The plant-specific NAC gene family is one of the largest transcription factor families, participating in plant growth regulation and stress response.Despite extensive characterization in various plants, our knowledge of the NAC family in oat is lacking.Herein, we midi-dresses identified 333 NAC genes from the latest release of the common oat genome

In this paper, we compare the pandemic management performance of 22 countries that belong to the middle-high income class based on criteria including the pandemic data, population characteristics, and health system capacity.The management of the COVID-19 pandemic requires considering many and often conflicting aspects at the same time which necessi

Orientation: Although there has been an improvement in workforce diversity in South Africa, gender and ethnicity issues such as discrimination, prejudice and sexual harassment prevail within organisations.This is because organisational leaders view diversity as a matter of legal compliance instead of as a value addition to organisational growth and

The heritable haemoglobinopathy alpha(+)-thalassaemia is caused by the reduced synthesis of alpha-globin chains that form part of normal adult haemoglobin (Hb).Individuals homozygous for alpha(+)-thalassaemia have microcytosis and an increased erythrocyte count.Alpha(+)-thalassaemia homozygosity confers considerable protection against severe malari