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Keeler, R.F. and Crowe, M.W. (1984). Teratogenicity and toxicity of wild tree tobacco, Nicotiana glauca in sheep, Cornell Vet., 74, 50-59. 

Tuskes, PM., Tuttle, J.P. and Collins, M.M. (1996). The Wild Silk Moths of North America. Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press. 

Green, Rhys E., Stephen J. Cornell, Jorn P. W. Scharlemann, and Andrew Balmford. 2005. Farming and the fate of wild nature. Science 307(5709) 550-555. 

The wild tomato, Lycopersicon pennellii, and the wild potato, Solanum berthaultiif are two species which exhibit insect resistance conferred by glandular trichomes. S, berthaultii and L. pennellii have been the focus of efforts at Cornell University to transfer trichome-based insect resistance traits. This chapter reviews our knowledge of the biochemistry of glandular trichome-based insect resistance in these species. 

Under various conditions, whole cells of strain A-5 appear to produce only 5 to 10% of the quantity of bacitracin formed by cells of strain 10716 (Bernlohr and Novelli, i960, 1963 Snoke, 196O and Snoke and Cornell, 1965). However, the biosynthetic capacity of the two strains has not been directly compared to determine to what extent differences in conditions of culture and assay in different laboratories might be responsible for the apparent disparity in yield. Published information concerning possible variation in bacitracin yield among large numbers of strains of B. licheniformis is not available (Hickey, 1964). In view of possible associations between bacitracin production and sporu-lation (vide infra), it would be of interest to determine if asporogenous mutants form more, or less, antibiotic than do wild strains. 

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