Unlabelled: Globally tomato leaf curl disease (ToLCD) caused by begomoviruses and late blight disease caused by are important limiting factors for tomato production. Development of disease resistant cultivars is an important objective of tomato breeding programmes. Resistance genes such as and against ToLCD, and and resistant genes against late blight were utilized in this study to develop tomato lines with ToLCD and late blight resistance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Med (Lausanne)
January 2025
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2024.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDiabetic nephropathy is an important complication of diabetic microvascular injury, and it is also an important cause of end-stage renal disease. Its high prevalence and disability rate significantly impacts patients' quality of life while imposing substantial social and economic burdens. Gut microbiota affects host metabolism, multiple organ functions, and regulates host health throughout the life cycle.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) include abnormal conditions of the heart, diseased blood vessels, structural problems of the heart, and blood clots. Traditionally, CVD has been diagnosed by clinical experts, physicians, and medical specialists, which is expensive, time-consuming, and requires expert intervention. On the other hand, cost-effective digital diagnosis of CVD is now possible because of the emergence of machine learning (ML) and statistical techniques.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInterest in the biotoxicology of uranium resulting from its inherent radioactive as well as chemical properties has been growing intensely in recent years. Indeed, uranium in its stable form as UO species is ubiquitously found on earth, and this form is commonly known as the uranyl(VI) ion. The unusual electronic environment at the core of the uranyl(VI) complex plays an important role in its interaction with biomacromolecules.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA comprehensive LC-MS/MS method, which employs Positive Electrospray Ionization (PEI) and Multiple Reaction Monitoring (MRM) was developed for the simultaneous determination of 35 pesticides belonging to various chemical classes in tomato, brinjal, chili, and okra samples. Extraction was facilitated using a modified QuEChERS method, which allows efficient sample analysis in a single run. Calibration curves for each pesticide exhibited linearity within the concentration range of 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe biotic and abiotic stresses cause a significant decline in the yield and fruit quality traits, including antioxidants and minerals, of bitter gourd when grown in open fields. Protected cultivation technology has emerged to minimize such stresses. We investigated the effect of diverse environments (hi-tech greenhouse, naturally ventilated polyhouse, insect-proof net-house, and open field) and breeding lines on earliness, yield potential, antioxidant activities, and dietary nutrients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The deadly pandemic COVID-19 has brought the world to a standstill. Due to worldwide lockdown, economy was severely compromised. Everyone was in fear of the consequences that would be faced.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: is the closest wild species that can be crossed with an important fruit vegetable crop, , has immense medicinal value, and placed under II subclass of primary gene pool of bitter gourd. is tolerant to major biotic and abiotic stresses. Genome characterization of as a wild relative of bitter gourd will contribute to the knowledge of the gene pool available for improvement in bitter gourd.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is among the most important commercial horticultural crops worldwide. The crop quality and production is largely hampered due to the fungal pathogen Alternaria solani causing necrotrophic foliage early blight disease. Crop plants usually respond to the biotic challenges with altered metabolic composition and physiological perturbations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAsh gourd () is a cucurbitaceous crop cultivated as an edible vegetable rich in vitamins, minerals, dietary fibers and antioxidants. In a field survey conducted in the Udumalpet region of Tamil Nadu during 2019, the incidence of mosaic disease on ash gourd crop was observed to be 75%. The DNA-A and DNA-B components of begomovirus genome have been identified as associated with this disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDiffuse alveolar hemorrhage (DAH) is a life-threatening condition due to widespread damage to small pulmonary vessels commonly caused by systemic vasculitis. Alveolar involvement is typically multi-lobar and bilateral. It frequently presents as bilateral diffuse airspace opacities on chest imaging.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHigh temperatures present a formidable challenge to the cultivation of hot pepper, profoundly impacting not only vegetative growth but also leading to flower and fruit abscission, thereby causing a significant reduction in yield. To unravel the intricate genetic mechanisms governing heat tolerance in hot pepper, an F population was developed through the crossing of two distinct genotypes exhibiting contrasting heat tolerance characteristics: DLS-161-1 (heat tolerant) and DChBL-240 (heat susceptible). The F population, along with the parental lines, was subjected to comprehensive phenotyping encompassing diverse morphological, physiological, and biochemical heat-related traits under high temperature conditions (with maximum temperature ranging from 31 to 46.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTotally 102 symptomatic samples of cucurbitaceous vegetables showing yellowing were collected from fields of Uttar Pradesh and screened by RT-PCR assay for the presence of Crinivirus and Polerovirus. Among them, Crinivirus (16%) and Polerovirus (23%) were tested positive with the universal primer pairs. Based on the sequence analysis of amplified product, two Crinivirus (Cucurbit chlorotic yellows virus - CCYV and Cucurbit yellow stunting disorder virus - CYSDV) and two Polerovirus (Cucurbit aphid-borne yellows virus - CABYV and Luffa aphid-borne yellows virus - LABYV) species were characterized.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpinal intradural extramedullary teratomas are rare tumors arising from more than one germ cell layers and are more common in children than in older age groups. Teratomas are more commonly seen in intracranial compartment and are extremely rare in the spine. They are difficult to diagnose pre-operatively and the definitive diagnosis is usually done by histopathologic evaluation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInteraction aspects of uranyl(VI) complexes as well as the coordinated ONNO-donor ligand with bovine serum albumin (BSA) were investigated by the fluorescence spectroscopy and computational insights. Under optimal physiological condition, it was observed that there was significant decrease in fluorescence intensity of BSA upon interaction with uranyl(VI) complexes as well as the ligand. The mechanism of interaction between the uranyl(VI) complex and BSA protein was examined by fluorescence measurement.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUntargeted metabolomics of moderately resistant wild tomato species revealed an altered metabolite profile in plant leaves in response to pathogen. Leaf metabolites were significantly differentiated in non-stressed versus stressed plants. The samples were discriminated not only by the presence/absence of specific metabolites as distinguished markers of infection, but also on the basis of their relative abundance as important concluding factors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCowpea is known for its high protein content (18-25%) and also chiefly raised for green fodder. The infesting pests, pod borer and aphids are the most destructive ones. To control these pests, chlorantraniliprole emerges as a promising molecule.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBitter gourd is an important vegetable crop grown throughout the tropics mainly because of its high nutritional value. Sex expression and identification of gynoecious trait in cucurbitaceous vegetable crops has facilitated the hybrid breeding programme in a great way to improve productivity. In bitter gourd, gynoecious sex expression is poorly reported and detailed molecular pathways involve yet to be studied.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe narrow genetic base of tomato poses serious challenges in breeding. Hence, with the advent of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)-associated protein9 (CRISPR/Cas9) genome editing, fast and efficient breeding has become possible in tomato breeding. Many traits have been edited and functionally characterized using CRISPR/Cas9 in tomato such as plant architecture and flower characters (e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCucumber is an important vegetable crop grown worldwide and highly sensitive to prevailing temperature condition. The physiological, biochemical and molecular basis of high temperature stress tolerance is poorly understood in this model vegetable crop. In the present study, a set of genotypes with contrasting response under two different temperature stress (35/30°C and 40/35°C) were evaluated for important physiological and biochemical traits.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF