The eighth edition of the Organic Farm Management Handbook comes out at a challenging time. Headlines are highlighting that demand for organic food may have stopped growing, but many other sectors in the economy are suffering ...

The crystal structure of the title compound, C(6)H(11)NO(5), establishes the relative configuration at the four stereogenic centres; the absolute configuration is determined by the use of D-glucuronolactone as the starting ...

Genetic mapping of quantitative traits requires genotypic data for large numbers of markers in many individuals. For such studies, the use of large single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping arrays still offers the ...

We report the structure–activity relationship of a series of coumarins as aldose reductase 2 (ALR2) inhibitors and their suppressive effect on the accumulation of galactitol in the rat lens. We evaluated their ALR2 selectivity ...

A human monocytic cell line, THP-1-S, was cultured in a serum-free medium. The effect of the culture supernatant of THP-1-S on the cytotoxicity of rTNF-alpha to three kinds of cell lines and the binding of rTNF to its ...

This is the first variety from a red clover breeding programme initiated in the late 1990's to breed varieties that are high yielding and persistent.