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Li et al. (1) crossed 'PI 171434' and the 'Avocet Susceptible' cultivar to produce a F2:3 population to map the resistance gene. In this population stripe rust resistance was controlled by a single dominant gene on chromosome arm 3DL designated Yr45. |
In the pathogenicity tests Yr45 showed resistance to seven races of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici. Among them was PST-100, which has been the most predominant race in the USA since 2005 (2) and PST-127, a race with virulences to 17 of the 20 differential genotypes. |
A set of molecular markers including SSRs and RGAPs (resistance gene analog polymorphism) were scored. The closest markers to Yr45 were two RGAPS, Xwgp118 on the distal side and Xwgp115 on the proximal side, that mapped at 4.8 and 5.8 cM, respectively (see Figure). Both markers are dominant, and amplified PCR products ... |
Since Xwgp115 and Xwgp118 are both dominant markers, not very closely linked to Yr45 and there are lines in which the gene is not present but still yield positive results for one or both markers, users are advised to carefully test their parents before incorporating these markers in a breeding program. |
When linked to Yr45, Xwgp118 amplifies a band of 411-bp, while Xwgp115 yields a band of 492-bp. |
1. Yr45, a new wheat gene for stripe rust resistance on the long arm of chromosome 3D. Li Q, Chen XM, Wang MN, Jing JX. In: Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2011, 122:189-197. DOI: 10.1007/s00122-010-1435-1. |
2. Challenges and solutions for stripe rust control in the United States. Chen XM. In: Australian Journal of Agricultural Research, 2007, 58:648–655. DOI: 10.1071/AR07045. |
3. Genome-wide association mapping for seedling and adult plant resistance to stripe rust in synthetic hexaploid wheat. Zegeye H, Rasheed A, Makdis F, Badebo A, Ogbonnaya FC. In: PLoS ONE, 2014, 9(8): e105593. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105593. |
It’s disarmingly honest. It’s fun. It’s funny. It’s inspirational. Kalli Purie’s Confessions of A Serial Dieter (Harper Collins) is a very smart, very readable take on the whole weight loss thing. And since Kalli is not a dietician or a fitness expert, but a working woman (she is the chief creative officer for the Indi... |
We met Kalli at Delhi’s trendy Oriental restaurant, Mamagoto, where she picked delicately at the papaya salad. She looked super slim – and super happy – probably the best advertisement for her book! |
I realised one day that all I was doing at parties was discussing other people’s diets. Someone finally said to me, ‘why don’t you write a book?’ So I did. It was an outpouring, my way of dealing with my weight issues. My publisher said, ‘But you haven’t written anything on how you put on so much weight in the first pl... |
Do you need a deadline when it comes to losing weight too? |
Yes. If I don’t have a date by which time I have to shed x amount of weight, I’m a mast maula. At the moment I’m about two or three kilos off. I’m thinking of this dress I want to get into – it’s electric blue, one shoulder, absolutely fitted, floor length. I have to get into that. When I was not focused on my body, I ... |
Is it tough as you grow older? |
It’s difficult after you hit 30. I know people who have been slim all their lives till 30. But after that they’ve put on weight. Your metabolism slows down. You can’t lose weight without a good workout and without watching everything you eat. |
What is your weight right now? |
I’m at a happy weight right now – 62.8 kg. My immediate target is 60 by the end of the week. But my goal for this year is weight nirvana. No more fighting. Right now, I’m fighting with myself. I want cake. No, I can’t have it. But I want it. I want not-having-cake to become an automatic choice. Anyone who is fit or thi... |
Yes. When I went to the Jaipur Lit fest, the food at the fest was not great. But I knew that when I was in Jaipur I had to eat laal maas with butter naan. Those are golden calories. Not tucking into airline food or mindlessly eating fries. |
What are your golden calories? |
On my birthday I must have a hot croissant with a big, thick layer of Nutella and a hot cup of cappuccino. |
You don’t eat dinner, do you? |
No, it doesn’t suit me. |
Will you ever eat dinner again? |
No. Not because I’m trying to be holier than thou. It doesn’t suit my body. If I eat dinner I feel nauseous the next day. My last meal of the day is at six in the evening when I usually have a glass of skimmed milk. |
If there’s nothing in the house, you’re not going to find chocolate to eat at 12 at night. I’m the kind who wants an After 8 every night at ten. As for my kids, well, they get enough of all this during birthday parties. Whenever anything sweet comes to the house, it is sent away immediately. |
