We evaluated marine aggregates as environmental reservoirs for a thraustochytrid pathogen, Quahog Parasite Unknown (QPX). of the northern quahog or hard clam. Mercenaria mercenaria. Positive results from in si tu hybridization and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis confirm the presence of QPX in marine aggregates collected from coastal embayments in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where QPX outbr...

Background: Avena sativa L. (common oat) is the most important among cultivated oat belongs to Poaceae family and known as Jai or Javi in Indian subcontinent. It winter forage many parts of world grown multipurpose crop for grain, pasture, a rotation crop. Methods: A field experiment was conducted study effect Zinc Sulphate Borax on growth, yield components, economics oats seed production red l...

Mounting evidence has made it clear that increasing nighttime air temperatures contribute to decreased head rice yields and decreased grain quality due to chalkiness and altered physicochemical properties. Our goal is to determine some of the fundamental changes that occur in developing rice kernels as they respond to high air temperatures, especially at night. Panicles collected from field-gro...

The ability to manage weed infestations in a spatially precise manner will rely on the availability of efficient methods of mapping weed distributions. We have conducted a study designed to compare four different ground based methods for collecting georeferenced information on sterile wild oat infestation in a winter barley crop. Sampling was done at harvest time (when wild oat panicles are mos...

Hybridization efficiency of two crossing methods (involving emasculation by hot water or by anther aspiration), was determined in rice. Quantitative comparisons between crossing methods for pure line breeding are scarce and the objectives of this work were to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of emasculation methods, and to determine an adequate temperature for hot water emasculation. H...

Protein phosphatases, together with protein kinases, regulate protein phosphorylation and dephosphorylation, and play critical roles in plant growth and biotic stress responses. However, little is known about the biological functions of plant protein tyrosine dual-specificity phosphatase (PFA-DSP) in biotic stresses. Here, we found that OsPFA-DSP2 was mainly expressed in calli, seedlings, roots...

Background: The optimum maturity duration for maximum grain yield of non-photosensitive rice (Oryza sativa) under direct-seeded condition in the tropics was studied. Information on such studies conducted using near-isogenic lines are lacking. Change with explained components. Methods: experiment dry zone Sri Lanka over two seasons namely and wet during 2021 2022. Non-photosensitive that varying...

The present study was conducted in Brgy. Dangcol, Balanga City, Bataan to evaluate the effect of bagging whole panicle (cluster) carabao mango fruit with waxed paper bag as compared traditional method and without terms yield quality well cost-benefit analysis. Results revealed that fruits bagged per cluster using (T3) obtained highest number marketable (130.60) total weight 34.21 kg while XL no...