Members of the genus Erwinia are primarily plant-pathogenic and plant-associated bacteria. As modern approaches have focused on the direct analysis of genes and their gene products, commonly associated phenotypes such as the type of disease that they cause and the relatedness of rDNA have prompted splitting of certain Erwinia members into the genus Enterobacter, Pectobacterium, Pantoea or Brenn...

Among the terpenes, isoprene (C5) and monoterpene hydrocarbons (C10) have been shown to ameliorate abiotic stress in a number of plant species via two proposed mechanisms: membrane stabilization and direct antioxidant effects. Sesquiterpene hydrocarbons (C15) not only share the structural properties thought to lend protective qualities to isoprene and monoterpene hydrocarbons, but also react ra...

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1 Laboratoire de Géophysique Interne et de Tectonophysique, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France 2 Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91125, USA 3 Institut de Physique du Globe, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France 4 now at: Laboratoire de Modélisation et d’Imagerie en Géosciences CNRS FRE 2639, Université...

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As a result of an error during figure preparation, Fig 1B in this article includes an incorrect panel; the right-hand panel of Fig 1B is also included in Fig 1D of the following article: Santos Soprano A, Abe VY, Costa Smetana JH and Benedetti CE: Citrus MAF1, a Repressor of RNA Polymerase III, Binds the Xanthomonas citri Canker Elicitor PthA4 and Suppresses Citrus Canker Development. Plant Phy...

Patrizia Tavormina,a,b,1 Barbara De Coninck,a,b,1 Natalia Nikonorova,b,c Ive De Smet,b,c,d,e and Bruno P.A. Cammuea,b,2 a Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics, Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), B-3000 Leuven, Belgium bDepartment of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium cDepartment of Plant Biotechnology and Genetics, Ghent University,...

Experiments were conducted in 2010 to determine the influence of plant density and seed position on the mother plant on seed physiological characteristics of cocklebur (Xanthium strumarium). Cocklebur burs were collected in fall of 2010 from Research Farm of University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources of Gorgan, Iran. The experiment was established as factorial arrangement using a...

Procurement by governments accounts for 10-15 percent of national product in most Western nations [McAfee and McMillan (1985a)]. Consequently, analyses of procurement policies apply to a significant portion of economic activity. This paper considers sequential procurement: a buyer will purchase items in sequence, with costs correlated across time. Thus, if auctions are held, bids in the first a...

Allergic reactions to mannitol have been reported rarely, despite its widespread use as a drug and as a food excipient. This is the first case report in which oral mannitol induces an immediate type hypersensitivity as a drug excipient, in a 42 year old man affected by rhinitis to olive tree pollen. Unusual and undervalued risk factors for mannitol hypersensitivity are examined.