From haldunceyhan from betaziraat.com Sun Feb 3 15:55:20 2008 From: haldunceyhan from betaziraat.com (HALDUN CEYHAN) Date: Sun Feb 3 21:17:18 2008 Subject: [Plant-biology] breeding software Message-ID: <47A62A38.1090708@betaziraat.com> Dear All, Do you know any simple software for plant breeding, assist to breeder. If yes, can you inform please? Kind Regards Haldun From fipper6000 from hotmail.com Fri Feb 8 16:54:14 2008 From: fipper6000 from hotmail.com (Cait Graham) Date: Fri Feb 8 18:57:11 2008 Subject: [Plant-biology] Aloe Variegata Message-ID: Hi there I wonder if you can help me. Since I don't know what I am doing. I have an Aloe Variegata which I have had for about a year. It is beginning to get root bound and wonder if these sort of plants like to be. I know Peace Lillies like to be to an extent. Although a hardly comparable species...but I don't want to make a mistake and kill off my Aloe Thanks Cait _________________________________________________________________ Get Hotmail on your mobile, text MSN to 63463! http://mobile.uk.msn.com/pc/mail.aspx From pparker from hughes.net Sun Feb 10 13:05:43 2008 From: pparker from hughes.net (pparker@hughes.net) Date: Sun Feb 10 14:34:41 2008 Subject: [Plant-biology] Disease in Ficus Benjamina Message-ID: <11990058.1202666743267.JavaMail.?@fh060.dia.cp.net> I found this email to you and it describes exactly symptoms I have found on three ficus in my great room. I need help. I don't know what it is or how to treat it. I do know I am losing a lot of leaves every day. Unidentified disease in Ficus Benjamina bruno m 61cygni at freesurf.fr Sun Feb 6 04:52:06 EST 2005 Previous message: Root Bound Alii Ficus Next message: Unidentified disease in Ficus Benjamina Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi everyone, I have an indoor cultivated ficus benjamina which used to grow perfectly well until a few weeks ago, when its leaves started (by great numbers) to turn yellow and fall. I first thought that I was giving it too much water so I stopped watering it but it didn't change anything to its plight. Having a closer look to it I observed a strange thing, which I think maybe the cause of the 'disease': accumulation of dried latex specifically located under the petiole of the leaves. Almost all leaves have the symptom. Sometimes the part of the leaf attached to the petiole seems wet or greasy, as if latex had leaked on it. Usually there are dark scars underneath the dried latex beads, sometimes there are scars and dried latex elsewhere too on the leaves. No visible bugs, even under a magnifying glass. Does anyone know: - first, if the latex bead syndrom is common? - second, if is it the sign of a disease and related to leaves dropping? - third, what in this case I should do to cure my ficus. Many thanks for your help. Bruno -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Previous message: Root Bound Alii Ficus Next message: Unidentified disease in Ficus Benjamina Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More information about the Plantbio mailing list From siehueytan from yahoo.com Mon Feb 11 22:09:32 2008 From: siehueytan from yahoo.com (siehueytan@yahoo.com) Date: Tue Feb 12 12:30:21 2008 Subject: [Plant-biology] Methods of determination plant causative pathogen Message-ID: Dear all, Hi. I am new to this group. I was work on plant pathology in collecting plant disease sample, isolation causative pathogen as well as screening for chemical treatment. I have faced some difficulties in determine the causative pathogen when i carry out screening of pathogen in standard isolation media. There are few microbes come out from the sample which i inoculate in the plate. Can any one give me some advice? Thank you in advance. Best regards, sie huey From mhudson from uiuc.edu Mon Feb 18 19:16:04 2008 From: mhudson from uiuc.edu (Matthew Hudson) Date: Mon Feb 18 19:59:24 2008 Subject: [Plant-biology] Faculty position in biofuel genomics Message-ID: <200802190015.m1J0FClb025492@expredir5.cites.uiuc.edu> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Crop Sciences Assistant/Associate/Full Professor of Genomics of Perennial Biofuel Feedstocks A faculty position in genomics with an emphasis on the improvement of perennial grasses as ligno-cellulosic(LC) feedstocks for the