Coconut palms from the Grand-Lahou region of Côte d’Ivoire exhibiting lethal yellowing-like symptoms and infected by a phytoplasma were further tested for the characterization of the phytoplasma pathogen based on the 16S rRNA gene analysis. Nested PCR with phytoplasma universal and lethal yellowing-specific primers resulted in amplification of products of expected sizes from seven out of 17 sym...

rhizomania is one of the most important sugar beet diseases in iran and some other parts of the world. in this study, the infection rate of the most important weeds of sugar beet fields under natural condition  to the causal agent of the bnyvv (beet necrotic yellow vein virus) disease  was investigated at fars agricultural research center , iran. roots were collected from the infected weeds and...

Short-wavelength-sensitive (SWS) resolution acuity has been reported to be limited by the density of the responding ganglion cells for people without appreciable age-related lenticular change. This study measured the robustness of SWS-cone acuity and contrast sensitivity (CS) to simulated lens yellowing and opacification. Resolution acuity at 8 deg eccentricity proved robust to significant amou...

Fifty coconut palms exhibiting early symptoms of lethal yellowing were selected for treatment with oxytetracycline-HCl, tetracyclineHC1, streptomycin nitrate, potassium penicillin-G, or griseofulyin. Two grams of antibiotic in 0.2 or 1.0 liters of water were pressure injected into the trunk of each tree except for the griseofulvin treatments which were applied as a paste into holes bored in the...

Plant autophagy, one of the essential proteolysis systems, balances proteome and nutrient levels in cells of the whole plant. Autophagy has been studied by analysing Arabidopsis thaliana autophagy-defective atg mutants, but the relationship between autophagy and chlorophyll (Chl) breakdown during stress-induced leaf yellowing remains unclear. During natural senescence or under abiotic-stress co...

To identify the pathogens responsible for leaf yellowing symptoms on wheat samples collected from Jinan, China, we tested for the presence of three known barley/wheat yellow dwarf viruses (BYDV-GAV, -PAV, WYDV-GPV) (most likely pathogens) using RT-PCR. A sample that tested negative for the three viruses was selected for small RNA sequencing. Twenty-five million sequences were generated, among w...