Leafroll is one of the most important diseases affecting grapevine. several uncharacterized closterovirus particles have been associated with this disease. viticultural effects of grapevine leafroll include reduced yield, fruit pigmentation, and sugar content, delayed ripening, and higher ph in the… More

The whitefly pest and vector, and the geminiviruses that it transmits, have become the principaldeterrents to vegetable production in the U.S. sunbelt states, in Mexico, and throughout the CaribbeanBasin since the introduction and spread of the B biotype whitefly vector in the late 1980's. The… More

Not Available Quality Research Associates proposes developing a software tool to automatically generate interface code that integrates user applications with object-oriented (OO) modules from a library of software fault tolerance techniques. The approach involves gene

This Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop an innovative approach for targeting genes involved in a specific trait or pathway using the model cereal plant, rice. Rice is known to have highly conserved disease resistance signal transduction pathways and yet so far a… More