ANALYSIS OF OPTICIN BINDING TO COLLAGEN FIBRILS IDENTIFIES A SINGLE BINDING SITE IN THE GAP REGION AND A HIGH SPECIFICITY TOWARDS THIN HETEROTYPIC FIBRILS CONTAINING COLLAGENS II, AND XI OR V/XI.

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The Auger@TA project is a combined effort involving members of both the Pierre Auger Observatory and the Telescope Array experiment (TA) to cross-calibrate detectors and compare results on air showers detected at one location.We have recently reported results from Phase I of the project, during which we collected and presented data from two Auger w

To obtain an effective bacterial biocontrol strain against the fungal pathogen Ganoderma pseudoferreum, causing rubber tree red root rot disease, healthy rubber tree tissue from Baisha County, Hainan Province, was selected as the isolation source, and bacterial strains with strong antifungal effects against G.pseudoferreum were screened.The strain

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