Rosaceae is the most important fruit-producing clade, and its key commercially relevant
genera (Fragaria, Rosa, Rubus and Prunus) show broadly diverse growth habits, fruit types …

Abstract Background Next Generation Sequencing technologies are able to provide high
genome coverages at a relatively low cost. However, due to limited reads' length (from 30 bp …

Peach flesh color (white or yellow) is among the most popular commercial criteria for peach
classification, and has implications for consumer acceptance and fruit nutritional quality …

Read alignment is often the computational bottleneck in analyses. Recently, several
advances have been made on seeding methods for fast sequence comparison. We combine …

The most prevalent biological species on earth are viruses, the majority of which infect
bacteria. Less than 1% of microbial hosts have been cultured, making it difficult to identify …

Networks-on-chip (NoCs) have recently emerged as a scalable alternative to classical bus
and point-to-point architectures. To date, performance evaluation of NoC designs is largely …

Nitrate is an essential nutrient for plants, and crops depend on its availability for growth and
development, but its presence in agricultural soils is far from stable. In order to overcome …

Abstract Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis Mill.) is a relevant conifer species for studying
adaptive responses to drought and fire regimes in the Mediterranean region. In this study …

Background Among cereals, durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. subsp. durum) accumulates
cadmium (Cd) at higher concentration if grown in Cd-polluted soils. Since cadmium …

Skeletal muscle exhibits a high regenerative capacity, mainly due to the ability of satellite
cells to replicate and differentiate in response to appropriate stimuli. Epigenetic control is …