[{"id": "ajb-1", "words": "2900", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Mudgal, Varsha; Madaan, Nidhi; Mudgal, Anurag; Singh, Alka; Kumar, P.", "title": "Comparative Study of the Effects of Salinity on Plant Growth, Nodulation, and Legheamoglobin Content in Kabuli and Desi Cultivars of Cicer arietinum (L.)", "date": "2017", "keywords": "chickpea; content; das; growth; nodules; plant; salinity; weight", "summary": "The failure of nodule formation at high salinity might be at- tributed to shrinkage of root hairs; consequently the reduction in plant growth under conditions of high salinity could only be partly accounted by the reduction or failure in nodulation (Tu, 1981; Mudgal et al., 2009). Abstract This study was conducted to compare plant growth, nodulation and legheamoglobin content in Kabuli and Desi cultivars of chickpea (Cicer arietinum (L.)) under sa- line conditions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-10", "words": "8203", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Silver Key, S. Catherine; Reaves, Denise; Turner, Fran; Bang, John J.", "title": "Impacts of Silver Nanoparticle Ingestion on Pigmentation and Developmental Progression in Drosophila", "date": "2017", "keywords": "adult; ag np; control; drosophila; exposure; flies; food; generation; larvae; pigmentation; silver; tla; w w", "summary": "Given the great potential for human ingestion of Ag NP, this study aims to un- derstand the impacts of Ag NP exposure through the ingestion mode on phenotypic outcomes and behavioral characteristics of Drosophila. Two-tailed T-tests indicate that the effect of Ag NP exposure at the parental stage (P) does not significantly affect larval progression at all three larval stages (i.e. p-value greater than 0.05).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-11", "words": "2246", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Frankel, Jack S.", "title": "Inheritance of Shoulder Spotting in the Red-base Tetra (Characidae: Hemigrammus stictus)", "date": "2017", "keywords": "aabb; shoulder; spotting", "summary": "Spotted females SI, SII, SIII, SIV, SV and males S1, S2, S3, S4, S5 were scored as homozygous dominants, as crosses involving these individuals always resulted in spotted progeny (crosses 1-6, 10-13, 19-23). The Red-base tetra (H. stictus), so named due to the prominent red coloration found on both the caudal peduncle and caudal fin, is a South American characin that is easily main- tained and bred in captivity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-12", "words": "1972", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "76", "author": "Khouader, Mohammed; Benkirane, Rachid; Ouazzani Touhami, Amina; Boussalwa, El Houcine; Douira, Allal", "title": "The Endemic Plant Limonium mucronatum L. (Fil.) Chaz., A New Host for Uromyces limonii (DC.) Lev., 1849 in Morocco", "date": "2017", "keywords": "limonii; limonium; mucronatum; tla", "summary": "Materials and Methods Surveys in the coastal cliffs between Rabat and Kenitra al- lowed us to harvest between May and June 2010, a dozen dis- eased plants of L. mucronatum. The description of symptoms was performed using a hand lens or dissecting microscope to better visualize the pustules ob- served on both sides of the leaves of L. mucronatum.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-13", "words": "5846", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Bang, John; Yeyeodu, Susan; Gilyazova, Naila; Witherspoon, Sam; Ibeanu, Gordon", "title": "Effects of Carbon Nanotubes on a Neuronal Cell Model In Vitro", "date": "2017", "keywords": "apoptosis; cells; cnt; etoposide; mwcnts; sfm; tla; w w", "summary": "2A, panels D-F), CNT treated cells showed an increase in the population of AnxV reactive (PS translocated) cells, both with and without A tla s Jo ur na l o f Bi ol og y - IS SN 2 15 8- 91 51 . In comparing the data from treated cells harvested at 10 h (Fig.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-136", "words": "6231", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Amraoui, Rajae; Mingeot, Dominique; Addi, Mohamed; Elamrani, Ahmed; Caid Serghini, Hana; Mihamou, Aatika; Abid, Malika", "title": "Genetic Assessment of Moroccan Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) Genotypes by RAPD and SSR Markers", "date": "2017", "keywords": "c c; g c; g g; g tt; markers; tla; tomato; tt c", "summary": "At the end of the XIXth century, tomato cultivars were self-pollinat- ed and farmer saved seeds from a year to the other. RAPD electrophoretic pattern of tomato cultivars obtained by the primers OPU 03 and OPC 08 (from left to right)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-137", "words": "6749", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Al-Saedi, Suad A.; Lakhssassi, Naoufal; Kassem, My Abdelmajid; Razaq, Ibrahim B.; Meksem, Khalid", "title": "Characterization of Diversity of Bradyrhizobia on Cowpea in Iraq Reveals Unusual Strain Characteristics", "date": "2017", "keywords": "16s; analysis; cowpea; group; plant; rhizobia; rrna; soil; strains; tla; w w", "summary": "I R S1 50 35 85 + + S2 20 85 85 + + S3 55 85 85 + + S4 12 12 20 + + S5 5 85 85 + + S6 25 85 85 + + S7 4 12 20 + + S8 30 10 15 + + S9 35 25 85 + + S10 7 12 20 + + S11 10 8 15 + + S12 25 20 55 + + S13 2 10 15 + + S14 17 10 20 + + S15 29 9 15 + + S16 7 19 85 + + S17 29 10 22 + + S18 7 10 20 + + S19 2 12 23 + + S20 3 12 24 + + S21 18 9 15 + + S22 6 10 15 + + S23 6 19 24 + + S24 7 18 25 + + S25 5 16 25 + + S26 25 10 20 + + S27 15 75 85 + + S28 10 75 85 + + S29 3 70 85 + + S31 10 12 24 + + S32 6 50 85 + + S33 7 50 85 + + S34 4 5 10 + + S35 6 9 16 + + S36 4 8 10 + + S37 2 10 20 + + S38 13 25 85 + + S39 10 85 85 + + S40 2 10 17 + + S41 2 7 10 + + S43 7 13 20 + + S44 3 8 12 + + S45 3 19 26 + + S46 2 20 27 + + S47 89 85 85 + + S48 21 5 10 + + S49 89 12 20 + + S50 89 10 20 + + S51 78 85 85 + + S52 3 20 39 + + S54 16 85 85 + + S55 3 9 20 + + S56 2 9 15 + + S57 7 10 15 + + S58 4 17 85 + + S59 19 12 20 + + S60 1 55 85 + + S61 5 85 85 + + S62 2 12 20 + + S63 10 18 28 + + Table 1. Those 54 descendants evolved into different strains regrouped in 4 different sub-clades or branches.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-15", "words": "2919", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Nattah, Ilham; Touhami, Amina Ouazzani; Benkirane, Rachid; El Kortbi, Mohamed; Douira, Allal", "title": "Lichens of the Hassan Tower Monument (Rabat, Morocco)", "date": "2017", "keywords": "hassan; tla; tower; w w", "summary": "Hassan Tower is a symbolic feature representing the city (El Azhari, 2009). According to Caill\u00e9 (1954), Hassan Tower is the minaret of an incomplete mosque in Rabat.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-158", "words": "2996", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Eljai, Fadoua; Slamini, Meryem; Mzabri, Ibtissam; Bekkouch, Ibtihal; Kouddane, Nour Eddine; Berrichi, Abdelbasset", "title": "The Procedure of Seed Potato Certification in Morocco", "date": "2017", "keywords": "plants; potato; seed; tla; w w", "summary": "Given the importance of Seed Certification, Morocco signed a Program Contract in 2009 to develop the sector of certified potato seed production, which will cover 30% of certified seed needs in the near future (2020) instead of the current coverage that represents only 2% (AISSI, 2014). This estimation attracted the attention of scientists and required scientific research, in- vestment and the use of advanced technology in the field of seed production.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-159", "words": "2597", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "72", "author": "Sellal, Zineb; Dahmani, Jamila; Benkirane, Rachid; Ouazzani Touhami, Amina; Douira, Allal", "title": "Pathogenic Capacity of Botrytis cinerea on Leaves of Pyrus mamorensis, an Endemic Tree of Mamora Forest in Morocco", "date": "2017", "keywords": "botrytis; cinerea; leaves; mamorensis; tla; w w", "summary": "Keywords: Morocco, Pyrus mamorensis, Botrytis cinerea, gray mold, inoculation. However, to our knowledge, this was the first report of gray mold disease of Pyrus mamorensis caused by Botrytis cinerea in Morocco.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-16", "words": "2458", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Frankel, Jack S.; Adler-Golden, Lisa; Porter, Andre N.", "title": "Inheritance of Humeral Spotting in the Croaking Gourami (Osphronemidae: Trichopsis vittatus)", "date": "2017", "keywords": "inheritance; spotting; tla", "summary": "Females and males exhibiting a humeral spot HI, HII, HIII, HIV, HV and H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, respectively, were scored as homozygous dominants, as crosses involving these indi- viduals always resulted in spotted progeny (crosses 1-5, 10-13, 19-23). In addition, reciprocal crosses between spotted and unspotted parental fishes always resulted in spotted progeny (FVI-FX and F6-F10) (crosses 19-23).