hydrangea anomala/nicotine

Nicotiana tabacum (Solanaceae) is the only species whose leaves can be legally marketed as tobacco according to the Japanese Tobacco Business Act. Nicotine, a major alkaloid produced by N. tabacum leaves, is regulated in pharmaceuticals by the Japanese Pharmaceutical Affairs Law. However, the use of

The complete nucleotide sequence of the RNA 3 of hydrangea mosaic virus (HdMV) was determined. It consists of 2268 nucleotides and contains two open reading frames (ORF). ORF 1 encodes for a putative translation product of 293 amino acids which shared 64.9% identity with the 3a protein of tobacco

Hydrangea is a popular, summer flowering, ornamental shrub that is native to south and east Asia and North and South America, which is now cultivated throughout the world. Currently, 13 viruses belonging to eight genera have been reported in Hydrangea spp. (1). In April 2011, virus-like disease

In 2003 and 2004, 15 isolates of Ralstonia solanacearum were obtained from wilting plants of field-grown pepper (Capsicum annuum) in south Florida and from pot-grown hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata and H. macrophylla) and geranium (Pelargonium × hortorum) in commercial nurseries and retention ponds