Sentences with phrase «plant pathogens as»

Analysis of the surfaces of the leaves revealed that the number of plant pathogens as well as of necrotic plant tissues increased considerably when mutualistic Pseudomyrmex ferrugineus ants were absent.

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Plant scientists, including us, are working out the genetics of wild banana varieties and banana pathogens as we try to prevent a Cavendish crash.

Peppers are susceptible to plant pathogens on the seed coat such as bacterial leaf spot and tobacco mosaic virus.

The FDA issued a formal warning letter to Arrow Reliance Inc. doing business as Darwin's Natural Pet Products, citing pathogen problems at a production plant and saying scientific evidence shows the company's cleaning solution is ineffective.

The vaccine triggers a mechanism known as RNA interference, which is an innate defence mechanism of plants, animals and other eukaryotic organisms against pathogens.

Farmers spray their crops with fungicides to control these plant diseases, but their effectiveness is limited as disease pathogens mutate to become insensitive to the fungicides.

Dr Stotz continued: «This concept of plant ETI does not really explain the second line of defense in the interaction of plant hosts protecting themselves against extracellular fungal pathogens — i.e. those foliar fungal pathogens that get into the leaf of the plant to exploit the space between its cells, known as the apoplast, to retrieve nutrients from the plant.

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.

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

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.

Other specific conditions, such as the concentration of dissolved oxygen in the pore water of the filter body, reduce the ability of pathogens to survive in planted soil filters.

Previous studies that have considered function have mainly looked at a single host - microbe interaction, such as the one between an Arabidopsis plant and a pathogen.

«Practically speaking, we need to understand how to sustain plants with all of the mounting stressors today, such as drought and an increase in pathogens (e.g., plant disease),» Fitzpatrick says.

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.

The researchers don't know what these proteins do, but they found them in a variety of microbes, including plant and human pathogens, as well as in cellulose - degrading and bioremediation organisms.

According to the polytechnic specialist, Trichoderma koningiopsis in some cases combats or prevents the growth of pathogens that attack cotton plant as P. omnívora, Fusarium spp and Macrophomina phaseolina.

And previous field experiments, including projects in Georgia and Ohio, have found that the mineral can also can reduce levels of toxic aluminum and pathogens in soils, as well as provide a source of calcium and sulfur, two nutrients plants need to grow.

Furthermore, the fungus Trichoderma koningiopsis may inhibit growth of a pathogen, or parasite, that destroys the cotton plant, is also inoculant as it produces indole acetic acid when mixed with the seed before planting.

As researchers from many fields realize just how much ancient DNA can tell them, the method is being applied to everything from the peopling of Europe to how plants and pathogens respond to climate change.

«While it seems like it would be good that the plant grows faster, other functions that the fungal or animal partners provide — such as protection against pathogens or drought and assistance in gathering micronutrients like iron — could be compromised.

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 feeAs 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 feeas Fusarium, which causes ear rot in corn and puts out mycotoxins in animal feed.

As a means to better understand such pathogen - plant interactions, Chory's team turned to the well - studied weed Arabidopsis thaliana and, in particular, an enzyme called SOBER1 — which had previously been reported to suppress the weed's immune response to a bacterial protein known as AvrBsAs a means to better understand such pathogen - plant interactions, Chory's team turned to the well - studied weed Arabidopsis thaliana and, in particular, an enzyme called SOBER1 — which had previously been reported to suppress the weed's immune response to a bacterial protein known as AvrBsas AvrBsT.

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.

Researchers found that specific fungal species, such as Colletotrichum tropicale, protect plants from their enemies — the pathogens and insects that eat them.

Examples include: the co-evolution of flowering plants and pollinators such as bees, lizards and moths; pocket gophers and their lice; humans and intestinal microbes; and the war our immune systems wage with the pathogens that attack us.

Their next step is to test the isolates they've captured on plants such as tomatoes, potatoes, wheat, oat and rye to see if they have qualities of beneficial bacteria or those of 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.

«Our focus is on exploring plant - derived natural food bioactive compounds as antimicrobials to control foodborne pathogens, in order to ensure safety of fresh produce,» she said.

Flor found that both resistance in plants as well as avirulence in the pathogen were inherited, and that both traits were dominant.

Ranked among the top five major plant pathogens in the world, root - knot nematodes are microscopic roundworms that infect the roots of more than 2,000 fruit, vegetable and ornamental crops, such as lettuce, tomatoes, strawberries and carnations, across the world.

«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.»

We have used three variations of a strategy known as pathogen - derived resistance (PDR), whereby fragments of DNA from the pathogen are inserted into the plant genome providing it with resistance against the pathogen.

The researchers will aim to find the genetic underpinnings of how plants react to stressors like drought, heat, pathogens and pests, as well as the salt that can accumulate in soils drying more quickly in a warming environment.

Pathogens include fungal, bacterial, and viral infections, as well as parasitic plants (and here we include general forest disease in our definition of forest pathology).

The focus is on molecular microbiology and virology, and includes topics such as genomics, the gamut of plant and animal host - pathogen interactions, host immune responses, characterization and evolution of virulence determinants, cell cycle and differentiation, symbiosis in plant and animal associations, environmental microbiology, biodiversity and evolution, population dynamics, sex and mutagenesis, antibiotic resistance and production, drug and vaccine targets, as well as aspects of prion diseases and of fungal and protozoan biology.

We look at how those polymers are synthesized and assembled into complex polymer matrices, and how they contribute to factors such as plant architecture, resistance to pathogens and limiting drought stress.

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.

As a first line of defense against bacterial pathogens, plant cells recognize and respond to tiny bacterial molecules, such as pieces of flagellin that slough off the whip - like flagella that help the bacteria movAs a first line of defense against bacterial pathogens, plant cells recognize and respond to tiny bacterial molecules, such as pieces of flagellin that slough off the whip - like flagella that help the bacteria movas pieces of flagellin that slough off the whip - like flagella that help the bacteria move.

As part of her current work under the Fungal Genome Initiative at the Broad, Cuomo leads analysis of a wide diversity of animal and plant pathogens, with the goal of better understanding the genetic basis of pathogenicity.

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.

Members of the Helotiales thrive in various ecosystems and cover a broad range of niches, and helotialean fungi have been described as plant pathogens, endophytes, mycorrhizae, fungal parasites, terrestrial saprobes, aquatic saprobes, root symbionts, and wood rot fungi.

Moreover, elevated amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere better enable plants to withstand environmental stresses, such as soil - / air - borne plant pathogens.

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.

Also common are water - borne pathogens, such as bacteria, and microscopic plants and animals.