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-164", "words": "7540", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Hemmati, Melody Naghmeh Shohleh; Geisler, Matthew JB; Meksem, Khalid; Lightfoot, David A", "title": "Annotation of Cultivar Variations at the Multigeneic Rhg1/Rfs2 Locus:: Polymorphisms Underling Alterations of Root Development and Pest Resistance", "date": "2017", "keywords": "bac; et al; forrest; gene; lightfoot; lis; nematode; plant; region; resistance; rfs2; rhg1; scn; sequence; snps; soybean; tla", "summary": "The genetic basis of resistance has been studied using genome sequences (Hague et al., 2000; Schmutz et al., 2010) and genetic transformations (Cook et al., 2012; Srour et al., 2013; Liu et al., 2017). This locus works along with the Rhg4 locus (Liu et al., 2012; Lakhssassi et al., 2017) encompassed by BAC B100B10 (Zatskayera et al., 2017).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-17", "words": "4131", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Malik, Shivani; Bhaumik, Sukesh; Lightfoot, David A.", "title": "Review of the Rpt3 Genes Encoding Part of the 26S Proteasome Associated with Loci Underlying Disease Resistance in Soybean", "date": "2017", "keywords": "biol; et al; genes; proteasome; protein; resistance; scn; soybean; tla", "summary": "Proteomic studies have shown that among the proteins in- creased in SCN resistant Rhg1 near isogenic lines (NILs) was a proteasomal component (Afzal et al., 2009; Figure 1). Previous work (Afzal et al., 2009) and mapping of both the 20S and 19S components to SCN QTL indicates that a part of its role is SCN resistance is through its proteolytic activity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-172", "words": "4102", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Mokhtari, Wafaa Mimoun; Achouri, Mohamed; Remah, Abdellah; Boubaker, Hassan", "title": "Verticillium dahliae-eggplant as the pathosystem model to reveal biocontrol potential of three Trichoderma spp in green house conditions", "date": "2018", "keywords": "biocontrol; dahliae; disease; eggplant; lis; trichoderma; verticillium", "summary": "Trichoderma treatments of eggplant artificially in- fested with Verticillium microsclerotia; both figures represent above ground symptomatic eggplant treated with different Trichoderma spores suspenssions; T. afro-harzianum in T1 treatment, T. reseei in T2 and T. guizouhense in T3 and TC Trichoderma extracted from com- mercial product compared to healthy eggplants Tm1 and infested egg- plant Tm2 controls. rg ) Verticillium dahliae-Eggplant as the Pathosystem Model to Reveal Biocontrol Potential of three Trichoderma spp in Greenhouse Conditions Wafaa Mokhtari1*, Mohamed Achouri1, Abdellah Remah1, and Hassan Boubaker2 1 Plant Protection Department, Institut Agronomique et V\u00e9t\u00e9rinaire Hassan II, Agadir, Morocco; 2 Biology Department, School of Sciences, University Ibn Zohr, Agadir, Morocco Received: January 17, 2018 /", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-174", "words": "20279", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "71", "author": "Van Zant, Miriam Kritzer; Diesburg, Ken; Lightfoot, David A.", "title": "Mirabilis expansa Growth, Yield, and Quality Traits: First US Field Trials for an Ancient, Endangered, Andean Crop", "date": "2018", "keywords": "data; expansa; growth; lamina; length; lis; manure; o f; peat; plants; plots; shoot; steer; terrace; time; tla; var", "summary": "However, time for the 2008 growth data, was significant for peat for: plant height (F = 27.7606,30, H-F-L adjusted p = 0.0006); longest axial shoot length (F = 28.4604,20, H-F-L adjusted p = 0.0014); typical axial shoot length (F = 20.0803,15, H-F-L adjusted p = 0.0004); axial and lateral shoot number (F = 11.4003,15, H-F-L adjusted p = 0.0019); lamina length (F = 03.8506,24, H-F-L ad- justed p = 0.0078); lamina width (F = 06.8606,24, H-F-L adjusted p = 0.0002); lamina width over lamina with petiole length (F = 08.1706,24, H-F-L adjusted p = 0.0146); herbivory coded 0, 1 (F = 17.3306,12, H-F-L adjusted p = 0.0312); and estimated mass (F = 21.3706,30, H-F-L adjusted p = 0.0010) (Table 1). Time: for the 2008 growth data was highly significant for COA, for plant height (F = 87.2606,24, H-F-L adjusted p = <0.0001; Figure 1), longest axial shoot length (F = 92.304,16, H-F-L adjusted p = <0.0001), internodes per longest axial shoot length (F = 29.4704,16, H-F-L adjusted p = 0.0001) and estimated mass (F = 57.0006,24, H-F-L adjusted p = <0.0001)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-175", "words": "88160", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Kassem, Abdelmajid; Walters, Alan; Midden, Karen; Meksem, Khalid", "title": "Proceedings of the Fourth International American Moroccan Agricultural Sciences Conference - AMAS Conference IV, May 9-11, 2018, Meknes, Morocco", "date": "2018", "keywords": "abstract; accessions; acid; activity; agadir; agricultural; agronomic; almond; analysis; antioxidant; areas; arid; author; average; bacteria; barley; bi ol; biology; biotechnology; box; breeding; center; characterization; chemical; climate; conditions; content; control; crop; cultivars; culture; data; date; department; des; development; disease; effect; environment; extract; faculty; food; fruit; genotypes; germination; growth; hassan; ibn; increase; inra; institute; irrigation; isolates; keywords; laboratory; lis; management; medium; meknes; method; milk; mohamed; moroccan; morocco; moulay; na l; national; natural; new; nitrogen; number; og y; ol og; olive; order; palm; parameters; phosphate; plant; plant growth; potential; presence; present; production; quality; rabat; rate; recherche; region; research; resistance; resources; results; root; saffron; salt; samples; sciences; seed; soil; species; spu bl; stage; strains; stress; study; techniques; tla; total; traits; tree; university; usa; use; values; variability; varieties; w .a; w w; water; weight; wheat; work; yield", "summary": "Morocco country reaches the self-sufficiency in vegetable production. 1 Laboratory of Virology, Microbiology & Quality / Eco-toxicology & Biodiversity University Hassan II, Faculty of Science and Techniques of Mohammedia, PB 146 Mohammedia 20650 Morocco; 2 The Nation- al Institute of Agronomic Research, RCAR-Rabat, PB 6570, Institutes Rabat, 10101, Rabat Morocco.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-176", "words": "2940", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Ibijbijen, Jamal; Maldani, Mohamed; Ben Messaoud, Btissam; Nassiri, Laila", "title": "Assessment of the resistance of four nitrogen-fixing Bacteria to glyphosate", "date": "2018", "keywords": "glyphosate; lis; rhizobium; soil; strains", "summary": "Is Introduced in agriculture in the 1970s (Munira et al., 2016). The high efficiency in pro- tecting crops against weeds has enabled the glyphosate to be- come the most widely used herbicide in the world (Chlopecka et al., 2017), knowing that it occupied a quarter of the world\u2019s herbicide sales (Munira et al., 2016).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-177", "words": "6415", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Lee, Yi Chen; Iqbal, M Javed; Njiti, Victor N; Kantartzi, Stella; Lightfoot, David A.", "title": "A Fine mapping quantitative trait loci that underlie resistance to soybean sudden death syndrome using NILs and SNPs.", "date": "2018", "keywords": "data; et al; lightfoot; lis; loci; resistance; sds; soybean; tla", "summary": "Among the ten 584 tested, five QTL were strongly associated with at least one of the four disease metrics in multiple cross populations, provid- ing more information on useful QTL for SDS resistance breed- ing (Luckew et al., 2013). The Essex \u00d7 Forrest (E \u00d7 F) population was developed to study the inheritance of SDS resistance (Gibson et al., 1994).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-179", "words": "7503", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Kabiri, Ghizlane; Bouda, Said; Elhansali, Mohamed; Haddioui, Abdelmajid", "title": "Morphological and Pomological Variability Analysis of Walnut (Juglans regia L.) Genetic Resources from the Middle and High Atlas of Morocco", "date": "2018", "keywords": "accessions; atlas; kernel; traits; walnut", "summary": "Thus, the present study was conducted to characterize and evaluate the genetic variability of walnut accessions using some morpholog- ical and pomological traits and to look for any space structuring of such accessions according to their distribution on the Atlas Mountains in Morocco. The majority of morphological traits of leaves showed a great difference among walnut accessions, especially for the length and width of leaf.