In addition to the ethylene formed at the onset of tomato fruit ripening, three peaks of ethylene are produced during earlier periods of in vitro development of tomato flower to fruit. This is the first report characterizing ethylene production during early development of tomato fruit. Previous reports from this laboratory showed that VFNT Cherry tomato calyces are transformed into fruit tissue...

The polyphagous tomato fruit borer Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner) causes yield loss of 40 – 60 per cent under favourable conditions in Tomato. farmers rely upon chemical insecticides for its management and injudicious use leads to unwarranted problems. bio pesticides as a component integrated pest is one the important factor overcome related issue. Among bio-pesticides entomopathogenic fungi pro...

The experimental field trials were undertaken during the Rabi season of 2021 and 2022 to assess influence habitat manipulation on incidence fruit borers tomatoes their natural enemies at Pasighat, Arunachal Pradesh. pooled data two years depicted that intercropped with cowpea bordered marigold plants recorded lowest borer (1.23 larvae per plant), highest enemy population 5.58 plant, damage cent...

Recently, long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been shown to play critical regulatory roles in model plants, such as Arabidopsis, rice, and maize. However, the presence of lncRNAs and how they function in fleshy fruit ripening are still largely unknown because fleshy fruit ripening is not present in the above model plants. Tomato is the model system for fruit ripening studies due to its dramatic...

The experiment on biology of fruit borer Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner) was carried out in the Bio-control Laboratory, Department Entomology, S.V.P.U.A.&T., Meerut. Results showed that mean pre-oviposition, oviposition and post-oviposition period tomato lasted for 2.46 ± 0.29, 6.33 0.14 1.67 days, respectively. A female laid an average 329.40 68.17 eggs. incubation observed to be 3.08 0.32 d...

BACKGROUND Some patients with Japanese cedar pollen (JCP)-induced allergic rhinitis develop pollen-food allergy syndrome (PFAS) as a reaction to tomato fruit. Pollen allergen-specific subcutaneous immunotherapy (SCIT) is reportedly beneficial for some associated food allergies; however, the reported changes in food allergen-specific immunoglobulin (Ig)E and IgG4 levels are inconsistent. Here, w...