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A smart buyer also retains an inhouse staff that includes technical experts who can articulate the nature of technical services being bought, recognize good value during the negotiation of such services, and evaluate the quality of the services as they are provided.
C73 contains at least three copies of a T-DNA comprising the 35S:GFP-COP1 gene as well as a kanamycin resistance gene driven by the nopaline synthase promoter ( nos:nptII ). The C73 locus is silenced transcriptionally (TGS) but retains partial expression of both nptII and GFP-COP1 . GFP-COP1 remains expressed in the seedling root but is largely silenced in the shoot.
Also, each of the three genes retains one of the NPA domains, and thus, if translated, they might constitute shorter proteins with AQP-like functions.
The guild takes many forms now, but it retains much of the Middle Ages, of the ecclesiastical Schoolmen, who gathered together in quasi-monastic “colleges,” behind walls that marked them off from the rest of the world (a phenomenon that in England is still called “town and gown”).
A smart buyer is one who retains an inhouse staff that understands the organization's mission, its requirements, and its customer needs and who can translate those needs and requirements into a corporate or strategic direction.