ARAB JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY Volume 5 Number 2 July 2002

ARAB JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY Volume 5 Number 2 July 2002

Biocontrol

• Induction of hyperproducing chitinase Trichoderma mutants for efficient biocontrol of Botrytis cinerea on tomato and cucumber plants growing in plastic houses.
  Wafaa M. Haggag
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Enviromental Sciences

• Numerical modelling of petroleum oil bioremediation by a local Penicillium isolate as affected with culture conditions: Application of Plackett-Burman design.
  Yasser R. Abdel-Fattah, and Hany M. Hussein
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• Evaluation and optimization of culture conditions influencing ferrous-ion oxidation rate of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans ATCC 23270 through statistically designed experiments.
  Yasser R. Abdel-Fattah and Wael R. Abdel-Fattah
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• Gamma irradiation effects on the activity and expression of nitric oxide synthase enzyme on human polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMNs) in vitro.
  Soheir S. Korraa, Nagi A. Iskandar and Ola EL Diwany
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Molecular Biology

• Molecular detection and identification of a prokaryotic pathogen associated with Al-Wijam declining disease of date palms in Saudi Arabia.
  M. M. El-Zayat, A.M. Shamloulb, K.S. Abdulsalam, M. Djerbi and A. Hadidi
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• Flavonoid content and isozyme analysis of tissue culture-derived date palm clones.
  Mahmoud M. Saker, Salwa A. Kawshity, Mohamed K. El-Bahr and Afaf S. Fahmy
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Molecular Genetics

• Genetic variability studies and molecular fingerprinting of some Egyptian date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) cultivars.
  I- A preliminary study using RAPD markers.
  Ebtissam H.A. Hussein, Sami S. Adawy, Dina El-Khishin, Hisham Moharam and Hanaiya A. El-Itriby
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• Genetic variability studies and molecular fingerprinting of some Egyptian date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) cultivars.
  II- RAPD and ISSR profiling.
  Sami S. Adawy, Ebtissam H.A. Hussein, Dina El- Khishin, Mahmoud M. Saker and Hanaiya A. El-Itriby
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• Physical mapping of knob-related sequences in some maize determined by FISH (fluorescent in situ hybridization) and fiber-FISH.
  Sami S. Adway, Hanaiya A. El-Itriby and Jiming Jiang
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• Biochemical and molecular genetic studies using SDS-protein, isozymes and RAPD-PCR in some common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) cultivars.
  Z. A. El-Fiky, Mona H. Hussein, E. M. Mohamed and H. A. Hussein
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Molecular Virology

• Chicken infectious anaemia virus in Egypt: Molecular diagnosis by PCR and isolation of the virus from infected flocks.
  H.A. Hussein, M.Z. Sabry, E.A. El Ibiary, M. El Safty, and A.I. Abd El Hady
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• Development of a highly sensitive multiplex reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (m-RT-PCR) method for detection of three potato viruses in a single reaction and nested PCR.
  A.A. Shalaby, M.K. Nakhla, A.M. Soliman, H.M. Mazyad, A. Hadidi, and D.P. Maxwell
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• Molecular detection of bovine viral diarrhea virus in clinical samples by polymerase chain reaction-chemiluminscent DNA hybridization assay.
  G. S. Radwan
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Mutation Research

• Removal of UV induced pyrimidine dimers from a transcriptionally active MAT gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
  Nariman A.H. Aly
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