Publications by authors named "C L Blomquist"
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- Over 55% of U.S. lettuce is produced in California, with Monterey County as the leading region, where stunted and wilted lettuce varieties were observed in 2023-2024, showing significant disease symptoms.
- Diseased plants exhibited brown lesions that developed into sunken cavities, with infection rates ranging from 5% to 75%, and lab analysis revealed the presence of Phytophthora, a harmful pathogen associated with these symptoms.
- Genetic analysis of the isolates indicated hybridization among different Phytophthora species, suggesting the emergence of a new hybrid taxon proposed as P. taxon ×salinaslettuce, which was tested for pathogenicity on various lettuce cultivars.
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- The text describes a species of evergreen dogwood native to East Asia, known for its attractive creamy bracts and red fruit, with a recent issue involving leaf spots and dieback reported from a nursery in Humboldt County.
- In February 2023, samples from affected plants showed distinct leaf spots and were analyzed in a lab, leading to the isolation of specific fungal characteristics including coralloid hyphae and sporangia.
- Genetic analysis confirmed the isolate's identity and pathogenic potential, demonstrating a 100% match to known strains, and a pathogenicity test was performed on healthy plants to further evaluate the impact of the isolate.
is a previously reported citrus virus from Asia with widespread distribution in China. In 2022, the California Department of Food and Agriculture conducted a multipest citrus survey targeting multiple citrus pathogens including citrus yellow vein clearing virus (CYVCV). In March 2022, a lemon tree with symptoms of vein clearing, chlorosis, and mottling in a private garden in the city of Tulare, California, tested positive for CYVCV, which triggered an intensive survey in the surrounding areas.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlthough there is ample evidence documenting the development of spoken word recognition from infancy to adolescence, it is still unclear how development of word-level processing interacts with higher-level sentence processing, such as the use of lexical-semantic cues, to facilitate word recognition. We investigated how the ability to use an informative verb (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs a spoken word unfolds over time, similar sounding words ( and ) compete until one word "wins". Lexical competition becomes more efficient from infancy through adolescence. We examined one potential mechanism underlying this development: lexical inhibition, by which activated candidates suppress competitors.
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