Worm, tomato

Corn-Ear Worm (Center) and Parts Recovered from Comminuted Tomato Product... 

To illustrate how some filth elements may be detected, measured, and evaluated in fruit and vegetable products, let us consider tomatoes, which are subject to at least three types of depredation worms, flies, and mold. 

The corn-ear worm and the pinworm are probably the most prevalent of the worm pests which attack tomatoes. Their various parts may be found in a finished product to indicate the use of raw material infested by them. 

Leaves with large holes. Causes Horn-worms other caterpillars. Hornworms are y -4Vi" caterpillars with white diagonal stripes. The tobacco hornworm has a red horn projecting from the rear, while the tomato horn-worm fias a black horn. Handpick or spray plants with BTK to control them. Do not spray eaterpillars that are covered with small white cocoons these cases eontain the larvae of parasitic wasps that are natural hornworm predators. 

Inhibitors of proteolytic enzymes may play an important role in plant protection not only from harmful insects, but also other pests nematodes, the nematodes. Many nematodes are parasitic on plants and cause significant damage to agricultural production. In the gut of nematodes contains active cysteine and serine proteases, including chymotrypsin and kallikrein is similar. It is interesting that when infected with worms, among transcripts of tomato were found proteins related to the family of Kunitz inhibitor (SBH) (Valueva Mosolov, 2002 Schroeder et al., 1995). 

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