Previous work on the rose mosaic virus has produced uncertainty
concerning the identity and properties of this virus. This work was
undertaken to help establish the true identity of the virus and to determine
some of its properties.
A mechanically transmissible virus associated with rose mosaic
virus disease of Rosa...
The cell wall of dry, dormant conidia of Aspergillus nidulans
is three-layered. The wall of hydrated conidia is five-layered and
the germ tube wall is continuous with the innermost layer. The
outermost layer consists of rodlets measuring 10 nm in diameter.
Mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum increase in number and
amount,...
Preliminary studies were run to determine the sensitivity and
reliability of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the
detection of potato virus X (PVX). ELISA was found to be capable of
detecting PVX in tobacco at a 1:3333 sample dilution. The reliability
of ELISA for the detection of PVX in potato...
A study was conducted to characterize the vesicular-arbuscular (VA) mycorrhizal fungi of commercially grown Easter lily. Monthly field soil and root samples were collected from March through September, 1975, from five fields in the coastal area of southern Oregon and northern California. Soil sievings were inoculated onto clover, onion and...
A series of studies was conducted to determine the presence
of tobacco rattle virus (TRV), potato virus X (PVX), and other
viruses in wild plants and to evaluate the efficacy of the detection
methods; to characterize and purify an isolate of TRV; and
to study the interaction between TRV and...
Crown gall infected and healthy Kalanchoe pinnata (Lam.)
Persoon plants were analyzed for soluble amino acids. Specifically
the amino acids in young leaf, mature leaf, stem, root, and gall
tissues were quantitatively measured. The plants were inoculated
with the bacterium, Agrobacterium tumefaciens (Smith and Townsend)
Conn., on one side of...
Sisal Wave sisalana Perrine), one of Tanzania's main cashcrops, is severely affected by korogwe leaf spot disease (KLS).Infected plants show chocolate brown, concentric, scablike eruptions on both surfaces of mature leaves, and produce stained, low-quality fiber. A flexuous, rod-shaped virus was isolated from KLS-infected sisal leaves and studied at Oregon...
Spores of Equisetum were germinated and the resulting
gametophytes grown to maturity in standard microcultures. Light and
electron microscope observations were made of the chloroplasts
within the gametophytes.
These chloroplasts were found to be oval to dumb-bell shaped
organelles possessing organized grana. By means of time-lapse
movies they were shown...