Lythrum hyssopifolia (lesser loosestrife) poisoning of sheep in Victoria     

MJ Lancaster  JS Nimmo  C Lenghaus  IJ Gill  RD Crawford  RT Badman  JL Samuel  CJ Werner  C Button  N Kvalheim 《Australian veterinary journal》2009,87(12):476-479

Objective To document an ovine disease attributed to the consumption of Lythrum hyssopifolia (lesser loosestrife). Procedures Historical and histological review of field and experimental cases. Results 1–20% mortality occurred in sheep flocks grazing paddocks where L. hyssopifolia was the predominant green vegetation. Well‐documented disease outbreaks occurred in summer on nine farms across Victoria between 1974 and 2002. Liver damage occurred in all nine outbreaks, with kidney damage in at least eight. Hepatocyte necrosis was usually zonal to midzonal (zone 2) in the liver samples from four farms and periacinar (zone 3) in those from three farms, but some livers showed only single‐cell necrosis. Multinucleate hepatocytes near necrotic areas were a feature in six cases. Proximal tubular epithelium appeared to be the primary renal target and brown granules were often present in renal tubules. Biochemical and histological evidence of liver and kidney damage was obtained from two sheep experimentally pen‐fed harvested L. hyssopifolia. Conclusion Chemicals in L. hyssopifolia are toxic to ovine hepatocytes and renal tubular epithelial cells.  相似文献   

First report of black sigatoka disease (causal agent Mycosphaerella fijiensis) from Trinidad     

M. P. Fortune  S. Gosine  S. Chow  A. Dilbar  A. St  . Hill  H. Gibbs  N. Rambaran 《Plant pathology》2005,54(2):246-246

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Characterisation of Pasteurella multocida isolated from fowl cholera outbreaks on turkey farms     

PJ BLACKALL  JL PAHOFF  D MARKS†  N FEGAN  CJ MORROW‡ 《Australian veterinary journal》1995,72(4):135-138

SUMMARY: Biochemical profiles, restriction endonuclease analysis (REA) and ribotyping were used to investigate Pasteurella multocida isolates from outbreaks of fowl cholera on 7 turkey farms in New South Wales. While only a single isolate was available from 5 of the farms, multiple isolates, 4 and 12 respectively, were available from the other 2 farms. The available field evidence suggested that 8 outbreaks had occurred with one farm suffering 2 outbreaks. The isolates obtained were all confirmed as Pasteurella multocida . Biochemical profiles allocated the isolates to 4 groups, 3 being variants of P multocida subsp multocida and the fourth being P multocida subsp septica . REA performed with Hpall established 7 groups. Ribotyping using the Hpall digests probed with the 16S rRNA operon of Haemophilus paragallinarum recognised the same 7 groups as REA. Unlike the biochemical profiles, both REA and ribotyping provided a fine subdivision that identified outbreaks as either related or unrelated. The REA and ribotyping patterns as well as biochemical profiles were stable for all isolates from the outbreaks in which multiple isolates were obtained from either the same bird or from different birds. REA and ribotyping were found to be superior to biotyping methods for the investigation of fowl cholera outbreaks.  相似文献   

马铃薯晚疫病菌在水和土壤中的侵染力与形态变化的研究     

周广泉  林国光 《植物病理学报》1965,8(1):11-15

 马铃薯晚疫病菌以薄壁圆孢子和厚垣孢子的形态存在于润湿的土壤中。保持侵染力的时间最长为75天。病种薯上的病原菌在pH 7.5、含水率17-22%的土壤中,保持侵染力的时间是90天。
病原菌在各种液体中都能形成厚垣孢子。
较低的温度和较好的营养条件能延长孢囊孢子的寿命和延缓厚垣孢子的形成期。  相似文献   

Phosphorus in wine: comparison of atomic absorption spectrometry methods     

H Chow  B H Gump 《Journal of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists》1987,70(1):61-63

Phosphorus in wine may be determined directly or indirectly by atomic absorption spectrometry. The direct method uses the carbon rod atomizer as the excitation source and a phosphorus hollow cathode lamp. In the indirect determination, one measures the amount of molybdenum that will complex with phosphorus in the wine. Both nitrous oxide-acetylene and air-acetylene flames are suitable as atomization sources in this indirect method. The resultant data have been compared with those from the AOAC colorimetric method (11.032-11.034). A 2-sample comparison test showed the results to be insignificantly different at the 95% confidence limits.  相似文献   

大白菜窖藏中一些腐烂细菌的研究     

裘维蕃  狄原渤  周毓瑶  司凤举 《植物病理学报》1964,7(2):127-134

 窖藏白菜腐烂是由许多细菌造成的。最重要的是Erwinia aroideae和E.phytophthora以及被认为是腐生菌的三种芽孢杆菌Bacillus pumilus,B.poly-myxa和B.subtilis。试验证明在一定条件下后者能引致明显的腐烂。  相似文献   

Seroprevalence of Neospora caninum in beef cattle in northern Alberta          下载免费PDF全文

Waldner CL  Henderson J  Wu JT  Coupland R  Chow EY 《The Canadian veterinary journal. La revue veterinaire canadienne》2001,42(2):130-132

Blood samples were collected from 1806 pregnancy-tested cows from 174 herds at a northern Alberta auction mart in the fall of 1998. One hundred sixty-two (9.0%) of these samples were positive for antibodies to N. caninum. Thirty-five of 260 samples (13.5%) collected from the same region in the 1980s were also serologically positive for N. caninum.  相似文献   

Quantal release of transmitter is not associated with channel opening on the neuronal membrane     

S H Young  I Chow 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》1987,238(4834):1712-1713

The traditional view that quantal release of neurotransmitter results from the fusion of transmitter-containing vesicles with the neuronal membrane has been recently challenged. Although various alternative mechanisms have been proposed, a common element among them is the release of cytoplasmic transmitter, which, in one view, could occur through large conductance channels on the presynaptic membrane. Six nerve-muscle cell pairs were examined with a whole-cell patch clamp for the presence of such channels that are associated with the production of miniature end-plate potentials. Examination of the neuronal membrane current during the occurrence of 822 miniature end-plate potentials produced no evidence of large channels. Thus it is unlikely that quantal release is mediated by such channels in the neuromuscular junction.  相似文献   

The economic issues of the fast breeder reactor program     

Chow BG 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》1977,195(4278):551-556

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Adaptive radiation from resource competition in digital organisms     

Chow SS  Wilke CO  Ofria C  Lenski RE  Adami C 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2004,305(5680):84-86

Species richness often peaks at intermediate productivity and decreases as resources become more or less abundant. The mechanisms that produce this pattern are not completely known, but several previous studies have suggested environmental heterogeneity as a cause. In experiments with evolving digital organisms and populations of fixed size, maximum species richness emerges at intermediate productivity, even in a spatially homogeneous environment, owing to frequency-dependent selection to exploit an influx of mixed resources. A diverse pool of limiting resources is sufficient to cause adaptive radiation, which is manifest by the origin and maintenance of phenotypically and phylogenetically distinct groups of organisms.  相似文献