Fusarium species are causal agents of fungal diseases occurring frequently in numerous agriculturally important plants, including potato, garlic and are one of the common pathogens of tomato, causing root rot in the west part of Iran. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to isolate and identify disease-causing Fusarium species from infected tomatoes based on the morphological and molecu...

A new pregnane glycoside, 3-O-beta-lycotetraosyl 5alpha-pregna-3beta,26beta-diol-20-one was isolated from overripe tomato, the fruit of Lycopersicon esculentum MILL.

Oxidative cleavage of a 9-c/s xanthophyll probably represents the key regulatory step in abscisic acid (ABA) biosynthesis. A transposon tagged maize (Zea mays) mutant vp14, provided the original DNA sequence data needed to design a VP14 fusion protein capable of catalysing this reaction in vitro. A cDNA encoding a similar protein has now been isolated from a wilt-related tomato (Lycopersicon es...

A soilborne disease of lettuce, associated with necrosis and dieback, has been found with increasing frequency in California and Arizona over the last 10 years. An isometric virus, serologically related to Tomato bushy stunt virus (TBSV), was consistently isolated from lettuce plants with these disease symptoms. Back-inoculation to healthy lettuce plants and subsequent reisolation of the virus ...

Bacterial spot disease on tomato is a major problem in tropical, subtropical, and temperate climates. Variation within this organism has been well documented. Two distinct groups, i.e., A and B, were identified in the early 1990s based on phenotypic and genotypic tests. These two groups were determined to be distributed widely throughout the world. The two groups were placed in Xanthomonas axon...

Reduction of Fe(3+) to Fe(2+) is a prerequisite for Fe uptake by tomato roots. Ferric chelate reductase activity in plasma membranes (PM) isolated from roots of both iron-sufficient (+Fe) and iron-deficient (-Fe) tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) was measured as NADH-dependent ferric citrate reductase and exhibited simple Michaelis-Menten kinetics for the substrates, NADH and Fe(3+)(citr...

The molecular responses of hydroponically cultivated tomato plants to As(V) or Cr(VI) were assessed by transcript accumulation analysis of genes coding for products potentially involved in heavy metal tolerance. A quantitative real-time PCR experiment was performed with Hsp90-1, MT2- and GR1-like protein genes using RNA isolated from tomato roots or shoots treated for 24h with As(V) or Cr(VI) a...

A polygalacturonide purified from a tomato leaf pectic polysaccharide that induces the systemic synthesis of proteinase inhibitors in tomato plants enhances the phosphorylation of specific proteins in plasma membrane fractions isolated from tomato and potato leaves. In tomato plasma membranes, two proteins of 34 and 29 kDa show enhanced phosphorylation in response to the polyuronide. In potato ...

It has been proposed that cloned plant disease resistance genes could be transferred from resistant to susceptible plant species to control important crop plant diseases. The recently cloned N gene of tobacco confers resistance to the viral pathogen, tobacco mosaic virus. We generated transgenic tomato plants bearing the N gene and demonstrate that N confers a hypersensitive response and effect...