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-18", "words": "4050", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Korrida, Amal; Nahashon, Samuel N.; Amin-Alami, Amal; Jadallah, Sami; Aggrey, Samuel E.", "title": "Modeling Absolute and Allometric Growth in Houbara Bustard (Chlamydotis undulata undulata) in Captivity", "date": "2017", "keywords": "beak; body; bustard; girth; growth; houbara; length; shank; span; tla; weight; wing", "summary": "The allometric growth analysis indicated that, beak length, shank length, chest girth and wing span all followed a hypometric allome- try (b<1) relative to body weight growth. By A tla s Pu bl ish in g, L P (w w w .a tla s- pu bl ish in g. or g) Modeling Absolute and Allometric Growth in Houbara Bustard (Chlamydotis undulata undulata) in Captivity Amal Korrida1,2,*, Samuel N. Nahashon3, Amal Amin-Alami2, Sami Jadallah1, and Samuel E. Aggrey4 1 HRH Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud International Foundation for Conservation and Development of Wildlife, Genetics department, Agadir 80350, Morocco; 2 Laboratoire des Substances Naturelles, Facult\u00e9 des Sciences d\u2019Agadir, \u00c9quipe d\u2019Oc\u00e9anographie Biologique, Universit\u00e9 Ibn Zohr, Agadir, Maroc ; 3 Department of Agriculture, University of Tennessee, Nashville, TN, USA; 4 Department of Poultry Science, University of Geor- gia, Athens, GA 30602-2772, USA.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-19", "words": "7509", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Hemmati, Naghmeh; Lightfoot, David A.; Fakhoury, Ahmed", "title": "A Mutated Yeast Strain with Enhanced Ethanol Production Efficiency and Stress Tolerance", "date": "2017", "keywords": "amino; ethanol; figure; gene; lis; section; stress; tla; tolerance; w .a; w w; yeast", "summary": "Improving and increasing understanding of the impact of ethanol toxicity on yeast cells will assist enhancing yeast ethanol tolerance and higher ethanol production (Demain, 2009; Stanley, 2010). The effects of pre-exposure to stress condi- tions have been studied in ethanol stress (Vriesekoop and Pam- ment, 2005) and other stress conditions such as osmotic (Trollmo et al., 1988; Varela et al., 1992) and oxidative stresses (Davies et al., 1995).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-191", "words": "10550", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "AbuBakr, Samer; Duncan, Kathleen; Thoma, Greg; Sublette, Kerry", "title": "The Effect of Environmental Factors on the Abundance of Culturable Nitrate Reducing/Denitrifying Bacteria from Contaminated and Uncontaminated Tallgrass Prairie Soil", "date": "2019", "keywords": "abundance; bacteria; dn bacteria; lis; moisture; nitrate; samples; sites; soil", "summary": "The % soil moisture was calculated as % soil moisture = (g water/g wet soil) Viable hetero- trophic bacteria and NR and DN bacteria (>106/g soil) from all sites were obtained from samples with a broad range of soil moisture (from 10-30% water/g soil) regardless of the source (e.g. site) of the isolates.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-196", "words": "15522", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "75", "author": "Johnson, Catrina; Corruccini, Robert; Becque, Motier Daniel; Moon, Wanki; Ajuwon, Kolapo; Lightfoot, David A", "title": "A Culturally Competent Phenotypic Evaluation/Obesity Assessment in African and African American Populations: Pilot Study", "date": "2019", "keywords": "afr1; afr2; african; al o; americans; bmi; body; et al; fat; figure; lis; mass; o f; obesity; rn al; spu; suppl; tla; tla s; w w; weight", "summary": "Bagwell et al., 2005; Barroso, 2005; Bouchard et al., 1990; Branson et al., 2003; Calton and Vaisse, 2009; Chambers et al., 2008; Dong et al., 2003; Dong et al., 2005; Doumatey, 2009; Dubern et al., 2001; Farooqi et al., 2003; Gallagher et al., 2007; Lucas et al., 2011); Meyre et al., 2009; Norman et al., 1997; Paganini\u2010Hill et al., 1981; Proctor, 2009; Sutton et al., 2005; Willer et al., 2009; Wing, 2010; Zonta et al., 1987; Nishigori et al., 2001). Bagwell et al. (2005) found that 23HNF4A haplotypes in the P2 promoter region and 3-intron 7 region related significantly to measures of obesity in Hispanics and African Americans.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-197", "words": "11625", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Johnson, Catrina; Corruccini, Robert; Moon, Wanki; Ajuwon, Kolapo; Lightfoot, David A.", "title": "Food Preferences Survey in African Americans and West Africans: A Cultural Exploration of Agreement and Divergence in Attitudes in Food Environments and Food Responses", "date": "2019", "keywords": ".0001; african; americans; bmi; children; consumption; diabetes; et al; fat; food; groups; lis; obesity; parents; participants; risk; tla; vegetables", "summary": "Obesity, high fat, low produce consumption and poor health is associated with fast food consumption among African Americans (Satia et al., 2004). Both Africans and African Americans were found to be at risk for poor health associated with fast food consumption (Sa- tia, 2004).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-198", "words": "5161", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "El Mderssa, Mohamed; Benjelloun, Hassan; Zaher, Hafida; Zennouhi, Omar; Nassiri, Laila; Ibijbijen, Jamal", "title": "Estimating the Sequestration Potential of Organic Carbon in Forest Soils in the Central Middle Atlas: A Tool to Fight Climate Change", "date": "2019", "keywords": "carbon; cedar; forest; green; jbel; lis; oak; soil; stand; tla", "summary": "Indeed, this quantity, in forest soil, is the result of the balance between the net primary production of vegetation and the decomposition of organic matter (Liski & Westman, 1997). However, forest soils may be a significant source of CO2 as a result of global warming, which lead to a mineralization of organic matter higher than the net primary production of vegetation (Liski, 1999, Bernoux et al., 2005).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-2", "words": "3864", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "IK, Pai", "title": "Status of Bay of Bengal: An Ecological Point of View", "date": "2017", "keywords": "90000\u201900\u201de; bay; bengal; tifi; water", "summary": "Key words: Ecology, Bay of Bengal, Physico-chemical param- eters, zooplankton Introduction Approximately 71% of the surface of the planet earth is cov- ered with marine waters, with average depth 3.8 Km, volume about 1370 x 106 Km3 (Prasad, 2000). Among gases, 02 and C02 dissolved in sea water, has metabolic importance.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-20", "words": "5312", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Kim, Jinsoo; Yu, Yong-Kju; Yan, Fei; Bang, John; You, Taek; Lee, Sang-Seob", "title": "A New Strain of Bacteria Degrading TNT and 2,4/2,6-DNT From Explosives - Contaminated Soil", "date": "2017", "keywords": "dnt; efficiency; explosives; medium; removal; tla; tnt; w w", "summary": "Effect of cell concentrations of KT22 strain on TNT removal efficiency. As shown in Figure 5, TNT removal was the highest for the mixed culture consisting of KT22 and Bacillus sp., with the removal ef- ficiency of 76.6% after 6 h, compared to 51.2% when KT22 strain used alone.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-201", "words": "28396", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Kritzer Van Zant, Miriam S; Banz, William J.; Apgar, Gary; Lightfoot, David A.", "title": "Mirabilis expansa Grown in Southern Illinois: Amino Acid Percentages Relative to Soil Amendments", "date": "2019", "keywords": "amino; analyses; ext table; leaf; peat; results; root; significant; steer manure; structure; tables; var; variety; variety x; x peat; x steer", "summary": "\u2018T\u2019 (EXT Table 8) with the interaction term request were all highly significant for: ARG (F = 2575.741,3, p = <.0001), HIS (F = 2463.521,3, p = <.0001), ISO (F = 2652.121,3, p = <.0001), LEU (F = 3168.401,3, p = <.0001), LYS (F = 2221.781,3, p = <.0001), MET (F = 16274.801,3, p = <.0001), PHE (F = 7220.701,3, p = <.0001), THR (F = 2468.521,3, p = <.0001), TRP (F = 1368.101,3, p = <.0001), VAL (F = 1978.721,3, p = <.0001), CRDP (F = 817.391,3, p = <.0001), and TOTP (F = 4841.271,3, p = <.0001). \u2018T\u2019 (EXT Table 9), without the interaction term request, were all highly significant for: ARG (F = 2025.801,5, p = <.0001); HIS (F = 349.071,5, p = <.0001); ISO (F = 1142.191,5, p = <.0001); LEU (F = 1351.601,5, p = <.0001); LYS (F = 758.891,5, p = <.0001); MET (F = 691.671,5, p = <.0001); PHE (F = 1960.961,5, p = <.0001); THR (F = 1176.571,5, p = <.0001); TRP (F = 517.861,5, p = <.0001); VAL (F = 1138.651,5, p = <.0001); CRDP (F = 175.151,5, p = <.0001); and TOTP (F = 680.191,5, p = <.0001).