Honeybee gene find ends 150-year search
...l, who discovered the principles of inheritance in pea plants, also tried to breed bees without success. In the 1940s, Harry H. Laidlaw, Jr. now a professor emeritus of entomology at UC Davis, and others pioneered methods for artificial insemination of bees, allowing selective breeding for the first time...Normal gene control increases chances human stem cells will be safe
...ive. "The inheritance rules Mendel observed in his pea garden aren't operating here," explains Feinberg. "'Dominant' and 'recessive' don't explain imprinted genes. Instead, for some imprinted genes, only the copy from the mother is used, while for others, only the copy from the father is turned on -- gen...Hopkins scientists return to the mouse to overcome some obstacles in working with human stem cells
...er. "The inheritance rules Mendel observed in his pea garden aren't operating here," explains Andrew Feinberg, M.D., King Fahd Professor of Medicine in the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine at Hopkins. "'Dominant' and 'recessive' don't explain imprinted genes." Published online the week of ...Chemical discovered that causes plant tumors
...esearch, the scientists studied the interaction of pea plants with pea weevils, a tiny insect that's smaller than a ladybug but is one of the worst insect pests of peas. I...Better Binding Through Chemistry
...esesurfaces from coming together is like putting a pea down on a footballfield." Crabtree and Stanford colleagues Roger Briesewitz, Gregory Ray and ThomasWandless leveled the playing field by increasing the size of the small moleculeinhibitor. They did this by chemically attaching the inhibitor to anoth...Peas With Built-In Weevil Resistance
... damaging pest of Australia's $100 million-a-year pea crop. "Currently, growers spend up to $16 mill...on a year on chemical insecticides to control the pea weevils. In our field trials, we've shown that the genetically modified peas are 99.5 per cent resi...... Mendel selected seven distinct characteristics of pea plants and traced how those characteristics were p... the Tasmanian group demonstrated that tallness in pea plants is regulated by an acid called gibberellin, or GA1, with promotes stem growth. Gibberellic a...