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Carbohydrate Distribution in Stalks and Ears of Sweet Maize with Different Endosperm Genotypes
Knowledge about the distribution of sugars in vegetative tissues can provide information about levels of carbohydrates in kernels of sweet maize (Zea mays L.). Levels of fructose, glucose, sucrose and their total...
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Fertilizer rate and β-galactosidase and peroxidase activity in pepper fruit at different stages and years of harvest
β-galactosidase and peroxidase are enzymes reported to have roles in pepper maturation. Fertilizer rate may affect activity of these enzymes in fruit maturing on the plant. Nine pepper cultivars, five non-pung...
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Carbohydrates in near-isogenic shrunken2 sweet maize kernels
Sweet maize breeding lines are harvested at physiological maturity to provide seed for the next generation. It is important to know how sugar quality and quantity in kernels change as plants obtain physiologic...
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Protein content in tissues of near iso-genic shrunken2 sweet maize
The quantity and distribution of proteins in sweet maize is not well known. Changes in protein levels in tissues can affect physiological processes in maturing plants. This study was conducted to determine how...
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Culture Conditions Affect Colonization of Watermelon by Colletotrichum Orbiculare
Area of lesions produced by Colletotrichum orbiculare on watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) seedlings was not affected by amount of culture medium on which the fungus was grown, and decreased as length of time the fu...
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Growth and Protein Content in Colletotrichum circinans, Fusarium solani and Rhizoctonia solani in Liquid Culture
The phytopathogenic fungi Colletotrichum circinans, Fusarium solani, and Rhizoctonia solani were incubated in aerated (0, 0.5, 1 dm3 min−1) potato dextrose broth (PDB) or Czapek-Dox broth (CDB), under 0-, 12- or ...
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Senescence and ion and protein concentrations in shrunken2 sweet maize inbreds
Senescence patterns in stalk internode pith were rated, and concentrations of ions and proteins, and protein profiles in SDS-PAGE gels in internodes 7 and 9 (17, 19) at developmental stages from V9 to R6 were ...
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Changes in ions and proteins in pith of internodes of a shrunken2 sweet maize at four developmental stages
Physiological processes change as plants age. This study was conducted to determine how concentration of ions, and distribution of proteins, change in senescing stalk internodes of a sweet maize (Zea mays L.). ‘M...
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Mycelial elongation and sporulation of two fungi on amended media in light or dark
Botrytis allii andCollectotrichum dematium are onion pathogens which can infect in the field and cause decay in storage. Some phenolics can hinder development of these fungi, but the effect of cytokinins is not ...
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Protoplast responses in the epidermis of Allium cepa induced by penetration by Botrytis allii
Penetration of Allium cepa epidermal cells (white, yellow, and red varieties) by Botrytis allii induced a response by host protoplasts in normal tissue which was not observed when penetrations were made in protop...
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Degenerative changes in the epidermal cell wall of Allium cepa caused by Botrytis allii: Loss of dry mass, pectin, and cellulose in halos
Halos detected using interference microscopy (even- and fringle-field modes with monoand poly-chromatic light) around penetration sites of Botrytis allii in cell walls of normal and protoplast-free outer epiderma...
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Visualization of halos in the epidermal cell wall of Allium cepa caused by Colletotrichum dematium f. circinans and Botrytis allii using fluorochromes
Halos were detected with epifluorescence microscopy around penetration sites of Colletotrichum dematium f. circinans and Botrytis allii in onion epidermal cell walls as areas of less intense fluorescence or negat...
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Inorganic nutrition of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici and Rhizoctonia solani
Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici and Rhizoctonal solani were grown in a complete 1.0 mM nutrient solution, and in solutions where Ca, Fe, K, Mg, N, P, and S were either excluded (0.0 mM) or included at depl...
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Germination and post-germination development of Colletotrichum dematium f. circinans on Allium cepa
Spores of Colletotrichum dematium f. circinans were inoculated onto the abaxial epidermis of washed and unwashed pieces of leaf-base tissue taken from the first thru fourth layers of white, yellow and red onions....
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Effect of prism generated discreet wavelengths of light on germination and post-germination development of Colletotrichum dematium var circinans (Berk.) v. Arx
Spores, harvested from 8 da old colonies ofColletotrichum dematium varcircinans (Berk.) v. Arx, were placed on slides under shimmed coverslips and subjected to 10 min irradiation with wavelengths of light ranging...