Wilbrink' s-boric acid-cephalexin agar medium (WBC) was developed and tested for iso­ lating Xalllh omonas campeslris pv. IIndulosa, the causal agent of bacterial leaf streak of wheat or black chaff. from seed . WBC medium is Wilbrink's medium that has been modified by adding 0.75 gil of boric acid and 10 mg/l of cephalexin. Compared to the standard Wilbrink's medium, average plating efficiency...

Seed availability and leaf litter limit plant establishment in some ecosystems. To evaluate the hypothesis that these factors limit understory plant recruitment in Pinus ponderosa forests, I conducted a seeding and litter removal experiment at six thinned sites in the Fort Valley Experimental Forest, northern Arizona. Experimental seeding of four native species (Penstemon virgatus, Erigeron for...

Tremendous progress has been made in identifying genes involved in pigmentation in dogs in the past few years. Comparative genomics has both aided and benefited from these findings. Seven genes that cause specific coat colours and/or patterns in dogs have been identified: melanocortin 1 receptor, tyrosinase related protein 1, agouti signal peptide, melanophilin, SILV (formerly PMEL17), micropht...

AffiliAtions: Xie, Mccoy, Klein, and cedeRwall—lawrence livermore national laboratory, livermore, California; hall, MccoRd, and palaniSaMy—oak Ridge national laboratory, oak Ridge, tennessee; clothiauX—the Pennsylvania state University, University Park, Pennsylvania; gauStad, long, MatheR, McfaRlane, and Shi—Pacific northwest national laboratory, Richland, Washington; golaz and lin—noAA geophys...

Canola oil is high in oleic acid which is commonly used for food and industrial purposes. To determine adaptability of spring canola (Brassica napus L.) to the High Plains for industrial oil production, 26 irrigated trials were conducted from 2005 to 2008. Trials were divided into five regions—1: 36–37◦N 108◦W; 2: 39–40◦N 101–103◦W; 3: 41–42◦N 102–103◦W; 4: 41–42◦N 104◦W; 5: 43–44◦N 106–108◦W. ...

The experiment was conducted during Kharif 2020 and 2021 at Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India. A total of 103 accessions including 03 checks were assessed observations recorded for ten traits viz., days to flower initiation, 50 % flowering, maturity, plant height (cm), number primary branches per plant, secondary capitula seeds capitula, 1000 seed weight (...

The interspecific competition between a new cockroach pest species in Southeast Asia, the Smooth cockroach, Symploce pallens (Stephens) and the ubiquitous German cockroach, Blattella germanica (L.) was studied under different food and water regimes (unlimited food and water [control], limited water, limited food and limited food and water). Both species were found to have equal chances to coexi...