Sentences with phrase «plant viruses»

The visit «opened my eyes to the devastating impact plant viruses are having on African agriculture,» he says.

When he discovers that Michael and Samir will be fired, they decide to plant a virus in the account system to embezzle fraction of cents in each financial operation into Peter's account.

Mealybugs in Thailand and white flies in Africa are significant threats, with the latter serving as a vector for plant viruses.

Researchers have sequenced the genome of the whitefly (Bemisia tabici), an invasive insect responsible for spreading plant viruses worldwide, causing billions of dollars in crop losses each year.

Researchers in the Fei lab have sequenced the genome of the whitefly, an invasive insect responsible for spreading plant viruses worldwide, causing billions of dollars in crop losses each year.

The latest smart - phone security vulnerability garnering attention is one that could allow a hacker to blitz one's iPhone or Android - based device with a deluge of SMS (short message service) text messages, an attack that could allow an intruder to plant a virus on the phone or at the very least cause the phone to shut down (disconnecting calls and Web access in the process).

No viricides exist that control plant viruses.

It is resistant to the dangerous curly top virus, as well as to other plant viruses, including Beet curly top virus (BCTV), Beet severe curly top virus (BSCTV), and Beet mild curly top virus (BMCTV; formerly Worland strain).

Together with researchers at the CNRS, the group has demonstrated the efficacy of RNA - based vaccines produced using the new method against plant virus infections.

After a lethal plant virus swept through this field trial in Tha Pra, Thailand, the GM papaya trees on the right stood hearty, while the conventional trees on the left fell sickly and fruitless.

Developers then used genetic control elements derived from pathogenic plant viruses such as the cauliflower mosaic virus to switch on the genes.

There are many different types of ribozymes in nature but our lab has focused upon the hammerhead motif which is found as part of the self - cleaving domain of small plant viruses.

He is also on the Science advisory board of Nomad Biosciences in Halle, Germany, which aims to produce human pharmaceutical and other valuable proteins using plant viruses rather than GM plants.

Climate change effects on physiology and population processes of hosts and vectors that influence the spread of hemipteran - borne plant viruses.

Gang was shocked to see the devastation tiny plant viruses could cause crops and he wanted to understand how they work.

The high - resolution structure of a filamentous flexible plant virus shows that there is structural homology between its coat protein and the nucleoproteins of an unrelated group of enveloped RNA animal viruses.

She studies aphids that transmit plant viruses and shows her viewers how to study virus transmission between infected plants, aphids, and non-infected plants.

So the researchers reconstructed the DNA virus and introduced it to Nicotiana benthamiana, a close relative of tobacco that's vulnerable to a diverse range of plant viruses.

To help reduce mosaic virus, use these cultural methods: plant virus - free seed, remove weeds, control insects, remove plants showing virus symptoms, and plant resistant varieties.

A plant virus characterized by dark green or yellow - and - green mottling of stems and leaves.

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.

It has always been assumed that plant viruses can not infect animals, and vice versa.

«We use biological nanoparticles — a plant virus — to deliver a pesticide,» said Paul Chariou, a PhD student in biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve and author of a study on the process published in the journal ACS Nano.

But Robert Garry at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, doubts that a plant virus could recognise animal cells.

Instead, this method combines a small amount of DNA from a human - infecting virus, like influenza, with a plant virus known as tobacco mosaic virus.

Intuitively assuming a connection with a plant defense system, Voinnet went to the nearby Institut Jacques Monod in Paris to work on plant viruses with Anne - Lise Haenni for a year.

He had also «established the existence of a systemic signal of silencing and the notion that most if not all plant viruses produce suppressors of silencing,» Baulcombe writes.

That said, they conclude that «3D8 scFv is a candidate antiviral protein that can potentially confer resistance to a broad spectrum of animal and plant viruses.»

The genome study, led by Associate Professor Zhangjun Fei of the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI), offers many clues to the insect's remarkable ability to resist pesticides, transmit more than 300 plant viruses, and to feed on at least 1,000 different plant species.

The project brings together seven scientists with diverse areas of expertise: Bryce Falk (UC Davis), W. Allen Miller (Iowa State University), and Steve Whitham (Iowa State University) investigate different types of plant viruses; S.P. Dinesh - Kumar (UC Davis) and Dan Voytas (University of Minnesota) are leaders in the field of site - directed mutagenesis and plant genome engineering; and Clare Casteel (UC Davis) and Jander are experts in studying plant - insect interactions.

But the root in Aleu's hands is stunted and gnarled because of a plant virus called brown streak disease.

Some of the them are phages and infect my bacteria, and others are plant viruses.

I didn't realize that plant viruses were part of the human microbiome!

The video even showcases some of the co-op only breaches like healing, emp and planting a virus.

They could erase all the files or plant a virus.