Meloidogyne mayaguensis is a damaging root-knot nematode able to reproduce on root-knot nematode-resistant tomato and other economically important crops. In a growth chamber experiment conducted at 22 and 33 degrees C, isolate 1 of M. mayaguensis reproduced at both temperatures on the Mi-1-carrying tomato lines BHN 543 and BHN 585, whereas M. incognita race 4 failed to reproduce at 22 degrees C...

Pierce's disease (PD) is a significant threat to grape cultivation and industry. The disease caused by bacterium Xylella fastidiosa clogs xylem vessels resulting in wilting of the plant. PD-tolerant grape genotypes are believed to produce certain novel components in xylem tissue that help them to combat invading pathogens. Research has been aimed at characterizing the uniquely expressed xylem p...

The GesCoN model was evaluated for its capability to simulate growth, nitrogen uptake, and productivity of open field tomato grown under different environmental and cultural conditions. Five datasets collected from experimental trials carried out in Foggia (IT) were used for calibration and 13 datasets collected from trials conducted in Foggia, Perugia (IT), and Florida (USA) were used for vali...

The peach (Prunus persica L. Batsch) is the third most important fruit crop grown commercially after apple and pear in the temperate zones of world with total production of 20.0 million MT (USDA, 2016). In India, peach cultivation is confined to the warm temperate and sub-tropical parts of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Uttrakhand, parts of Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. I...

Alex A. Volinsky Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Florida Tampa, Florida 33620 Stephen E. Saddow Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620; and Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620 Francesco La Via IMM-CNR, sezione di Catania, Stradale Primosole 50, 95121, Cat...

Microbial Source Tracking: Current Methodology and Future Directions† Troy M. Scott, Joan B. Rose, Tracie M. Jenkins, Samuel R. Farrah, and Jerzy Lukasik* College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida 33701; Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611; and Biological Consulting Services of North Florida, Inc., ...

Fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith), is a highly mobile insect pest of a wide range of host crops. However, this pest of tropical origin cannot survive extended periods of freezing temperature but must migrate northward each spring if it is to re-infest cropping areas in temperate regions. The northward limit of the winter-breeding region for North America extends to southern regi...

From the Research Service, Malcom Randall Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida 32608, the ¶Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida 32610, the Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, and the **In...

S. Tongay, M. Lemaitre, X. Miao, B. Gila, B. R. Appleton, and A. F. Hebard Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA Nanoscience Institute for Medical and Engineering Technology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA (Received 24 May 2011; published 17 J...

Karl Havens (Panel Chair), Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, University of Florida Mike Allen, Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, University of Florida Mark Clark, Department of Soil and Water Sciences, University of Florida Dale Gawlik, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University James Gore, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Geography, Un...