Background: A water extract (CAW) of the Ayurvedic plant Centella asiatica administered in drinking water has been shown to improve cognitive deficits in mouse models of aging and neurodegenerative diseases.Here the effects of CAW administered in drinking water or the diet on cognition, measures of anxiety and depression-like behavior in healthy cl
Abstract Background Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) is a destructive floral disease of different cereal crops.The Ascomycete fungus Fusarium graminearum (Fg) is one of the main causal agents of FHB in wheat and barley.The role(s) in virulence of Fg genes include genetic studies that involve the transformation of the fungus with different expression cass
We tested the hypothesis that cryptically colored eggs would suffer less predation than conspicuous eggs in the ground-nesting red-legged partridge, Alectoris rufa.We used A.rufa as a model species because it has a wide range of natural egg colors, the eggs are widely available from breeding farms, and nests are easily mimicked because they are scr
Abstract Background One of the major barriers depileve easy clean to the development of lignocellulosic feedstocks is the recalcitrance of plant cell walls to deconstruction and saccharification.Recalcitrance can be reduced by targeting genes involved in cell wall biosynthesis, but this can have unintended consequences that compromise the agronomic