Late blight, a disease caused by oomycota, Phytophthora infestans, is greater threat to the potato crop than any other in Mauritius. This remains most challenging manage once symptoms have appeared, thus requiring rapid detection for effective management. The aim of this study was compare different methods early causal agent late blight. Conventional culture-based involved direct isolation P. i...

The aim of the work was to evaluate safety bee drone brood in terms risk possible contamination with heavy metals, microbial contamination, and sensory acceptability. Bee dried at a temperature 80 °C hot air oven (DBO) lyophilized (DBL) were used. Sensory evaluation performed on an oatmeal ball (O-B) (DBO-B). For determination minerals other elements DBO, spectrometric analysis content as follo...

Rice blast (causal agent: Pyricularia oryzae) is an important disease of rice in Sarawak. Understanding the pathogen’s morphological characteristics, genetic diversity and pathogenicity important. Having a suitable medium for culturing maintaining P. oryzae to ensure availability inoculum or materials under laboratory conditions. Oatmeal agar (OMA) potato dextrose (PDA) are common media used gr...

Walnut anthracnose caused by Ophiognomonia leptostyla is the most important and prevalent fungal disease in most walnut growing areas in Iran. Seventy-five isolates of Ophiognomonia leptostyla, causing walnut anthracnose, were obtained from Juglans regia from various regions of Iran. In order to study the sexual reproduction of the fungus, the isolates collected from various parts of Iran were ...

One of us (Webster) has shown that the general non-specific resistance of mice bred at the Rockefeller Institute includes important elements associated with heredity and that, by selective breeding, the general resistance of a mouse population may be altered? We wish now to describe some experiments which demonstrate the effect of diet on host susceptibility to infection and intoxication. For s...

The oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is of great importance for various renewable energy conversion technologies such as fuel cells and metal-air batteries. Heteroatom-doped carbon nanomaterials have proven to be robust metal-free electrocatalysts for ORR in the above-mentioned energy devices. Herein, we demonstrate the synthesis of novel highly porous N-doped carbon nanoplatelets (N-HPCNPs) der...

IN RECENT YEARS A NUMBER OF HISTORIANS have been at pains to point out that the patterns and nature of public disorders in eighteenth-century Ireland are largely comparable with those that existed elsewhere in contemporary Western Europe. Irish riots and popular protests, it has been suggested, saw ‘a controlled and discriminating use of violence’, and were characterised by their ‘defensive, ri...