Benji Brayan Ilagan Silva

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How to measure the shortest distance between multiple points in ImageJ?

I would like to determine the shortest distance from one point to its closets neighboring point to compute for the insect distribution. Attached is an example of the images I'll be working on....

23 April 2018 3,206 6 View

What is the best method to visualize Trichoderma hyphae in the cortical region of the young roots of a tree?

I have tried aniline blue and cotton blue staining for root sections. They're not effective, in this case.

03 February 2016 3,226 2 View

Does decreased respiration rate of the mitochondria due to tubulin-VDAC interaction result to mitochondrial depolarization?

I am currently analyzing a paper on Parkinson's disease. The paper said that MPTP induced beta-III tubulin increase in dopaminergic cells would result to a detrimental interaction with the...

25 November 2015 3,876 1 View

Is there a protocol for simultaneous quantitation of jasmonic acid and salicylic acid using HPTLC?

I would like to measure the salicylic acid and jasmonic acid production of my subject plants as their response to insect pest. I would like to conserve the use of their leaves so as to minimize...

26 October 2015 6,397 2 View

Is there an easy method to quantify the total amount of each of the following: flavonoids, alkaloids, terpenoids, and glycosides in leaf extracts?

It is not the concern of my experiment to identify each of the phytochemicals involved. I just have to track the changes in quantity of the groups. It would be very helpful is you would be able...

25 October 2015 3,611 3 View

How can I quantify salicylic acid from plant leaves using spectrophotometry?

I am trying to establish the effect of priming (using a fungus) to a plant.I want to determine the level of and changes in the amount of salicylic acid as time progresses. I was not allowed to use...

10 October 2015 5,287 2 View

How can I extract Jasmonic acid from plant leaves for High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC) isolation and quantification?

I am doing a research on the effect of priming to the levels of jasmonic acid produced by a plant. I will be using the leaves, and to quantify it, I will beusing HPTLC.

10 October 2015 4,026 3 View

What could be the best parameter to measure the effect of fungal-induced systemic resistance to a sap-sucking pest?

Plants have their own defense mechanism against insect pests. I want to measure with certainty if the defense mechanism a plant is displaying is just its own defense mechanism, or if it is...

17 July 2015 5,812 2 View