Field sweet potato plants showing virus-like symptoms, as stunting, leaf distortion, mosaic and chlorosis, were collected in southwest Portugal and tested for the presence of four potyviruses, sweet potato virus C (SPVC), sweet potato virus 2 (SPV2), sweet potato feathery mottle virus (SPFMV), sweet potato virus G (SPVG), and the crinivirus sweet potato chlorotic stunt virus (SPCSV). DsRNA frac...

The potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) had its start in the Andean highlands of South America, where archeological evidence indicates it has been cultivated for at least 8,000 years (72). Today it is grown on all continents except Antarctica. Serving as a primary food source to indigenous people when the Spanish explorers arrived in Peru in the mid-1500s, the potato traveled the globe as a valuable ...

To facilitate genome-guided breeding in potato, we developed an 8303 Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) marker array using potato genome and transcriptome resources. To validate the Infinium 8303 Potato Array, we developed linkage maps from two diploid populations (DRH and D84) and compared these maps with the assembled potato genome sequence. Both populations used the doubled monoploid refer...

OBJECTIVE Consumption of high levels of simple carbohydrates is associated with several metabolic disorders in humans and in laboratory animals, including symptoms of an early stage of metabolic syndrome (syndrome X). This disorder has several cardiovascular risk factors, such as hypertriglyceridemia, and is associated with an increase in oxidative stress. In contrast to sucrose, potato, a sour...

Potato late blight is one the most important crop diseases worldwide. Even though potato has been studied for many years, the potato disease late blight still has a vast negative effect on the potato production [1], [2], [3]. Late blight is caused by the pathogen Phytophthora infestans (P. infestans), which initiates infection through leaves. However, the biological activities during different ...

The present study was undertaken to evaluate the effects of three different fillers i.e. rice flour, tapioca starch and potato starch, on the physico-chemical and sensory attributes of chicken meat caruncles, so as to find the best filler for chicken snacks. Four different batches were prepared as follows control (35% refined wheat flour), T-1 (22.75% refined wheat flour + 12.25% rice flour), T...

To recognize underwater target precisely is always a hot potato to navies due to the complicated watery environment. It’s different from the aerial circumstance. There is much more interfere under the sea. Sonar is the most efficient way to detect underwater world at present time. In this paper, a geneticbased classifier system is designed which recognizes targets by sonar fingerprints. This me...

In recent years, Potato Virus Y has reemerged as a serious disease problem in many potato production areas in the northern United States and eastern Canada. Three recently introduced cultivars, ‘Russet Norkotah’, ‘Shepody’, and ‘Silverton’ are widely grown and express mild or no symptoms when infected with PVY. The lack of symptoms often associated with these cultivars and novel, recombinant st...

We probabilistically model dynamic routing on un-buuered 2-dimensional tori. We consider shortest-path routing with packet loss and retransmissions versus a newly proposed all-link busy (ALB) hot-potato routing strategy with packet deeections. Computations of the sustained packet generating rate, node through-put, and average packet latency indicate that the proposed ALB strategy is a much bett...

EEcient data transfer between processors is an essential component in any large scale parallel computation. Motivated by the growing interest in parallel computers, a signiicant amount of theoretical research has been devoted to the area of interconnection networks for parallel computers , most of it to the packet routing (or store-and-forward) model of communication. We survey some of the majo...