| emergence of groundnut ringspot virus and tomato chlorotic spot virus in vegetables in florida and the southeastern united states. | groundnut ringspot virus (grsv) and tomato chlorotic spot virus (tcsv) are two emerging tospoviruses in florida. in a survey of the southeastern united states, grsv and tcsv were frequently detected in solanaceous crops and weeds with tospovirus-like symptoms in south florida, and occurred sympatrically with tomato spotted wilt virus (tswv) in tomato and pepper in south florida. tswv was the only tospovirus detected in other survey locations, with the exceptions of grsv from tomato (solanum lyco ... | 2015 | 25317844 |
| control of salmonella cross-contamination between green round tomatoes in a model flume system. | tomato best management practices require florida packers to treat tomatoes in a flume system containing at least 150 ppm of free chlorine or other approved sanitizer. however, research is needed to determine the ability of these sanitizers to prevent the transfer of pathogens from contaminated to uncontaminated tomatoes, particularly under realistic packinghouse conditions. the goal of this research was to assess the minimum levels of sanitizer needed to prevent salmonella cross-contamination be ... | 2015 | 26197278 |
| no evidence of adverse effects on germination, emergence, and fruit yield due to space exposure of tomato seeds. | seeds of 'rutgers california supreme' tomato (lycopersicon esculentum mill.) were exposed to outer space conditions aboard the long duration exposure facility (ldef) satellite in the space exposed experiment developed for students (seeds) project of the national aeronautics and space administration (nasa). seeds aboard the ldef were packed in dacron bags forming four layers per sealed canister. some of these seeds were used in oklahoma and florida for studies of germination, emergence, and fruit ... | 1996 | 11539352 |
| salmonella transfer potential during hand harvesting of tomatoes under laboratory conditions. | tomato good agricultural practices, mandatory guidelines in florida, do not have specific regulations for glove use during tomato harvesting. the objective of the research reported here was to evaluate salmonella transfer from contaminated gloves to tomatoes and vice versa upon single and subsequent touches. experiments were performed using mature, green, round tomatoes with two types of gloves (reusable and single use) and two hygienic conditions of reusable glove (clean and dirty [fouled with ... | 2013 | 23905789 |