Lockdown botany 2020: some noteworthy records of alien plants in Kyiv City and Kyiv Region

Vyacheslav Boyko Kyiv 2002

Boyko Kyiv 2000

Identification of Viruses Affecting Gladiolus in Kyiv Region

Introduction. The Gladiolus genus belongs to the Iridaceae Juss family. It includes more then 150 species. Most of them are native to Africa and few originated from the Mediterranean area, Asia and South Europe. Cultivars of gladiolus exhibit a great diversity of colour, size, shape, flowering time, and bulbing and dormancy behaviour [2]. Gladiolus is an important ornamental plant grown for com...

Kyiv Database of Lunar Occultations and Some Preliminary

Since 1963 Astronomical Observatory of Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University was the regional centre of occultation coordination. The collected results of observations of lunar occultations of stars and planets during 38 years are compiled in computer database [1]. The base included more than 24 thousand of observation results of 580 observers from 77 sites on The assembled material is anal...

Subjective health legacy of the Chornobyl accident: a comparative study of 19-year olds in Kyiv

BACKGROUND Since the Chornobyl accident in 1986, the physical health of exposed children in Ukraine has been monitored, but their perceived health has not been studied. This study examines health perceptions of Ukrainian adolescents exposed to radioactive fallout in utero or as infants, and the epidemiologic and Chornobyl-related influences on self-reported health. METHOD We assessed three gr...