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CHLOROPLAST DERIVED SCAVENGERS. "These metabolites and enzymes are all components of the chloroplast antioxidant system that functions in the scavenging of oxygen free radicals and H2O2. The antioxidant system also may to protect drought-stressed plants against oxidative damage during CO2-limiting carbon fixation." https://lnkd.in/eqkRiKP View in LinkedIn

MOBILE INTERFACES. "The infection-derived mobile genetic elements are possible candidates for epigenetic control and serve as the interface between experienced real-life events and genome change." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.12570/abstract View in LinkedIn

MUTATIONS ARE NOT ENUGH. "Syntax-based quantitative approaches that focus on nucleus acid sequences as information-bearing molecules will have problems explaining why identical nucleic acid sequences may have different and, in extreme cases, even contradictory meanings. This energy-saving technique is made possible through epigenetic imprinting." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.12570/abstract View in LinkedIn

"CONTEXT, not syntax, determines meaning: epigenetic imprinting codes environmental needs." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.12570/abstract View in LinkedIn

NOT BY MUTATIONS. "The syncytic gene complex was transferred via a persistent retroviral infection event and not by mutations of previously available genetic sequences." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.12570/abstract View in LinkedIn

AVOIDING FETAL REJECTION. "The syncytin genotype enables the mother organism's immune system not to detect the embryonal genotype, which has some non-self genetic identities. The mother's immune system, therefore, cannot reject the embryo until a certain stage of development." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.12570/abstract View in LinkedIn

Millions at risk as deadly fungal infections acquire drug resistance http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/27/millions-at-risk-as-deadly-fungal-infections-acquire-drug-resistance?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this first weekend on the annual metabolic changes of pine trees. Most pine trees live in severe winter conditions, and much of the metabolic adaptation is a response to those changes. Much is understood at a biochemical level today about how these hardy trees have exploited this challenging niche, and developed smart workarounds to these stressors. View in LinkedIn

NON-CODING RNAs. "They seem to be remnants of viral infection events that did not kill their host but transferred phenotypic competences to their host and changed both the genetic identity of the host organism and the identity of the former infectious viral swarms." https://lnkd.in/euyhznh View in LinkedIn

PERSISTENT ENDOGENOUS AGENTS "colonized DNA genomes by inserting their sites beside coding elements; then they use these coding elements for different needs." https://lnkd.in/euyhznh View in LinkedIn