Sippi Moghaddam

Common bean is the most important grain legume for human consumption and has a role in sustainable agriculture owing to its ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen. We assembled 473 Mb of the 587-Mb genome and genetically anchored 98% of this sequence in 11 chromosome-scale pseudomolecules. We compared the genome for the common bean against the soybean genome to find changes in soybean resulting from polyploidy. Using resequencing of 60 wild individuals and 100 landraces from the genetically differentiated Mesoamerican and Andean gene pools, we confirmed 2 independent domestications from genetic pools that diverged before human colonization. Less than 10% of the 74 Mb of sequence putatively involved in domestication was shared by the two domestication events. We identified a set of genes linked with increased leaf and seed size and combined these results with quantitative trait locus data from Mesoamerican cultivars. Genes affected by domestication may be useful for genomics-enabled crop improvement.

A.A. Mosleh & S.R. Musavi Moghaddam According to Descarte, man is an autonomous being whose essence is thought. God is also taken as “pure thought” which plays an epistemological role in his philosophy. God is merely a creature and a guarantee for the continuity of nature’s mechanical rules. In other words, He is the same as the nature and rules. Man, in this mechanical world, is merely a machine possessing, unlike other creatures, a soul but yet alongside other things is only a creature of God. God has created man and left him to himself. Like the stable rules of the world, man is simply a rule of this natural aimless world. On the basis of Tabatabaei’s perspective, Cartesian man is an abrogated one which is alienated from his identity. One of the important issues concerning anthropology in the west, particularly in modern age, is the discussion about the essence of man and its relation to God as the origin of the world and the absolute reality. The main theme of this research is to examine the relation of man to God according to Descartes’ philosophy and then to criticize it in line with Tabatabai’s viewpoint..