The 21st Century Agriculture: When Rice Research Draws Attention to Climate Variability and How Weedy Rice and Underutilized Grains Come in Handy

Rice, the first crop to be fully sequenced and annotated in the mid-2000s, is an excellent model species for crop research due mainly to its relatively small genome and rich genetic diversity.The 130-million-year-old cereal came into the limelight in the 1960s when the semi-dwarfing gene sd-1, better known as the “green revolution” gene

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Frequency of risk factors for transmission of HIV/AIDS

Background: Pakistan is considered a low prevalence but future high risk country for human immunodeficiency virus infection.The objective of this study was to find out the risk factors for transmission of HIV infection.Material & Methods: This descriptive study was carried out from February 2008 to July 2011 at Anti Retroviral Centre, Kohat.All 65

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Contributions of Brazilian educational policies: possibilities for dialogue and valuing ethnic and racial diversity in the school context

The diversity of cultures, of ways of being and existing in the world is increasingly seen as a process present in Chafers the context of schools and especially in classrooms.Immigration, internal and external displacements, different cultures, ethnicities present in the school imply reflections of an emancipatory, dialogical education that demands

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