Sentences with phrase «for nematode»

The findings here reported seem to indicate that a feline reservoir for the nematode exist in this area of Central Italy.

The top of the centrifuged material for nematode ova, Capillaria eggs, Giardia cysts, coccidia (Cryptosporidia, Isospora or Eimeria) oocysts because they float well

Those are conditions in which fleas survive poorly whether treated with nematodes or not, and also the most favorable conditions for nematode survival and activity.

«It's well known that you can inject magnetic nanoparticles and heat them up, so for me the nematode study is not as elegant as the earlier tests,» Dobson says.

A final experiment used a mutant that created an excess of an enzyme that degrades cytokinin, finding that a base level of plant cytokinin was also necessary for nematode growth.

Given what the team found, Andriuzzi said it will take time for the nematode community to recover from these disturbances.

Of the rest, only 1,452 were rejected because of a parasite, and that was for a nematode, Pelicitus roemeri, which is quite harmless, anyway, to humans, but is unsightly....

Soon, Conley secured a spot for her nematodes on STS - 107, aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.

The symbiotic relationship, they found, could represent an Achilles» heel for the nematodes.

Acidic soil is paradise for nematodes, parasitic roundworms that destroy crops.

Not exact matches

Rock - eating bacteria for instance, but also a nematode that eats said bacteria if we're not mistaken and goes by the name of Halicephalobus mephisto — or the Devil's Worm (Mephistopheles means literally «he who doesn't love light», but it is also one of the devil's names).

Weeds serve as hosts for insects, diseases, viruses, and nematodes.

For soilborne pathogens (Verticillium, Fusarium, Pythium, Rhizoctonia, nematodes, etc.), a chemical, such as metham sodium (Vapam), may be added to the soil.

Access was revoked in 2006 soon after the Japanese market opened for the first time for U.S. potatoes when the pale potato cyst nematode was found in Idaho.

Japantoday.com reported Sept. 13 that the government of Japan opened the doors for fresh imports from Idaho for the first time since 2006, with Japanese officials citing reduced pest risks associated with the pale potato cyst nematode.

In May 2008 consent was given to the University of Leeds to carry out trials over a three year period on potato crops genetically modified for resistance to potato cyst nematodes and in March 2010 this consent was extended for a further three years.

The big community of researchers regularly studying C. elegans had missed discovering the selfish role for a simple reason: The main lab strain of nematodes carries the selfish element, explains study coauthor Eyal Ben - David.

POISONED BY MOM A C. elegans nematode that inherits a gene for the antidote to a maternal toxin grows a normal feeding tube (shown first).

Biologists have for decades discussed how two genes in the familiar lab nematode Caenorhabditis elegans might help embryos build their organs.

Nine lines of Cavendish Grand Nain transformed with the nematode - derived Ced9 gene were also trialled, with one line remaining TR4 - free for the three years

As a proof of concept for this study, the researchers tested the plant virus - derived nanoparticles with a nematicide called crystal violet, which has been used to kill nematodes on skin but not in agriculture.

Most filarial nematodes are hosts to Wolbachia bacteria, and require the bacteria for their own development, reproduction, and survival.

In addition, he says, understanding which chemicals may repel nematodes could have implications for developing new kinds of pesticides, potentially ones that are even nontoxic.

Despite the clear arguments for controlling parasitic infections, we know surprisingly little about the developmental processes in parasitic nematodes.

This increases the importance of testing soils for soybean cyst nematodes this spring.

In a new study, Murphy, a molecular biologist at Princeton University, showed that long - lived bodily, or somatic, cells in Caenorhabditis elegans, a one - millimeter nematode commonly used as a model for aging studies in labs, activate genetic pathways completely separate from those found in long - lived egg, or oocyte, cells.

Soybean cyst nematode is the number one soybean pest worldwide, accounting for estimated annual losses of nearly $ 1.3 billion in the United States.

The nematode can survive in soil for 10 years without any host.

«An efficient method for measuring copy number variation applied to improvement of nematode resistance» is published in The Plant Journal.

When Gordon Lithgow at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Novato, California, and colleagues grew the soil - dwelling nematode Caenorhabditis elegans in agar plates soaked in thioflavin T — a dye used to visualise clusters of amyloid beta protein — they found that the worms lived 30 to 70 per cent longer than average.

«You can have a number of parasite species living inside the same host,» he said, «for example, there could be ten species of nematodes in one host species, and if that host species splits into two, there are 20 species of nematodes.

Schafer's team injected DNA that codes for their protein into the gonads of Caenorhabditis elegans nematode worms.

He presented his idea one day to a roomful of about 30 colleagues at Yale's «Worm Meeting,» the weekly gathering for researchers studying C. elegans, the lowly nematode widely used as a model organism in developmental biology.

In 2016, for example, scientists at Florida Atlantic University and the Scripps Research Institute for the first time induced seizures in nematodes, microscopic worms with just 302 brain cells.

Called odilorhabdins, or ODLs, the antibiotics are produced by symbiotic bacteria found in soil - dwelling nematode worms that colonize insects for food.

Nematodes pose a growing threat to rice production in Asia, for example.

It also took Ding deeper into his fundamental premise — «If RNAi remains as an effective antiviral defense in plants, insects and nematodes after their independent evolution for hundred millions of years, why would it stop working with mammals?»

Until now, scientists were unable to prove that mammals use RNAi for killing viruses, but ironically, it was Ding's earlier research into plants, nematodes and fruit flies that helped him find the key: viruses have been outwitting that innate protection in our cells by using proteins to suppress our virus - killing mechanism.

With colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology (Germany), the KU Leuven researchers identified the metabolites that kill the nematodes.

Singh eventually settled on a Glycine tomentella plant known as PI 441001 for these experiments because the wild plant was immune to soybean rust and to soybean cyst nematode.

One species, Glycine tomentella, was of particular interest because it has genes for resistance to soybean rust and to soybean cyst nematode, he said.

The pest programmed the plant roots in beets to form a special nutritive tissue, which the nematode uses for its own growth.

Using next - generation sequencing technologies that were previously unavailable, Michael Gardner, a graduate research assistant, and Jianying Wang, a senior research associate in Mitchum's lab, made a remarkable new discovery — nematodes possess the ability to produce a second type of peptide that can effectively «take over» plant stem cells that are used to create vital pathways for the delivery of nutrients throughout the plant.

Reprogramming another organism might sound like a far out concept, but it's a reality for plants susceptible to nematodes.

Once the nematode signal is characterized, a new generation of natural compounds will be available that is able to induce defense responses in plants thus paving the way for safe and sustainable nematode control.

If we can block those peptides and the pathways nematodes use to overtake the soybean plant, then we can enhance resistance for this very valuable global food source.»

This limits the invasion of the roots by nematodes, reduces the nematodes» fecundity and compromises the formation of root galls,» explains Dr. Ainhoa Martinez - Medina, first author of the study and scientist at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and the Friedrich - Schiller - University Jena (FSU).

Yeast is just one of the organisms, including mice, dogs and nematodes, for which caloric restriction seems to slow aging and prolong life.

One example for such an association has now been reported by an international team of researchers in the journal New Phytologist: a fungus of the genus Trichoderma lives inside the tissue of tomato plants (endophytically) and helps its host to defend itself against infestations by parasitic nematodes.

Two projects will be done jointly with the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm: Molecular biologist David Baillie of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, was awarded $ 6.73 million to study protein function in the soil nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, and microbiologist Sherif Abou Elela of the University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, received $ 3.75 million to test modified nucleic acid technologies for determining gene function.