Yogindran, Sneha Kumar, Manish Sahoo, Lingaraj Sanatombi, Keithellakpam Chakraborty, Supriya
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Molecular Biology Reports
Geminiviridae comprises the largest family of plant viruses which causes severe crop losses in India. The highest pungency chilli Bhut-Jolokia or ghost pepper ( Capsicum chinense Jaqc.) hails from North-East region of India and is used in many dishes to add flavors and also for its medicinal value. However, this chilli variety is also affected by v...
Onori, Maria Elisabetta Ricciardi Tenore, Claudio Urbani, Andrea Minucci, Angelo
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Molecular Biology Reports
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is until today a global health emergency. In an immense effort, effective drugs against COVID-19 are searched and intensive researches on possible repurposing of antiviral agents are performed. Since chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) have shown in vitro anti- COVID-19 activities, the potential eff...
Wang, Wentao Hu, Suying Cao, Yao Chen, Rui Wang, Zhezhi Cao, Xiaoyan
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Molecular Biology Reports
Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi is a famous medicinal plant with its dried roots having been used as a traditional Chinese medicinal for more than 2000 years. Although its genome sequence has previously been published and molecular biology methods have been used to study this species, no suitable internal reference genes have been investigated for s...
Malkani, Naila Rashid, Muhammad Usman
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Molecular Biology Reports
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an acute respiratory syndrome, reported at the end of 2019 in China originally and immediately spread affecting over ten million world population to date. This pandemic is more lethal for the older population and those who previously suffered from other ailments such as cardiovascular diseases, respiratory dis...
Shi, Xingjuan Chen, Mengying Zhang, Yu
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Molecular Biology Reports
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) leads to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a worldwide epidemic disease affecting increasing number of patients. Although the virus primarily targets respiratory system, cardiovascular involvement has been reported in accumulating studies. In this review, we first descr...
Lu, Bingyue Ma, Mengli Zhang, Wei Meng, Hengling Lei, En Wang, Tiantao Li, Chunyan
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Molecular Biology Reports
Amomum tsao-ko (Zingiberaceae) is a traditional Chinese medicine and condiment, and an important economic crop in the tropical forest of southwest China. However, few simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers are available in A. tsao-ko , which is hindering genetic research in this species. The aim of this study was to develop and characterize microsate...
Anupama, Karanth Padyana Nayak, Ashwath Karunasagar, Iddya Karunasagar, Indrani Maiti, Biswajit
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Molecular Biology Reports
The primary reason for foodborne illness is improper seafood safety testing, and hence, an appropriate tool for testing is the key to control the outbreaks. The current study aimed to develop a loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay to detect pathogenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus , important foodborne pathogen, targeting tdh , and trh gen...
Dang, Phat M Lamb, Marshall C Chen, Charles Y
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Molecular biology reports
Early leaf spot (ELS) and late leaf spot (LLS) are major fungal diseases of peanut that can severely reduce yield and quality. Development of acceptable genetic resistance has been difficult due to a strong environmental component and many major and minor QTLs. Resistance genes (R-genes) are an important component of plant immune system and have be...
Sambrani, Roshanak Abdolalizadeh, Jalal Kohan, Leila Jafari, Behboud
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Molecular Biology Reports
Today, the increasing rate of cancer-related mortality, has rendered cancer a major global challenge, and the second leading cause of death worldwide. Conventional approaches in the treatment of cancer mainly include chemotherapy, surgery, immunotherapy, and radiotherapy. However, these approaches still come with certain disadvantages, including dr...
Dib, Israa Khalil, Alia Chouaib, Racha El-Makhour, Yolla Noureddine, Hiba
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Molecular Biology Reports
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) have overtaken infectious diseases and are currently the world’s top killer. A quite strong linkage between this type of ailments and elevated plasma levels of triglycerides (TG) has been always noticed. Notably, this risk factor is mired in deep confusion, since its role in atherosclerosis is uncertain. One of the exp...
