BACKGROUND Coffee is an important crop and is crucial to the economy of many developing countries, generating around US$70 billion per year. There are 115 species in the Coffea genus, but only two, C. arabica and C. canephora, are commercially cultivated. Coffee plants are attacked by many pathogens and insect-pests, which affect not only the production of coffee but also its grain quality, red...

Abstract Background The tomato fruit borer, Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), is a serious insect pest owing to its polyphagous nature, migrating long distances, greater capacity develop resistance against insecticides and persistence in cropping areas. comparative evaluation of temperate, sub-tropical tropical H. NPV (HearNPV) isolates was carried out determine the potent...

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is an important crop in the fresh produce and food-processing industry, with one of the highest production yields for edible crops in the world. Due to the variation in consumer palatability and preference, tomato cultivars are diverse in terms of shape, color, taste and functional materials compared to major cereal crops. Accordingly, rapid and efficient breedi...

Background Torradoviruses are an emerging group of picorna-like plant virus from the family Secoviridae that infect tomato and other Solanaceae species. The genus Torradovirus include four species: Tomato torrado virus (ToTV), first found in Europe, and afterward in Central America and Australia; Tomato apex necrosis virus (ToANV), present in Mexico; Tomato chocolate spot virus (ToChSV) and Tom...

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is a model plant of the Solanaceae family. Various biological aspects of tomato have been investigated with molecular biological approaches, and a significant amount of DNA and protein sequencing data on tomato has been accumulated. Recently, the number of tomato genome sequences in the International Nucleotide Sequence Databases has been rapidly increasing due to ...

The amounts of three flavonoids, quercetin, kaempferol, and myricetin, in tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum L.) and tomato-based products produced in Turkey has been determined by reversed phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RPHPLC) with UV detection. The HPLC profiles of five types of tomato, one commercial composite tomato juice, and three types of tomato paste, were obtained after aci...

A dog with Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica, CJ) pollinosis had oral allergy syndrome (OAS) after ingesting fresh tomato. The dog showed specific IgE to both CJ and tomato allergens. As a negative control, twenty dogs without atopic dermatitis that had no exposure to tomato and no specific IgE to CJ allergen were used. They had no specific IgE to tomato allergen. Furthermore, IgE cross-reac...