Grapevine Asteroid Mosaic-Associated Virus is Resident and Prevalent in Wild, Noncultivated Grapevine of New York State.

In North America, uncultivated, free-living grapevines ( spp.) frequently grow alongside their cultivated counterparts, thus increasing the potential for exchange of microbiota. For this study, we used high-throughput sequencing (HTS) of small RNAs to survey for virus populations in free-living grapevines of the Finger Lakes region of New York State.

Molecular characterisation of Bacillus chitinase for bioconversion of chitin waste.

In this work chitin was extracted chemically from shrimp shells. Seventeen Bacillus isolates were screened for chitinolytic activity. The chitinolytic strains of Bt.