Development of a method to rapidly assess resistance/susceptibility of Micro-Tom tomatoes to Tomato yellow leaf curl virus via agroinoculation of cotyledons

Abstract Objective Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) is one of the pathogens severely damaging tomato crops.Therefore, methods to treat or prevent TYLCV infection need to be developed.For this purpose, a method to conveniently and quickly assess infection of tomatoes by TYLCV is desired.In the present study, we established a quick method to eva

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Biodegradation of antibiotics: the balance between good and bad

The worldwide population rise corroborated with the raise of the health-care standards have generated an escalation of the antibiotic production and uncontrolled usage.The subsequent effects of this escalation have led to an increase of the antibiotic resistance rates, Romania is in the top of the EU countries regarding the antibiotic resistance ra

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