Processed Bitter Vetch () and Its Application as Flour in Breads: An Analysis of Nutritional and Sensory Attributes.

Bitter vetch ( Willd.) is a traditional Mediterranean-West Asian legume, mainly used as livestock feed because of its toxic non-proteinogenic amino acid, canavanine. However, historical sources suggest its past human consumption.

Safety concern of recombination between self-amplifying mRNA vaccines and viruses is mitigated in vivo.

Self-amplifying mRNA (SAM) vaccines can be rapidly deployed in the event of disease outbreaks. A legitimate safety concern is the potential for recombination between alphavirus-based SAM vaccines and circulating viruses. This theoretical risk needs to be assessed in the regulatory process for SAM vaccine approval.

A hypervariable intron of the locus provides excellent discrimination among accessions and reveals evidence for a relatively recent hybridization event with .

An analysis of 82 non-synonymous accessions for sequence variation in a fragment of the () locus revealed 57 alleles, most of which differed in indel structure. Eight additional accessions, each supposedly synonymous with a different accession of the initial group, were also analyzed. In every case the paired synonymous accessions possessed the same SGR sequence but varied slightly for a 6-trait morphological phenotype, indicating that SGR sequence is a much more reliable indicator of accession identity than is a morphological characterization.

The virome of the invasive Asian bush mosquito in Europe.

The Asian bush mosquito is rapidly invading North America and Europe. Due to its potential to transmit multiple pathogenic arthropod-borne (arbo)viruses including Zika virus, West Nile virus, and chikungunya virus, it is important to understand the biology of this vector mosquito in more detail. In addition to arboviruses, mosquitoes can also carry insect-specific viruses that are receiving increasing attention due to their potential effects on host physiology and arbovirus transmission.