Crop genotypes with root traits permitting increased nutrient acquisition would increase yields in low fertility soils but have uncertain effects on soil fertility in the long term because of competing effects on nutrient removal vs. the soil conserving effects of greater crop biomass.
Due to the apparent evolutionarily conserved effect of Sir2/S irt1 on health and ageing, the physiological functions and protein targets of the enzyme have been intensively studied in mammals in order to cure age-related diseases.
Early comparative bioinformatics analysis has suggested a limited role for AS in plants in terms of functional expansion of the proteome35,36,37; only a small number of AS events have conserved effects at the protein sequence level in Arabidopsis and rice37.
Although a considerable number of functional AS events in plants have been described in literature [ 5], we have shown here that only a small number of AS events have conserved effects at the protein sequence level in Arabidopsis and rice.
It has been noted previously that recruited LTRs often have a taxon-specific regulation even if they are present in multiple species (Cohen et al. 2009; Ward et al. 2013; but see Sundaram et al. 2014 for conserved effects also).
Administration of vitamin E (2%) had a neuroprotective effect, conserving the number of myenteric neurons in group DE2 compared with groups D and DE1.
cAMP-dependent protein kinase pathway elements are remarkably conserved and effects on virulence have been the focus of many studies.
Interestingly, MPH-correlated genes in segments other than MPH-ASs, failed to contribute to conserved heterotic effects between the 21 inbred lines and the three populations analyzed by Schön et al.[ 4].
The assumption of conserved function between orthologs has been supported even between relatively distant species, by observations of conserved phenotypic effects when orthologs were subject to knock-in experiments [ 5, 6] or in situ [ 7, 8], clarifying the role of genes involved in human diseases.
