September 2011

Durable resistance in wheat

Several rust resistance genes have been identified and used in breeding for resistance but new variants of the pathogen (referred to as races) overcome the resistance over a period of time. Most plant breeders and pathologists now advocate durable resistance to rusts based on multiple genes as best source of resistance as breeding for this type of resistance tends to produce long-lasting solutions. Wheat breeders...

Author(s): Priyamvada, M. S. Saharan and Ratan Tiwari

September 2011

TAP2 polymorphisms in Iranian patients with type I diabetes mellitus

  Type I diabetes (T1D) is an immune mediated disease characterized by immune destruction of insulin producing pancreatic beta cells. This disease is associated with the human major histocompatibility complex (HLA) region of the genome. The presentation of self peptides by HLA class I molecules is defective in individuals with this disease and both TAP1 and TAP2 are potential contributors to this defect. The...

Author(s):   Jalil Tavakkol Afshari, Seyed Morteza Taghavi, Seyedeh Seddigheh Fatemi, Houshang Rafatpanah, Fatemeh Gheybi and Narges Nezamdoost