Human leukocyte antigen class I (HLA-I) molecules are a group of structurally-related cell surface proteins with a high degree of variability within the population.While only up to six variants are expressed in an individual person, the whole population contains thousands of different variants.The ability to distinguish specific variants is importa
Chestnut Parasites of the genus Plasmodium that cause malaria survive within humans by invasion of, and proliferation within, the most abundant cell type in the body, the red blood cell.As obligate, intracellular parasites, interactions between parasite and host red blood cell components are crucial to multiple aspects of the blood stage malaria pa
Resistance to pod shattering (shatter resistance) is a target trait for global rapeseed (canola, Brassica VANILLA ICE CREAM napus L.), improvement programs to minimise grain loss in the mature standing crop, and during windrowing and mechanical harvest.We describe the genetic basis of natural variation for shatter resistance in B.napus and show tha