Core partners kick-off meeting─Ukama Ustawi (UU): Diversification for Resilient Agrifood systems in East and Southern Africa (ESA)

Evan Girvetz Christian Thierfelder Iddo Dror (2022, [Objeto de congreso])

CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA AGRICULTURE FOOD SYSTEMS DIVERSIFICATION RESILIENCE

Preliminary dissection of grain yield and related traits at differential nitrogen levels in diverse pre-breeding wheat germplasm through association mapping

Achla Sharma Juan Burgueño Prashant Vikram Nitika Sandhu Satinder Kaur Parveen Chhuneja (2023, [Artículo])

Plant Nitrogen Use Efficiency Pre-Breeding Lines Genome-Wide Association Study Marker Trait Association CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA WHEAT PRE-BREEDING BREEDING LINES NITROGEN LANDRACES GENETIC MARKERS

Epistasis activation contributes substantially to heterosis in temperate by tropical maize hybrids

Liu Xiaogang Yunbi Xu (2022, [Artículo])

Genome-Wide Association Study Epistatic Effects Protein Interaction Multiple-Hybrid Population CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA HETEROSIS MAIZE PROTEINS HYBRIDS

Comparative live-cell imaging analyses of SPA-2, BUD-6 and BNI-1 in Neurospora crassa reveal novel features of the filamentous fungal polarisome

Alexander Lichius (2012, [Artículo])

A key multiprotein complex involved in regulating the actin cytoskeleton and secretory machinery required for polarized growth in fungi, is the polarisome. Recognized core constituents in budding yeast are the proteins Spa2, Pea2, Aip3/Bud6, and the key effector Bni1. Multicellular fungi display a more complex polarized morphogenesis than yeasts, suggesting that the filamentous fungal polarisome might fulfill additional functions. In this study, we compared the subcellular organization and dynamics of the putative polarisome components BUD-6 and BNI-1 with those of the bona fide polarisome marker SPA-2 at various developmental stages of Neurospora crassa. All three proteins exhibited a yeast-like polarisome configuration during polarized germ tube growth, cell fusion, septal pore plugging and tip repolarization. However, the localization patterns of all three proteins showed spatiotemporally distinct characteristics during the establishment of new polar axes, septum formation and cytokinesis, and maintained hyphal tip growth. Most notably, in vegetative hyphal tips BUD-6 accumulated as a subapical cloud excluded from the Spitzenkörper (Spk), whereas BNI-1 and SPA-2 partially colocalized with the Spk and the tip apex. Novel roles during septal plugging and cytokinesis, connected to the reinitiation of tip growth upon physical injury and conidial maturation, were identified for BUD-6 and BNI-1, respectively. Phenotypic analyses of gene deletion mutants revealed additional functions for BUD-6 and BNI-1 in cell fusion regulation, and the maintenance of Spk integrity. Considered together, our findings reveal novel polarisome-independent functions of BUD-6 and BNI-1 in Neurospora, but also suggest that all three proteins cooperate at plugged septal pores, and their complex arrangement within the apical dome of mature hypha might represent a novel aspect of filamentous fungal polarisome architecture. © 2012 Lichius et al.

fungal protein, protein BNI 1, protein BUD 6, protein SPA 2, protein Spk, unclassified drug, actin binding protein, cytoskeleton protein, fungal protein, article, cell fusion, cellular distribution, comparative study, conidium, controlled study, cyto BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA MICROBIOLOGÍA MICROBIOLOGÍA

Solanum tuberosum Microtuber Development under Darkness Unveiled through RNAseq Transcriptomic Analysis

ELIANA VALENCIA LOZANO LISSET HERRERA ISIDRON Osiel Salvador Recoder-Meléndez Aarón Barraza Celis JOSE LUIS CABRERA PONCE (2022, [Artículo])

