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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Pepper plants"”.
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Factors Influencing Salmonella Survival in Agricultural Soils and Internalization through Solanaceous Crop Roots
Solanaceous crops such as peppers and more commonly tomatoes have been linked to Salmonella outbreaks that have occurred in the United States. The source of contamination for some of these outbreaks was traced back to the preharvest environment. Sources of contamination at the preharvest level of …
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Studies of Resistance to Aphids and Viruses in Arabidopsis thaliana and Capsicum annuum
… to induce resistance to CMV infection in pepper (Capsicum annuum) plants were investigated. In the second, I investigated the basis of the heightened resistance to Myzus persicae infestation observed in Arabidopsis thaliana plants carrying mutant alleles for Argonaute (AGO) 1 to determine …
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Maize R gene Rxo1 Confers Disease Resistance on Pepper and Nicotiana benthamiana
Pepper is a popular and important vegetable crop grown and consumed worldwide. However, pepper production is threatened by the gram-negative bacterium Xanthomonas euvesicatoria (Xe) which causes bacterial spot (BS) disease, one of the most common and destructive diseases on pepper. Due to limited …
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Using Pheromone Lures, Insecticide Netting, and a Novel Food-Grade Repellent to Develop BMSB IPM Strategies
… in an attract-and-kill strategy to protect bell peppers. The pheromone and netting deployed within a pepper field resulted in more BMSB feeding on plants within 6.1 m to the attract-and-kill screen than in further peppers or peppers in the weekly insecticide treatment. In another study, the …
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Use of the egg parasitoid, Trichogramma ostriniae (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) as a biological control agent of the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae): An approach to integrated pest management in bell pepper
… reduced damage by O. nubilalis in bell pepper. Egg parasitization averaged 48.7% in T. ostriniae release plots, which was significantly higher than non-release plots (1.9%). Also, cumulative green pepper fruit damage averaged 8.7% in release plots, which was significantly less than …
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Functional Characterization of Four Xanthomonas euvesicatoria Type III Effectors
Pepper and tomato, as two common, popular, and important vegetables grown worldwide, provide human beings with high quality fruit of flavor and aroma, and a high concentration of vitamins and antioxidants. Pepper and tomato production is frequently affected by various pathogens, including …
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Control biológico de meloidogyne incognita en pimiento (Capsicum annuum)
[SPA] Las enfermedades causadas por nematodos suponen unas pérdidas muy importantes para el sector hortícola, por lo que conseguir un control adecuado de este patógeno es fundamental. En este trabajo se ha identificado el nematodo causante de la enfermedad de la “agalla de la raíz” en las plantas …