So what do your kids snack on? |
Cheese slices, fruit, Haldiram daal, digestive biscuits. |
No I don’t. I have an issue with TV – I can’t control the advertising. I’m a working mom. So I have to make strict rules. The thing is, I want to teach them about what is good and bad food. But if they’re watching TV, I won’t be at home to tell them whether what they’re seeing is healthy or not. I believe TV is not goo... |
How is your book doing? |
It’s No. 2 in the HT Neilson bestseller list. But the book gave me its best payback when I wrote it. Freedom. Having dealt with my deepest complexes and my worst fear – my weight – I am now truly fearless. I feel like I have come out of the closet and I have nothing to hide. So liberating. The second amazing thing is h... |
How do you feel now that you have lost all that weight? |
My weight was my excuse for not doing so many things. I hid in my fat suit. Now the first consideration for every decision is not what will the food be and what will I look like doing it. The decision is based on far more relevant and solid reasons. |
Having conquered my weight and lost 43 kilos I feel I can do anything. It has become a reason to attempt everything and question everything I thought impossible. It’s like starting my life over. I talk about this in my book. About transformation which is not akin to ugly duckling to swan but caterpillar to butterfly. S... |
I also think I don’t have to work so hard to make people see my real self. When you are overweight you are pre-judged and not always positively. You have to work double hard to make people want to know the real you. I find myself more me because I already made the first impression. |
Lastly, all my bits are in harmony. Some still not as toned as I would like but in harmony all the same! Like my body can finally keep up with my mind. It is incredible to feel your own skin finally fits! |
Lunch: Sabzi (no potatoes) and a fist-sized roti. No daal. No rice. |
With their most recent memories erased, the Doctor and Clara break into the most impregnable bank in the universe without knowing what they are trying to steal, why they agreed to do so or who they are working for. |
And do you know what? It was fun. A lot of fun. |
It didn’t have the slapstick buffoonery of Robot of Sherwood (which I didn’t like anyway). It didn’t have a particularly intricate plot. What it did have was a story that flew by, one-off characters who were more than one-dimensional plot devices and a series of mysteries that the Doctor unravels at the same pace as us... |
MORE: Doctor Who season 8, episode 3: Is Robot Of Sherwood more of a farce than a comedy? |
As a result, it feels like we’re right there alongside the Doctor, Clara, Psi and Saibra as they descend into the vaults of the Bank of Karabraxos solving one puzzle at a time: why their memories were wiped (with the memory worms from The Snowmen), the nature of Ms Delphox’s hold over the Teller and her relationship to... |
We only discover what the team are trying to steal late in the story as this reveals the motivations of Psi (who is able to replace deleted memories of family and friends) and Saibra (who suppresses her shape-shifting ability) for signing up for a seemingly impossible mission. |
Only when the Doctor allows the Teller into his mind to release his memories do we discover the reason behind his and Clara’s involvement – to execute not a bank heist but a timey-wimey rescue mission to free the Teller and his captive mate, the last two of their species. |
Although the episode treats us to some of the traditional tropes and roles of the heist genre – Psi and Saibra adopt the familiar jobs of computer expert, safe-cracker and disguise artist between them – the team’s journey to the bank’s vaults is relatively uncomplicated. |
Instead, we’re given time with both Psi and Saibra, which makes them more rounded characters and lends emotional weight to their apparent deaths. |
As such, I enjoyed this episode much more than the aforementioned Robin Hood jaunt. It’s just as much of a light-hearted romp but with enough human drama to stop it from becoming too silly. |
After a variable start to the season, the last two episodes have provided a good example of how the show can switch from genre to genre and from a dark to a lighter one without skipping a beat. Now, what’s next? |
Jeffrey Shaffer has been writing essays and news commentary for more than 25 years, including a twice monthly column on the oped page of The Christian Science Monitor from 1998 until 2008. |
A new collection of his writing – "Humor Without Borders" – is now available on Kindle. |
His work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, BARK, Huffington Post, and the Oregonian. |
His career in the electronic media includes stints as a TV news writer, talk show host, and radio commentator. |
