Sentences with phrase «by some plant pathogens»

The class of compounds studied includes those used by some plant pathogens to coordinate their attacks.

In April, a team of scientists hatched a daring plan to save some endangered mission blue butterflies from a Milagra Ridge site ravaged by a plant pathogen.

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The food test kits developed and produced by ifp include: Rapid lateral - flow test kits for the on - site detection of food allergens (distributed by Romer Labs under the trademark AgraStrip); real - time PCR kits for the detection of pathogens, GMO, plant / animal species etc. (distributed by QIAGEN under the trademark mericon); microbiological vitamin test kits in microtiter plates (distributed by R - Biopharm under the trademark VitaFast); enzymatic kits in microtiter plates for the quantitative determination of sugars, organic acids and other metabolites (trademark EnzymeFast).

Microbiological tests are then conducted on equipment and products at chicken plants by companies and federal laboratories, including tests for pathogens like Salmonella, Campylobacter and Listeria monocytogenes.

Before the pathogen has entered the plant, its presence of specific pathogen molecules or patterns is recognised by the host plant's immune systems.

A new understanding as to how plants defend themselves against some pathogens that cause crop diseases is proposed by researchers from the University of Hertfordshire to help scientists breed new, more successful disease - resistant agricultural crops.

By exploiting new molecular and genetic insights, the research, done in collaboration with Pierre de Wit from Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands, provides a better understanding of the defense system of crop plants against the damaging pathogens that grow in the spaces between plant cells.

The other is turned on when an insect regurgitates stomach contents containing microbes onto the plant triggering a response by the plant to microbial pathogens that uses salicylic acid.

This is an increasingly popular approach to producing pharmaceuticals as it minimizes possible contamination by human pathogens, which plants don't carry.

Forests experience plenty of natural disturbances: fire, weather variations, competition between plant species, and attacks by insect pests and pathogens.

How these protein networks are subverted by pathogens, has been investigated on a plant model by a research team.

A team of international researchers has uncovered a mechanism by which plants are able to better defend themselves against disease - causing pathogens.

Dr Ton added: «Plant immunity that is controlled by a single resistance gene, on which most conventional breeding programs are based, is comparably easy to overcome by a pathogen.

«Liverworts are showing great promise as a model plant system and this discovery that they can be colonised by pathogens of flowering plants makes them a valuable model plant to continue research into plant - microbe interactions.»

«By controlling the types of microbes that thrive around their roots, plants could be trying to protect themselves from less friendly pathogens while promoting other microbes that stimulate nutrient supply.

The world's first complete gene sequencing of a plant pathogen has been announced by a consortium of Brazilian researchers in the July 13 issue of Nature.

While some of these organisms are harmful to roots by causing damage or even plant death, others are beneficial and enhance nutrient acquisition and protect roots against pathogens.

Trade - off between latent period and transmission success of a plant pathogen revealed by phenotypic correlations.

This primary response involves the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which are molecules that can act like tiny bombs when released by the plant cell at the offending pathogen.

Fertilizer plays a key role in agriculture by increasing the production of staple crops, controlling fertility and reducing the risk to plants from pathogens and subsequent plant diseases.

Our understanding of a variety of plant pathogens has been vastly expanded by his work.

There are two general types of resistance genes found in wheat: Race - specific genes confer a high - level of resistance to specific strains of leaf rust but can be easily overcome by genetic mutation in pathogen populations, while slow rusting (APR) resistance provides partial resistance to a broad spectrum of races, but is typically effective only at the adult stage of plant growth.

The phytochemicals (plant chemicals) in potatoes and sweet potatoes may also keep us healthy by regulating the immune system, fighting viruses and other pathogens, controlling inflammation, and inhibiting tumour growth.

It can be controlled by planting black cohosh in well - draining soil and alternating it with other crops that are not susceptible to fungi in order to control the number of surviving pathogens in the soil.

UV is used by large water treatment plants because it effectively neutralize any pathogens, organisms and viruses from causing any harm.

Incidences of contamination by other pathogens such as listeriosis and salmonella have also been on an upward trend since the 1970s, coinciding with the jumped - up pace of production at ever bigger slaughterhouses and processing plants.