The sulphydryl reagent thimerosal (50 microM) released Ca2+ from a non-mitochondrial intracellular Ca2+ pool in a dose-dependent manner in permeabilized insulin-secreting RINm5F cells. This release was reversed after addition of the reducing agent dithiothreitol. Ca2+ was released from an Ins(1,4,5)P3-insensitive pool, since release was observed even after depletion of the Ins(1,4,5)P3-sensitiv...

In 1997, an avian H5N1 influenza virus, A/Hong Kong/156/97 (A/HK/156/97), caused six deaths in Hong Kong, and in 1999, an avian H9N2 influenza virus infected two children in Hong Kong. These viruses and a third avian virus [A/Teal/HK/W312/97 (H6N1)] have six highly related genes encoding internal proteins. Additionally, A/Chicken/HK/G9/97 (H9N2) virus has PB1 and PB2 genes that are highly relat...

Liriomyza sativae and L. trifolii are highly invasive leafminer pests of vegetable crops that have invaded southern China in recent years. Liriomyza sativae was the first of these species to invade China, but it is now being displaced by L. trifolii. The rate and extent of this displacement vary across southern China. In Hainan, monocultures of highly valuable cowpea are planted and treated ext...

Sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum), one of the most popular cultivated herbs worldwide, displays a number of varieties differing in several characteristics, such as the color of the leaves. The development of a reference transcriptome for sweet basil, and the analysis of differentially expressed genes in acyanic and cyanic cultivars exposed to natural sunlight irradiance, has interest from horticul...

Basil is susceptible to stressful conditions, of which salinity a major problem in agriculture, causing significant yield losses. Biostimulants can be used as stress reducers and for sustainable agriculture. Genovese-type 'Marian' basil Greek-type 'Manos' were grown under 100 mM NaCl salt conditions treated with hydrolyzed animal protein-based biostimulant (as foliar fertilizer via nutrient sol...

Doughnuts made from cowpea, a highly nutritious pulse, are frequently consumed in West Africa. As processing may affect their nutritional composition, cowpea into two doughnut types (ata and ata-doco) was characterized, samples collected 12 producers Cotonou, Benin. Proximate folate, mineral, phytate, alpha-galacto-oligosaccharide contents were determined the raw material, intermediate products...

The study aims to determine the effect of basil leaf extract and fraction in inhibiting growth Escherichia coli bacteria best concentration bacteria.
 methodin this used a completely randomized design (CRD) with five treatments repetitions based on each treatment group, namely: 25% concentration, 50% 75% concentration.
 result shows that from it was found largest Eschericia at group. ...

Downy mildew of basil is a new, destructive disease that appears to be here to stay. It was first reported in south FL in October 2007. In 2008 downy mildew was confirmed in both fieldand greenhouse-grown basil crops, as well as home gardens, in many states: NC, PA, NJ, NY, MA, NC, KS, and MO. Likely it occurred elsewhere but was not recognized. Growers generally did not realize their basil had...

Adenophostins A and B, which are metabolic products of the fungus Penicillium brevicompactum, are potent agonists at the D-myo-inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate [Ins(1,4,5)P3] receptor. In the current study, adenophostin A was approximately 50-fold more potent than Ins(1,4,5)P3 at both releasing Ca2+ from the intracellular stores of permeabilized platelets and displacing [3H]Ins(1,4,5)P3 from its re...

Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.) Walp is known to be affected by several fungal, bacterial and viral diseases. One of such fungal diseases reported to cause serious yield loss in the cowpea is the Cercospora leaf spot disease caused by two fungi namely, Cercospora canescens Ellis and Martin and Cercospora cruenta [1]. Yield loss attributed to Cercosora leaf spot in susceptible cowpea variety varie...