Enterobacter cloacae is a plant-beneficial bacterium that shows promise for suppression of damping-off of cucumber and other crops caused by Pythium ultimum. We have been using a mutational approach to determine the E. cloacae genes important in bacterial–plant and bacterial–pathogen interactions in the spermosphere and rhizosphere. E. cloacae M43 is a transposon mutant of E. cloacae 501R3 that...

Nutrisun is a special programe within Advanta Technologies in sunflower which aims at developing and implementing traits related to oils quality. Advanta owns intellectual property on high stearic high oleic materials and thus our objective is to capture value out of these special qualities at industrial level. Being Advanta a seeds company our challenge is to integrate by means of strategic al...

Our objective was to determine the standardized ileal digestibility (SID) of CP and AA in soybean meal (SBM) and canola, cotton, and sunflower products fed to finishing pigs. Each of 8 barrows (average initial BW = 106.6 ± 5.5 kg) were surgically fitted with a T-cannula in the distal ileum. Pigs were allotted to an 8 × 8 Latin square design with 8 diets and 8 periods. The 7 protein ingredients ...