The practical use of artificial intelligence in Transfusion Medicine and Apheresis.

Background: Blood and plasma volume calculations are a daily part of practice for many Transfusion Medicine and Apheresis practitioners. Though many formulas exist, each facility may have their own modifications to consider. ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) provides a new and exciting pathway for those with no programming experience to create personalized programs to meet the demands of daily practice.

Dehydration and tomato spotted wilt virus infection combine to alter feeding and survival parameters for the western flower thrips, .

Dehydration and tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) infection substantially impact the feeding of western flower thrips, . Until now, the dynamics between these biotic and abiotic stresses have not been examined for thrips. Here, we report water balance characteristics and changes in other biological parameters during infection with TSWV for the western flower thrips.

The genome of a bunyavirus cannot be defined at the level of the viral particle but only at the scale of the viral population.

Bunyaviruses are enveloped negative or ambisense single-stranded RNA viruses with a genome divided into several segments. The canonical view depicts each viral particle packaging one copy of each genomic segment in one polarity named the viral strand. Several opposing observations revealed nonequal ratios of the segments, uneven number of segments per virion, and even packaging of viral complementary strands.

The NLR Immune Receptor Induces Early Transcriptional Changes in Response to Thrips and Mechanical Modes of Inoculation of .

The NLR (nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat) class immune receptor confers resistance to (TSWV). Although is known to activate immunity upon recognition of the TSWV movement protein NSm, we know very little about the downstream events that lead to resistance. Here, we investigated the -mediated early transcriptomic changes that occur in response to mechanical and thrips-mediated inoculation of TSWV, using near-isogenic tomato lines CNPH-LAM 147 () and Santa Clara ().

Acylsugar-mediated resistance as part of a multilayered defense against thrips, orthotospoviruses, and beyond.

Resistant varieties are critical tools for crop production, and single-resistance genes providing strong protection against pests or pathogens are deployed in agriculture. Durability of these traits is threatened by emergence of resistance-breaking pests and pathogens. This review focuses on acylsugar-mediated resistance in tomato.