ABSTRACT Of the approximately 10 million cases of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infections each year, over 10% are resistant to the frontline antibiotic isoniazid (INH).INH resistance is predominantly caused by mutations that decrease the activity of the bacterial enzyme KatG, which mediates the conversion of the pro-drug INH to its active form
Conservation agriculture (CA) technologies are the future of sustainable agriculture.Many research, and developmental organizations including farmers group are engaged in promoting CA technology for more than a decade.Gender has an important role in adoption and dissemination of CA technologies that include use of zero tillage, paddy transplanter,
Koichi Nishitsuka, Katsuhiro Nishi, Hiroyuki Namba, Yutaka Kaneko, Hidetoshi Yamashita Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, JapanCorrespondence: Koichi NishitsukaDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata City, Yamagata, JapanTel +
Functional Apis mellifera honey bee colonies rely on collaborative brood care typically performed by nurse bees with well-developed hypopharyngeal glands (HPGs).Neonicotinoids, widely used insecticides, have been shown to negatively affect HPG development when worker bees were exposed to field-realistic concentrations either as brood or adults.To d