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2012
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Laura Parducci Tina Jørgensen Mari Mette Tollefsrud Ellen Elverland Torbjørn Alm Sonia L. Fontana Keith D. Bennett James Haile Irina Matetovici Yoshihisa Suyama Mary E. Edwards Kenneth Andersen Morten Rasmussen Sanne Boessenkool Eric Coissac Christian Brochmann Pierre Taberlet Michael Houmark-Nielsen Nicolaj K. Larsen Ludovic Orlando M. Thomas P. Gilbert Kurt H. Kjær Inger Greve Alsos Eske WillerslevAbstract
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Maria L. Loureiro Steven T. Yen Rudolfo M. Jr. NaygaAbstract
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In an attempt to find alternative products to classical fungicides, several products with low toxicity were tested against powdery mildew of roses. These products included resistance inducers (Bion, BABA, and ROS), potassium salts (Resistim, monopotassium phosphate), and seed extracts. The best results were obtained with acibenzolar-S-methyl (Bion). The utilization of Bion as prophylactic treatment, watered at a concentration 0.1–0.2 mg/ml, together with good cultural practices can be enough to effectively control powdery mildew on roses. Treatments with Resistim reduced the disease incidence, but not always significantly compared to the controls. None of the other products had effect on powdery mildew.
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Eivind Uleberg Jens Rohloff Laura Jaakola Kajetan Trost Olavi Junttila Hely Häggman Inger MartinussenAbstract
This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in [Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry], copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jf302924m
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Sandra M. Granquist Anna Thorhallsdottir Hrefna SigurjonsdottirAbstract
Earlier research indicates that stallions may supress interactions of their harem members,leading to less stable hierarchies and friendship bonds in harems compared to non-stallion groups. In this paper, the effect of the presense of a stallion on the social behaviour of mares was studied by comparing six harems containing stallions to four mixed sex groups not containing stallions. Both temporary and permanent harems were studied, giving the possibility to investigate the effect of group stability on social interactions. A significant linear hierarchy was found in all non-stallion groups that were used for comparison, while the hierarchies were only found to be linear in three of the six harems containing stallions (Landaus h , p < 0.05). Aggression rate was lower (t-test, p < 0.05) and fewer friendship bonds (G-test, p < 0.0001) were found within the harems, compared to the groups without stallions. Stallions seldom intervene directly in interactions between harem members. Thus, our results give support to the hypothesis that stallions may suppress interactions of harem members, but in a more indirect way than with direct interference. In addition, our results give support for earlier findings that aggression rate may be affected by group stability. We found a higher aggression rate in the temporary harems compared to the permanent harems (Kruskal–Wallis, p < 0.05) and in the temporary non-stallion group compared to the permanent non-stallion group. The results have significance for further research on social structure of mammals, and may be applied in management of domestic animals.
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Anders Nielsen Nigel Yoccoz Geir Steinheim Geir Olve Storvik Yngve Rekdal Michael Angeloff Nathalie Pettorelli Øystein Holand Atle MysterudAbstract
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Eivind Vangdal P. Eccher Zerbibi M. Vaoli A. Rizzolo F. Lovati A. Toricelli L. SpinelliAbstract
During cold storage plums (Prunus domestica L.) are susceptible to developing internal disorders, such as jellying and internal browning. Time-resolved reflectance spectroscopy (TRS) is a promising method to detect internal disorders in fruit non-destructively. Experiments were performed with plums (‘Jubileum’) stored at 1 and 4°C for three weeks. Samples of 30 plums of uniform ripeness were measured during a 5 day shelf life period without storage or after 3 weeks of storage. In addition to TRS measurements (absorption coefficients and scattering coefficients at 670 and 780 nm) standard quality factors inlcuding colour, firmness, soluble solids content and titratable acidity were analyzed. The plums were cut in halves and the amount of internal disorders was evaluated from scale 0 (healthy) to 10 (all surface affected). The correlation between internal disorders and quality factors like firmness, soluble solids content and acidity indicated that more ripe plums were more susceptible to internal disorders. Colour parameters (L*, a* b*) showed significant and negative correlations with internal disorders. The absorption coefficients measured at 670 and 780 nm increased with the development of jellying and browning, which allowed distinguishing healthy fruit from those affected by internal disorders and the slightly browned fruit from those with medium and severe browning. Scattering coefficients were not influenced by chilling injury development
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Åke Olson Andrea Aerts Fred Asiegbu Lassaad Belbahri Ourdia Bouzid Anders Broberg Björn Canback Pedro M. Coutinho Dan Cullen Kerstin Dalman Giuliana Deflorio Linda T.A. van Diepen Christophe Dunand Sébastien Duplessis Mikael Durling Paolo Gonthier Jane Grimwood Carl Gunnar Fossdal David Hansson Bernard Henrissat Ari Hietala Kajsa Himmelstrand Dirk Hoffmeister Nils Högberg Timothy Y. James Magnus Karlsson Annegret Kohler Ursula Kües Yong-Hwan Lee Yao-Cheng Lin Mårten Lind Erika Lindquist Vincent Lombard Susan Lucas Karl Lundén Emmanuelle Morin Claude Murat Jongsun Park Tommaso Raffaello Pierre Rouzé Asaf Salamov Jeremy Schmutz Halvor Solheim Jerry Ståhlberg Heriberto Vélëz Ronald P. de Vries Ad Wiebenga Steve Woodward Igor A. Yakovlev Matteo Garbelotto Francis Martin Igor V. Grigoriev Jan StenlidAbstract
• Parasitism and saprotrophic wood decay are two fungal strategies fundamental for succession and nutrient cycling in forest ecosystems. An opportunity to assess the trade-off between these strategies is provided by the forest pathogen and wood decayer Heterobasidion annosum sensu lato. • We report the annotated genome sequence and transcript profiling, as well as the quantitative trait loci mapping, of one member of the species complex: H. irregulare. Quantitative trait loci critical for pathogenicity, and rich in transposable elements, orphan and secreted genes, were identified. • A wide range of cellulose-degrading enzymes are expressed during wood decay. By contrast, pathogenic interaction between H. irregulare and pine engages fewer carbohydrate-active enzymes, but involves an increase in pectinolytic enzymes, transcription modules for oxidative stress and secondary metabolite production. • Our results show a trade-off in terms of constrained carbohydrate decomposition and membrane transport capacity during interaction with living hosts. Our findings establish that saprotrophic wood decay and necrotrophic parasitism involve two distinct, yet overlapping, processes.