Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris race 1 is the main causal agent of black rot of Brassicas in Southern Mozambique

Severe outbreaks of bacterial black rot caused by Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris (Xcc) were observed in Brassica production fields of Southern Mozambique. The causal agent of the disease in the Mahotas and Chòkwé districts was identified and characterised. In total, 83 Xanthomonas-like strains were isolated from seed samples and leaves of cabbage and tronchuda cole with typical symptoms of the disease. Forty-six out of the 83 strains were found to be putative Xcc in at least one of the tests used: Classical biochemical assays, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) with monoclonal antibodies, Biolog identification system, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with specific primers and pathogenicity tests. The ELISA tests were positive for 43 strains. Biolog identified 43 strains as Xanthomonas, but only 32 as Xcc. PCR tests with primers targeting a fragment of the hrpF gene were positive for all 46 strains tested. Three strains were not pathogenic or weakly pathogenic and all other strains caused typical black rot symptoms in brassicas. Race type differentiation tests revealed the Xcc strains from Mozambique as members of race 1. The prevalence of this pathogenic race of the Xcc pathogen in Mozambique should be considered when black rot resistant cultivars are evaluated or introduced into the production regions of this country

Multipactor discharges in parallel-plate dielectric-loaded waveguides including space-charge effects

[EN] The objective of this paper is to study the time evolution of multipactor discharges in a parallel-plate dielectric-loaded waveguide. The electron discharge phenomena investigated in this paper include the effects of space charge, as well as the presence of time varying static fields. In order to perform the simulations presented in this paper, an approach considering simultaneously multiple effective electrons has been used. The results obtained demonstrate that multipactor discharges do turn off by themselves under certain circumstances when they occur in such dielectric-loaded structures.This work was supported by the Spanish Government's Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia under Project TEC2007-67630-C03-01. The review of this paper was arranged by Editor W. Menninger.Coves, A.; Torregrosa-Penalva, G.; Vicente, C.; Gimeno, B.; Boria Esbert, VE. (2008). Multipactor discharges in parallel-plate dielectric-loaded waveguides including space-charge effects. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. 55(9):2505-2511. https://doi.org/10.1109/TED.2008.927945S2505251155

Variabilidade temporal da produtividade da soja após conversão do preparo convencional para o sistema plantio direto.

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Relação entre a resistência do solo à penetração determinada por dois métodos e a pressão de pastejo, em um sistema de integração lavoura-pecuária.

Em pastagens constituídas por forrageiras tropicais perenes, o impacto das pressões de pastejo sobre o grau de compactação do solo tem sido pouco estudado. Com o objetivo de avaliar o efeito da pressão de pastejo sobre a resistência a penetração (RP), determinada por dois métodos, em um sistema de iLP, implantou-se um experimento sobre um Latossolo Vermelho distroférrico. As pressões de pastejo equivaleram a 6,88; 9,38; e 16,47 unidades animais por hectare, aplicadas numa pastagem de Brachiaria brizantha durante 19 dias. Esses tratamentos foram comparados a uma testemunha sem pastejo. Amostras indeformadas de solo, coletadas nas camadas de 0,0-0,05; 0,05-0,1; 0,1-0,2; e 0,2-0,3 m e equilibradas a uma tensão de 100 kPa, foram utilizadas para a determinação da RP em laboratório, por meio de um penetrômetro estático de bancada. Nessas mesmas profundidades, determinou-se a RP a campo, mediante o uso de um penetrômetro de impacto modelo IAA/Planalsucar- Stolf. Independentemente da pressão de pastejo, o pisoteio bovino aumentou a RP na camada de 0,0- 0,1 m. Na maior pressão de pastejo (16,47 UA ha-1), o pisoteio aumentou a RP a maiores profundidades (0,1-0,2 m). A magnitude dos valores de RP, assim como a resposta dos mesmos às pressões de pastejo, variaram em função do penetrômetro utilizado (dinâmico ou estático de bancada)

Qualidade física do solo em um sistema de integração lavoura-pécuaria com diferentes pressões de pastejo.

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Class of dilute granular Couette flows with uniform heat flux

In a recent paper [F. Vega Reyes et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 028001 (2010)] we presented a preliminary description of a special class of steady Couette flows in dilute granular gases. In all flows of this class the viscous heating is exactly balanced by inelastic cooling. This yields a uniform heat flux and a linear relationship between the local temperature and flow velocity. The class (referred to as the LTu class) includes the Fourier flow of ordinary gases and the simple shear flow of granular gases as special cases. In the present paper we provide further support for this class of Couette flows by following four different routes, two of them being theoretical (Grad's moment method of the Boltzmann equation and exact solution of a kinetic model) and the other two being computational (molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations of the Boltzmann equation). Comparison between theory and simulations shows a very good agreement for the non-Newtonian rheological properties, even for quite strong inelasticity, and a good agreement for the heat flux coefficients in the case of Grad's method, the agreement being only qualitative in the case of the kinetic model.Comment: 15 pages, 10 figures; v2: change of title plus some other minor change

Caracterização de isolados de Armillaria sp. por meio de sequências da região ITS do DNA ribossomal.

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Caracterização molecular de isolados de Armillaria sp. da Região Sul do Brasil.

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A solvable model of the genesis of amino-acid sequences via coupled dynamics of folding and slow genetic variation

We study the coupled dynamics of primary and secondary structure formation (i.e. slow genetic sequence selection and fast folding) in the context of a solvable microscopic model that includes both short-range steric forces and and long-range polarity-driven forces. Our solution is based on the diagonalization of replicated transfer matrices, and leads in the thermodynamic limit to explicit predictions regarding phase transitions and phase diagrams at genetic equilibrium. The predicted phenomenology allows for natural physical interpretations, and finds satisfactory support in numerical simulations.Comment: 51 pages, 13 figures, submitted to J. Phys.

Tailored graph ensembles as proxies or null models for real networks I: tools for quantifying structure

We study the tailoring of structured random graph ensembles to real networks, with the objective of generating precise and practical mathematical tools for quantifying and comparing network topologies macroscopically, beyond the level of degree statistics. Our family of ensembles can produce graphs with any prescribed degree distribution and any degree-degree correlation function, its control parameters can be calculated fully analytically, and as a result we can calculate (asymptotically) formulae for entropies and complexities, and for information-theoretic distances between networks, expressed directly and explicitly in terms of their measured degree distribution and degree correlations.Comment: 25 pages, 3 figure