In August 2006, plant biologists gathered at the FASEB ‘Mechanisms in Plant Development’ meeting in Vermont, which was organized by Laurie Smith and Ueli Grossniklaus. A variety of plant developmental mechanisms were presented at this meeting and, although many talks focused on Arabidopsis thaliana as a primary model in which to study plant development, research in maize, tomato, Chlamydomonas ...

A field experiment was conducted to compare the effectiveness of microbial control agents and chemical pesticides when used on field tomatoes. Treatments included all combinations of chemical, biological or no control of either diseases or insect pests. Irrigation problems prevented uniform development of the crop in the field, and caused one experimental block to have significantly lower yield...

SOCIETY OF NEMATOLOGISTS 43 ANNUAL MEETING ESTES PARK, COLORADO 7–11 AUGUST 2004 CHARACTERIZATION OF ANTAGONISTIC RHIZOBACTERIA TO CONTROL MELOIDOGYNE JAVANICA ON TOMATO. Abadir, Seham K., A. E. Tawfik, and F. W. Raid. Plant Pathology Institute, Agriculture Research Center,

Tomato is sensitive to a number of environmental stresses, especially extreme temperature, drought, salinity and inadequate moisture stresses (Kalloo, 1993). In Bangladesh, lack of irrigation and drought resistant cultivars are the central problems for tomato cultivation. In the dry season with high temperature, flower abortion occurs and fruits drop frequently, which causes very poor yield of ...

A binomial sampling method for the potato aphid, Macrosiphum euphorbiae (Thomas), on processing tomato plants, Lycopersicon esculentum (Mill), is proposed. Relationships between mean number of M. euphorbiae per leaf and proportion of leaves infested [P(I)] with M. euphorbiae for both upper and interior leaves of the processing tomato varieties 'Alta' and 'Halley' are presented. A split-plot des...