Onion thrips, Thrips tabaci Lindeman (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), is a highly destructive pest of onion, Allium cepa L., and its management relies on multiple applications of foliar insecticides. Development of insecticide resistance is common in T. tabaci populations, and new strategies are needed to relax existing levels of insecticide use, but still provide protection against T. tabaci without...

Onion (Allium cepa L., 2n=16) is a cross-pollinated and biennial short type vegetable and most of the important spice as well as vegetable crops throughout the world. Bulb is the main edible portion of onion plant, which is a modified organ and constituted by the thickened fleshy leaf sheaths and stem plate (Purseglove, 1988). The leading onion producing countries of the world are China, India,...

As large-scale DNA sequencing technologies become more efficient and cheaper, the genomic DNAs of more and more plants are being sequenced, assembled, and annotated. These complete sequences are extremely valuable for the identification of specific genes associated with important phenotypes. The purpose of this document is to propose an efficient strategy for an international effort to sequence...

This study designed a cam-linked planetary gear system automatic seedling picking mechanism to address unstable operation and issues of high damage the substrate caused by dryland vegetable transplanter. Through an analysis kinematic principle structure establishment model, computer-aided software was developed using Visual Basic 6.0. Consequently, set structural parameter values satisfying tar...

Populations of onion thrips, Thrips tabaci Lindeman, from commercial onion Þelds in New York were evaluated for their susceptibility to the commonly used pyrethroid, -cyhalothrin (Warrior T), using a novel system called the Thrips Insecticide Bioassay System (TIBS). To use TIBS, thrips are collecteddirectly from theplant into an insecticide-treated 0.5-mlmicrocentrifuge tube that has a ßexible ...

The acute and subacute hypoglycemic and antihyperglycemic effects of drinkable ripe onion juice (Commercial product name is "Black Onion Extract") were investigated in normal and streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. For tests of acute and subacute hypoglycemic effects, ripe onion juice (5 and 15 mL/kg b.w.) was administered by oral gavage to normal Sprague Dawley rats and measurements of fasti...

Onion Routing is an infrastructure for private communication over a public network. It provides anonymous connections that are strongly resistant to both eavesdropping and traac analysis. Onion routing's anonymous connections are bidirectional, near real-time, and can be used anywhere a TCP/IP socket connection can be used. This prospectus outlines the alpha onion routing system and deenes a re...

In the present study, invertase-mediated nanogold clusters were synthesized on onion membranes, and their application for sucrose biosensor fabrication was investigated. Transmission electron microscopy revealed free nanoparticles of various sizes (diameter ~5 to 50 nm) along with clusters of nanogold (~95 to 200 nm) on the surface of inner epidermal membranes of onions (Allium cepa L.). Most o...

Onion (Allium cepa L.) is widely consumed as food or medicinal plant due to its well-defined health benefits. The antioxidant and antihyperlipidemic effects of onion and its extracts have been reported well. However, very limited information on anti-hyperglycemic effect is available in processed onion extracts. In our previous study, we reported that Amadori rearrangement compounds (ARCs) produ...

Burkholderia cepacia complex strains are genetically related but phenotypically diverse organisms that are important opportunistic pathogens in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF,) as well as pathogens of onion and banana, colonizers of the rhizospheres of many plant species, and common inhabitants of bulk soil. Genotypic identification and pathogenicity characterization were performed on B. cep...