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TMV-Aux/IAA interaction enhances phloem loading [Plant Biology]>

Edit PNAS 26 Apr 2016
Vascular phloem loading has long been recognized as an essential step in the establishment of a systemic virus infection. In this study, an interaction between the replication protein of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) and phloem-specific auxin/indole acetic acid (Aux/IAA) transcriptional regulators was found to modulate virus phloem loading in an... ....

Learn how to talk tomato like a pro

Edit The Examiner 25 Mar 2016
To make your selection easier here is some tomato terminology and what it means ... A determinate tomato tends to set and ripen its fruit all at one time ... They are good for eating too ... V=verticillium wilt, F = fusarium wilt- there can be 3 F’s indicating the 3 strains of fusarium wilt that infect tomatoes, N=nematodes, T = tobacco mosaic virus, A = alternaria stem canker, St= stemphylium gray leaf spot, TSWV=tomato spotted wilt virus....

CWRU researcher to turn plant virus shells against human cancers (Case Western Reserve University)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Mar 2016
Nicole Steinmetz, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, will customize tobacco mosaic virus to distinguish between indolent and aggressive prostate cancers, and potato virus X to deliver a pair of treatments inside triple-negative breast cancer tumors ... The contrast agent will assemble inside hollowed-out protein shells of tobacco mosaic virus....

5 Examples of Biomimetic Technology

Edit About.com 21 Feb 2016
Image © Morguefile.  ... Propulsion ... The tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) is a tiny tube-like particle that has been used as a building block to create larger nanotubes and fiber type materials. Viruses have resilient structures and can often withstand wide ranges of pH and temperature. Nanowires and nanotubes built upon virus designs can potentially serve as drug delivery systems that can withstand extreme environments. ....

Violet Churchu Growing Profile

Edit About.com 01 Feb 2016
Violet churcu is a native of the mountainous regions of Ecuador, but has become widely cultivated throughout the world, due to its beautiful violet flowers ... Even handling the plant can cause skin irritation ... Size & Shape. ... They are susceptible to tobacco and tomato hornworms as well as tobacco mosaic virus (TMV). Because of the threat of TMV, it is recommended that those who use tobacco should not propagate the plants. ....

Plant Viruses: From Crop Pathogens To Key Players In Bio-Nanotechnology

Edit IFL Science 23 Dec 2015
Tobacco mosaic virus was first recognised as an infectious agent in 1898 and research on it continues to push the boundaries of knowledge, including in bio-nanotechnology. Plant viruses are natural nanoparticles, and viruses such as the tubular rod-shaped Tobacco mosaic virus and icosahedral Cowpea mosaic virus have been used in a number of applications....

This scientist made a Nobel-winning discovery but never got credit for it during her lifetime

Edit Yahoo Daily News 11 Nov 2015
View gallery. (National Institute of Health) ... Franklin's early life ... G. W ... D. Bernal at Birkbeck College, where she studied the structure of plant viruses, especially tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) and poliovirus. She made detailed X-ray images of the viruses, and her work was recognized by the Royal Institution in 1956 ... While Franklin's life may have been tragically cut short, her contributions to our understanding of DNA and viruses live on....

What's Wrong With My Tomatoes - Tomato Diseases and Treatment

Edit About.com 23 Jul 2015
Mosaic Viruses. Because tomatoes are in the same plant family as tobacco (nightshades), tobacco users can transmit a mosaic virus to their tomato plants simply by touching them ... With the soil ready, choose plants that are disease resistant – VFNT on a tomato seed or plant label indicates its resistance to verticillium wilt, fusarium wilt, nematodes, and tobacco mosaic virus....

Crystallising the tobacco mosaic virus

Edit The Hindu 29 Jun 2015
We will stay with poisons this week as well, for virus has its roots in the Latin term for “poison” ... He became an assistant at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and by 1932 had been transferred to the Department of Plant and Animal Pathology to work on tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) ... Tobacco mosaic virus was the first virus to be crystallized. The virus causes mosaic diseases in tobacco....

July gardening calendar: A chore a day

Edit Newsday 25 Jun 2015
Reprints + -. advertisement . advertise on newsday. advertisement . advertise on newsday. The month begins and ends with a full moon, and so-called moon gardeners believe the gravitational pull on the Earth will cause plants to grow by leaps and bounds during those times. Regardless of whether you buy into that, one thing's for certain ... Log in ... Join Now ... Enjoy it!. 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... 7 ... 8 ... 9 ... Cigarettes can transmit tobacco mosaic virus to your plants ... ....

The "First Replicon" on Earth? A Chat With Virologist Ricardo Flores

Edit Huffington Post 04 May 2015
Flores thinks viruses may be "the most important faction of the [planet's] biomass" and that a viroid-like entity is a prime candidate for the first replicon on Earth ... Viruses may be the most important faction of the biomass ... Compared to the genome of the tobacco mosaic virus, the viroid genome is 20 times smaller ... And if you go one step further down from that to a virus or viroid, you need an even more complex medium....

Faster Boiling Water? Scientists Reveal Secret To Speed-Up The Process 3 Times [Video]

Edit The Inquisitr 01 Apr 2015
The team used a special ‘virus’, extracted ... Led by engineer Matthew McCarthy, the team coated a heating element with the virus, called the tobacco mosaic virus, and witnessed in awe as it actively cut down the size and number of bubbles that accumulated around the element or source of heat, as it heats up and in turn, heats the water....

Discovery uses virus to boil water three times faster

Edit The Guardian 26 Mar 2015
A combination of nanotechnology and a virus found on tobacco could save huge amounts of energy in industrial processes ... A tobacco leaf infected with the tobacco mosaic virus ... McCarthy’s team has identified tobacco mosaic virus, which is roughly pencil-shaped, as the perfect structure for wicking moisture downwards towards a surface ... The researchers grow tobacco plants in the lab and infect them with the modified tobacco mosaic virus....
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