"Potato microtuber (MT) development through in vitro techniques are ideal propagules for producing high quality potato plants. MT formation is influenced by several factors, i.e., photoperiod, sucrose, hormones, and osmotic stress. We have previously developed a protocol of MT induction in medium with sucrose (8% w/v), gelrite (6g/L), and 2iP as cytokinin under darkness. To understand the molecular mechanisms involved, we performed a transcriptome-wide analysis. Here we show that 1715 up- and 1624 down-regulated genes were involved in this biological process. Through the protein–protein interaction (PPI) network analyses performed in the STRING database (v11.5), we found 299 genes tightly associated in 14 clusters. Two major clusters of up-regulated proteins fundamental for life growth and development were found: 29 ribosomal proteins (RPs) interacting with 6 PEBP family members and 117 cell cycle (CC) proteins. The PPI network of up-regulated transcription factors (TFs) revealed that at least six TFs–MYB43, TSF, bZIP27, bZIP43, HAT4 and WOX9–may be involved during MTs development. The PPI network of down-regulated genes revealed a cluster of 83 proteins involved in light and photosynthesis, 110 in response to hormone, 74 in hormone mediate signaling pathway and 22 related to aging."

transcriptome-wide analysis, microtubers, potato, Solanum tuberosum, darkness, cell cycle, ribosomal proteins, PEBP family genes, cytokinin BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA GENÉTICA GENÉTICA MOLECULAR DE PLANTAS GENÉTICA MOLECULAR DE PLANTAS

Desarrollo y comercialización de adyuvantes herbolarios como alternativa terapéutica para el tratamiento del síndrome metabólico en adultos mexicanos. Evaluación de solicitud de patente y registro sanitario

SYLVIA ADRIANA PINAL CALVILLO (2023, [Tesis de maestría])

Este trabajo de tesis parte de la creciente preocupación global sobre la Epidemia

Metabólica, enfocándose en su prevalencia, impacto económico y las perspectivas

futuras en México. Se centra en la interconexión entre enfermedades metabólicas,

factores de riesgo compartidos y la respuesta a intervenciones comunes,

destacando la obesidad, diabetes y síndrome metabólico como ejes centrales.

Adicionalmente, examina la Medicina Ancestral y la estandarización en la

producción de remedios herbolarios como estrategias potenciales para mitigar esta

crisis.

El trabajo revisa los antecedentes de la Medicina Tradicional según la Organización

Mundial de la Salud (OMS), su uso en condiciones metabólicas, y su integración en

sistemas de salud. Se presta especial atención al uso de plantas medicinales en

México y a nivel global, resaltando la transferencia intercultural de conocimientos

herbolarios en la era de la globalización.

En el marco general, se establecen los objetivos del estudio y se detalla la

caracterización de productos herbales específicos para el tratamiento del síndrome

metabólico, se centra en el uso sinérgico de: Syzigium cumini, Coix lacryma-jobi, y

Mossanona depressa. Se analizan sus propiedades farmacológicas y usos en el

tratamiento de la diabetes y el síndrome metabólico.

La sección de formalización comercial aborda la constitución de la sociedad, los

registros ante el Instituto Mexicano de Propiedad Intelectual (IMPI) y la Comisión

Federal para la Protección contra Riesgos a la Salud (COFEPRIS), la determinación

de patentabilidad, y las estrategias de protección de propiedad intelectual.

Finalmente, el estudio concluye con recomendaciones para la mejora regulatoria en

este campo y detalla la tramitología necesaria para la implementación de estas

estrategias. La investigación subraya la importancia de integrar la medicina

tradicional en los sistemas de salud modernos para combatir la epidemia

metabólica, especialmente en contextos como el de México.

BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA Epidemia metabólica, medicina ancestral México, Herbario Mundial, obesidad, diabetes, síndrome metabólico, tratamiento herbolario, factores riesgo metabólicos, intervenciones epidemia metabólica, carga económica Salud México, remedios naturales diabetes, integración medicina tradicional, OMS Medicina Tradicional, plantas medicinales metabólicas, Syzigium cumini, Coix lacryma-jobi, Mossanona depressa, Propiedad Intelectual Herbolarios, Registro COFEPRIS, Patentabilidad Productos Naturales, Legislación Mexicana Salud, Mejora Regulatoria Medicina Tradicional.

