Aromatic plants affect the selection of host tomato plants byBemisia tabacibiotype B

Tomato Plants

as a diagnostic probe for P. syringae pv. tomato. In a survey of 75 plant-associated bacteria, pTPR1 hybridized exclusively to those strains that produced coronatine. The detection limit for this probe, which was labeled with the Chemiprobe nonradioactive reporter system, was approximately 4 x 103 CFU of lesion bacteria. During the 1989 growing season, a total of 258 leaf and fruit lesions from...

Medicinal and Aromatic Plants

Plant volatiles and adult experience affect selection by Cotesia plutellae of host larvae on different plants

Laboratory experiments were conducted to examine selection by Cotesia plutellae between host larvae feeding on two plant species: Chinese cabbage, Brassica campestris ssp. pekinensis and common cabbage, Brassica oleracea var. capitata. When C. plutellae wasps were provided with equal numbers of Plutella xylostella larvae on both species of plants in one arena, the parasitoid parasitised 4-15 fo...

Zinc Toxicity in Tomato Plants

atomic number above 20. These properties are not the world. In India it is cultivated under 83.00 ha of relevant for biological effects, yet the heavy metals land with production of 7.9 lakh metric tonnes. Keeping enclose essential nutrients, beneficial elements and these points in view the present investigation has been elements which, at the present stage of knowledge, are made to study the e...

Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Australia

1. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants – Australia 1.1. Natural Plant Medicines Worldwide A Historical Perspective 1.2. Phytochemicals of Therapeutic Significance 1.3. Nitrogen Containing Compounds (Alkaloids) 2. Australian Plant Evolution 2.1. Australian Medicinal Plant Use 3. Some Useful Australian Medicinal Plants 3.1. Eucalyptus Species 3.2. Melaleuca Species 3.3. Leptospermum Species 3.4. Eremop...