Aphid transmission of poleroviruses is highly specific, but the viral determinants governing this specificity are unknown. We used a gene exchange strategy between two poleroviruses with different vectors, Beet western yellows virus (BWYV) and Cucurbit aphid-borne yellows virus (CABYV), to analyze the role of the major and minor capsid proteins in vector specificity. Virus recombinants obtained...

The complete nucleotide sequence of beet necrotic yellow vein virus RNA-1 is presented. The R N A molecule is 6746 nucleotides long excluding the poly(A) tail and has one long open reading f lame encoding a polypeptide of M r 237 389. The 3' terminal 60 residues of BNYVV RNA-1 display extensive sequence homology with the corresponding portions of BNYVV RNA-2, -3 and -4. Addi t ional 3' terminal...

An in sacco mobile bag technique was used to determine the rate and extent of disappearance of unmolassed sugar-beet pulp, soyabean hulls, hay cubes and an oat hull-naked oats mixture (67:33, w/w) in the foregut and total digestive tract of ponies. Ponies were administered naso-gastrically polyester mesh bags containing 350 mg feed, in a Latin square design. Bags were collected at the ileo-caec...

turnip mosaic virus (tumv), cauliflower mosaic virus (camv) and beet western yellow virus (bwyv) are considered as the most important viruses of canola, worldwide. in order to determine the distribution of these viruses in golestan province, samples from three important canola growing areas of the province were collected during 2008 and 2009. the randomly collected samples were tested for the p...

The crown gall induced in potato discs by Agrobacterium tumefaciens is becoming largely utilised in screening anti-tumor agents. The present work is showing that beet discs are more adequate for the anti-tumor screening test. In fact, maximal tumor induction was observed on beet discs (87.5%), followed by carrot discs (75%) and potato discs (68.5%). Beet discs present the most sensibility to cr...

In Europe, the framework for sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) production was subject to considerable changes and for the future it is expected that sugar beet cultivation might concentrate around the sugar factories for economic reasons. Based on data from a national sugar beet farmers' survey and multi-year crop rotation trials, the effects of cropping interval (number of years in between two sub...