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OREP - Development of a Biological Control Agent for Crown Gall of Grapevine
... drewd@agr.gc.ca) [Help on PDF] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Crown gall disease of grapevine, caused by the bacterium Agrobacterium vitis, has become ... pathogenic through the transfer of pathogenicity genes from its gall-causing relatives that are also present in soil or on plants. ... has focussed on identifying the genes of F2/5 that suppress disease development. We have prepared a F2/5 gene library and ...
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OREP - Biocontrol could help manage grape disease in Ontario
... in: The Guelph Mercury OREP Project: Development of a biological control agent for crown gall disease of grapevine Principal Researcher: Dr. Diane Cuppels, Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre ( ... it’s of the same species as the disease-causing pathogen. That means in field conditions, F2/5 could eventually inherit the genes for inducing disease from its pathogenic cousin. Cuppels and ...
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OREP - Bacteria-coated seeds fight off disease
... and soil from greenhouse workers’ boots are aimed at keeping disease out ... but sometimes that’s not enough. If disease gets in, growers fight pathogens with chemical treatments. But these ... , worst case conditions were simulated by artificially contaminating tomato plug soil media with the disease-causing fungus. The team’s preliminary studies indicate 90 per cent of the Streptomyces-coated ...
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OREP - Spot-free tomatoes and peppers
... . These disease-causing bacteria are thought to enter greenhouses through infected seeds, and once in, to spread very quickly through water (including spraying and misting of plants). Although the disease bacterial ... plants were treated with the biocontrol package at two weeks, and inoculated with live disease-causing bacteria a few days later. Their results show that together, the SAR and plant ...
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