Puccinia psidii, the cause of a disease today commonly referred to as Myrtle rust, is considered a high priority quarantine threat globally. It has a wide host range in the Myrtaceae and it is feared that it may result in significant damage to native ecosystems where these plants occur. The fungus is also of considerable concern to plantation forestry industries that propagate Australian Eucaly...

Genetic evaluation and core collection construction of crape myrtle accessions using 1 newly developed EST-SSR markers 2 Yuanjun Ye, Lu Feng, Yiqian Ju, Ming Cai, Tangren Cheng, Jia Wang, Qixiang Zhang, 3 Huitang Pan 4 Beijing Key Laboratory of Ornamental Plants Germplasm Innovation & Molecular 5 Breeding, National Engineering Research Center for Floriculture, Beijing Laboratory of 6 Urban and ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the etiological agent of tuberculosis. The World Health Organization has estimated that 8 million of people develop active TB every year and the situation is complicated by an increase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains resistant to drugs used in antitubercular therapy: MDR and XDR-TB. Myrtle leaf extracts, used as an antiseptic in Sardinian traditional medicine...

Eucalyptus is a diverse genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. Different chemical constituents such as Sideroxylonal C, (+)-oleuropeic acid, cypellocarpins A, B and C, cypellogins A, B and C, Leptospermone, Isoleptospermone, grandinol, various essential oils and many others have been isolated from plants of eucalyptus genus. Various eucalyptus species have been rep...

C. A. KOE'OID, Ph.D., Assistant Director, Professor of Zoology, University of California. C. 0. ESTERLY, Ph.D., Zoologist, Professor of Zoology, Occidental College, Los Angeles, California. W. C. CRANDALL, A.B., Master of the A~exander Agassiz, Professor of Biology, State Normal School, San Diego. MYRTLE E. JOHNSON, Ph.D., Zoologist, Teacher of Biology, Pasadena High School, Pasadena, Californi...