Systemin, an octadecapeptide isolated from tomato, is a primary signal molecule involved in the local and systemic responses to pest attack, elicited by activation of a set of defence genes.
In support of their open-nesting life-style, Giant honeybees have evolved a set of defence strategies that keep predatory animals, birds, and wasps in particular, off the nest.
By definition, an argumentation form is a tuple consisting of (1) an assertion, (2) a set of attacks, (3) a set of defences, and (4) a relation specifying for each attack the corresponding defence(s).
Caerphilly Castle comprises a set of eastern defences, protected by the Outer East Moat and the North Lake, and fortifications on the Central Island and the Western Island, both protected by the South Lake.
By employing RNA samples used for cDNA library construction, a northern blot time course was conducted to assess differential induction of a set of identified defence-related genes following infection of each M. acuminata genotype.
Second, we have constructed directed weighted networks where nodes are scholars endowed with a set of attributes (thesis defence date, thesis defence location, thesis disciplines) and linked to other nodes using the genealogy associated to the mentor-student relation.
Mr Clinton's 1996 joint declaration on security with Japan, before he began the tilt towards China that culminated in his trip to Tiananmen Square, yielded a new set of defence guidelines that tightened American-Japanese co-operation a bit.
Our data suggests that PAR2 shapes the antiviral response through activation of a defined set of defence mechanisms.
Within the first year, a set of criteria to address flood defence and nature development goals and the related interests of the involved actors were agreed to by the different actors involved in the pilot project for use in the decision-making process.
Jun Eto, a conservative commentator, has been castigating the Japanese government for making too many market-opening concessions to America, as well as agreeing to the revised set of defence guidelines branding them as Japan's "second defeat".
A set of SSRs, resistant gene analogs (RGAs), defence delated (DR) genes and ITAPs designed from different legume ESTs (M. truncatula, pea, lentil, lupin and soybean), were tested in the parental lines and the polymorphic ones genotyped in the corresponding RIL population.
