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Charcoal rot, caused by Macrophomina phaseolina, is an important disease in tropical and subtropical regions which affects a broad range of host plants, including potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). In this crop, charcoal rot can reduce the marketable quality of tubers (Arora 2012) and cause yield losses up to 88% (Somani 2007). During a survey of a potato field of 'Spunta' cultivar in Goodlands, Mauritius (20°02'28.2"S 57°39'30.4"E) approximately 10% of tubers with grey pigmentation around the lenticels and small water-soaked spots with white dots were observed. These symptoms later advanced to dark brown to black patches on the skin surface, all conforming to typical symptoms of charcoal rot (Arora and Khurana 2004). Fragments of infected and adjacent healthy tissue were cut, thoroughly washed with tap water, surface sterilized for 30 s with 1% sodium hypochlorite (25% bleach), placed on chloramphenicol-amended Potato Dextrose Agar (PDA), and incubated for 5 days in the dark at 25±2oC. From all the inoculated plseolina in Mauritius. As the sclerotia can remain in the soil for long periods of time (Arora and Khurana 2004) and with prevailing conditions of global warming, charcoal rot may be a threat for potatoes and other local crops (Somani et al. 2013). This study will sensitize agricultural extension officers on this new disease and calls for routine surveillance to safeguard this crop.Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.), with annual production over 1 million tons, is ranked the first vegetable crop in Hainan Province, China. In December 2018, fruit rot of chili pepper , with yield loss of up to 15%, was found in 10 fields (12 hm2) in Yacheng (18°N, 109°E), Hainan Province, China. Water-soaked and soft lesions developed on fruit, with white to light gray fungal mycelium present inside. The diseased fruit turned soft and decayed at the later stages. Diseased tissue was cut into 12 pieces of 0.5×0.5 cm, surface-disinfected with 2% sodium hypochlorite for 2 min, followed by 70% ethanol for 30 s, rinsed with sterile distilled water five times, and plated onto potato dextrose agar (PDA). After growing on PDA for 2 to 3 days at 28°C in an incubator without light, 10 pure culture isolates were obtained. All isolates had abundant dense white aerial mycelia that became beige with age. The macroconidia were slightly curved with four to seven septa, 29.51 to 42.15 × 4.29 to 6.22 μm. Spindle-shaped mesoconidia pepper in China (Li et al. 2018), fruit rot of bell pepper in Trinidad (Ramdial et al. 2016) and Pakistan (Tariq et al. 2018). Effective control strategies need to be developed to prevent the economic losses caused by the disease in chili pepper.Aflatoxins are potent Aspergillus mycotoxins that contaminate food and feed, thereby impacting health and trade. Biopesticides with atoxigenic A. flavus as active ingredients are used to reduce aflatoxin contamination in crops. The mechanism of aflatoxin biocontrol is primarily attributed to competitive exclusion but sometimes aflatoxin is reduced by greater amounts than can be explained by displacement of aflatoxin-producing fungi on the crop. Objectives of this study were to 1) evaluate the ability of atoxigenic A. flavus genotypes to degrade aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) and 2) characterize impacts of temperature, time, and nutrient availability on AFB1 degradation by atoxigenic A. flavus. Aflatoxin-contaminated maize was inoculated with atoxigenic isolates in three separate experiments that included different atoxigenic genotypes, temperature, and time as variables. Atoxigenic genotypes varied in aflatoxin degradation, but all degraded AFB1 > 44% after seven days at 30°C. The optimum temperature for AFB1 degradation was 25-30°C which is similar to the optimum range for AFB1 production. In a time-course experiment, atoxigenics degraded 40% of AFB1 within three days, and 80% of aflatoxin was degraded by day 21. Atoxigenic isolates were able to degrade and utilize AFB1 as a sole carbon source in a chemically defined medium, but quantities of AFB1 degraded declined as glucose concentrations increased. Degradation may be an additional mechanism through which atoxigenic A. flavus biocontrol products reduce aflatoxin contamination pre- and/or post-harvest. Thus, selection of optimal atoxigenic active ingredients can include assessment of both competitive ability in agricultural fields and their ability to degrade aflatoxins.To face threats posed by pathogens, natural selection designed the Behavioral Immune System, which orchestrates several responses aimed to prevent contact with pathogens. Memory seems to augment this system. Using line drawings of objects, previous studies found that objects described as having been touched by sick people were better remembered than those described as having been touched by healthy people. The current work was designed to replicate and extend these initial studies using more ecologically-valid stimuli-photographs of real objects being held by hands. These photographs were shown along with descriptors (Experiment 1a) or faces (Experiment 1b) denoting the health status of the person whose hands were holding the objects. Experiments 2 and 3 used, as cues of contamination, dirty hands covered with a substance described as being vomit and diarrhea, respectively. Experiment 3 also investigated the need for a fitness-relevant context for the mnemonic effect to occur. In all experiments, stimuli were presented individually on the screen with the "contamination cue." During encoding participants had to identify whether each object had been touched by a sick or a healthy person. AZD1390 The results of the final surprise free recall tasks replicated those previously reported performance was enhanced for objects encoded as potential sources of contamination. Furthermore, the results of the last study reinstate the importance of fitness-relevance for the effect to occur. These results establish the generality of the contamination effect previously found, now using more ecologically-valid stimuli.Arginase-1, an enzyme that catalyzes the reaction of L-arginine to L-ornithine, is implicated in the tumor immune response and represents an interesting therapeutic target in immuno-oncology. Initiating arginase drug discovery efforts remains a challenge due to a lack of suitable high-throughput assay methodologies. This report describes the combination of self-assembled monolayers and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry to enable the first label-free and high-throughput assay for arginase activity. The assay was optimized for kinetically balanced conditions and miniaturized, while achieving a robust assay (Z-factor > 0.8) and a significant assay window [signal-to-background ratio > 20] relative to fluorescent approaches. To validate the assay, the inhibition of the reference compound nor-NOHA (Nω-hydroxy-nor-L-arginine) was evaluated, and the IC50 measured to be in line with reported results (IC50 = 180 nM). The assay was then used to complete a screen of 175,000 compounds, demonstrating the high-throughput capacity of the approach.
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