FIRST REPORT OF COLLETOTRICHUM ALATAE ON WATER YAM (DIOSCOREA ALATA) CAUSING LEAF ANTHRACNOSE IN PUERTO RICO

The annually reformulated trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (TIV) includes both influenza A/subtypes (H3N2 and H1N1) but only one of two influenza B/lineages (Yamagata or Victoria). In a recent series of clinical trials to evaluate prime-boost response across influenza B/lineages, influenza-naïve infants and toddlers originally primed with two doses of 2008-09 B/Yamagata-containing TIV we...

The complete genome sequence of Chinese yam necrotic mosaic virus (ChYNMV) consisting of 8,213 nucleotides containing one open reading frame was determined by the transcriptome data generated from Discorea opposita This is the first report of the complete nucleotide sequence of ChYNMV from Dioscorea opposita in the Republic of Korea.

Anomericformoftheproductsfremchitinase-catalyzedhydrolysis was analyzed by iH-NMR spectroscopy. When the chitinase from StreptenoTces griseus was added to the solution of substrate, Ai,AJ,IV,IV;IV-pentaacetylchitopentaitol, fi-anomer was first produced by the enzymatic hydrolysis, and then transformed to oc-anomer by mlltarotatioo. In contrast, the chitinase from Dioscorea qmpesita (yam) produc...

Justin Werfel, Donald E. Ingber, and Yaneer Bar-Yam New England Complex Systems Institute, 238 Main Street, Suite 319, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, 02115, USA and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA...

This study determined the effect of fermentation on drying characteristics trifoliate yam varieties (white, yellow and deep-yellow yam). Thin layer method was adopted using oven dry at constant temperature 700C with air velocity 2.35 m s-1 relative humidity 35%. The unfermented samples shoed lower values than fermented samples. Trifoliate Yam A, B C (A= Deep-Yellow, B= White, C= Yellow) were -0...

Here we report the whole-genome sequences of three endophytic bacteria, Enterobacter sp. strain DC1, Enterobacter sp. strain DC3, and Enterobacter sp. strain DC4, from root tubers of the yellow yam plant, Dioscorea cayenensis. Preliminary analyses suggest that the genomes of the three bacteria contain genes involved in acetoin and indole-3-acetic acid metabolism.