Sentences with phrase «for plant pathogens»

As more such species are sequenced, he says, «everyone will be using these» genomes to find out which genes are responsible for particular functions, especially for plant pathogens such as Fusarium, which causes ear rot in corn and puts out mycotoxins in animal feed.

Not exact matches

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).

Microwave assisted thermal sterilisation has been used for disinfestation of fruit fly infected fruit and vegetables with some initial success and may be suitable for a wider range of products, insects and postharvest plant pathogens.

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.

Rotting plant material in the greenhouse (stems, leaves, and flowers) makes an ideal environment for pathogens and pests, so no dead plant material should be in the greenhouse.

However, the positive impacts of biochar were coupled with negative findings for a suite of genes that are known to determine the ability of a plant to withstand attack from pests and pathogens.

«The pathogen is producing an important compound that the plant already makes, but too much of a good thing ends up not being good for the plant,» said Barbara Kunkel, professor of biology in Arts & Sciences.

The strategy — widely anticipated but issued 5 months later than the White House had originally planned — also outlines a series of steps and goals for agencies to pursue, such as tackling bee - killing pathogens and mites, reducing pesticide use and reviewing its safety to bees, restoring degraded pollinator habitats, and encouraging the planting of more flowering plants and other pollinator - friendly vegetation.

The goal of research is to ascertain the technological, chemical, and biological parameters that affect pathogen removal in planted soil filters, so that the newly gained knowledge can be used for technological development in both industrialized and developing countries.

«It is well known that plant pathogens use proteins that mimic plant domains required for immune function,» said Dangl.

In the future, the knowledge about beneficial fungi could also help to develop sustainable solutions for agriculture, the scientist says: «Inoculants based on these beneficial microbes help to «immunize» the plants against pathogens and pests, thereby reducing yield losses due to infections, in a sustainable way.»

«A mechanistic understanding of how plants resist or overcome pathogen attack is crucial to develop new strategies for crop protection.»

For a long time, the prevailing idea was that parasites and pathogens evolve to target a particular host and as they get better at infecting a specific animal or plant, they become less effective at infecting other organisms.

For their latest experiments, Shouan Zhang, a UF / IFAS plant pathology associate professor at the Tropical Research and Education Center in Homestead, FL, inoculated basil plants with the downy mildew pathogen.

«We hypothesized this because Neanderthals had been living in Central Asia and Europe for hundreds of thousands of years before our recent ancestors ever reached these areas — and thus had likely adapted to the distinct environmental aspects of these regions, compared to Africa, in terms of climate, plants and animals, and pathogens.»

The findings are relevant, for example, to our understanding of how pathogens can resist antibiotics, or how the performance of bacterial cultures in industrial processes or wastewater treatment plants can be maintained under dynamic conditions.

The reason could be that plant defenses against pathogens gradually weaken after a fire, Moritz and Odion speculate — for instance, from stiffer competition among plants as they grow, decreased chemical defenses as they age, or depletion of soil nutrients.The findings suggest that California's fight against forest fires over many decades may have precipitated or accelerated the outbreak, and that perhaps controlled burning could be used to halt it, the authors say.

The machine, called a continuous cell concentration device, could make it possible to routinely analyze food or water samples to screen for pathogens within a single work shift at food processing plants.

RNAi is effective against viruses and fungal pathogens and can also protect plants against insect pests, reducing the need for chemical pesticides.

The end result was that the plants» immune systems were even more prepared for fungal attack in the morning but more susceptible to infection at night — presumably to minimize interference between pathogen defense and growth, which mainly occurs in the pre-dawn hours.

But the University of Exeter scientists tested this strategy using a plant pathogen, and found the therapy could go dramatically wrong, with devastating consequences for the host plant.

Barbara Hohn of the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel, Switzerland, and her colleagues subjected several thale cress plants — Arabidopsis thaliana — to harsh levels of ultraviolet light or evidence of bacterial pathogens.

An interesting new area of research is the use of antimicrobial peptides (AMP) for improving resistance to pathogens using transgenic plants as bio-factories for fungicides or bactericides.

The scientists could demonstrate the potential of the protein arrays in the context of plant hormone signaling pathways, which, for example, mediate responses to drought stress or against pathogens.