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-206", "words": "7065", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "N. Bassuony, Nessreen; Lightfoot, David A", "title": "A Breeding Study of Some Grain Quality Characters in Rice (Oryza sativa L.)", "date": "2019", "keywords": "additive; characters; cr1; cr2; cr3; cross; crosses; dominance; effects; gene; grain; rice", "summary": "At maturity five plants per replication for F1 and each parent, 50 for each of the backcrosses and 100 for the F2 generation were selected to harvest grain rice on individual plant basis. Bao JS (2014) Genes and QTLs for rice grain quality improvement in Rice - Germplasm Genetics and Improvement, ed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-209", "words": "7349", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Baroud, Said; Tahrouch, Saida; Hatimi, Abdelhakim; Sadqi, Issam; Ait Hammou, Rachid ", "title": "Effect of Brown Algae on Germination, Growth and Biochemical Composition of Pepper Leaves (Capsicum. annuum).", "date": "2019", "keywords": "algae; amendment; bifurcata; content; extracts; germination; gibraltarica; growth; length; plants; spiralis; table; total", "summary": "The plants were watered with aqueous algae extracts (50 ml per week), meanwhile, the fertil- ization with the amendment was done at the time of plant trans- plantation with the three different concentrations, determined previously. Physicochemical characterization of aqueous algae extracts from treatments of B. bifurcata (BB), C. gibraltarica (CG), and F. spi- ralis (FS).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-211", "words": "6000", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "AbuBakr, Samer", "title": "Nitrate Reducing and Denitrifying Bacteria in Oil/Brine Contaminated Soils", "date": "2020", "keywords": "bacteria; degradation; denitrification; denitrifying; et al; lis; microbiology; nitrate; nitrogen; oxide; reductase; soil; tla", "summary": "Nitrogen as a Limiting Nutrient in the Tallgrass Prairie Nitrogen limitation is an important regulator of plant growth (Aber et al., 1997; Shaver et al., 2001; LeBauer and Treseder, 2008). The effect of nitrogen on photosynthesis is simulated by most ecosystem models by using a relationship between leaf nitrogen content and photosynthetic capacity (Aber et al., 1997; Thornton et al., 2002).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-213", "words": "4778", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Al-Tell, Anan", "title": "Justification of Urgent Brain CT Examinations at Medium Size Hospital, Jerusalem", "date": "2019", "keywords": "brain; examinations; justification; lis; patients; physicians; radiation; study", "summary": "Al- though the study is limited, yet it shows the need to reduce the number of brain CT examinations and the need to im- prove their justification. Discussion In this current study, the requests for brain CT examinations over a six month period are reviewed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-216", "words": "4561", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Dahdol, Areej; Hjouj, Mohammad ", "title": "Assessment of Low Doses Radiation Effects Using Tumor Markers among Palestinian Radiation Workers", "date": "2020", "keywords": "cancer; markers; radiation; tumor", "summary": "The basic of low doses radiation effect is non-lethal mutations, with the big- gest concern being the induction of cancer. In conclusion, to the best of the researchers\u2019 knowledge, this is the first study to investi- gate the correlated tumor markers with low radiation doses among occupational worker.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-219", "words": "4228", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "S.Ahmad, Muntaser; Shareef , Mohammad ; Wattad , Mohammad ; Alabdullah , Nora ; D. Abushkadim, Mouath; A. Oglat , Ammar ", "title": "Evaluation of Exposure Index Values for Conventional Radiology Examinations: Retrospective Study in Governmental Hospitals at West Bank, Palestine", "date": "2020", "keywords": "chest; examinations; exposure; extremities; patient; study; tla", "summary": "In and out hours exposure index values for all examinations type included in this study. Exposure index values for each patient gender and examination type included in this study.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-22", "words": "3465", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Chliyeh, Mohamed; Touhami, Amina Ouazzani; Filali-Maltouf, Abdelkarim; El Modafar, Cherkaoui; Moukhli, Abdelmajid; Oukabli, Ahmed; Benkirane, Rachid; Douira, Allal", "title": "Phytophthora palmivora: A New Pathogen of Olive Trees in Morocco", "date": "2017", "keywords": "isolate; olive; palmivora; phytophthora; plants; tla; trees", "summary": "This cultivar is susceptible to major fungal diseases particular- ly to leaf-spot disease caused by Spilocaea oleagina, the most widespread fungal disease of olive tree in the world (Anton & Laborda, 1989), Verticillium dahliae responsible to defoliation and wilting of olive trees and death of young trees (Vossen et al., 2008), and Fusarium solani that provokes the root rots to the olive trees (Perez et al., 2011). Symptoms on different organs of olive trees after inoculation with two isolates of Phytoph- thora palmivora: Olive trees of Dahbia variety(A), Non inoculated plant (A1), Inoculated plant with isolate 1 (A2), Inoculated plant with isolate 2 (A3), Olive trees of Haouzia variety (B), Non inoculated plant (B1), Inoculated plant with isolate 1 (B2), Inoculated plant with isolate 2 (B3), Olive trees root system of Dahbia variety (C), non inoculated plant (C1), Inoculated plant with isolate 1 (C2), Inocu- lated plant with isolate 2 (C3), Olive trees root system of Haouzia variety (D), non inoculated plant (D1), Inoculated plant with isolate 1 (D2), Inoculated plant with isolate 2 (D3), roots degradation due to the inoculation with the isolates of Phytophthora palmivora (Ellipse).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-221", "words": "8060", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Fohely, Firas; Sabarna, Khaled Sabarna", "title": "Over-Expression, Purification, and Characterization of Plant LeGST01, the Mammalian GST-Omega Homolog that Interacts with LeTPX1 from a Tomato cDNA Library", "date": "2021", "keywords": "0.088mg; cells; figure; gst; omega; protein; tpx; u b; w w", "summary": "It is well well- known that Bax protein is assumed to decline the intracellular levels of entire glutathione, reduce the mitochondrial potential and adjust organelle utility by confining to the outer mito- chondrial membrane and creating an ion passage. Expression of different antioxidant proteins partially inhibit Bax lethality in yeast and restore the mitochondrial membrane potential \u0394\u03a8m.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-223", "words": "7800", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "ElJiati, Abdelazize", "title": "Investigation of Bunch Cut at Different Times After Pollination and Flower Position in the Spikelet in Date Palm 'Sukkary' Variety", "date": "2022", "keywords": "bunch; cut; dap; date; fruit; pollen; pollination; set; size; tla; w w; weight", "summary": "In an attempt to increase date fruit size, most date farmers are used to applying hand thinning starting from the \u201chaba- book\u2019\u2019 stage, when date fruit size reaches at least a chickpea grain, so that they can catch fruits between their fingers. Whatever method of thinning used in the crops they studied, many authors agreed on the fact that the time of thin- ning had a great influence on fruit size, and that early thinning generated good cell division and, therefore, larger fruit size (Gof- fine et al., 1995; Sutton et al., 2020; Szot, 2010).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-227", "words": "6270", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "73", "author": "Bassuony, Nessreen N.; Mohamed, Eman N. M. ; Barakat, Ekram H. ", "title": "Effect of Germination on Improving Grain Quality, Chemical Composition, Antioxidants, and Phytic Acid in Rice (Oryza sativa)", "date": "2021", "keywords": "brown; rice; u b; white", "summary": "Brown rice had a strong odor than germinated brown rice and white rice for all culti- vars under study. Brown rice gave the highest temperature followed by germinated brown rice then milled rice.