Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus Disease
Management, Molecular Biology, Breeding for Resistance
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The whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae), and the viruses it transmits, are a major constraint to growing vegetable crops worldwide. Although the whitefly is often controlled using chemica...
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Management of this disease has mainly involved methods for reducing the vector population; and in many cases, this was primarily by the application of insecticides. Tomatoes with resistance to Tomato yellow leaf ...
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In the eyes of a tomato grower, resistance to TYLCV, as opposed to susceptibility, is defined by the absence of, or mild, disease symptoms, and acceptable yield. In resistant cultivars and breeding lines, the ...
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Whiteflies cause damages to many economically important agricultural crops because of their feeding habits and their begomovirus transmissions. The whitefly Bemisia tabaci is a genetically diverse group, which in...
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One of the approaches for conducting genomics research in organisms without extant microarray platforms is to profile their expression patterns by using Cross-Species Hybridization (CSH). Several different stu...
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The past three decades have witnessed a dramatic increase in interest in the whitefly Bemisia tabaci, owing to its nature as a taxonomically cryptic species, the damage it causes to a large number of herbaceous p...
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Wheat seed storage protein fingerprint is used to determine the gluten protein pattern in studies aimed at improving flour quality. Wild wheat with high seed protein content is used extensively in wheat breedi...
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Callus cultures were induced from leaves of a tomato plant infected with tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) and analyzed for viral DNA presence during successive subcultures. No TYLCV DNA was detected in ca...