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Journal of Phytopathology, 2014
ABSTRACT Bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum is one of the most important diseases af... more ABSTRACT Bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum is one of the most important diseases affecting more than 200 plant species, including solanaceous crops. The pathogen is known to cause complicated symptoms ranging from visible to latent ones. Understanding crop's reaction to the pathogen and the underlying relatedness of latent infection to wilt incidence is of paramount importance. Thus, a number of potato cultivars including improved and otherwise were evaluated under greenhouse and field conditions. Accordingly, twenty-eight of the cultivars tested under greenhouse conditions were resistant to the pathogen with scores ranging from 0.77 to 1.17 of 5. Nonetheless, under field conditions, only 2 of 28 cultivars found to be ‘resistant’ under greenhouse conditions, showed adequate resistance to the pathogen, indicating the significant impact of environment on the activity of the pathogen and reaction of the crop. Percentage wilt incidence and latent infection showed significant (P < 0.05) positive correlation, with r = 0.9438. Thus, evaluation of crop's performance based on the combination of the parameters like field wilt incidence and proportion of latent infection gave us better picture of the overall crop feat, than using wilt incidence as a sole parameter of evaluation as has been the case in most studies. Moreover, the established correlation of latent infection with field wilt incidence will also help us understand the disease epidemiology and design effective management measures, accordingly.
African Journal of Biotechnology, Jul 26, 2010
African Journal of Biotechnology, Jun 20, 2011
African Journal of Biotechnology, 2011
... Fungo R. Pillay M. Other links: PubMed Citation Related articles in PubMed. ... β-Carotene co... more ... Fungo R. Pillay M. Other links: PubMed Citation Related articles in PubMed. ... β-Carotene content of selected banana genotypes from Uganda. Robert Fungo 1 and Michael Pillay 2 *. 1 International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Uganda PO Box 7878 Kampala, Uganda. ...
American Journal of Botany, Feb 1, 1995
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A simple procedure is described for the production of large numbers of rooted plantlets from call... more A simple procedure is described for the production of large numbers of rooted plantlets from callus cultures of Lotononis bainesii Baker. Highest frequency of shoots was obtained from somatic embryos formed in initiation cultures on Murashige &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp; Skoog medium plus 1 mg/l benzylaminopurine plus 1 mg/l naphthaleneacetic acid. The somatic embryos from these initiation cultures were transferred to media containing
Theoretical and Applied Genetics
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Progress and Challenges, 2011
Progress and Challenges, 2011
Page 272. Quality Improvement of Cultivated Musa Edson Perito Amorim, Sebastião de Oliveira e Sil... more Page 272. Quality Improvement of Cultivated Musa Edson Perito Amorim, Sebastião de Oliveira e Silva, Vanusia Batista de Oliveira Amorim, and Michael Pillay contents 13.1 Introduction..... ...
HortScience: a publication of the American Society for Horticultural Science
... Martina TV Adeleke, Michael Pillay1, and Bosa E. Okoli2 Crop Improvement Division. ... Intern... more ... Martina TV Adeleke, Michael Pillay1, and Bosa E. Okoli2 Crop Improvement Division. ... International Mailing address: IITA, c/o. LW Lambourn & Co., Carolyn House, 26 Dingwall Road, Croydon CR9 3EE, England E-mail address: M.Pillay@infocom.co.ug 2Dept. ...
Journal of Phytopathology, 2014
ABSTRACT Bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum is one of the most important diseases af... more ABSTRACT Bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum is one of the most important diseases affecting more than 200 plant species, including solanaceous crops. The pathogen is known to cause complicated symptoms ranging from visible to latent ones. Understanding crop's reaction to the pathogen and the underlying relatedness of latent infection to wilt incidence is of paramount importance. Thus, a number of potato cultivars including improved and otherwise were evaluated under greenhouse and field conditions. Accordingly, twenty-eight of the cultivars tested under greenhouse conditions were resistant to the pathogen with scores ranging from 0.77 to 1.17 of 5. Nonetheless, under field conditions, only 2 of 28 cultivars found to be ‘resistant’ under greenhouse conditions, showed adequate resistance to the pathogen, indicating the significant impact of environment on the activity of the pathogen and reaction of the crop. Percentage wilt incidence and latent infection showed significant (P < 0.05) positive correlation, with r = 0.9438. Thus, evaluation of crop's performance based on the combination of the parameters like field wilt incidence and proportion of latent infection gave us better picture of the overall crop feat, than using wilt incidence as a sole parameter of evaluation as has been the case in most studies. Moreover, the established correlation of latent infection with field wilt incidence will also help us understand the disease epidemiology and design effective management measures, accordingly.
African Journal of Biotechnology, Jul 26, 2010
African Journal of Biotechnology, Jun 20, 2011
African Journal of Biotechnology, 2011
... Fungo R. Pillay M. Other links: PubMed Citation Related articles in PubMed. ... β-Carotene co... more ... Fungo R. Pillay M. Other links: PubMed Citation Related articles in PubMed. ... β-Carotene content of selected banana genotypes from Uganda. Robert Fungo 1 and Michael Pillay 2 *. 1 International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Uganda PO Box 7878 Kampala, Uganda. ...
American Journal of Botany, Feb 1, 1995
ABSTRACT
A simple procedure is described for the production of large numbers of rooted plantlets from call... more A simple procedure is described for the production of large numbers of rooted plantlets from callus cultures of Lotononis bainesii Baker. Highest frequency of shoots was obtained from somatic embryos formed in initiation cultures on Murashige &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp; Skoog medium plus 1 mg/l benzylaminopurine plus 1 mg/l naphthaleneacetic acid. The somatic embryos from these initiation cultures were transferred to media containing
Theoretical and Applied Genetics
ABSTRACT
Progress and Challenges, 2011
Progress and Challenges, 2011
Page 272. Quality Improvement of Cultivated Musa Edson Perito Amorim, Sebastião de Oliveira e Sil... more Page 272. Quality Improvement of Cultivated Musa Edson Perito Amorim, Sebastião de Oliveira e Silva, Vanusia Batista de Oliveira Amorim, and Michael Pillay contents 13.1 Introduction..... ...
HortScience: a publication of the American Society for Horticultural Science
... Martina TV Adeleke, Michael Pillay1, and Bosa E. Okoli2 Crop Improvement Division. ... Intern... more ... Martina TV Adeleke, Michael Pillay1, and Bosa E. Okoli2 Crop Improvement Division. ... International Mailing address: IITA, c/o. LW Lambourn & Co., Carolyn House, 26 Dingwall Road, Croydon CR9 3EE, England E-mail address: M.Pillay@infocom.co.ug 2Dept. ...