The effect of heat stress on sugar beet recombination.

Meiotic recombination plays a crucial role in plant breeding through the creation of new allelic combinations. Therefore, lack of recombination in some genomic regions constitutes a constraint for breeding programmes. In sugar beet, one of the major crops in Europe, recombination occurs mainly in the distal portions of the chromosomes, and so the development of simple approaches to change this pattern is of considerable interest for future breeding and genetics.

Jaundice as a misadventure of a green tea (camellia sinensis) lover : a case report.

The case of a 76-year-old retired surgeon and lover of green tea (camellia sinensis) infusions who developed a clinical, sero-biochemical and histological picture of severe subacute hepatitis is reported. The clinical presentation was that of jaundice with asthenia and weight loss. Abnormal liver function tests were associated with hyper-gammaglobulinemia, and the transient presence of anti-smooth-muscle antibodies and ANCA.