emerging biofuels industry. This is a 9-month tenured or tenure track position with opportunity for summer appointment. Responsibilities will be allocated as 75% research and 25% teaching in the Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 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The successful candidate will utilize functional and/or structural genomic tools to advance perennial crop biology employing knowledge from current model and agronomic plant systems. Approaches may include genetic and physical mapping, quantitative and association genetics, and the analysis of polymorphisms or pathways on a genome scale toward improvement of LC perennial crops as biofuel feedstocks. The successful candidate will be expected to participate in the development of curricula for student education in bioenergy training. Candidates must have a Ph.D. and experience beyond the Ph.D. is preferable. The candidate must have research experience in molecular biology, genomics, crop science, or related disciplines. Prior experience preferred with structural and functional genomic analyses, ideally with perennials. 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Matthew Hudson Assistant Professor Department of Crop Sciences 334 NSRC, 1101 W. Peabody Urbana, IL 61801, United States. Phone 217 244 8096, email mhudson@uiuc.edu From jim from ranchobendito.com Tue Feb 19 13:36:35 2008 From: jim from ranchobendito.com (jim bradburn) Date: Wed Feb 20 12:55:20 2008 Subject: [Plant-biology] Ficus benjamina leaf disease Message-ID: <4794C3EA00BD80BE@n016.sc0.he.tucows.com> (added by postmaster@bouncemessage.net) Hi Everybody Has anyone responded to Bruno's message about the ficus benjamina with a large leaf drop? I have four fourteen foot trees that have developed the same problem. Help would be most appreciated. Jim From wenwu8899 from yahoo.com Wed Feb 20 14:35:16 2008 From: wenwu8899 from yahoo.com (Wu Wen) Date: Thu Feb 21 13:37:28 2008 Subject: [Plant-biology] Graduate student/ visiting scholar positions available at Lakehead University, Canada Message-ID: <930839.60025.qm@web59312.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Graduate student/ visiting scholar positions available at Lakehead University, Canada (1). A Master?s student position to work on bioconversion of biomass in pulp/paper mill sludge to useful bioproducts and/or biofuels will be available from September 1, 2008 or earlier. Collaboration with the engineers in pulp/paper mills is available. The successful candidates should have a Bachelor?s degree in biological sciences, chemistry, forestry science or closely related field. (2). A Ph. D student position to work on microbe engineering (Bacteria or Fungi) for cellulase production will be available from September 1, 2008 or January 1, 2009. The successful candidates should have a Master?s degree in biological sciences with strong background in molecular biology and biochemistry. Experience in Trichoderma reesei and/or Clostridium thermocellum is preferred, but not required. (3). A Ph. D student position to work on molecular biology of plant cold stress responses and/or cold resistant transgenic canola will be available from September 1, 2008 or January 1, 2009. The successful applicants should have strong background in molecular biology, plant physiology or closely related field. Experience in Arabidopsis thaliana is preferred, but not required. (4). Visiting scholars with own fellowship and graduate students with own scholarship are welcome to join us to participate in our research projects or work on your own projects in our lab. For information on Lakehead University, please visit http://www.lakeheadu.ca/ For Master?s or Ph. 