BACKGROUND Allium sativum leaf agglutinin (ASAL) is a 25-kDa homodimeric, insecticidal, mannose binding lectin whose subunits are assembled by the C-terminal exchange process. An attempt was made to convert dimeric ASAL into a monomeric form to correlate the relevance of quaternary association of subunits and their functional specificity. Using SWISS-MODEL program a stable monomer was designed ...

Cruciferous crops on Guam are infested by cabbage webworm, Hellula undalis (F.), cabbage cluster caterpillar, Crocidolomia pavonana Zeller, mustard aphid, Lipaphis erysimi (Davis), armyworm, Spodoptera litura (F.), flea hopper, Halticus tibialis (Reuter), fire ant, Solenopsis geminata (F.), leaf miners, Liriomyza spp., diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L.), corn earworm, Helicoverpa armige...

BACKGROUND Antibiotic/ herbicide resistant marker genes have been proven to be very useful in plant transformation for the initial selection of desired transgenic events. However, presence of these genes in the genetically modified crops may render the crop less acceptable to the consumers. Among several different approaches, the effectiveness of Cre/lox mediated recombination strategy for sele...

All the cultivated Brassica species exhibited powdery mildew severity with highest (43.2%) on juncea followed by B. rapa (28.0%) which is widely in India. Yield losses from 10-90 per cent reduction 6.47 oil content have been estimated different species. Hence, present study was carried out to evaluate oils manage disease and aphids an organically grown mustard crop. Five (castor, groundnut, sun...

The objective of the present study was to examine chemical compositions Salvia coccinea oleoresins prepared in methanol and petroleum ether. GC-MS analysis methanolic oleoresin (SCMO) ether (SCEO) resulted identification 15 12 constituents, comprising 84.7 81.2% total composition, respectively. Both SCMO SCEO varied their composition terms quantity, namely, oleic acid (22.3-25.9%), palmitic (8....

a two-year field study was conducted at punjab agricultural university, ludhiana, india, to study the relative abundance of mustard/turnip aphid, lipaphis erysimi (kaltenbach) (hemiptera: aphididae) and the associated resident natural enemies on 10 different rapeseed-mustard genotypes which included: brassica juncea: rh 7846, rh 9501, rk 9501, jmm 927, purple mutant; b. napus: hyola pac 401 (hy...