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New Phytol 1991 Jun;118(2):295-301

Application Technology Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service, Wooster, Ohio 44691, USA.

A model of splash dispersal of point-source pathogens is developed and parameterized from experimental data of Colletotrichum acutatum, the cause of strawberry anthracnose. Starting with analysis on a probability density function of a sum of random displacement vectors, the model turned out to be the fundamental solution of the classic diffusion equation. Model parameters were determined for three ground covers (plastic, soil, and straw) and two rain intensities (15 and 30 mm h ). Read More

New Phytol 1986 Jan;102(1):161-173

University of Bristol, Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol, BS18 9AF, UK.

Effects of simulated rain on the epicuticular wax of glaucous leaves have been studied. Droplets (250 to 400 μm) travelling at low or medium velocity (0.25 to 5 m s ) fractured the dendrites and tubes on leaves of Brassica spp. Read More

New Phytol 2004 Jul;163(1):99-110

Plantebiosenteret, Department of Biology, NTNU, 7491 Trondheim, Norway.

•  Polygalacturonase-inhibiting proteins (PGIPs) have been demonstrated to play a role in host defence in several plants. •  The PGIP now cloned from strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) showed a high degree of homology to other fruit PGIPs. The gene expression of strawberry PGIP was monitored in healthy leaves, flowers and fruit at different maturity stages. Read More

Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2021 19;19:1612-1619. Epub 2021 Mar 19.

Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, South Korea.

DNA N4-methylcytosine (4mC), an epigenetic modification found in prokaryotic and eukaryotic species, is involved in numerous biological functions, including host defense, transcription regulation, gene expression, and DNA replication. To identify 4mC sites, previous computational studies mostly focused on finding hand-crafted features. This area of research, therefore, would benefit from the development of a computational approach that relies on automatic feature selection to identify relevant sites. Read More

Open Life Sci 2021 19;16(1):160-171. Epub 2021 Feb 19.

Dryland Technology Key Laboratory of Shandong Province, College of Agronomy, Qingdao Agricultural University, Changcheng Road No. 700, Chengyang District, Qingdao, 266109, Shandong, China.

SQUAMOSA promoter-binding protein-like (SPL) transcription factors are very important for the plant growth and development. Here 15 were identified in . The conserved domains and motifs, phylogenetic relationships, posttranscriptional regulation, and physiological function of the 92 family genes in , , , , and were analyzed. Read More