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If autumn temperatures impede water uptake, causing greater reduction of tissue water content in northern HRWW plants as suggested by Limin and Fowler [ 15 ] , then we hypothesized that less water would be removed from soil at 2°C by northern-selected than by southern cultivars.
Some have even been shown to impede movement into jobs.
The Washington Post lead, dwarfed by the quake headline below it, carries yesterday's warning by Maryland officials and environmentalists that a fractured response to the drought by regional officials could impede effective conservation of water.
Several methods are available to assay discontinuities in DNA, and for many applications, one of the several current methods may suffice [ 30 ] [ 31 32 33 34 35 36 ] . DNA backbone interruptions are key intermediates in genetic metabolism [ 37 ] [ 38 ] [ 39 ] [ 40 ] [ 41 42 ] [ 43 ] . Chemotherapy [ 44 ] , ionizing radiation [ 45 ] and dietary mutagens [ 46 ] also cause distributed DNA strand interruptions [ 47 ] . Chemical modifications [ 48 49 50 ] [ 51 ] need not break the DNA backbone to impede the progress of DNA polymerase.
Even if instability were present, this would not impede cytokine formation since, in a mouse model, unstable tibial fractures were associated with prolonged expression of Indian hedgehog and BMP-6 [ 27].