Volume 42 No. 2 July – December 2020

Daisy Jane A. Toting1, Tessie C. Nuñez2 and Dilberto O. Ferraren3 ABSTRACT Makapuno is a rare, high-value coconut in the Philippines known for its extraordinary thick gelatinous meat with various uses in the food industry. Homozygous makapuno embryos do not germinate in vivo so plantlets are produced in vitro. where one plantlet grows from an […]

Lucia M. Borines1*, Joy Adeline C. Nuñez1, Nickie D. Duero1, Rezel Sagarino-Borines2 and Reny G. Gerona1 ABSTRACT Phytoplasma-like diseases were observed affecting bitter gourd, Loofah, string bean, “Baguio” bean, cucumber, and tomato in Eastern Visayas, Philippines. The infected vegetables commonly show little leaf/witches’ broom symptoms. The study aimed to detect and confirm phytoplasmas presence in