He now writes a monthly column about life in a bookstore called "The Shelf Talker". Shaffer lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, children's author Susan Blackaby. Their daughter Rudy recently graduated from Oregon State University and is planning a career focused on international aid programs. During Rudy's element... |
Modern Parenthood Do kids take water for granted? |
Ole Miss wide receiver A.J. Brown has declared for the upcoming 2019 NFL Draft, foregoing his senior year. |
OXFORD, Miss. (WTVA) - Ole Miss wide receiver A.J. Brown has declared for the upcoming 2019 NFL Draft, foregoing his senior year. |
The Starkville native went to his Twitter account to inform the Ole Miss faithful. |
“This place [Ole Miss] has become my second home,” he stated. |
Brown put up record numbers for the Rebels during his three years on campus. Many analysts believe he will be drafted in the early part of the first round. |
He joins fellow wide receiver D.K. Metcalf in declaring for the NFL Draft. |
The City of Zeeland will construct a roundabout at the intersection of West Washington Avenue and West Main Avenue, and reconstruct West Washington Avenue from the west city limit to North Franklin Street. |
The Michigan Department of Transportation has awarded state Transportation Economic Development Fund grants to the city of Zeeland to improve operations, increase safety and extend the service life of important commercial roadways. |
With the funds, the City of Zeeland will construct a roundabout at the intersection of West Washington Avenue and West Main Avenue, and reconstruct West Washington Avenue from the west city limit to North Franklin Street, according to a press release MDOT. |
West Washington Avenue is part of the city of Zeeland's commercial route between M-121 and I-196 Business Loop, providing access to the industrial area on the north side of the city. The roundabout, along with upgraded traffic signals and new curb and gutter, will improve traffic flow, address visibility issues, and ex... |
The grants will cover $350,000 with project total coming out to $1,035,000. The remaining cost of the project will be covered by Zeeland. |
Lawmakers called for the audit after coverage from the Center for Investigative Reporting last year. The Center found more than 100 incarcerated women had received tubal ligations without proper approvals between 2006 and 2010. It found 100 more possible cases dating back to the 1990s. |
The new state audit has found that some surgeries were done illegally and that the safeguards built into the system had failed. |
It says that in some cases, physicians didn’t sign forms to certify that a waiting period was observed, and that the patients understood the procedure’s implications. |
“We knew that there was a problem, but the extent of it is really quite shocking," Jackson says. She says the audit shows that there is a systemic problem in the prison system. |
“We have to stop this culture, we have to stop this behavior and remove California from a history of eugenics which have been practiced in this state since the 1930s,” she says. |
But California Correctional Health Care Services says it halted unauthorized sterilizations when it became aware of them in 2010. |
“As we’ve moved forward in the past four years, we’re continuing to increase those steps to ensure further safeguards, ” says Liz Gransee, a public information officer with the agency. |
Gransee says it’s planning to comply with the State Auditor’s recommendations. That includes referring unlawful cases to the California Medical Board and the California Department of Public Health so it can investigate the involved providers. |
“We’re continuing to improve health care as we go on,” Gransee says. |
Angel Rinehart was sterilized during a prison term that started in 2007. |
Senator Jackson says in the prison setting, it’s not possible to get consent for sterilization in a reliable or responsible way. |
She and advocates have crafted a bill that would prohibit sterilizations in prisons, except under limited circumstances. |
A recently released state audit found that the sterilization of dozens of women prisoners were done in violation of informed consent laws. |
California lawmakers are calling for a state audit of the legally questionable practice of sterilizing women inmates. Experts say it is part of the state’s dark history with a discredited social philosophy. |
California lawmakers are scrutinizing the practice of sterilizing female inmates in the state’s prisons. |
The legal and constitutional issues around qualification for the presidency on grounds of US citizenship are “murky and unsettled”, according to the scholar cited by Donald Trump in his recent attacks on Ted Cruz. |
