The article provides information about rare and newly described species for the flora of Urals adjacent territories, namely: Astragalus saphronovae Kulikov, Atraphaxis decipiens Jaub. et Spach., Carex amgunensis F. Schmidt, Galium densiflorum Ledeb., Jovibarba globifera (L.) J. Parn., Najas minor All., Potamogeton nodosus Poir., Pseudorchis albida Á. Löve D. Löve, Salix myrsinites L., Veronica ...

There are occasions when readers can get a realistic picture of some topical issue only by examining what several different newspapers say from their respective standpoints. In the case of the influenza that hit Britain in January, this approach would have brought more confusion than clarity. Not only were there flatly contradictory accounts of the severity of the outbreak, and whether it quali...

Forty-one soil and root samples from the rhizosphere of some dominant plants of deserts of Semnan province (NE Iran) were collected and examined in this survey. No mycorrhizal symbiosis was found in 24% of the collected plants, while in 76% of them mycorrhizal symbiosis was detected as fungal structures in roots or AMF spores in soils. The highest degree of colonization (76%) was found near the...

Two 2″-isopropenyl dihydrofuran isoflavonoids (1 and 3), one 2″-isopropenyl dihydrofuran chromone (2), as well as 13 known compounds were isolated from the herbs of Crotalaria albida. Their structures and relative configurations were elucidated via NMR and HRESIMS analyses. The 2″ S absolute configuration of 1 and 2 were deduced by comparing their NOESY spectra with that of 3, which was determi...

The European part of the Ptilocephala albida-species group is revised by morphological and molecular characteristics. This supports existence six taxonomic separated species in Europe, which one described here as new: rutjani Arnscheid & Weidlich, sp. n. lorquiniella (Bruand, 1853) “stat. rev”., again treated a separate species. In addition, this paper gives an overview on current status re...