Abstract 40% of the territory Western Siberia is occupied by solonetzes, used mainly for growing forage grasses. The phytomeliorative effect yellow sweet clover (cultivated in crop rotation at Siberian Federal Research Center Agrobiotechnologies (SFSCA) Russian Academy Sciences (RAS) 31 years), as well post grassing with a mixture brome and alfalfa (the was sown after twenty years rotation) on ...

A virus binding to a surface causes stress of the virus cage near the contact area. Here, we investigate the potential role of substrate-induced structural perturbation in the mechanical response of virus particles to adsorption. This is particularly relevant to the broad category of viruses stabilized by weak noncovalent interactions. We utilize atomic force microscopy to measure height distri...

Horses fed beyond their nutritional requirement and that are physically inactive will develop obesity, which is often accompanied by insulin resistance and heightened risk of laminitis. The use of pharmacologic agents in combination with nutritional restriction may promote weight loss in obese horses unable to exercise because of laminitic pain. This study shows that reducing feed intake of bro...

Purpose: We evaluated the conditions that favoured Pseudomonas fluorescens strain D7 (P.f. D7) growth and inhibition of downy brome. Design/methodology/approach: Tn5 mutagenesis and a competitive assay were used to isolate mutants of P.f. D7. Isolates were screened for polysaccharide production and toxin response. Seven mutants were tested under varying pH, temperature and water potential and c...

Viral nanoparticles (VNPs) are becoming versatile tools in platform technology development. Their well-defined structures as well as their programmability through chemical and genetic modification allow VNPs to be engineered for potential imaging and therapeutic applications. In this article, we report the application of a variety of bioconjugation chemistries to the plant VNP Brome mosaic viru...

Previously, we and others mapped an increased homologous recombination activity within the subgenomic promoter (sgp) region in brome mosaic virus (BMV) RNA3. In order to correlate sgp-mediated recombination and transcription, in the present work we used BMV RNA3 constructs that carried altered sgp repeats. We observed that the removal or extension of the poly(U) tract reduced or increased recom...