We commend Shiffman and colleagues (‘‘Bridging the Guideline Implementation Gap: A Systematic, DocumentCentered Approach to Guideline Implementation’’) for highlighting the challenges of integrating guidelines into clinical practice and proposing pragmatic mechanisms for addressing them. We note, however, that the approach advocated by Shiffman et al., as well as by numerous other groups recent...

curly top disease is one of the important diseases of sugar beet. spatial pattern and population variation of leafhoppers circulifer haematoceps, and c. tenellus, vectors of sugar beet curly top virus, were studied in hamadan province, iran for three years (2007- 2009). sampling was carried out at the early stage of the plant growth, in accordance with planting date for 9 weeks, in 7- 10 day in...

Beet curly top virus, often referred to as Curly top virus (CTV), is an important virus disease of common bean in the semiarid regions of the United States, Canada, and Mexico and the only effective control is genetic resistance. Our objective was to determine if dry bean landrace G122, which lacks the Bct gene for resistance to CTV, contains novel resistance to the virus. Two populations, GT-A...