The expression of HAHB10 and of the flowering genes HASEP3 and HAFT was up-regulated by both salicylic acid (SA) treatment and infection with a virulent strain of Pseudomonas syringae. Basal SA and jasmonic acid (JA) levels in Arabidopsis plants ectopically expressing HAHB10 were similar to those of control plants; however, SA

levels differentially increased in the transgenic plants after wounding and infection with P. syringae while JA levels differentially decreased. Taken together, the results indicated that HAHB10 participates in two different processes in plants: the transition from the vegetative to the flowering stage via the induction of specific flowering transition genes and the accumulation www.selleckchem.com/HDAC.html of phytohormones upon biotic stresses.”
“Electronic structure of oxygen vacancies in Ta2O5 have been studied theoretically by first-principles calculations and experimentally by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Calculations of delta-Ta2O5 were performed using density functional theory within gradient-corrected approximation with the +U approach. Results indicate that the oxygen vacancy causes a defect level in the energy gap at 1.2 eV above the top of the valence band. To produce oxygen vacancies, amorphous films of Ta2O5 were bombarded with Ar+ ions. XPS results indicate that the Ar-ion bombardment leads to the generation of the oxygen

vacancies in Ta2O5 that characterize the peak at 2 PFTα Apoptosis inhibitor eV above the valence band. The calculated spectrum of crystalline delta-Ta2O5 demonstrates qualitative correspondence with the XPS spectrum of the amorphous Ta2O5 film after Ar-ion bombardment. (C) 2011 American Institute

of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3606416]“
“Starting from the case of a 12-year-old SBC-115076 boy with dyskinetic (athetoid-dystonic subtype) cerebral palsy, the authors apply the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health for Children and Youth (ICF-CY) of the World Health Organization (WHO) as a comprehensive documentation tool to guide the pathway of care and illustrate a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary neurorehabilitation team approach. The ICF-CY provides a common and universal language for describing and measuring health and disability in the first 2 decades of life. Despite the fact that this is a single case design, the authors consider it useful for the identification of an ICF-CY core set for the description of children with cerebral palsy. The results of this single case study are preliminary and need to be tested in a large trial of children with cerebral palsy.”
“From screening a population of Arabidopsis overexpression lines, two Arabidopsis genes were identified, EFO1 (EARLY FLOWERING BY OVEREXPRESSION 1) and EFO2, that confer early flowering when overexpressed. The two genes encode putative WD-domain proteins which share high sequence similarity and constitute a small subfamily.