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Qin Biorefining and Biotechnology Laboratory (BBLab) Biorefining Research Initiative/Biology Lakehead University 955 Oliver Road, Thunder Bay Ontario, P7B 5E1, Canada Email: labposition@gmail.com --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. From bdrosse from ethz.ch Fri Feb 22 04:31:59 2008 From: bdrosse from ethz.ch (bdrosse@ethz.ch) Date: Fri Feb 22 09:05:45 2008 Subject: [Plant-biology] Agrobacterium tumefaciens EHA 105 Message-ID: <1680.129.132.136.169.1203672719.squirrel@www.vis.ethz.ch> Dear everybody, I am looking for an Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain EHA105 for rice transformation. Unfortunately our lab does not possess this strain. I already tried to get in contact via email with researchers who used this strain in their published experiments, but I did not have any answer yet. My hope is that one of you may be willing to share an aliquot of this strain with me or knows about its commercial availability. I would be very greatful to get an answer of you. Best wishes, Benedikt (Drosse) From jim from ranchobendito.com Fri Feb 22 12:21:04 2008 From: jim from ranchobendito.com (jim bradburn) Date: Fri Feb 22 17:02:28 2008 Subject: [Plant-biology] Ficus enjamina leaf disease Message-ID: <476BFC8100F6B9D5@n120.sc0.he.tucows.com> (added by postmaster@bouncemessage.net) Hi Everybody Has anyone responded to Bruno's message about the ficus benjamina with a large leaf drop? I have four fourteen foot trees that have developed the same problem. Help would be most appreciated. Attached is a picture of the malady. Jim From heimer from bgu.ac.il Sat Feb 23 10:24:13 2008 From: heimer from bgu.ac.il (Yair Heimer) Date: Sat Feb 23 14:33:00 2008 Subject: [Plant-biology] arginine-sepharose Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Does any one know of a commercial source for arginine-sepharose? Alternatively, we do know the material is rather expensive, yet, is there any one out there who can provide us with a sample of it? Many thanks, Yair M. Heimer. From bguiol from gmail.com Sat Feb 23 16:24:03 2008 From: bguiol from gmail.com (bguiol@gmail.com) Date: Sun Feb 24 14:31:38 2008 Subject: [Plant-biology] Re: Disease in Ficus Benjamina References: Message-ID: <8b67fc51-b181-490c-91f7-f9051ae06771@i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com> On Feb 10, 1:05 pm, "ppar...@hughes.net" wrote: > I found this email to you and it describes exactly symptoms I have > found on three ficus in my great room. I need help. I don't know what > it is or how to treat it. I do know I am losing a lot of leaves every > day. > > Unidentified disease in Ficus Benjamina > bruno m 61cygni at freesurf.fr > Sun Feb 6 04:52:06 EST 2005 > > Previous message: Root Bound Alii Ficus > Next message: Unidentified disease in Ficus Benjamina > Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Hi everyone, > I have an indoor cultivated ficus benjamina which used to grow > perfectly well until a few weeks ago, when its leaves started (by > great numbers) to turn yellow and fall. I first thought that I was > giving it too much water so I stopped watering it but it didn't change > anything to its plight. > Having a closer look to it I observed a strange thing, which I think > maybe the cause of the 'disease': accumulation of dried latex > specifically located under the petiole of the leaves. Almost all > leaves have the symptom. Sometimes the part of the leaf attached to > the petiole seems wet or greasy, as if latex had leaked on it. Usually > there are dark scars underneath the dried latex beads, sometimes there > are scars and dried latex elsewhere too on the leaves. No visible > bugs, even under a magnifying glass. > > Does anyone know: > - first, if the latex bead syndrom is common? > - second, if is it the sign of a disease and related to leaves > dropping? > - third, what in this case I should do to cure my ficus. > Many thanks for your help. > Bruno > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Previous message: Root Bound Alii Ficus > Next message: Unidentified disease in Ficus Benjamina > Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > More information about the Plantbio mailing list hi it should be MEALY BUGS.don t wait to much. You have to spay an insect killer with Malathion or that kind of product. First try to remove carefully with a tissue this white latex and then spray. i hope this will be helpful. Brigitte From sferox from gmail.com Mon Feb 25 23:34:26 2008 From: sferox from gmail.com (Satzan Subedi) Date: Tue Feb 26 12:42:39 2008 Subject: [Plant-biology] Re: Plantbio Digest, Vol 33, Issue 11 In-Reply-To: <200802251704.m1PH4ML29888@net.bio.net> References: <200802251704.m1PH4ML29888@net.bio.net> Message-ID: <4f3d9eda0802252034g3589f2e2k998e4c16b3ac4f4f@mail.gmail.com> Hi, I read your problem, In my opinion, there is the problem of light to the plant, As far as I Know, *Ficus benjamina* is not an indoor plant, so leave the plant in the sunlight for some days and do not let the soil dry. If it does not work, you have to take the help of a plant pathologist. Regards, Sajan On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:49 PM, wrote: > Send Plantbio mailing list submissions to > plantbio@net.bio.