Several animal models have been used to understand the molecular basis of the pathogenicity, infectious dose and strain to strain variation of Listeria monocytogenes. The greater wax worm Galleria mellonella, as an alternative model, provides some useful advantages not available with other models and has already been described as suitable for the virulence assessment of various pathogens includ...

The laboratory experiments were carriedout at the Institute of Organic Farming (IOF), UAS, Dharwad, during 2014-2015 to study bioefficacy different formulations Metarhizium anisopliae against coconut rhinoceros grubs, Oryctus (Linnaeus). Among oil based formulation, rice bran (60%) + corn (40%) formulation found least LC50 value (1.99 x 106 cfu/ml) 432 h. In granular and wettable powder recorde...

low temperature (lt) acclimation, phenological development and vernalization requirement are known to influence the expression of frost tolerance (ft) in winter cereals. a phenotypic study was undertaken to determine the interrelationship between developmental stages and ft in hardy winter wheat and rye cultivars acclimated under field condition in the cold and temperate regions of iran. winter...

Dehydrins exist widely in plants and play an important role abiotic stress resistance. Two low-temperature-induced dehydrin-like genes, PmCAP LpCAP, from the pine species Pseudotsuga menziesii Larix principis-rupprechtii Mayr were cloned found to contain 576 bp 687 bp, encoding 191 228 amino acids, respectively. Both genes individually assembled into prokaryotic expression vectors transferred E...

Assessing freezing community response and whether freezing resistance is related to other functional traits is essential for understanding alpine community assemblages, particularly in Mediterranean environments where plants are exposed to freezing temperatures and summer droughts. Thus, we characterized the leaf freezing resistance of 42 plant species in 38 plots at Sierra de Guadarrama (Spain...

Hardy persons are hypothesized to be resistant to stress-induced illness, because of their adaptive cognitive style and a subsequently reduced level of physiological arousal. We assessed the cognitive and physiological responses of high and low hardy male undergraduates to a challenging task under high and low evaluative threat. As predicted, hardy subjects endorsed more positive self-statement...