2015 — 2017 NSF BIO Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2013 Gordon Research Conference Carl Storm Fellowship 2013 27th Fungal Genetics Conference Travel Award to attend meeting 2013 APS - Southern Division Travel Award to attend annual meeting 2012 — 2014 USDA NIFA Pre-Doctoral Fellowship 2012 NCSU Stewards of the Future Outstanding Student Research Award 2012 NCSU Stewards of the Future Outstanding Faculty Research Award (contributor) 2012 MSA Graduate Fellowship Award 2012 APS - PPB and USDA - NIFA Scholarship to attend Human Pathogens on Plants meeting 2012 Keystone Symposia Scholarship / Travel Award 2012 Sigma Xi inductee to Associate Membership 2011 UNC campus scholarship 2011 Sigma Xi Annual Meeting Superior Presentation Medal 2011 MSA Richard Korf Mentor Student Travel Award 2011 MSA John W. Rippon Research Award 2011 Gamma Sigma Delta inductee 2011 8th International Aspergillus Meeting best poster award 2011 PPSNC Student Travel Award 2010 UNC campus scholarship 2010 MSA Annual Meeting best oral presentation award 2010 MSA Alma W. Barksdale / John Raper Mentor Student Travel Award 2009 UNC campus scholarship 2008 University Graduate Research Fellowship 2008 — 2011 Center for Integrated Fungal Research USDA National Needs Fellowship

For many Brucella genes, the closest matches were with a plant pathogen (Agrobacterium tumefaciens) and a plant symbiont (Mesorhizobium loti).

2009 — Jeffery Dangl — for his role in developing the concepts and elucidating the fundamental mechanisms that govern plant - pathogen interactions

Plant, root, and soil microbiome Potential for plant biocontrol activity of isolated Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Bacillus stratosphericus strains against bacterial pathogens acting through both induced plant resistance and direct antagonism — Kaliannan Durairaj — FEMS Microbiology LePlant, root, and soil microbiome Potential for plant biocontrol activity of isolated Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Bacillus stratosphericus strains against bacterial pathogens acting through both induced plant resistance and direct antagonism — Kaliannan Durairaj — FEMS Microbiology Leplant biocontrol activity of isolated Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Bacillus stratosphericus strains against bacterial pathogens acting through both induced plant resistance and direct antagonism — Kaliannan Durairaj — FEMS Microbiology Leplant resistance and direct antagonism — Kaliannan Durairaj — FEMS Microbiology Letters

Plant - Parasitic Nematodes Are Potential Pathogens of Miscanthus x giganteus and Panicum virgatum Used for Biofuels, Tesfamariam Mekete, Kimberly Reynolds, Horacio D. Lopez - Nicora, Michael Gray, Terry Niblack, Plant Disease, doi: 10.1094 / PDIS -05-10-0335, 95 (4), April 2011.

tomato as this process results in bacterial speck, an economically important disease, and also serves as a powerful model system for understanding fundamental mechanisms involved in plant - pathogen interactions.

For molecular geneticist Katie Coats, that means working with the WSDA and WSU Puyallup plant pathologist Gary Chastagner to understand the genetics of the exotic plant pathogen Phytophthora ramorum, the cause of sudden oak death.

This has significance and potential impact for agriculture and the national economy in the form of developing potential biofuels feedstocks, understanding host - pathogen interactions, and improving crop plant biomass.

In the traditional view of this symbiosis, the plants photosynthesize and provide carbon to the fungi in return for nutrients that the fungi take up from the soil (I say traditional because mycorrhizal fungi can also provide other benefits to their hosts such as helping them deal with summer water stress and protecting them from pathogens that attack their roots).

Moreover, the data can serve as a basis for studies concerning the evolution of signaling mechanisms, as well as can give specific insights into the regulation of basic cellular processes such as polar cell growth, cell expansion, plant morphogenesis and the plants responses to fungal pathogens.

For example, there's a deadly plant pathogen called crown rust fungus which among grains, infects only oat crops.

«Plant - derived diets tend to contribute significantly less fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, and [foodborne pathogens], while at the same time offering more fiber, folate, vitamin C, and phytochemicals... all essential factors for disease prevention, and optimal health and well - being.»

«Plant - derived diets tend to contribute significantly less fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, and food - borne pathogens, while at the same time offering more fiber, folate, vitamin C, and phytochemicals, all essential factors for disease prevention, optimal health, and well being.»

For example many fungi of the Sclerotiniaceae (Helotiales) are plant pathogens, and these fungi might have evolved primarily in the Northern Hemisphere.

Many pests and pathogens spend the winter on diseased plant parts, lying in wait for the chance to launch a new attack in spring.