Sri Lanka’s community forestry (CF) program emerged in the early 1980s following a global trend to conserve forest resources and provide benefits to the local community. However, very little is known about the effect of CF on forest resources. We assess the impacts of CF on forest conditions of semi-mixed evergreen forest in the intermediate zone…[Read more]

Preventing bacterial adhesion on materials surfaces is an important problem in marine, industrial, medical and environmental fields and a topic of major medical and societal importance. A defense strategy of marine organisms against bacterial colonization relies on the biohalogenation of signaling compounds that interfere with bacterial…[Read more]

0. These mutations also decrease the sensitivity to metals such as zinc, mercury and cadmium. Modelling studies showed that the residue E270 is located in a three-glutamate motif (269EEE271) at the N-terminal of α-helix-10. The results suggest that at acidic pH, the protonation of E270 carboxylate may extend a turn of the helix at the N-terminal,…[Read more]