Parakeet Damage to Marigold

Parakeet Damage to Sunflower in Pakistan

Rose-ringed parakeet (Psittacula krameri (Scopoli) damage to sunflower heads was estimated in two provinces of Pakistan during the spring of 1981. In seven districts of Punjab the damage ranged from 5.0-23.28 %, with an average of 11.72 %. In rainfed areas the damge was as high as 71.43%, with average of 38.29%. In Sind the damage was on the higher order. In nine districts the damage ranged fro...

Factors Related to Farmers' Preferences to Decrease Monk Parakeet Damage to Crops

Factors Related to Farmers' Preferences to Decrease Monk Parakeet Damage to Crops Sonia B. Canavelli a b , Marilyn E. Swisher c & Lyn C. Branch a a Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA b EEA Paraná, Factores Bióticos y Protección Vegetal, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Entre Ríos, Argentina c Family Youth and Co...

A parakeet genome project?

Researcher William Haseltine, head of Human Genome Sciences Inc. in Rockville, Maryland, likes to claim that knowledge from the human genome, combined with a few technology breakthroughs, will someday enable humans to live forever. Most researchers who study aging have more modest expectations--for example, trolling the genome for new insights into genes involved in so-called oxidative damage t...

The Monk Parakeet in New York

Marigold Biotechnology: Tissue Culture and Genetic Transformation

Members of the Tagetes genus include important floricultural (cut-flower) and ornamental (pot and garden) crops, as well as plants of medicinal and ethno-pharmacological interest. Despite the use of many of these plants in the extraction of important secondary metabolites and essential oils, the greatest biotechnological emphasis has been on their in vitro tissue culture and micropropagation. F...