An apparatus for gravity assisted high throughput disruption of a plurality of organic cellular material comprising a motor, a rotatable motor shaft, a second rotatable shaft, a crank, a crank pin, a connecting rod, a piston shaft, a platform, a clamping plate and a plurality of tie rods. The invention also describe...

The present application relates to papaya plants having increased resistance to the papaya ringspot virus as compared to a wild type plant due to a mutation in the eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4e and/or eukaryotic translation initiation factor iso4e gene leading to non-functional eukaryotic translation i...