Publications by authors named "B Clevinger"

Species of , , and affect soybean seed and seedlings each year, primarily through reduced plant populations and yield. Oxathiapiprolin is effective at managing several foliar diseases caused by some oomycetes. The objectives of these studies were to evaluate oxathiapiprolin in a discriminatory dose assay in vitro; evaluate oxathiapiprolin as a soybean seed treatment on a moderately susceptible cultivar in 10 environments; compare the impact of seed treatment on plant populations and yields in environments with low and high precipitation; and compare a seed treatment mixture on cultivars with different levels of resistance in four environments.

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Previous studies of the genetic bases of murine SLE have defined gene segments that encode the H chain and the kappa L chain of anti-DNA, anti-Sm, and anti-IgG autoantibodies. As a result of these studies, the genetic origins of autoantibody H chains and kappa L chains are better understood, but little remains known about the genetic bases of autoantibody lambda-chains. Thus, we have analyzed serologically the germ-line and somatic origins of lambda 1 L chains in antibodies of normal mice and in both antibodies and autoantibodies of autoimmune mice.

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The specificities of the combining sites of 19 mouse monoclonal antibodies to dextran B1355S have been characterized immunochemically by quantitative precipitin and precipitin inhibition assays; association constants for B1355S were determined by affinity gel electrophoresis. Cross-reactive and individual idiotypes related to the BALB/c B1355S-binding myeloma proteins MOPC104E [IdI(MOPC104E)] and J558 [IdI(J558)], determined by a radioimmunoassay, and heavy-chain variable-region sequences, are presented. Antibodies to B1355S are "alpha (1----3) alpha (1----6)-specific" as determined by precipitin and precipitin inhibition assays with dextrans and oligosaccharides, respectively, containing alternating alpha (1----3) alpha (1----6) linkages compared with oligosaccharides composed solely of alpha (1----3) or alpha (1----6) linkages; all antibodies have low association constants (less than or equal to 10(5) ml/g).

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In order to more accurately determine the distribution of antigenic determinants detected by antisera to hypervariable-region and JH1 peptides, we measured the frequency of lymphocytes stained with these sera by flow cytometry. None of the sera specific for HV1, HV2 or HV3 peptides stained significant numbers of lymphocytes, but those specific for JH1 reacted with nearly all B-cells.

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