🌱 From Phytopathology: Not all resistance to Pierce’s disease works the same way. Wild grapevine genetics revealed multiple defenses against the pathogen's infection strategies, opening new paths for breeding durable disease resistance. (Abhaya Dandekar)
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🖥️ From New Phytologist: Leaf-to-leaf variation can outweigh measurement precision, suggesting crop models need broader sampling to accurately capture plant water use. (Kyle T. Rizzo, Tong Lei, Thomas N. Buckley, Brian N. Bailey)
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Stomatal conductance models are essential components of crop and land surface models, but collecting data to calibrate them remains challenging due to large leaf-to-leaf variability, slow stomatal k...
🖥️ From Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: AI trained on synthetic plant images reconstructed 3D cowpea architecture, opening paths for faster crop phenotyping. (Heesup Yun, Isaac Uyehara, Earl Ranario, Christine Diepenbrock, Brian Bailey, J. Mason Earles)
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🌱 From Frontiers in Sustainability: Organic fertilizers made from recycled waste streams could help soilless farms reduce reliance on synthetic inputs without sacrificing yields. (Nazmin Akter, Laura Cammarisano)
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🌱 From Frontiers in Sustainability: Liquid organic fertilizers could help soilless farming reduce dependence on synthetic fertilizers, but reliable nutrient delivery remains the key challenge. (Nazmin Akter, Laura Cammarisano)
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🌱 University of California: Shopping carts would be a lot emptier without California agriculture. That abundance is no accident. It’s the result of federal support for research going back to UC's earliest days.
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🍇 From Archives of Virology: Red blotch virus levels rise as grapes ripen, suggesting véraison and harvest are the most reliable stages for disease detection. (Prem Singh, K. Reddy, H. Scully, A. Boghozian, C. Medina-Plaza, A. Oberholster, Mysore Sudarshana)
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Three-dimensional (3D) procedural plant architecture models have emerged as an important tool for simulation-based studies of plant structure and function, e...
🌱 From Food Hydrocolloids: Combining two common food ingredients created stronger, more resilient oleogels, advancing healthier alternatives to solid fats. (Mursalin Sajib, Nitin Nitin, Andrew J. Gravelle)
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Organic farming practices, including the use of organic growing media, biopesticides, and biological control, are increasingly gaining attention in soilless ...
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Organic farming practices, including the use of organic growing media, biopesticides, and biological control, are increasingly gaining attention in soilless ...
Without California farming, American shopping carts would be a lot emptier — and pricier. But all that abundance is no accident: It’s the result of federal support for science and brilliant research g...
Grapevine red blotch disease (GRBD) poses a serious threat to viticulture in the United States. Grapevine red blotch virus (GRBV), a member species of Grablovirus vitis (family Geminiviridae), the cau...
Although ethyl cellulose (EC) and glycerol monostearate (GMS) have been shown to exhibit synergistic behavior over a range of concentrations, the spec…
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🌱 From PNAS: New genomic maps reveal how an ancient genome triplication reshaped Asteraceae, the world's largest flowering plant family. (Richard Michelmore)
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Xylella fastidiosa (Xf) is the etiological agent of Pierce's disease (PD), a major threat to viticulture worldwide. The Xf prtA− mutant, characterized by its planktonic phenotype and absence of biofilm formation, has been previously labeled as hypervirulent due to its aggressive symptomatology in the PD-susceptible Vitis vinifera ‘Thompson Seedless’. This study challenges the hypervirulent concept by demonstrating that a diverse range of grapevine accessions, especially the PD line U0505, exhibited resistance to Xf prtA−. Our findings suggest that different resistance mechanisms are present against the planktonic and biofilm phenotypes of Xf, as represented by the prtA− Xf mutant and the wild-type Temecula1 Xf strain, respectively. This study underscores the complexity of host–pathogen interactions and highlights the importance of multiple host defense mechanisms in countering specific virulence strategies of Xf. The resistance assessed in the U0505 line against Xf prtA− infection provides valuable insights into potential genetic and molecular targets for breeding PD-resistant grapevine cultivars and developing effective disease management strategies.
