Caractérisation de <em>Bemisia tabaci</em> gennadius "Biotype B" en Guadeloupe (Hemiptera : Aleyrodidae)

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Caractérisation de Bemisia tabaci Gennadius biotype B (Hemiptera : Aleyrodidae) en Guadeloupe

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Identification of resistance to potato yellow mosaic virus (Guadeloupe) and Tomato yellow Mosaic Virus (Reunion) among some Lycopersicon species.

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En quoi l'étude de l'épidémiologie des maladies à bégomovirus de la tomate peut-elle aider à la conception de systèmes de culture innovants ?

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Helical aromatic oligoamide foldamers as organizational scaffolds for photoinduced charge transfer

Picture omitted Here we report the synthesis and characterization of four quinoline-derived foldamers with increasing oligomeric length; dimer O2P, tetramer O4P, pentamer O5P, and nonamer O9P functionalized with on one end an oligo(p-phenylene vinylene) (OPV) and on the other end a perylene bisimide (PB) chromophore. 1H NMR confirms the formation of the expected folded structures in both toluene and chloroform solution. The structural predictability and rigidity of the oligomeric series enabled us to investigate the effect of a helical bridge and chromophore position on the photoinduced processes in the electron OPV-PB donor-acceptor pair in chloroform and toluene. The helical properties of the bridge ensured that the chromophore separation distance through space is different from the separation distance through the bridge. For all foldamer-solvent combinations studied, excitation of either OPV or PB results in nearly quantitative quenching of the fluorescence indicating a fast charge separation reaction between the OPV and PB. Femtosecond photoinduced absorption measurements confirmed the fast formation of a charge-separated state. The recombination reaction involves a combination of direct decay to the ground state and the formation of an intermediate triplet state, with their balance depending on the foldamer-solvent combination. Molecular orbital calculations rationalize the fast photoinduced charge separation, by revealing that the bridging foldamer mediates the charge transfer from donor to acceptor via the superexchange mechanism. Remarkably low attenuation factors (ßCS ˜ 10-2 Å-1) were obtained using either through space or through bridge separation distance. However, in these calculations only three of the four foldamers show the expected linear behavior between the logarithm of the charge separation rate constant and the distance between the chromophores. The combined results show when a helical bridge is separating the charge transfer couple, hampering the usefulness of a uniform description of the charge-separation phenomena

Phenotypic and Genotypic Virulence Characterisation of Staphylococcus pettenkoferi Strains Isolated from Human Bloodstream and Diabetic Foot Infections

Staphylococcus pettenkoferi is a recently described coagulase-negative Staphylococcus identified in human diseases, especially in infections of foot ulcers in patients living with diabetes mellitus. To date, its pathogenicity remains underexplored. In this study, whole-genome analysis was performed on a collection of 29 S. pettenkoferi clinical strains isolated from bloodstream and diabetic foot infections with regard to their phylogenetic relationships and comprehensive analysis of their resistome and virulome. Their virulence was explored by their ability to form biofilm, their growth kinetics and in an in vivo zebrafish embryo infection model. Our results identified two distinct clades (I and II) and two subclades (I-a and I-b) with notable genomic differences. All strains had a slow bacterial growth. Three profiles of biofilm formation were noted, with 89.7% of isolates able to produce biofilm and harbouring a high content of biofilm-encoding genes. Two virulence profiles were also observed in the zebrafish model irrespective of the strains&rsquo; origin or biofilm profile. Therefore, this study brings new insights in S. pettenkoferi pathogenicity