two hundred and thirty one leaf samples of virus infected and mosaic and as well dwarf mosaic symptoms showing maize plants from various corn fields in tehran province were collected during the growing season 2003. by performing serological tests of das-elisa, diba and tpia, using scmv, mdmv, srmv and jgmv antisera, only scmv was detected in samples, with all samples reacting strongly to the sc...

As one of the critical diseases of sugarcane, sugarcane mosaic disease can lead to serious decline in stalk yield and sucrose content. It is mainly caused by Potyvirus sugarcane mosaic virus (SCMV) and/or Sorghum mosaic virus (SrMV), with additional differences in viral strains. RNA interference (RNAi) is a novel strategy for producing viral resistant plants. In this study, based on multiple se...

Sugarcane mosaic potyvirus (SCMV) UP-isolate was antigenically similar to SCMV-A, SCMVMDB and two SCMV isolates from Thailand. The results were confirmed either by DAC-ELISA, EBIA, DIBA and ISEM independently or in combination. No reaction was evident with antiserum specific for other members of the Sugarcane mosaic potyvirus subgroup or any other potyviruses tested. The peptide profiling of a ...

Protection against Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is antibody dependent, and neutralizing antibodies alone are sufficient to impart protection. Thus, we are aiming to develop a peptide-based vaccine against JEV by identifying JEV peptide sequences that could induce virus-neutralizing antibodies. Previously, we have synthesized large amounts of Johnson grass mosaic virus (JGMV) coat protein (...

Let X/K be an absolutely simple abelian variety over a number field; we study whether the reductions Xp tend to be simple, too. We show that if End(X) is a definite quaternion algebra, then the reduction Xp is geometrically isogenous to the self-product of an absolutely simple abelian variety for p in a set of positive density, while if X is of Mumford type, then Xp is simple for almost all p. ...

Isolation and differentiation of various species of mycobacteria are predominantly based on conventional, cultural and biochemical tests. Among the non-tuberculous mycobacteria, these tests are unable to differentiate M. scrofulaceum from M. avium-intracellulare (MAI) because of their identical biochemical characteristics. For this reason, one hundred mycobacterial strains suspected to be M. ...