Plants respond to and defend themselves against a wide range of disease-causing microbes. In order to do so, massive reprogramming of cellular protein expression patterns, which underpin various defense pathways, must ...

The bigmouth buffalofish, Ictiobus cyprinellus (Valenciennes) is the only buffalofish occurring in Saskatchewan. The species supports at present a small and erratic commercial fishery in this province, but has been an ...

Water pollution has received increasing attention in recent years. With modern industrialization and increasing urbanization, the need for the preservation of our aquatic resources has become obvious. Shortages of water ...

The North Saskatchewan River is an important natural resource of the Province of Saskatchewan. Therefore, the many municipal, industrial, and recreational uses must not be impaired by any one user to the extent that the ...

Cold acclimation is a complex process where plants acquire increased freezing tolerance following exposure to low, non-freezing temperatures. Microtubules are dynamic components of the cytoskeleton that are essential for ...

Evidence concerning effects of egg size on offspring survival is difficult to interpret because most studies have not controlled confounding influences such as maternal quality which may mask effects of egg size. Thus, I ...

A plant's response to pathogen infection is tailored dependent on infection strategy. Successful plant pathogens employ various infection strategies to avoid or reduce plant defense responses for the establishment of host ...

Adequate levels of dissolved oxygen (DO) are essential to the health of most aquatic organisms. While diel fluctuations in DO concentration are a normal occurrence in aquatic ecosystems, anthropogenically-produced periods ...

Arabidopsis thaliana, a member of the Cruciferae family, is widely used as a model system of plant development. In this study the structure - function relationships between AG and AGL2 (AGAMOUS Like) and AG and AGL4 were ...

Fungal endophytes live inside plants without causing apparent symptoms of infection. All plant species surveyed thus far, including liverworts, mosses, seedless vascular plants, conifers, and angiosperms, harbor one or ...