Establishing and operating grower-owned organizations for integrated pest management /

Includes appendix.

Crop pest notice.

Mode of access: Internet.

Pulaski vindicated from an unsupported charge, inconsiderately or malignantly introduced in Judge Johnson's Sketches of the life and correspondence of Major Gen. Nathaniel Greene.

Authorship has also been claimed by Paul Bentalou.

A new key to the exact sciences, or, A new and practical theory by which mathematical problems or algebraic equations of almost every description can be solved with accuracy : and with greater facility and simplicity than they can be by any method that has yet been given by any other author : in which are also introduced, a variety of useful and interesting problems, that have never before been proposed, and which it is believed cannot be solved by any methods or rules except those here laid down /

Mode of access: Internet.

Structural pest control act of California.

1945-1968 include Rules and regulations of the Structural Pest Control Board (varies slightly).

A study of federally financed research on pests, pesticides and pest control.

Cover title.

Catlin's notes of eight years' travels and residence in Europe with his North American Indian collection. With anecdotes and incidents of the travels and adventures of three different parties of American Indians whom he introduced to the courts of England, France and Belgium ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Loudon's encyclopaedia of plants; comprising the specific character, description, culture, history, application in the arts, and every other desirable particular respecting all the plants indigenous to, cultivated in, or introduced into Britain.

"Names of books referred to": p. [vii]-xiv.

A catalogue of the flowering plants and higher cryptogams, both native and introduced, found within about thirty miles of Hanover, N. H., including a few cultivated species, to which is appended a list of vertebrate animals of the same region.

Spine title: Plants & vertebrates of Hanover, N.H.

Journal kept by David Douglas during his travels in North America 1823-1827, together with a particular description of thirty-three species of American oaks and eighteen species of Pinus, with appendices containing a list of the plants introduced by Douglas and an account of his death in 1834. Published under the direction of the Royal Horticultural Society.

Mode of access: Internet.

A catalogue of the plants growing in Bombay and its vicinity; spontaneous, cultivated or introduced, as far as they have been ascertained.

No more published.

Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility as a means for insect pest population control

Biological control is the purposeful introduction of parasites, predators, and pathogens to reduce or suppress pest populations. Wolbachia are inherited bacteria of arthropods that have recently attracted attention for their potential as new biocontrol agents. Wolbachia manipulate host reproduction by using several strategies, one of which is cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) [Stouthamer, R., Breeuwer, J. A. J. & Hurst, G. D. D. (1999) Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 53,71-102]. We established Wolbachia-infected lines of the medfly Ceratitis capitata using the infected cherry fruit fly Rhagoletis cerasi as donor. Wolbachia induced complete CI in the novel host. Laboratory cage populations were completely suppressed by single releases of infected males, suggesting that Wolbachia-induced CI could be used as a novel environmentally friendly tool for the control of medfly populations. The results also encourage the introduction of Wolbachia into pest and vector species of economic and hygenic relevance to suppress or modify natural populations.

Discrimination among host plants (Leucaena species and accessions) by the psyllid pest Heteropsylla cubana and implications for understanding resistance

1 The herbivorous bug Heteropsylla cubana Crawford (Homoptera: Psyllidae) is a pest of the cattle fodder crop Leucaena (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). The interaction between the psyllid and three varieties of its Leucaena host plant was investigated in relation to the apparent resistance of some Leucaena varieties (Leucaena leucocephala, Leucaena pallida and their hybrids) to attack. 2 Field trials demonstrated that adult psyllids distinguished among the different varieties of Leucaena over a distance, and were attracted to L. leucocephala in significantly higher numbers than to L. pallida or to the hybrid. Pesticide treatment increased the attractiveness of Leucaena plants, even of those deemed to be psyllid resistant. Numbers of psyllid eggs and nymphs, sampled in the field, reflect the arrival rates of adults at the three plant varieties. 3 Wavelength reflectance data of the three Leucaena varieties were not significantly different from one another, suggesting that psyllids cannot discriminate among the three plants using brightness or wavelength cues. There was a differential release of caryophyllene among the three varieties. Release of caryophyllene in L. leucocephala and the hybrid appeared to be influenced by environmental conditions. 4 Experiments demonstrated that caryophyllene (at least on its own) did not influence the behaviour of leucaena psyllids in relation to leucaena plants. 5 The results suggest that host plant volatiles cannot be dismissed as significant in the interaction between the leucaena psyllid and its Leucaena host plants. Further avenues for investigation are recommended and these are related to novel ways of understanding resistance in insect plant inter-relationships.

The human papillomavirus type 16 E7 protein binds human interferon regulatory factor-9 via a novel PEST domain required for transformation

It is critical that viruses are able to avoid the antiviral activities of interferon (IFN). We have shown previously that the human papillomavirus (HPV) is able to avoid IFN-alpha via interaction of the HPV-16 E7 protein with IFN regulatory factor-9 (IRF-9). Here, we investigated the details of the interaction using HPV-16 E7 peptide mapping to show that IRF-9 binds HPV-16 E7 in a domain encompassing amino acids 25-36. A closer examination of this region indicates this is a novel proline, glutamate, serine, and threonine-rich (PEST) domain, with a PEST score of 8.74. We have also mapped the region of interaction within IRF-9 and found that amino acids 354-393 play an important role in binding to HPV-16 E7. This region of IRF-9 encompasses the IRF association domain (IAD), a region important for protein-protein interaction central to IRF function. Finally, we used alanine-scanning mutagenesis to determine if E7-IRF-9 interaction was important for E7-mediated cellular transformation and found that the HPV-16 E7 mutants Y25A, E26A, S31A, S32A, and E35A, but not L28A and N29A, caused loss of transformation ability. Preliminary data suggest loss of IRF-9 interaction with E7 mutants correlated with transformation. Our work suggests E7- IRF- 9 interaction is important for the transforming ability of HPV-16 E7 and that HPV-16 E7 may interact with other IRF proteins that have IAD domains.