(n.) A vine or climbing shrub, of the genus Vitis, having small green flowers and lobed leaves, and bearing the fruit called grapes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ministers can glean vital gossip about cabinet reshuffles if they keep on the right side of their drivers, who form the most high-class grapevine in Britain as they wait in the Speaker's courtyard at Westminster while their charges vote in the Commons.
(2) Probe HSV-2 discriminated HSV-grapevine from the other members of HSV group.
(3) A virus with isometric particles c. 30 nm in diameter and angular contour was isolated by inoculation of sap from a Tunisian grapevine with mild mottling and leaf deformation.
(4) Designations which can be used to describe distinct viroids within the four groups include (i) CEVd-g, a grapevine isolate of citrus exocortis viroid, (ii) GVd-c, a grapevine viroid recovered from cucumber, and AGVd, Australian grapevine viroid, (iii) GYSVd-1 and GYSVd-2, two viroids inducing yellow speckle disease and (iv) HSVd-g, a grapevine isolate of hop stunt viroid.
(5) Flavescence dorée (FD), a grapevine yellows disease, is caused by a mycoplasma-like organism (MLO).
(6) Stilbene synthase is responsible for the formation of resveratrol and other stilbenes which function in grapevine as phytoalexins.
(7) Grapevine fanleaf virus, a member of the ArMV subgroup could not be shown to expose crossreactive epitopes.
(8) The coat protein (CP) cistron of Grapevine Fanleaf virus strain F13 (GFLV-F13) has been located in the C-terminal region of the 122k polyprotein encoded by the genomic RNA 2 [Serghini et al.
(9) At the top of the scoreboard were actor Danny Mac and partner Oti Mabuse, who collected 38 points for their Argentine tango to Marvin Gaye’s I Heard It Through the Grapevine.
(10) These comparisons provide the basis for uniform nomenclature of grapevine viroids found in different geographical regions.
(11) We have provisionally named this viroid Australian grapevine viroid.
(12) The primary structure of a grapevine viroid (GVs) isolated in Spain was determined.
(13) Fragments of the putative non-structural proteins (44K and 46K) encoded by RNA2 of grapevine chrome mosaic nepovirus (GCMV) were expressed as fusion proteins in Escherichia coli and used to raise specific antisera.
(14) Not only were father and son considering closing the scandal-racked News of the World , went the chatter on the Wapping grapevine, but its sister paper, the Sun, was also in the line of fire.
(15) Biscoito’s villagers plant their grapevines in tiny lava rock enclosures to protect them from the salty breezes.
(16) The RNA which we have called grapevine yellow speckle viroid (GYSV), contains 367 nucleotide residues and has the potential to form the rod-like secondary structure characteristic of viroids.
(17) A single stranded circular RNA was isolated from grapevines infected with yellow speckle disease.
(18) Therefore, the virus is possibly a hitherto unreported nepovirus for which the name of grapevine Tunisian ringspot virus (GTRV) is proposed.
(19) The complete nucleotide sequence of hungarian grapevine chrome mosaic nepovirus (GCMV) RNA2 has been determined.
(20) PBCVd has highest sequence similarity with grapevine 1B viroid (52.4%), but also contains sequences related to regions present in viroids that belong to different subgroups, suggesting that PBCVd could have developed from RNA recombination between viroids replicating in a common host plant.
Vitis
Definition:
(n.) A genus of plants including all true grapevines.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 40 couples, the VITI technique was used, and in the other seven couples, TV-GIFT was used.
(2) Free and glycosidically bound terpenes of five Vitis vinifera grape cultivars (muscat of Alexandria, muscat of Frontignan, muscat of Hamburg, muscat Ottonel and Gewürztraminer) were investigated.
(3) Three flavonoids were isolated and identified from the leaves of 3 cultivars vine Vitis vinifera L. var.
(4) Within the Agrobacterium vitis group the vitopine strains represent a special subclass.
(5) In spite of this, Ag57 and the exconjugant strain C58C9(pTiAg57) induce normal tumors on Nicotiana rustica and Vitis vinifera.
(6) Various economical and readily available organic and inorganic amendments were tested for their capacity to enhance the microbial process, including Citrus (orange) peel, Vitis (grape) pomace, feedlot manure, barley straw, chitin, pectin, ZnSO4, (NH4)2SO4, and an inoculum of Acremonium falciforme (an active Se methylating fungus).
(7) The vitopine Ti plasmid pTiS4 of Agrobacterium vitis has an unusual T-DNA organization.
(8) The pattern of infection with HBV was similar in each of the groups studied with the exception of Indians living in Viti Levu, among whom unusually low levels of antigen and antibody were demonstrated.
(9) A series of viroids and viroid-like RNAs extracted from citron (Citrus medica), grapevine (Vitis vinifera), and avocado (Persea americanum) displayed differential binding capacities to cellulose in the presence of ethanol.
(10) These included grape (Vitis vinifera), peach (Prunus persica), apple (Malus sylvestris) and avocado pear (Persea americana).
(11) The addition of Triton-X100, or better of Chaps enabled us to get clear results for the sensitive Vitis vinifera scion varieties.
(12) An investigation was undertaken to study the cholesterol content of menstrual discharge and to establish its relationship to the cyclic acti vities of the endometrium.
(13) This vector of dengue hemorrhagic fever and Ross River virus has since been spreading widely on the archipelago's main island, Viti Levu, whence much air and sea traffic reaches NZ.
(14) In the villages of Fiji, apart from Viti Levu, rubella is a disease occurring solely in widely spaced epidemics.
(15) A batch of 1025 serum samples, obtained from healthy subjects and hospital patients from five Pacific islands (Viti Levu, Funafuti, Niue, Rarotonga and Upolu) were tested for antibody to hepatitis A virus (anti-HAV), hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAG) and antibody to hepatitis B surface antigen (anti-HBs) by solid phase radioimmunoassay (SPRIA).
(16) An extensive epidemic of dengue type 1 infection with a high incidence of hemorrhagic manifestations occurred on the island of Viti Levu, Fiji beginning early in 1975.
(17) The polygalacturonase mutant was unable to induce root decay in grapes (Vitis vinifera cv.
(18) High frequencies of anti-HAV were observed in each population (Funafuti, 79.9%; Upolu, 81.6%; Viti Levu, 84.3%; Rarotonga, 95.0%; and Niue, 95.2%), and the age-specific prevalence suggested that the majority of infections with this virus had occurred in the first decade of life.
(19) The host range of Agrobacterium tumefaciens 1D1109, known to induce crown gall only on grapevine (Vitis spp.
(20) For ADP the maximal act;vity was at 0.3 mM or higher.