Hyperiid amphipods from the Gulf of Ulloa and offshore region, Baja California: The possible role of the gelatinous zooplankton as a transport vector into the coastal shelf waters

Bertha Lavaniegos (2020, [Artículo])

Hyperiid amphipod species from the Gulf of Ulloa, Baja California, and the adjacent region (from the shelf break to 200 km offshore) were analyzed to evaluate diversity and abundances. This productive area supports small-scale commercial fisheries, including sand bass (Paralabrax nebulifer), California spiny lobster (Panulirus interruptus), abalones, clams, and others. Strong coastal upwelling events were observed during summer seasons of the period 2002-2008 between Punta Eugenia and Punta Abreojos. The upwelling plumes at Punta Abreojos are transported southward in slope waters bordering the coastal shelf of the Gulf of Ulloa, contributing to the separation of coastal and oceanic regions, and explain differences in amphipod diversity and abundances between both regions. In the offshore region, the most abundant species were Vibilia armata, Lestrigonus schizogeneios, Primno brevidens, and Eupronoe minuta, similar to previous findings in northern regions of Baja California and southern California. However, abundances of these species were lower (10-30 individuals/1000 m3), only reaching 20-50% of abundance levels reported off northern Baja California. In the coastal shelf of the Gulf of Ulloa, amphipods were virtually absent during 2002, 2003 and 2006. However, during 2004 and 2005, abundances of P. brevidens increased (54 and 20 ind/1000 m3, respectively). Moreover, during the late summer of 2007, abundances of L. schizogeneios, P. brevidens, Lycaea nasuta, Lycaea pulex, and Simorhynchotus antennarius increased considerably (261, 39, 31, 68, 416 ind/1000 m3, respectively), indicating occasional utilization of the coastal shelf by pelagic amphipods. Changes in gelatinous populations (medusae, siphonophores, ctenophores, doliolids, and salps) paralleled changes in hyperiid populations, with highest abundances in 2005-2008 in the coastal shelf. Significant correlations of 17 amphipod species with gelatinous taxa, which are often used as host organisms by hyperiid amphipods, suggest that gelatinous presence enhanced hyperiid abundance and promoted the progression of hyperiid amphipods onto the coastal shelf during parts of the 2002-2008 period. © 2020 Bertha E. Lavaniegos. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

abalone, Amphipoda, article, Baja California, clam, clinical article, Ctenophora, Eugenia, female, fishery, human, human experiment, male, medusa, nonhuman, Panulirus interruptus, plume, summer, zooplankton, Amphipoda, animal, California, ecosystem, CIENCIAS FÍSICO MATEMÁTICAS Y CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA Y DEL ESPACIO OCEANOGRAFÍA OCEANOGRAFÍA

ANÁLISIS DE PIGMENTOS, PEROXIDASA, PROLINA Y PROTEÍNAS DE TRES ESPECIES DE Paulownia BAJO ESTRES HÍDRICO

ANALYSIS OF PIGMENTS, PEROXIDASE, PROLINE AND PROTEINS OF THREE Paulownia SPECIES UNDER WATER STRESS

José Manuel Llano Sotelo Lilia Alcaráz Meléndez (2012, [Artículo])

"Los árboles del género Paulownia son de rápido crecimiento y tienen importancia económica en Asia como materia prima de uso común en la elaboración de muebles, instrumentos musicales y cercos, lo que ha despertado interés por cultivarlos en diferentes ambientes. Con el objetivo de evaluar la tolerancia al estrés hídrico se eligieron tres especies, P. imperialis, P. fortunei y P. elongata, porque son las que se utilizan en China con mayor frecuencia en la reforestación y en la industria maderera. Se realizaron análisis bioquímicos de las hojas para determinar los siguientes componentes: como pigmentos, a las clorofilas total, a y b; β-caroteno, violaxantina y luteína); las enzimas peroxidasa y prolina, así como proteínas solubles, insolubles y totales en tres diferentes condiciones de humedad del suelo, bajo dos condiciones ambientales, campo e invernadero, entre los cuales se observaron diferencias significativas; destaca un incremento del contenido de pigmentos y peroxidasa, y una disminución de las proteínas y prolina en el ambiente controlado, principalmente. Al evaluar la respuesta al estrés hídrico entre las especies se concluyó que P. imperialis y P. elongata son más tolerantes que P. fortunei, debido a su mayor contenido de prolina, mas proteínas totales y solubles, indicadores de una mejor tolerancia a condiciones de estrés."

