November 2011

Agrobacterium transformation: A boost to agricultural biotechnology

Plant genetic engineering has become one of the most important molecular tools in modern crop breeding. Significant progress has been made in the development of new and efficient transformation methods in plants. Agrobacterium remains one of the predominant microbes employed in this approach. In particular, progress inAgrobacterium –mediated transformation of varieties of agricultural plants such as...

Author(s): Mohammed A and Abalaka M. E.

November 2011

Breast cancer risk associated mitochondrial NADH-dehydrogenase subunit-3 (ND3) polymorphisms (G10398A and T10400C) in Bangladeshi women

Somatic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations have been reported in many types of cancer cells, but very few reports document the prevalence of inherited mtDNA polymorphisms including NADH-dehydrogenase (ND3) subunit polymorphisms in cancer patients compared to healthy control populations. Although, few mitochondrial ND3 subunit polymorphisms were reported in different cancers, e.g. breast, esophageal cancer but the...

Author(s): Gazi Nurun Nahar Sultana, Atiqur Rahman, M. Manjurul Karim, A. D. A. Shahinuzzaman, Rokeya Begum and Rowsan Ara Begum