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.bio.net/biomail/listinfo/plantbio > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > plantbio-request@net.bio.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at > plantbio-owner@net.bio.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Plantbio digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Disease in Ficus Benjamina (bguiol@gmail.com) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:24:03 -0800 (PST) > From: bguiol@gmail.com > Subject: [Plant-biology] Re: Disease in Ficus Benjamina > To: plantbio@net.bio.net > Message-ID: > <8b67fc51-b181-490c-91f7-f9051ae06771@i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Feb 10, 1:05 pm, "ppar...@hughes.net" wrote: > > I found this email to you and it describes exactly symptoms I have > > found on three ficus in my great room. I need help. I don't know what > > it is or how to treat it. I do know I am losing a lot of leaves every > > day. > > > > Unidentified disease in Ficus Benjamina > > bruno m 61cygni at freesurf.fr > > Sun Feb 6 04:52:06 EST 2005 > > > > Previous message: Root Bound Alii Ficus > > Next message: Unidentified disease in Ficus Benjamina > > Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Hi everyone, > > I have an indoor cultivated ficus benjamina which used to grow > > perfectly well until a few weeks ago, when its leaves started (by > > great numbers) to turn yellow and fall. I first thought that I was > > giving it too much water so I stopped watering it but it didn't change > > anything to its plight. > > Having a closer look to it I observed a strange thing, which I think > > maybe the cause of the 'disease': accumulation of dried latex > > specifically located under the petiole of the leaves. Almost all > > leaves have the symptom. Sometimes the part of the leaf attached to > > the petiole seems wet or greasy, as if latex had leaked on it. Usually > > there are dark scars underneath the dried latex beads, sometimes there > > are scars and dried latex elsewhere too on the leaves. No visible > > bugs, even under a magnifying glass. > > > > Does anyone know: > > - first, if the latex bead syndrom is common? > > - second, if is it the sign of a disease and related to leaves > > dropping? > > - third, what in this case I should do to cure my ficus. > > Many thanks for your help. > > Bruno > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Previous message: Root Bound Alii Ficus > > Next message: Unidentified disease in Ficus Benjamina > > Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > More information about the Plantbio mailing list > > hi it should be MEALY BUGS.don t wait to much. You have to spay an > insect killer with Malathion or that kind of product. First try to > remove carefully with a tissue this white latex and then spray. i hope > this will be helpful. > Brigitte > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Plantbio mailing list > Plantbio@net.bio.net > http://www.bio.net/biomail/listinfo/plantbio > > End of Plantbio Digest, Vol 33, Issue 11 > **************************************** > From bulucanagria from no.where Thu Feb 28 20:43:52 2008 From: bulucanagria from no.where (bulucanagria) Date: Fri Feb 29 00:25:30 2008 Subject: [Plant-biology] South central NH growths. Can anyone ID? Message-ID: These are all found in a fairly steep, densely wooded ravine with a swift-flowing year round stream at the bottom, Warning: the full size versions of these pictures are quite large. I did that intentionally in order to show detail. I take a lot of plant pictures and field guides are of limited use in IDing them. You can fit only so much of the vast array of plant life into a book. Does anyone know of a site where pics can be posted for this purpose or should I just keep using this newsgroup? Thanks Danny Blue http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/562406479pOtYff