(1) ELISA, cDNA dot blot hybridization and transmission by vector aphids were used to investigate the occurrence and degree of cross-protection produced in oat plants by virus isolates representing five strains or serotypes of barley yellow dwarf virus, namely PAV, MAV, SGV, RPV and RMV.
(2) These blocks may be responsible for the substantial differences between the ordinary and Andean strains at the symptom and aphid transmissibility levels.
(3) The results are discussed in relation with the nutritional needs in vitamins and the action of the vitamins in the mineral nutrition of the aphid.
(4) The involvement of this mutation in aphid transmission and virus multiplication is discussed.
(5) The proteolytic cleavage of potyvirus coat N-terminal region is discussed with relation to host recovery and aphid transmission.
(6) Aphids were unable to transmit the resultant hybrid virus which had the TVMV-NAT coat protein, although the concentration and infectivity of the hybrid virus in the source plants were similar to those of TVMV-AT.
(7) The tiny wasps lay their eggs in the aphids, which are then eaten by the hatching grubs.
(8) The 28 S aphid rRNA differs from those of the other insects in two points: (1) it lacks the primary nick; (2) it is larger by 0.2 - 106 daltons.
(9) Homogenates of resistant aphids hydrolysed paraoxon 60 times faster than did those of susceptible aphids, yet the purified enzymes from both sources had identical catalytic-centre activities towards this substrate and also towards naphth-1-yl acetate, the latter being hydrolysed by both 2x10(6) times faster than paraoxon.
(10) A portion of the gene coding for the 16S ribosomal RNA from the endosymbionts of three species of mealybugs [Pseudococcus longispinus (Targioni-Tozzetti), Pseudococcus maritimus (Ehrhorn), and Dysmicoccus neobrevipes (Beardsley)] was cloned, sequenced, and compared to a homologous fragment from bacteria representative of aphid endosymbionts as well as major subdivisions of the Proteobacteria.
(11) Wild-caught Phlebotomus ariasi Tonnoir, starved until their sugar meals had been digested, were caged for 24 h with plants or plants infested with aphids and then tested for fructose, a constituent of plant sap.
(12) The results are discussed in relation to the temporal instability of local patterns and persistence of genetic variability on the large scale in aphids.
(13) The GM wheat at Rothamsted is modified to produce a scent undetectable to the human nose, which the main wheat pests, such as greenfly and blackfly aphids, release when under attack from predators.
(14) It scares off aphids and attracts predators that will kill off the aphids that didn't heed the first warning.
(15) Along with the faculty of these ants to inform their nestmates of the food source, a certain continuity in care of the aphides is ensured.
(16) Turnip leaves infected with the aphid transmissible isolate of cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV Cabb B-JI) showed two types of virus-containing inclusion bodies (IBs), which differed morphologically and in their protein composition when analyzed by immunogold labeling of ultrathin sections.
(17) MAb PTY 1 reacted with all 55 potyvirus isolates tested (representing at least 33 different and distinct aphid-transmissible potyviruses).
(18) In order to determine why the aphid 28S rRNA lacks the hidden break otherwise found in insects, the structure of the region of the aphid ribosomal DNA (rDNA) corresponding to the gap region, which in other insect rDNA transcripts is excised posttranscriptionally, was studied.
(19) "Aphids use an alarm pheromone which when they're attacked by ladybirds and parasitic wasps causes them to disperse.
(20) For good measure, E-beta-farnesene also attracts aphid predators such as ladybirds and wasps.
Aphis
Definition:
(n.) A genus of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera and family Aphidae, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparative efficacy of natural juvenile hormones extracted from Aphis craccivora and A. gosypii and 5 juvenoids, i.e., methoprene, Neporex, OMS 3007, OMS 3019 and DPE-28 on the development of Aedes aegypti, Anopheles stephensi and Culex quinquefasciatus have been evaluated.
(2) All vaccines provided adequate protection against the APHIS challenge.
(3) When both amino acids were present, B-aphis germinated rapidly in the absence of NaCl and had biphasic kinetics in the presence of NaCl.
(4) ELV was transmissible by Aphis frangulae gossypii, Brevicoryne brassicae, and Myzus persicae neither in short nor in long feeding times.
(5) The three vaccines averaged 77% protection against APHIS in the first experiment and 78% in the second.
(6) An electron microscopical study was made of the coeloconic and placoid sensilla on the antennae of the aphids Aphis pomi, Macrosiphum euphorbiae, Nasonovia ribis-nigri, and Pemphigus bursarius.
(7) The aminoglycoside 3'-phosphotransferase type I (APHI)-coding gene of the bacterial transposon Tn903 confers resistance to kanamycin on bacteria and resistance to geneticin (G418) on many eukaryotes.
(8) A study was made of the effect of direct single exposure to beta-radiation of 0.5, 5, 10, 20, 30, and 50 Gy on development and reproduction of Aphis fabae Scop.
(9) The germination of spores from Clostridium botulinum B-aphis and Ba410 was examined.
(10) Honeydrew and aphis insects which fell from a tree were responsible for paranesthesiae in a woman.
(11) 104:1151-1157, 1970]), the parent strain B-aphis germinated at a rate of 0.77% min-1 in the absence of NaCl and was not affected by 2% NaCl.
(12) This paper will discuss the current procedures that have been established for the regulation of biotechnology-derived veterinary biologicals within the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and more specifically within Biotechnology, Biologics, and Environmental Protection (BBEP) of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).
(13) Transmission of groundnut rosette virus (GRV) by Aphis craccivora is known to depend on the additional presence in the source plants of a luteovirus, groundnut rosette assistor virus (GRAV).
(14) Challenge isolates were the Delmarva variant E, a standard serotype I (APHIS) and a variant isolate from Mississippi.
(15) The promoters we selected were: (1) a synthetic Escherichia coli-like consensus promoter; (2) the aphI promoter of the neomycin resistance gene from S. fradiae; (3) an ermE-up promoter mutant from Saccharopolyspora erythraea; (4) the melC promoter of the tyrosinase operon from Streptomyces antibioticus.
(16) The first 19 codons of the KmR (APHI) gene can be deleted, and replaced by other genes in a continuous reading frame, without loss of APH activity.
(17) We developed an APHI fusion system that can be used in the study of gene expression in these organisms, particularly in yeasts.
(18) The methods are based on partition chromatography for identification and on adsorption chromatogr aphy for the detection of impurities.
(19) A gene-deleted pseudorabies (PR) (Aujeszky's disease) vaccine, named OMNIVAC-PRV, was licensed by the United States Department of Agriculture-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS) on January 16, 1986, the first recombinant DNA-derived modified-live virus vaccine to be licensed for manufacture and sale anywhere in the world.