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Bodao, a japonica landrace from the Taihu Lake region of China, is highly resistant to most Chinese isolates of Magnaporthe oryzea, a form of rice blast. To effectively dissect the influence of genetics on this blast resistance, a population of 155 recombinant inbred lines (F2:8) derived from a cross of Bodao x Suyunuo was inoculated with 12 blast isolates. ... more
Genuine medicinal plant materials are very important for potential crude drug production, which can be used to cure many human diseases. DNA barcoding of medicinal plants is an effective way to identify adulterated or contaminated market materials, but it can be quite challenging to generate barcodes and analyze the data to determine discrimination power. The molecular phylogeny of a ... more
When analyzing sequencing reads, it is important to distinguish between putative correct and wrong bases. An open question is how a PHRED quality value is capable of identifying the miscalled bases and if there is a quality cutoff that allows mapping of most errors. Considering the fact that a low quality value does not necessarily indicate a miscalled position, we decided to ... more
There are many bioinformatics tools that deal with input/output (I/O) issues by using filing systems from the most common operating systems, such as Linux or MS Windows. However, as data volumes increase, there is a need for more efficient disk access, ad hoc memory management and specific page-replacement policies. We propose a device driver that can be used by multiple ... more
The rare and endangered plants of any country are important genetic resources that often require urgent conservation measures. Assessment of phylogenetic relationships and evaluation of genetic diversity is very important prior to implementation of conservation strategies for saving rare and endangered plant species. We used internal transcribed spacer sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA ... more
This study performed a genetic study of several canopies of Anacardium occidentale L. specimen called "Cashew King" (Cajueiro da Praia-PI, Brazil) in order to assess whether all canopies belong to the same plant. Leaves were collected from different distant points, and preserved for analysis of DNA. The analysis was made from automated sequencing by capillary ... more
BLAST is a genomic local alignment search tool used to identify homology between genotypes and possible orthologous genes. In vitro microsatellite transferability is a strategy to enable or increase species molecular fingerprinting, but it is dependent on PCR technique. An initial in silico step using BLAST for transferability can be helpful to ... more
Genome mapping is a simplified representation of molecular markers or nucleotide sequences in chromosomes; developing accurate and dense maps is crucial for marker-assisted selection. We developed and compared genetic linkage maps obtained using JoinMap 4.0 and GACD with a physical map obtained using BLAST analysis based on Eucalyptus SNPs transferred to ... more
Expressed sequenced tags (ESTs) were prepared to establish a baseline for molecular genetic studies of the tarnished plant bug, Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois). The largest class of identifiable ESTs (15.2%) was from genes involved in cellular metabolic functions, including physiological processes. Twenty-seven ESTs (9.8%) were from genes associated with transcription ... more
The Human Cancer Genome Project generated about 1 million expressed sequence tags by the ORESTES method, principally with the aim of obtaining data from cancer. Of this total, 341,680 showed no similarity with sequences in the public transcript databases, referred to as “no-match”. Some of them represent low abundance or difficult to detect human transcripts, but part of these ... more