Acacia koa seedlings were evaluated from plantings and commercial nurseries for colonization by Fusarium spp., particularly F. oxysporum, the putative cause of koa wilt/dieback disease in Hawaii. We sampled 162 seedlings, 90% of which were from nurseries on the islands of Hawaii, Maui, Kauai, and Oahu. Fusarium oxysporum was detected on about 78% of sampled seedlings. It was most prevalent on r...

The current best management tools employed in coral reefs worldwide do not achieve conservation objectives as coral reefs continue to degrade. Even improved reef management helps, at best, to reduce the degradation pace, whereas the worsening global changes foretell a dismal fate for coral reefs. The assertion made here is that the prospect for reefs' future is centered on omnipresent acceptanc...

/^\N the invitation of the Islington Borough Council a conference of over a hundred delegates from Metropolitan Borough Councils, including in each case the Medical Officer of Health, and various bodies devoted to children's welfare, met in the Islington Town Hall to consider the advisability of establishing Day Nursery Schools in the Metropolis on the lines of the Rachel McMillan School at Gre...

Infections affecting infants in the hospital nursery are generally divided into those with a prenatal onset and early- and late-onset postnatal infections. Little attempt has been made to differentiate infections affecting infants more than a week of age from those with an onset at several months of age. Three cases are presented which demonstrate how, currently, infants far older than one mont...

Literature on the domestic trade of nursery crops is sparse. Based on national survey data collected in years 1999, 2004, and 2009, we used augmented gravity models to investigate the primary factors affecting the value of trade for both large and small nurseries. We found that the impact of distance on trade value was different between large nurseries and small nurseries; the impact of distanc...

conclusions it is suggested to consider practical programs to maintain religious believes in students. materials and methods this was a descriptive analytic study. study population was 370 students selected by census sampling from all students of this faculty. gathering data tools were religious attitude questionnaire (golriz and brahani 1974) and life orientation test questionnaire (lot-r). re...

Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Takeo Shishido, Professor Emeritus, Department of Childhood Education at Aichi Prefectural University, Aichi Prefecture Nagakute-tyo 0561-64-1111, Japan, Electronic mail may be sent to [email protected] Welfare (MHLW) over day nurseries. In addition, the national curriculum for kindergartens (the Course of Study for Kindergarten...

Providing high quality seedlings for use in forestry applications is one of the main challenges faced by forest nurseries, and it depends on practices used such facilities. For instance, controlled experiments have shown that seedling growth affected soils’ physical condition, which turn rather difficult to manipulate equipment used; this raises question whether changing operational procedures ...

The genus Phytophthora comprises over 70 described species, however many new species have been reported recently as a result of the discovery of previously undetected species or by the hybridization of known species. Phytophthora ramorum, one of the new Phytophthora species, is considered a high phytosanitary risk because it is currently responsible for largescale oak mortality in coastal Calif...

Phytophthora ramorum is infecting plants in Oregon forests and nurseries. In this study, we analyzed the population structure of the P. ramorum in Oregon from 2001 to 2004 using microsatellites. The P. ramorum population in Oregon is characterized by low genetic diversity, significant genetic differences between nursery and forest populations, and no evidence of sexual recombination. The forest...