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-229", "words": "2968", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "ElJiati, Abdelazize; Ahmed, Imtiaz; Sanada , Atsushi; Terada, Naoki; Koshio, Kaihei ", "title": "Effect of Different Ethephon Concentrations on Shiss Removal in \u2018Khlass\u2019 and \u2018Sukkary\u2019 Date Palm Varieties", "date": "2022", "keywords": "concentration; drop; ethephon; fruit; ppm; shiss", "summary": "The concentration of 1,000 ppm Ethephon, despite generating a desirable high shiss drop, significantly different from the one generated by the concentration of 600 ppm Ethephon, but it did unfortunately the same for fruit drop (Table 1).This is why we recorded a high correlation between Ethephon concentration from one side and shiss drop (R\u00b2 = 0.9902) and fruit drop percentages (R\u00b2 = 0.8164) from the other side (Figure 3). (Figure 4a) and a low correlation between Ethephon concentration and fruit drop (R\u00b2 = 0.5556) (Figure 4b).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-23", "words": "4702", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Al-Regaiey, Khalid A", "title": "Effect of Growth Hormone and Calorie Restriction on the Expression of Antioxidant Enzymes in the Liver and Kidney of Growth Hormone Receptor Knockout Mice", "date": "2017", "keywords": "activity; animals; et al; ghrko; mice; restriction; tla", "summary": "By A tla s Pu bl ish in g, L P (w w w .a tla s- pu bl ish in g. or g) A N AL N CR KO AL KO CR 4.0 4.5 5.0 5.5 6.0 a a b a C A T ac tiv ity (u /m g pr ot ei n) N AL N CR KO AL KO CR 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 a a b b S O D 1 ac tiv ity (u /m g pr ot ei n) B N AL N CR KO AL KO CR 30 40 50 60 70 80 a b b a G P X a ct iv ity (u /m g pr ot ei n) C N AL N CR KO AL KO CR 5 10 15 20 a a a b LP (n m M D A /m g P ro te in ) Therefore, it is of interest to exam- ine the effects of chronic CR on hepatic and renal antioxidant enzymes as well as lipid peroxidation (LP) as an oxidative stress marker in GHRKO mice.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-237", "words": "7597", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Lock, Ishmel J.; Zalewski, Kaitlyn E.; Senter, Philip J.", "title": "Coiling During Male-Male Combat in Snakes: Differences Between Vipers and Other Groups, and Between Constrictors and Non-Constrictors", "date": "2023", "keywords": "combat; february; https://www.youtube.com/; male; mmc; snakes; tla; w .a; w w; watch?v", "summary": "Male Snakes Mating Combat in Briones Regional Park, CA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_xoA3KEtjQ (ac- cessed 25 February 2021) If this difference is due to a tendency among vipers to use fewer loops during MMC, and not just an artifact of having been photographed at moments when fewer loops were used than is usual for vipers, then coiling may be a com- ponent of MMC that is of lesser importance in Viperidae than in other snake clades.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-239", "words": "57381", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Kassem, My Abdelmajid; Walters, S. Alan; Groninger, John W.; Midden, Karen S.; Meksem, Khalid", "title": "Proceedings of the Fifth International American Moroccan Agricultural, Health, and Life Sciences Conference (AMAHLS V Conference) and The First Cannabis & Hemp Sciences and Entrepreneurship Day (CHSE I), December 13-14, 2022, Tangier, Morocco", "date": "2023", "keywords": ".a tla; abstractabstract; acid; activity; agricultural; analysis; antioxidant; arid; author; b io; bacteria; beni; cannabis; center; chair; chemical; compounds; conditions; content; control; crop; cultivars; department; development; effect; environment; extract; f b; faculty; fatty; food; fruit; green; growth; health; hemp; high; human; illinois university; impact; inra; institute; io lo; isolates; keywords; laboratory; levels; lis; lo gy; management; mellal; mohammed; moroccan; morocco; moulay; na l; national; ng .o; phosphate; plant; plant growth; polytechnic university; population; potential; presenting; production; products; protein; quality; rabat; region; research; resistance; resources; results; saffron; salinity; school; sciences; seed; session; soil; southern; soybean; species; spu bl; strains; stress; study; technology; tla; tla spu; total; tree; university; usa; use; valorization; w .a; w w; water; yield", "summary": "In Situ Production and Multiplication of Saffron Corms ((Crocus sativusCrocus sativus L.) in Taliouine, Morocco L.) in Taliouine, Morocco Karra Youssef1* and Abdelghani Tahiri1 Natural Resources and Local Products Research Unit, Agadir Regional Center of agricultural research, National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA), Morocco. Optimization of Roasting Process of Almonds Intended for Preparation of Healthy, Weight-Loss-Friendly Snacksfor Preparation of Healthy, Weight-Loss-Friendly Snacks Nadia Houmy1,2*, Farid Mansouri1, Kamal Belhaj1,3, Reda Mel- haoui1, Youssef Rbah1, Mohammed Addi1, and Ahmed Elam- rani1 1 Laboratoire d\u2019Am\u00e9lioration des Productions Agricoles, (LAPABE), Equipe agroalimentaire, Facult\u00e9 des Sciences, Uni- versit\u00e9 Mohammed I, BP-717, 60000 Oujda, Morocco; 2 Labo- ratoire de Technologie et Qualit\u00e9 Alimentaire, CRRAO, INRA, BP-428, 60000 Oujda, Morocco; 3 Laboratoire de Management de l\u2019agriculture durable, \u00e9cole sup\u00e9rieure de technologie, Sidi Bennour, Universit\u00e9 Chouaib Doukkali, Route Ben Maachou, 24000, El Jadida Morocco.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-24", "words": "5294", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Van Zant, Miriam Kritzer; Ugent, Don; Lightfoot, David A", "title": "Practical Use of Nitrogen Gas as a Method for Insect Control in Herbaria", "date": "2017", "keywords": "air; bags; gas; herbarium; nitrogen; oxygen; specimens; tla; use; w w", "summary": "The new method uses ambient temperature nitrogen gas and widely available, valved, ny- lon, oxygen barrier bags. Curators there place arti- facts in oxygen barrier bags, withdraw most of the oxygen con- taining air from the valve, fill the bags with nitrogen sometimes adding silica to keep specimens dry, and set them in a cabinet where they can be stored for up to 30 years (Jason J. Huggan, Carol L. Anderson, personal communication 2006).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-245", "words": "7776", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "ElJiati, Abdelazize; Elmaati, Yassine; Ouchaou, Hammou", "title": "Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) Isolated from an Arid Soil in Saudi Arabia Improve Maize Growth", "date": "2024", "keywords": "bacillus; control; doi; effect; et al; growth; inoculation; maize; nacl; pgpr; plant; promoting; rhizobacteria; root; soil; strains; subtilis; tla; w w", "summary": "In general, our study clearly showed that the inoculation of maize plants with the rhizobacterial strains significantly promoted maize plants growth. Such beneficial rhizobac- teria with plant-beneficial activities are generally defined as plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-25", "words": "5907", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "L., Askarne; Boubaker, H.; Boudyach, E. H.; Aoumar, A. Ait Ben", "title": "Use of Food Additives to Control Postharvest Citrus Blue Mold Disease", "date": "2017", "keywords": "carbonate; citrus; control; fruit; growth; italicum; postharvest; sodium; tla", "summary": "Considering that several salt compounds could influence me- dium pH, the effect of pH on P. italicum growth was determined. Effect of pH on Mycelial Growth of P. italicum Since some food additives could affect the pH of PDA medi- um, the effects of pH on P. italicum colony growth was examined on adjusted PDA at pH 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 with 1N HCl or NaOH.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-26", "words": "5921", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Yuan, Jiazheng; Zhu, Michelle; Meksem, Khalid; Geisler, Matt; Hart, Patrick; Lightfoot, David A.", "title": "Transcript Abundance Responses of Resistance Pathways of Arabidopsis thaliana to Deoxynivalenol", "date": "2017", "keywords": "arabidopsis; bins; don; et al; genes; plant; protein; thaliana; tla; treatment; w w", "summary": "Similarly, during F. virguliforme infection, a large proportion of altered TAs that were in protein metabolism related genes as- signed to bin29 (protein metabolism) were not concentrated in the same sub-bins of protein synthesis and posttranslational modification altered by DON (Yuan et al., 2008). In contrast, DON toxin appeared to im- pact central metabolisms in Arabidopsis plants with significant alterations ranging from the protein metabolism to redox pro- duction.