BACKGROUND To monitor the richness in microbial inhabitants in the phyllosphere of apple trees cultivated under various cultural and environmental conditions, we developed an oligo-DNA macroarray for major pathogenic and non-pathogenic fungi and bacteria inhabiting the phyllosphere of apple trees. METHODS AND FINDINGS First, we isolated culturable fungi and bacteria from apple orchards by an ...

4th International Workshop on Functional-Structural Plant Models, 7-11 june 2004 –Montpellier, France Edited by C. Godin et al., pp. 330-334 Within-tree diurnal evolution of net photosynthesis and transpiration of fruiting branches in two apple cultivars : influence of branch structure, geometry and orientation a structure-function modelisation approach Catherine Massonnet, Jean-Luc Regnard, Bo...

We present a method for booting a PowerPC r © Linux r © kernel on an embedded machine. To do this, we supply the kernel with a compact attened-tree representation of the system's hardware based on the device tree supplied by Open Firmware on IBM r © servers and Apple r © Power Macintosh r © machines. The blob representing the device tree can be created using dtc the Device Tree Compiler that tu...

Fungal diseases are posing tremendous threats to global economy and food safety. Among them, Valsa canker, caused by fungi of Valsa and their Cytospora anamorphs, has been a serious threat to fruit and forest trees and is one of the most destructive diseases of apple in East Asia, particularly. Accurate and robust delimitation of pathogen species is not only essential for the development of eff...

Apple (Malus x domestica Borkh.) grown in a Mediterranean climate depends on regular irrigation throughout the growing season. The objective of the current study was to elucidate the changes in carbohydrate storage and utilization by mature, field-grown apple trees in response to water availability to the trees and to the level of cropping. Fourteen-year-old apple trees cv. 'Golden Delicious' w...

The release of genetically engineered apple trees raises the question of their potential environmental impact, and the transfer via pollen of transgenes to cross-compatible cultivars of Malus domestica and Malus species is deemed to be the greatest source for environmental exposure. The hybrid TNR 31-35, a descendant of Malus sieversii var. sieversii f. niedzwetzkyana, carrying a homozygous, do...