Novel sources of resistance to fusarium wilt in species.

Fusarium wilt is a serious disease of cucurbit crops including cultivated Luffa species () causing considerable amount of reduction in yield and quality. Luffa is starting to be used as rootstocks for major commercial cucurbit crops, but little is known of its resistance against soilborne diseases. Here, 63 Luffa accessions from the World Vegetable Center genebank were evaluated for resistance to an aggressive isolate of f.

Leaf Extracts from Resistant Wild Tomato Can Be Used to Control Late Blight () in the Cultivated Tomato.

Late blight disease, caused by (Mont.) de Bary, is one of the most challenging diseases threatening tomato production and other Solanaceae crops. Resistance to late blight is found in certain wild species, but the mechanism behind the resistance is not fully understood.

Paclobutrazol Improves the Quality of Tomato Seedlings to Be Resistant to Blight Disease: Biochemical and Histological Perspectives.

The production and quality of tomato seedlings needs many growth factors and production requirements besides controlling the phytopathogens. Paclobutrazol (PBZ) has benefit applications in improving crop productivity under biotic stress (, the causal agent of early blight disease in tomatoes). In the current study, the foliar application of PBZ, at rates of 25, 50, and 100 mg L, was evaluated against early blight disease in tomatoes under greenhouse conditions.

Development of Interspecific Hybrids between a Cultivated Eggplant Resistant to Bacterial Wilt () and Eggplant Wild Relatives for the Development of Rootstocks.

Bacterial wilt caused by is one of the most economically and destructive eggplant diseases in many tropical and subtropical areas of the world. The objectives of this study were to develop interspecific hybrids, as potential rootstocks, between the eggplant () bacterial wilt resistant line EG203 and four wild accessions ( UPV1, UPV2, UPV3, and UPV4), and to evaluate interspecific hybrids along with parents for resistance to bacterial wilt strains Pss97 and Pss2016. EG203 was crossed successfully with wild accessions UPV2 and UPV3 and produced viable seeds that germinated when wild accessions were used as a maternal parent in the crosses.

World Vegetable Center Eggplant Collection: Origin, Composition, Seed Dissemination and Utilization in Breeding.

Eggplant is the fifth most economically important solanaceous crop after potato, tomato, pepper, and tobacco. Apart from the well-known brinjal eggplant ( L.), two other under-utilized eggplant species, the scarlet eggplant ( L.

Effect of low-protein diet on anthracycline pharmacokinetics and cardiotoxicity.

Objectives: Anthracyclines are broad spectrum anticancer drugs with dose-dependent cardiotoxicity. Protein malnutrition commonly occurs in cancer patients and is considered a risk factor for development of cardiotoxicity. This study was designed to assess the modulatory effect of protein malnutrition on the pharmacokinetics and drug disposition properties of a single dose of doxorubicin and epirubicin and how these possible changes will affect the degree of cardiotoxicity of these drugs.