Trump has sought to cast doubt on whether the senator, who was born in Canada to an American mother and a Cuban father, is a “natural-born US citizen”. In doing so he has referred to the work and words of Laurence Tribe, perhaps the most respected liberal law professor in the country. |
Tribe taught both Cruz and Barack Obama at Harvard Law School. He also advised Al Gore in the 2000 Florida recount and has advised Obama’s campaign organisation. |
Tribe has said previously that the question of Cruz’s eligibility is “unsettled”. On Sunday, Trump cited that position in an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press, in which he described Tribe “as a constitutional expert, one of the true experts”. |
He added: “Even having two US parents wouldn’t suffice for a genuine originalist. And having just an American mother, as Cruz did, would clearly have been insufficient at a time that made patrilineal descent decisive. |
Trump, who trails Cruz in polls in Iowa, first raised the issue last week. Cruz has since cited a bipartisan Harvard Law Review article by two former solicitor generals, Neal Katyal and Paul Clement, to back his contention that he is a natural-born citizen. Some of his rivals have pushed back; the Kentucky senator and ... |
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee in 2012, tweeted on Friday that Cruz was indeed a “natural-born citizen”. |
Tribe, who became a hated figure to many on the right thanks to his role in derailing the supreme court nomination of Robert Bork in 1987, gave legal advice to McCain when similar “natural-born citizen” questions arose in 2008. McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone, to two Americans. |
Asked if he was surprised by Trump’s use of his name, Tribe wrote: “What I find surreal isn’t that a Republican presidential candidate would favorably cite my legal conclusions, but that anyone should find that phenomenon so shocking. |
“The fact that I’m a lifelong liberal and a registered Democrat who taught constitutional law to President Obama (and, by the way, to Chief Justice Roberts and Senator Cruz) makes my citation by a likely Republican nominee for president surprising only because our political divisions have become so profound and so para... |
Stephen Ambrose and Doris Kearns Goodwin, have stood accused of plagiarism in cases that are generating headlines and hand wringing. |
Sensing an opportunity to uncover front-page-worthy fraud, journalists armed with Post-It notes -- and anonymous tips about the thefts -- have turned into literary gumshoes, painstakingly combing through books. |
But the job needn't be so taxing. During the past decade, plagiarism detection has gone high-tech. Today's software market is flooded with programs designed to rout out copycats with maximum efficiency and minimum effort. . |
Historians were among the first scholars to try to nail a plagiarism suspect with a computer. In 1991, in a case that became famous in academic circles, several historians filed a complaint with the American Historical Association accusing Stephen B. Oates, a historian at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and ... |
As evidence, Oates' accusers pointed to passages in his book that closely resembled passages in a 1952 biography of Lincoln by Benjamin P. Thomas. Oates furiously denied the charges, attributing any similarities between the two books to a reliance on the same historical sources. Twenty-three colleagues signed a public ... |
After deliberating on the case for a year, the association ruled that Oates had "failed to give Thomas sufficient attribution for the material he used," but carefully avoided the word plagiarism. |
Some of Oates' critics were convinced that he was being let off the hook too easily. One hit on the idea of having a computer judge the case and approached Walter Stewart and Ned Feder, scientists at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., who had developed what the media dubbed a "plagiarism machine." |
distinctive language and rhetorical strategies of other scholars and sources." |
The association also took pains to dismiss Stewart and Feder's plagiarism machine, declaring that "computer-assisted identification of similar words and phrases in itself does not constitute a sufficient basis for a plagiarism or misuse complaint." |
The scientists' supervisors at the National Institutes of Health were no more enthusiastic. When they caught wind of Stewart and Feder's extracurricular activities, they confiscated the plagiarism machine and had their research lab shuttered. . |
For the nascent plagiarism detection business, this was an inauspicious beginning, but hardly, it turned out, a major setback. Nearly 10 years later, anti-plagiarism software is routinely used by dozens of colleges and universities -- even high schools -- on student work. |
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