Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis is a Gram-positive bacterium that causes wilting and cankers, leading to severe economic losses in commercial tomato production worldwide. The disease is transmitted from infected seeds to seedlings and mechanically from plant to plant during seedling production, grafting, pruning, and harvesting. Because of the lack of tools for genetic manipulati...

BACKGROUND There is limited evidence that supports etiologically distinct molecular subtypes of prostate cancer, the identification of which may improve prevention. Given their antioxidant properties, we hypothesized that lycopene and tomato sauce may be especially protective against diseases harboring the common gene fusion transmembrane protease, serine 2 (TMPRSS2):v-ets avian erythroblastosi...

Bacterial spot disease on tomato is a major problem in tropical, subtropical, and temperate climates. Variation within this organism has been well documented. Two distinct groups, i.e., A and B, were identified in the early 1990s based on phenotypic and genotypic tests. These two groups were determined to be distributed widely throughout the world. The two groups were placed in Xanthomonas axon...

Plant Diseases and Pests are a major challenge in the agriculture sector. An accurate and a faster detection of diseases and pests in plants could help to develop an early treatment technique while substantially reducing economic losses. Recent developments in Deep Neural Networks have allowed researchers to drastically improve the accuracy of object detection and recognition systems. In this p...

Tomatoes are widely grown vegetables, and farmers face challenges in caring for them, particularly regarding plant diseases. The MobileNet architecture is renowned its simplicity compatibility with mobile devices. This study introduces as a deep learning model to enhance disease detection efficiency tomato plants. evaluated on dataset of 2,064 leaf images, encompassing early blight, spot, yello...

Tomato is generally cultivated by transplanting seedlings in ridges and furrows. During growth, there are various types of tomato pests diseases, making it challenging to identify them simultaneously. To address this issue, conventional convolutional neural networks have been investigated, but they a large number parameters time-consuming. In paper, we proposed lightweight multi-scale pest dise...

Lycopene is a carotenoid that is present in tomatoes, processed tomato products and other fruits. It is one of the most potent antioxidants among dietary carotenoids. Dietary intake of tomatoes and tomato products containing lycopene has been shown to be associated with a decreased risk of chronic diseases, such as cancer and cardiovascular disease. Serum and tissue lycopene levels have been fo...

This report describes a green chemical method for controlling soil-borne plant diseases without disinfection using an equimolar copolymer of N-benzyl-4-vinylpyridinium chloride with styrene (PBVP-co-ST) that captures microbial cells alive on the surface and is highly biodegradable. Tomato bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum was controlled by the addition of sawdust coated with PBVP-...

My farm consists of 225 acres on hilly land in Lancaster County, PA. We grow a diversity of crops and our early tomatoes are grown in two acres of multi-bay high tunnels. I reluctantly was forced to fumigate in the tunnels due to problems with verticillium wilt (race 2). At my farm, we have looked at grafting to manage verticillium and other soilborne diseases in our tunnels, and have seen that...

Wilt is an important disease of tomato crop causing significant reduction in yield. In present study, the pathogenic fungus was isolated from infected plant and identified based on morphological and cultural characters as Fusarium oxysporum f.sp.lycopersici whose pathogenicity was confirmed by Koch’s postulate on tomato seedling. In vitro evaluation of extracts of 20 plant species was done by p...