"Paulownia trees are fast growing and are economically important in Asia as raw material regularly used for furniture, musical instruments, fences, etc., which rose some interest in their cultivation in different environments. In order to assess water stress tolerance, three of these species, P. imperialis, P. fortunei and P. elongate, were selected as they are the most commonly used in reforestation and wood industry in China. Biochemical analyses were performed in leaves, to determine the following elements: pigments (total, a and b chlorophyll; β-carotene, violaxanthin; lutein), peroxidase, proline, total, soluble and insoluble proteins, under three moisture soil concentrations and two environments, field and greenhouse, the latter of which revealed significant differences between them; there is an increment in pigment and peroxidase content and a decrease in protein and proline content, mainly in the greenhouse environment. When water stress was assessed among species, it was concluded that P. imperialis and P. elongata are more tolerant than P. fortunei because of their higher content of proline, total and soluble proteins, which are major tolerance markers in stress conditions. "

Aminoácidos, luteína, Paulownia elongata S. Y. Hu, Paulownia fortunei (Seem.) Hemsl., Paulownia imperialis Siebold & Zucc., peroxidasa, violaxantina Amino acids BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA BIOLOGÍA VEGETAL (BOTÁNICA) FISIOLOGÍA VEGETAL FISIOLOGÍA VEGETAL

Review of Nationally Determined Contributions (NCD) of Vietnam from the perspective of food systems

Tek Sapkota (2023, [Documento de trabajo])

Over the past decades, Vietnam has significantly progressed and has transformed from being a food-insecure nation to one of the world’s leading exporters in food commodities, and from one of the world’s poorest countries to a low-middle-income country. The agriculture sector is dominated by rice and plays a vital role in food security, employment, and foreign exchange. Vietnam submitted its updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) in 2022 based on the NDC 2020. There is a significant increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction, towards the long-term goals identified in Vietnam’s National Climate Change Strategy to 2025, and efforts are being made to fulfil the commitments made at COP26. The Agriculture Sector is the second-largest contributor of GHG emissions in Vietnam, accounting for 89.75 MtCO2eq, which was about 31.6 percent of total emissions in 2014. Rice cultivation is the biggest source of emissions in the agriculture sector, accounting for 49.35% of emissions from agriculture. The total GHG removal from Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) in 2014 was -37.54 MtCO2eq, of which the largest part was from the forest land sub-sector (35.61 MtCO2eq), followed by removal from croplands (7.31 MtCO2eq) (MONRE 2019).

CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA CLIMATE CHANGE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FOOD SYSTEMS LAND USE CHANGE AGRICULTURE POLICIES DATA ANALYSIS

Vibrissa growth rate in California sea lions based on environmental and isotopic oscillations

MARTHA PATRICIA ROSAS HERNANDEZ (2018, [Artículo])

Pinniped vibrissae provide information on changes in diet at seasonal and annual scales; however, species-specific growth patterns must first be determined in order to interpret these data. In this study, a simple linear model was used to estimate the growth rate of vibrissae from adult female California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) from San Esteban Island in the Gulf of California, Mexico. The δ15N and δ13C values do not display a marked oscillatory pattern that would permit direct determination of the time period contained in each vibrissa; thus, time (age) was calculated in two ways: 1) based on the correlation between the observed number of peaks (Fourier series) in the δ15N profile and the length of each vibrissa, and 2) through direct comparison with the observed number of peaks in the δ15N profile. Cross-correlation confirmed that the two peaks in the δ15N profile reflected the two peaks in the chlorophyll-a concentration recorded annually around the island. The mean growth rate obtained from the correlation was 0.08 ± 0.01 mm d-1, while that calculated based on the observed number of peaks was 0.10 ± 0.05 mm d-1. Both are consistent with the rates reported for adult females of other otariid species (0.07 to 0.11 mm d-1). Vibrissa growth rates vary by individual, age, sex, and species; moreover, small differences in the growth rate can result in significant differences over the time periods represented by the isotopic signal. Thus, it is important to assess this parameter on a species-by-species basis. © 2018 Rosas-Hernández et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

carbon, nitrogen, animal, California, chemistry, diet, female, island (geological), Mexico, Otariidae, physiology, Animals, California, Carbon Isotopes, Diet, Female, Islands, Mexico, Nitrogen Isotopes, Sea Lions BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA INMUNOLOGÍA INMUNOLOGÍA