apple is the most important fruits in the world and development of vegetative rootstocks is the priority of our country. to obtain apple rootstocks compatible with soil conditions in iran, many crosses were carried out among native-dwarf genotype (azayesh and morabaee) as female parents and commercial rootstocks (b9, m9, m27) as male parents from 2005 to 2007. primary evaluation of progenies wa...

BACKGROUND The sesquiterpene (E)-ß-farnesene is the main component of the alarm pheromone system of various aphid species studied to date, including the English grain aphid, Sitobion avenae. Aphid natural enemies, such as the marmalade hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus and the multicolored Asian lady beetle Harmonia axyridis, eavesdrop on aphid chemical communication and utilize (E)-ß-farnesene as ...

The tomato Mi-1.2 gene confers resistance against both root-knot nematodes and the potato aphid. Plants are resistant to nematodes early in root development. However, plants as old as 4 weeks are susceptible to aphid infestation. We monitored Mi-1.2 expression at the transcriptional level in resistant (Mi/Mi) and susceptible (mi/mi) tomato cultivars by means of RT-PCR. Mi-1.2 transcripts accumu...

A vector derived from an original infectious clone of Turnip mosaic potyvirus (TuMV) has been developed. The vector (p35Tunos-vec01) was made through the creation of a new unique insertion site for foreign genes between the NIb and the CP genes of the viral genome. The jellyfish Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) and E. coli β-glucuronidase (GUS) were expressed in Arabidopsis thaliana plants infec...