Characterization of a Yam Class IV Chitinase Produced by the Recombinant Pichia pastoris X-33 Department of Botany‚ Jahangirnagar University‚ Savar‚ Dhaka 1342‚ Bangladesh Abbreviations: Endo H‚ Endoglycosidase H; PR protein‚ pathogenesis related protein; P. pastoris‚ Pichia pastoris; VTS‚ vacuolar targeting signal; PCR‚ polymerase chain reaction; PAGE‚ polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; SDS‚ sodium dodecyl sulfate Abstract A yam (Dioscorea opposita Thunb) class IV chitinase‚ whose genomic
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A man’s yam house is a representation of that man’s wealth‚ as well as another man’s fine gardening skills and a woman’s status‚ since she is the title owner of the yams. Often‚ yams are used as a symbol of wealth at harvest festivals where women compete for the wealth title by bringing in yams. The higher the title‚ the more praise and honor goes to that woman’s matrilineage. In marriage‚ people from the bride’s side of the family bring gifts of yams to the groom’s relatives;
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village town‚ Molo. Mariah’s character was less suitable to be preferred as the wife for a pious Imam. She herself was less pious‚ looks like did not mind socializing with men and an Imam should be the last option for her to marry. The Imam’s wife‚ Cik Yam was a model wife‚ and any husband should be grateful of having a woman like her as a wife. The Imam must be very desperate if he willing to take risks to ask for permission to marry again. Cikgu Leh’s character was initially more suited to captivate
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com/tagged/kola-nut>. Igbo Foods * The Yam is a staple food for Igbo people and civilization * Yam was always abundant‚ helpful during lean times * The Iwaji or New Yam festival each year celebrates importance of vegetable in Igbo culture. Prayers offered up and thanks given to the gods and spirits of traditional folklore. * Yam made in many ways * Can be pealed and boiled or pulped into a doughy consistency to produce pounded yam * Also ate a lot of pumpkins and gari
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KAROT OR ASIATIC BITTER YAM (Dioscorea hispida dennst) AS A RAT KILLER CHAPTER I Introduction Health is wealth. Food plays very vital role in maintaining proper health. If we don’t have it‚ we will surely die. In our country‚ Philippines‚ we cannot finish a meal without having the food called rice. Not only in Philippines but rice is also a global staple food. The country is the 8th largest rice producer in the world‚ accounting for 2.8% of global rice production. Rice is an
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places he could go the narrator reaches a vendor who is selling yams instantly reminding him of the south. The interaction with the vendor causes a sense of homesickness within the narrator. Passage (Two-Four sentences cutting that typifies author’s style): “I took a bite‚ finding it as sweet and hot as any I’d ever had‚ and was overcome with surge of homesickness that I turned away to keep my control. I walked along‚ munching the yam‚ just as suddenly overcome by an intense feeling of freedom-
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of gifts for the establishment and maintenance of social relations. The Trobriand Islands - Importance of yam and kinship From adolescence‚ adulthood and finally death‚ reciprocal gift giving is prevalent in the Trobriand Islands. This is exemplified in the way men give gifts of yams while the women give banana leaf bundles and red fiber skirts. According to O’Sullivan et‚ al. (2008)‚ yams are “the most esteemed and perhaps the oldest of the staple foods in the Pacific‚” (as cited in MacCarthy‚
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The people of the Trobriand Islands in Papua New Guinea have been a source of interest to anthropologists since the early 1900s‚ when Bronislaw Malinowski first studied them. In a time when anthropology was "barely established as a formal discipline" (Weiner‚ 1988)‚ Malinowski had an intense interest in ethnographical field work as well as the fascinating culture of the natives of what was then called Papua‚ the southeastern part of mainland New Guinea. The Trobriand way of life is extremely different
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In this essay I will be using Malinowski’s Functionalist approach and Levi-Strauss’s Structuralism‚ whilst analyzing the Trobrianders society and way of life. Bronislaw Malinowski initially created the Anthropological school of Functionalism. Malinowski’s version of Functionalism is more psychologically linked‚ and focuses on his idea that people have psychological and physical needs‚ and hence social institutions develop in order to meet these needs. Malinowski divides these needs into seven
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The goal of this project is to make a medicine bag which contains three important symbols of values to me as an African person. The first symbol is a Nigerian Beaded Necklace that represents my heritage‚ the second symbol is yam use in New Yam festival which represents Igbo tradition‚ and the third symbol is a red cap that represents a heirloom. These symbols are very important to my family as cultural heritage in Igbo Land of Nigeria. The first symbol is the Nigerian beaded necklace. This necklace
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