Isolation of African swine fever virus (ASFV) is a critical step towards the identification, titration, characterization, and even modification of the virus. Therefore, it is important to identify a suitable cell line that supports the efficient replication of ASFV for these purposes. This should be achieved even when starting with a low virus load, as in the case of isolating the virus from field samples.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe vast majority of commercial sunflower hybrids worldwide are produced using cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) of the PET1 type, resulting from the interspecific hybridization of Helianthus petiolaris with Helianthus annuus. Due to the fact that CMS-PET1 was not previously detected in wild sunflower, it was believed that this cytotype could arise during interspecific hybridization and is specific solely for cultivated sunflower. In this study, the open reading frame, orfH522, associated with the CMS-PET1 phenotype, was revealed for the first time in the 3'-flanking region of the mitochondrial atpA gene in wild H.
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June 2023
Interspecific hybridization is widespread for sunflowers, both in wild populations and commercial breeding. One of the most common species that can efficiently cross with is the Silverleaf sunflower-. The current study carried out structural and functional organization analyses of mitochondrial DNA in and the interspecific hybrid, (VIR114A line) × .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The causative agent of African swine fever (Asfarviridae: Asfivirus: African swine fever virus) (ASF) is a double-stranded DNA virus of 175-215 nm. To date, 24 of its genotypes are known. Clustering of ASF genotype II isolates is carried out by examining a limited number of selected genome markers.
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