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To isolate potential host homologs of the red clover necrotic mosaic virus (RCNMV) MP, antibodies to this protein were used to screen phloem extracts of Cucurbita maxima, resulting in the detection of a protein designated Cmpp16.
Indeed, a recent study on the nitrogen content of phloem and xylem exudates during the transition to flowering in Arabidopsis and Sinapis alba showed changes in the transport of amino acids through the vasculature [ 30 ] .
Nonetheless, (1) the low motility of females, and the fact that they live mostly on long-lived woody plants, means that maternal kin may interact over long timescales, as in social insects; (2) some scale insects appear to make relatively sophisticated social decisions about where to settle, settling nearer to (and thus possibly competing more closely with) non-kin than kin (Kasuya 2000); (3) although most scale insects use phloem sap, an almost inexhaustible resource, armored scales use parenchyma tissues (Rosen 1990), which may be locally exhausted, and therefore may compete against neighbors for food.