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-260", "words": "5932", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Kassem, My Abdelmajid", "title": "Dissecting Continental and Intra-European Genetic Structure Using Chromosome 22 SNPs from the 1000 Genomes Project", "date": "2025", "keywords": "admixture; ancestry; et al; european; human; lis; population; structure; tla; tla s", "summary": "Conclusion This study presents a focused analysis of population genetic structure and ancestry using a subset of chromosome 22 SNPs from the 1000 Genomes Proj- ect. Chromosome 22 was selected due to its relatively small size, high gene density, and frequent use in population genetic studies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-261", "words": "7426", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Kim, Eunha; O'besso, Amanda; Danielle Graham; Graham, Justin", "title": "Investigating Soil Microbiota for Antimicrobial Activity Against Safe Relatives of ESKAPE Pathogens", "date": "2025", "keywords": "antibiotic; bacteria; eskape; fsi; gram; isolates; lis; pathogens; soil; tla; tla s; w w", "summary": "Soil bacteria have emerged as a novel frontier in the battle against ESKAPE pathogens, which are notorious for their multidrug resistance and virulence. Mining natural genetic diversity among soil bacteria has unlocked potential new antimicrobial compounds to combat ESKAPE pathogens.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-262", "words": "7200", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Bradford, Dreshawn; Lodhi, Khalid; Yuan, Jiazheng; Graham, Danielle; Graham, Justin; Maldani, Mohamed; White, Erin; Arhin, Afua; Kassem, My Abdelmajid ", "title": "Genomic Diversity, Pathogenicity, and Microbial Forensics of Foodborne Bacteria: A Comparative Analysis", "date": "2025", "keywords": "bacteria; gene; genome; genomic; lis; resistance; s j; species; tla s; virulence; w w", "summary": "Machine learning and AI approaches are increasingly being used to analyze these complex genomic and ecological patterns, enhancing our under- standing of pathogen evolution and spread (Jiang et al., 2022; Danko et al., 2021; Libbrecht and Noble, 2015). Future research should explore machine learning approaches to integrate genomic, epidemiological, and clinical data for more accurate pathogenicity risk assessments (Jiang et al., 2022; Libbrecht and Noble, 2015).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-27", "words": "5133", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Diesburg, Kenneth Lynn; Krausz, Ronald F.", "title": "Month of Seeding Effect on Low-Input Establishment of Cool- and Warm-Season Turfgrasses in Continental Transition Zone", "date": "2017", "keywords": "cover; dormant; location; seedings; tla; w w; winter", "summary": "Even so, seed germination and seedling es- tablishment in winter dormant seedings appears to have been unaffected between the two locations. Dudeck and Peacock (1982) found in Florida that winter dormant seeding of bahiagrass (Paspalum notatum Flugge) produced greater than A tla s Jo ur na l o f Bi ol og y - IS SN 2 15 8- 91 51 .", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-28", "words": "2399", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Achbani, El Hassan; Benbouazza, Abdellatif; Douira, Allal", "title": "First Report of Olive Anthracnose, Caused by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, in Morocco", "date": "2017", "keywords": "anthracnose; colletotrichum; fruits; gloeosporioides; olive; tla", "summary": "The aim of the present work was to investigate the etiology of the anthracnose observed in December 2012 on fruit olives. The colonization process of olive fruits by Colletotrichum such as spores adhesion and germination on cuticle to form an appressoria (Gomes et al., 2012).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-29", "words": "5980", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "72", "author": "Sharma, Hemlata; Lightfoot, David A", "title": "Quantitative Trait Loci Underlying Partial Resistance to Cercospora sojina Race 2 Detected in Soybean Seedlings in Greenhouse Assays", "date": "2017", "keywords": "dai; essex; fls; forrest; loci; resistance; tla", "summary": "Both Essex and Forrest shared cultivars \u2018CNS\u2019 and \u2018S100\u2019 as ancestors, potential sources of FLS resistance genes. FLS DS was rated at 21 days after inoculation (dai; 42 days after germination), and 42 dai.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-3", "words": "5736", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Shehata, Afaf I; Al-Aidan, Alwaleed A.; Al-Shahrani, Buthainah", "title": "Molecular Epidemiology of Nosocomial Infection: Analysis of chromosomal Restriction Fragment Patterns by Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis", "date": "2017", "keywords": "acinetobacter; baumannii; gel; number; pfge; samples; strain; tifi; w w", "summary": "D2 represented by sample number 7; D3 represented by samples number 21 and 24; and D4 represented by sample number 29. Strain E were divided into 3 (three) groups: E1 represented by samples number 47, 48 and 49; E2 represented by samples number 26 and 67; and E3 represented by sample number 61.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-30", "words": "11323", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Mirzaei, Saeid; Batley, Jacqueline; Ferguson, Brett J; Gresshoff, Peter M", "title": "Transcriptome Profiling of the Shoot and Root Tips of S562L, a Soybean GmCLAVATA1A Mutant", "date": "2017", "keywords": "cell; et al; family; genes; like; lis; na l; plant; protein; root; s562l; shoot; spu bl; tip; tla; transcription; w .a; w w", "summary": "Rhamnose biosynthesis 1 Glyma11g31310 2.35 0.003131 AMP-dependent synthetase and ligase family protein Glyma03g19810 2.11 0.002617 Haloacid dehalogenase-like hydrolase (HAD) superfamily protein Glyma09g05590 -2.01 0.009678 Haloacid dehalogenase-like hydrolase (HAD) superfamily protein Glyma15g16850 -2.35 0.015 Haloacid dehalogenase-like hydrolase (HAD) superfamily protein 199 A tla s Jo ur na l o f Bi ol og y - IS SN 2 15 8- 91 51 . The AP2 domain of APETALA2 defines a large new fam- ily of DNA binding proteins in Arabidopsis.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-31", "words": "2718", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Hemmati-Sholeh, Melody N.; Sholeh, Larry A.; Lightfoot, David A.", "title": "SNP-E: A New Method For Multiple Sequence Alignments Analysis And Accurate Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Evaluation", "date": "2017", "keywords": "format; sequence; snp; snps; tla", "summary": "The objective of this study was to develop a sensi- tive and accurate computational method for SNP detection among Multiple Sequence Alignments (MSAs) to be run on Microsoft Office SuiteTM and WindowsTM. Various methods have been developed (Chang, 2009) and already available for SNP detection and calling single-nucleotide poly- morphisms from next generation sequencing data (DePristo et al., 2011; Kobold et al., 2009; Li et al., 2009; Nijveen et al., 2013) however, most of these methods require expensive high- depth sequencing to perform satisfactory (Xu et al., 2012) or they are Java-based programs such as Seq-SNPing (Chang et al., 2009) or they require Linux command line skills to run and a separate program to visualize the results (Nijveen et al., 2013) or requires Phred commands in case of PineSAP.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-32", "words": "4738", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Porter, Andre N.; Frankel, Jack S.", "title": "Frequency-Dependent Mate Selection in the Guppy (Poeciliidae: Poecilia reticulata)", "date": "2017", "keywords": "color; females; groupings; male; red; tla; tuxedo", "summary": "Materials and Methods To investigate female preference for male groups based on the phenotypic frequencies of two color morphs, a series of ex- perimental trials were conducted employing similar constructs as those described for examining female color preference in the pygmy swordtail, Xiphophorus pygmaeus (Baer et al., 1994). A total of 60 observations were recorded (one every five seconds for five minutes) per trial female, giving a total of 660 observations for each group of 11 females/trial.