AN INEXPENSIVE SYSTEM FOR RAPID AND ACCURATE ON-SITE DETECTION OF GARLIC-INFECTED VIRUSES BY AGAROSE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS FOLLOWED BY ARRAY ASSAY

An Inexpensive System for Rapid and Accurate On-site Detection of Garlic-Infected Viruses by Agarose Gel Electrophoresis Followed by Array Assay

Garlic can be infected by a variety of viruses, but mixed infections with leek yellow stripe virus, onion yellow dwarf virus, and allexiviruses are the most damaging, so an easy, inexpensive on-site method to simultaneously detect at least these three viruses with a certain degree of accuracy is needed to produce virus-free plants.The most common l

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Bayesian salamanders: analysing the demography of an underground population of the European plethodontid Speleomantes strinatii with state-space modelling

Abstract Background It has been suggested that Plethodontid salamanders are excellent candidates for indicating ecosystem health.However, detailed, long-term data sets of their populations are rare, limiting our understanding of the demographic processes underlying their population fluctuations.Here we present a demographic analysis based on a 1996

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Online Harassment in Sri Lanka: A Thematic Analysis

Online harassment has become a growing menace worldwide for which every nation is trying to find a solution.Existing literature demonstrates that online harassment is widespread in diverse forms and so is its impact on the victims.Despite the lack of any comprehensive studies in this area, there is sufficient evidence to demonstrate the prevalence

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