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Selection For Resistance And Tolerance To Oat Mosaic Virus And Oat Golden Stripe Virus In Hexaploid Oats, Scott L. Walker, Steven Leath, J. Paul Murphy, Steven A. Lommel Mar 1998

Selection For Resistance And Tolerance To Oat Mosaic Virus And Oat Golden Stripe Virus In Hexaploid Oats, Scott L. Walker, Steven Leath, J. Paul Murphy, Steven A. Lommel

Steven Leath

Coker 716, a hexaploid oat cultivar resistant to both oat mosaic virus (OMV) and oat golden stripe virus (OGSV) was crossed to three susceptible cultivars (Brooks, Madison, and Tech) to form three individual populations. Individual breeding lines were derived from each cross in the F2 generation and tested in plots consisting of equally spaced individual hills in OMV- and OGSV-infested soils and non-infested soils to evaluate resistance and yield loss of individual lines. Foliar symptoms, harvest index, and yield loss were examined as selection criteria for resistant genotypes. The study was conducted over 2 years at two North Carolina locations …


The Temporal Correlation Of Changes In Apoplast Ph And Growth Rate In Maize Coleoptile Segments, Winfried Peters, Hartwig Lüthen, Michael Böttger, Hubert Felle Dec 1997

The Temporal Correlation Of Changes In Apoplast Ph And Growth Rate In Maize Coleoptile Segments, Winfried Peters, Hartwig Lüthen, Michael Böttger, Hubert Felle

Winfried S. Peters

Auxin induces extracellular acidification in growing shoot tissue. The causal relationship between this process and auxin-mediated growth is debated, partly because of contradicting previous reports on the temporal correlation of auxin-induced apoplast pH-drops and growth bursts. We have simultaneously measured both parameters on the background of spontaneously occurring endogenous changes in growth rate and apoplast pH in maize coleoptile segments. Our data demonstrate good temporal correlation, during both the ‘Spontaneous Growth Response’ and the response to exogenous auxin, which is transient under the conditions chosen due to rapid auxin metabolism. We suggest that cell wall pH and growth rate are …


Revised Group Classification Of The Genus Spiroplasma, David L. Williamson, Robert F. Whitcomb, Joseph G. Tully, Gail E. Gasparich, David L. Rose, Patricia Carle, Joseph M. Bové, Kevin J. Hackett, Jean R. Adams, Roberta B. Henegar, Meghnad Konai, Claude Chastel, Frank E. French Dec 1997

Revised Group Classification Of The Genus Spiroplasma, David L. Williamson, Robert F. Whitcomb, Joseph G. Tully, Gail E. Gasparich, David L. Rose, Patricia Carle, Joseph M. Bové, Kevin J. Hackett, Jean R. Adams, Roberta B. Henegar, Meghnad Konai, Claude Chastel, Frank E. French

Gail Gasparich

Significant changes have been made in the systematics of the genus Spiroplasma (class Mollicutes) since it was expanded by revision in 1987 to include 23 groups and eight sub-groups. Since that time, two additional spiroplasmas have been assigned group numbers and species names. More recently, specific epithets have been assigned to nine previously designated groups and three sub-groups. Also, taxonomic descriptions and species names have been published for six previously ungrouped spiroplasmas. These six new organisms are: Spiroplasma alleghenense (strain PLHS-1T) (group XXVI), Spiroplasma lineolae (strain TALS-2T) (group XXVII), Spiroplasma platyhelix (strain PALS-1T) (group XXVIII), Spiroplasma montanense (strain HYOS-1T) (group …