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-33", "words": "3391", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "E. H., Achbani; Sadik, S.; El Kahkahi, R.; Benbouazza, A.; Mazouz, H.", "title": "First Report on Pseudomonas marginalis Bacterium Causing Soft Rot of Onion in Morocco", "date": "2017", "keywords": "marginalis; onion; pseudomonas; rot; tla", "summary": "Onion soft rot. (-): Negative; (+): Positive;", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-34", "words": "7809", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Bellaloui, Nacer; Khandaker, Laila; Akond, Masum; Kantartzi, Stella K.; Meksem, Khalid; Mengistu, Alemu; Lightfoot, David A; Kassem, My Abdelmajid", "title": "Genetic Mapping of QTL Associated with Seed Macronutrients Accumulation in \u2018MD 96-5722\u2019 by \u2018Spencer\u2019 Recombinant Inbred Lines of Soybean", "date": "2017", "keywords": "accumulation; chr; et al; nutrients; qtl; seed; soybean; tla; w w", "summary": "However, information on ge- netic mapping for macronutrients accumulation in seeds is scares (Zhang et al., 2009), and what is available deals with other species such as seed P QTL in Andean bean (Cichy et al., 2009); K QTL related to K efficiency in wheat (Kong et al., 2013); nutri- ents QTL in Arabidopsis (Chardon et al., 2014); QTL associated with P in seed in mungbean (Sompong et al., 2012); QTL relat- ed to P in seed in common bean (Blair et al., 2009); QTL in seed minerals in Brassica napus) (Ding et al., 2010) mostly deals with macronutrients and their status in soybean leaves, shoot, or roots, but not in seeds. K and Mg QTL were clustered together on LG A1 (Chr 5) with a peak position of 9.50 cM and LOD support interval of 8.50-9.50 cM. Similar observation was noticed for P, K, Mg, C, N, and S, where the QTL were clustered on LG J (Chr 16) with peak position of 11 cM for K, P, and S, and 10 Introduction Macronutrients such as N, C, S, P, K, Mg, and Ca are essential for plant growth, development, and production, and their defi- ciency in soil leads to yield loss, disease infection, and poor seed quality.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-35", "words": "13837", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Van Zant, Miriam Kritzer", "title": "History of Mirabilis expansa (Ruiz and Pav.) Standl.; Growth and Use in the Andes", "date": "2017", "keywords": "crop; cunya; expansa; illinois; m. expansa; mirabilis; plants; rea; roots; seminario; seminario cunya; southern; tla; van; var; w w", "summary": "When M. expansa roots were dug up at har- vest time in southern Illinois, they came up fairly easily from the sand with a pitchfork. Pits have been dug for sweetening, containing layers of M. expansa roots, interlaid with layers of barley straw (Popenoe et al., 1989;", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-36", "words": "16005", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Van Zant, Miriam Kritzer", "title": "Review of the Economic and Ethnobotany of the Family Nyctaginaceae", "date": "2017", "keywords": "boerhavia; bogle; expansa; food; information; jalapa; leaves; medicinal; mirabilis; moerman; napralert; nat; nyctaginaceae; nyctaginaceae nat; peru; pisonia; plant; reports; roots; species; spu; table; tla; use; w w", "summary": "diuretic Nyctaginaceae Nat Am N Am Moerman (1998) purgative Nyctaginaceae Nat Am N Am Moerman (1998) febrifuge for eruptive fevers Nyctaginaceae Nat Am N Am Moerman (1998) stomach cramps Nyctaginaceae Nat Am N Am Moerman (1998) stomach disorders Nyctaginaceae Nat Am N Am Moerman (1998) dandruff Nyctaginaceae as a shampoo Nat Am N Am Moerman (1998) snake bite treatment Nyctaginaceae steam bath Nat Am N Am Moerman (1998) appetite, increase Nyctaginaceae internal Nat Am N Am Moerman (1998) appetite, control Nyctaginaceae internal Nat Am N Am Moerman (1998) effects of swallowing a spider, to neutralize Nyctaginaceae Nat Am N Am Moerman (1998) cathartic Nyctaginaceae Nat Am N Am Moerman (1998) sudorific Nyctaginaceae Nat Am N Am Moerman (1998) emetic Nyctaginaceae Nat Am N Am Moerman (1998)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-37", "words": "5675", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Zenis, Ambrocio; Kantartzi, Stella; Meksem, Khalid; Kassem, My Abdelmajid", "title": "Influence of Drought Stress on Several Root Traits and their Correlation with Seed Protein and Oil Contents in Soybean", "date": "2017", "keywords": "area; average; diameter; drought; group; plants; root; soybean; surface; tla; traits; volume", "summary": "Fenta BA, Beebe SE, Kunert KJ, Burridge JD, Barlow KM, Lynch JP and Foyer CH (2014) Field phenotyping of soybean roots for drought stress tolerance. Gregory PJ (2006) Plant roots: Growth, Activity and Interaction with Soils.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-38", "words": "12478", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Nemenzo-Calica, Phoebe; Indrasumunar, Arief; Scott, Paul; Dart, Peter; Gresshoff, Peter M.", "title": "Nodulation and Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in the Biofuel Legume Tree Pongamia pinnata", "date": "2017", "keywords": "cotyledons; growth; nitrogen; nodule; plants; pongamia; rhizobia; soil; tla; uq-05; w .a; w w; week", "summary": "Compari- son of sequences using BLAST alignment between PR-UQ-01 and 04 as well as PR-UQ-03 and 05 revealed that these two sets of strains were highly similar (>99%), although the restric- tion nuclease digestion pattern and symbiotic tests results differ among them. Lane 1 = Negative Control; Lanes 2 and 3 = PR-UQ-01; Lanes 4 and 5 = PR-UQ-03; Lanes 6 and 7 = PR-UQ-04; and, Lanes 8 and 9 = PR-UQ-05.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-39", "words": "1983", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Lightfoot, David A.; Throgmorton, Winston C.; Johnson, Colton", "title": "A Rapid Method for Cannabis Species Determination by DNA Sequencing", "date": "2017", "keywords": "indica; sativa; tla", "summary": "Using sequences at GenBank as a reference eighteen plant samples were sequenced and shown to be identical to C. indica sequence and different from C. sativa and C. ruderalis at 4 positions within the 25S rRNA gene. A complex rearrangement in the 25S rRNA gene distinguishes C. indica from C. sativa.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-4", "words": "6209", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Korrida, Amal; Jamil Jadallah, Sami; Izaabel, Hassan; Benhissoune, Said", "title": "Genetic Diversity Analysis of the Natural Populations of Mediterranean Mussels [Mytilus galloprovincialis (Lmk.)] in Agadir Bay: Assessment of the Molecular Polymorphism and Environmental Impact", "date": "2017", "keywords": "anza; cape; dna; et al; galloprovincialis; ghir; hap; marine; mussel; mytilus; populations; tifi; w w", "summary": "Their mtDNA organization can undergo several genetic events such as Double Uniparental In- heritance (DUI) (Zouros et al. 1992, Garrido-Ramos et al. 1998, Zbawicka et al. 2003, Mizi et al. 2005), masculinization event (Hoeh et al. Multilocus allozyme differentiation of mussel populations Mytilus galloprovincialis Lmk. from Moroccan coasts.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-40", "words": "10369", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "71", "author": "Senter, Philip J.", "title": "Evolutionarily Degenerate Biological Structures: Terminology Through Time, and the Question of Terminological Consensus", "date": "2017", "keywords": "biol; bot; edbs; et al; evolution; function; lis; mus; nat; new; spu; strictness; structures; terms; tla; usage; v f; vestigial; w w; zool", "summary": "Wilkens V and G Purschke (2009) Some authors have suggested strict definitions for such terms (Brues, 1903; Lull, 1920; Hall, 2003), while others ignore strict defini- tions and use the terms more loosely (e.g. Miralles et al., 2012; Nweeia et al., 2012; Woon and Stringer, 2012).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-41", "words": "4210", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Lee, Yi-Chen; Lightfoot, David A.; Anderson, James; Robbins, Robert T.; Kantartzi, Stella K.", "title": "QTL Underlying Reniform Nematode Resistance in Soybean Cultivar Hartwig", "date": "2017", "keywords": "et al; nematode; plant; qtl; resistance; scn; soybean; tla", "summary": "The aims here were to map QTL underlying RN resistance in Hartwig. There were 3-10 markers per linkage group and distance between markers was 10-25 cM except for LG G (Meksem et al. 1999) and K that were tested with additional markers due to previous discoveries of SCN resistance, SDS resistance and seed yield QTL (Yuan et al. 2002; Kazi et al. 2008).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-42", "words": "36818", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Kassem, My Abdelmajid; Walters, Alan; Midden, Karen; Meksem, Khalid", "title": "Proceedings of the Third International American Moroccan Agricultural Sciences Conference - AMAS Conference III, December 13-16, 2016, Ouarzazate, Morocco", "date": "2017", "keywords": "abstract; acid; activity; agricultural; areas; author; average; biotechnology; conditions; content; control; crop; cultivars; date; date palm; department; des; des sciences; development; effect; faculty; food; growth; keywords; laboratory; lis; mohamed; moroccan; morocco; na l; number; olive; palm; parameters; plant; poster; production; quality; rabat; research; results; root; saffron; sciences; seed; soil; soybean; species; spu bl; stress; study; tla; total; tree; university; use; w .a; w w; water; yield", "summary": "Lipid and Fatty Acid Composition of Longissumus dorsi muscle of B\u00e9ni-Guil Sheep Fed on Different Dryland Forages in Eastern Morocco Kamal Belhaj1, Farid Mansouri1, Abdessamad Ben-Moumen1, Marianne Sindic2, Marie-Laure Fauconnier3, Mohamed Boukhar- ta4, Hana Serghini-Caid1, and Ahmed Elamrani1* 1 Laboratoire de Biologie des Plantes et des Micro-organismes, Facult\u00e9 des Sciences, Universit\u00e9 Mohamed Ier, Oujda; Morocco; 2 Laboratoire Qualit\u00e9 et S\u00e9curit\u00e9 des Produits Alimentaires, Gem- bloux Agro-Bio Tech, Universit\u00e9 de Li\u00e8ge; Belgium; 3 Labora- toire de Chimie g\u00e9n\u00e9rale et Organique, Gembloux Agro Bio- Tech, Universit\u00e9 de Li\u00e9ge; Belgium; 4 Institut Sup\u00e9rieur Industriel agronomique, Huy, Belgium. Quality and Chemical Profiles of Monovarietal Olive Oils in Eastern Morocco Ahmed Elamrani1*, Farid Mansouri1, Marianne Sindic2, Marie- Laure Fauconnier3, and Hana Serghini-Caid1 1 Laboratoire de Biologie des Plantes et des Micro-Organismes, Facult\u00e9 des Sciences, Universit\u00e9 Mohamed Ier Oujda; Morocco; 2 Laboratoire Qualit\u00e9 et S\u00e9curit\u00e9 des Produits Alimentaires, Gem- bloux Agro-Bio Tech, Universit\u00e9 de Li\u00e8ge; Belgium; 3 Laboratoire de Chimie g\u00e9n\u00e9rale et Organique, Gembloux Agro Bio-Tech, Universit\u00e9 de Li\u00e9ge; Belgium.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-43", "words": "6640", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Kazi, Samreen; Shultz, Jeffry L.; Afzal, Ahmed Jawaad; Lee, Yi-Chen; Lightfoot, David A.", "title": "Identification of Loci Underlying Seed Yield in Recombinant Inbred and Near Isogeneic Soybean Lines Derived from Flyer by Hartwig", "date": "2017", "keywords": "et al; hartwig; mean; qtl; seed; soybean; tla; yield", "summary": "Toward this end, hundreds of seed yield QTL have been mapped in diverse germplasms. Discussion The F \u00d7 H population was very important for the analysis of seed yield QTL and other agronomic traits because it segre- gates for many traits (Kazi et al., 2007).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-44", "words": "5223", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Mzabri, Ibtissam; Legsayer, Manal; Aliyat, Fatimzahhra; Maldani, Mohammed; Kouddane, Nour Eddine; Boukroute, Azzouz; Bekkouch, Ibtihal; Berrichi, Abdelbasset", "title": "Effect of Drought Stress on the Growth and Development of Saffron (Crocus Sativus. L) in Eastern Morocco", "date": "2017", "keywords": "content; drought; effect; et0; leaf; plants; saffron; stress; tla; w w; water", "summary": "Relative water content (RWC %): relative water content of leafs was determined by the method described by Barrs, (1966). In gen-eral, the morpho- physiological adaptation traits were observed even at severe level of water stress (40% ET0) which resulted in an accept- able decrease in stigmas yield.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-45", "words": "4541", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Frankel, Tyler E.; Frankel, Jack S.", "title": "Negative Assortative Mating Based on Body Coloration in the Freshwater Platyfish (Poecillidae: Xiphophorus maculatus)", "date": "2017", "keywords": "coloration; females; males; mate; mating; preference; tla; yellow", "summary": "This also supports the theory of coloration aiding in sexual selection preferences in P. reticulata, specifically a fe- A tla s Jo ur na l o f Bi ol og y - IS SN 2 15 8- 91 51 . Employing three uniform body color morphs, red, yellow and blue, of the platyfish (Xiphophorus maculatus), this study was designed to investigate whether X. maculatus females would preferentially be attracted to males exhibiting an alternative color, thereby enabling an exami- nation of the effect of male body coloration on mate choice by adult females.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-46", "words": "6261", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Zatserklyana, Oleksandra; Meksem, Khalid; Lightfoot, David A.", "title": "Additional Polymorphisms Linked to Soybean Cyst Nematode Resistance At The Rhg4 Locus", "date": "2017", "keywords": "bac; dna; forrest; resistance; rhg4; sequence; soybean; tla; w w; williams", "summary": "Forrest cultivar sequence derived from two BAC libraries us- ing BamHI and HindIII enzymes (Meksem et al., 2000). For the alignment of Forrest as the Query Sequence and the trimmed Williams 82 BAC sequence as the Subject Sequence, the Query Coverage was 97% while for the alignment of Forrest as the Query Sequence and the untrimmed Williams 82 BAC sequence (starting from the point in the Williams 82 BAC sequence where Forrest sequence would end) as the Subject Sequence it was only 3%.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-5", "words": "1872", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Al-Thani, Roda F.", "title": "Survey of Macrofungi (including Truffles) in Qatar", "date": "2017", "keywords": "macrofungi; qatar; tifi", "summary": "Soil Fungi in Qatar and other Arab Countries, Uni- versity of Qatar Press, Doha, Qatar, pp. ralthani@qu.edu.qa Some of the different species of desert truffle that grow in arid and semi arid areas and that prefer high pH calcareous soils have been found in Qatar.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-6", "words": "2463", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Williams, Daniel; W. Brown, James", "title": "Archaeal Diversity in a Municipal Wastewater Sludge", "date": "2017", "keywords": "sequences; sludge; tifi; wastewater", "summary": "RNA sequence from at least M. barkeri. 1.5 kbp insertions were initially assessed from sequence data obtained from either end of each clone.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-7", "words": "6165", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Imtiaz, Fauzia; Khan, Wajahatullah; A. Vahidy, Ahsan", "title": "Risk Factors Affecting the Phenotypic Expression of Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia in Pakistani Population", "date": "2017", "keywords": "disease; factors; females; hypercholesterolemia; levels; risk", "summary": "In the present study, we studied and assessed the contri- bution of risk factors on the phenotypic expression of FH disease in a Pakistani population. Clinical Examination Physical FH Characteristics The physical characteristics that were examined in FH patients included presence of tendinous xanthoma (TX), xanthelesma, Ar- cus cornea (AC) and polyarthritis.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-8", "words": "2466", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "73", "author": "Al-Thani, Roda F.; Al-Meri, Hadia A.", "title": "Study of Some Lichens of Qatar", "date": "2017", "keywords": "lichens; qatar; tla; w w", "summary": "Field collection of lichens (deposited at the Herbarium of Bio- logical and Environmental Science Department, Qatar Univer- sity) commenced in 1994 and the first publication on the record of fructicose lichen was in 1997 (Abdel Bari, 1997a). Common lichens in Qatar.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajb-9", "words": "2097", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Kadri, Oumama; Benkirane, Rachid; Touhami, Amina Ouazzani; Douira, Allal", "title": "Punica granatum: A New Host of Bipolaris spicifera in Morocco", "date": "2017", "keywords": "lesions; tla; w w", "summary": "In March 2009, the survey in the public and the University of Sciences gardens of Kenitra city (Morocco) showed that 60% of leaves of 100 plants of Punica granatum L. \u2019Nana\u2019 presented foliar lesions affecting the aesthetic appearance of this orna- mental plant. Punica granatum L. \u2018Nana\u2019 is a dwarf variety more valuable for its numerous small flowers and long flowering period (Jianzhu et al., 2003).", "mime": "application/pdf"}]