For most readers, their exposure to invasive species will come from media accounts of “killer” algae in the Mediterranean Sea, Burmese pythons prowling through Florida’s Everglades, or mosquitoes vectoring Zika virus in Brazil. What these observers typically miss, however, are the thousands of species that each year are moved and released well outside their native range (labeled as exotics) but...

Euphorbia mosaic virus (EuMV) was found in a symptomatic passionfruit (Passiflora edulis) plant from Homestead, Florida, USA, as well as in the symptomatic weed Euphorbia heterophylla This is the first identification of EuMV in Florida and the United States and the first report of a natural infection of passionfruit by EuMV.

Introduction To be invited to deliver a presidential address is a great honour signifying, firstly, the support of peers in being elected to the presidency and, secondly, the impending conclusion of this responsibility. It is, in accordance with tradition, the single occasion on which the opinion of the president is not questioned, when he can even discuss the taboo subjects of sex, religion, a...

"The Iliac Passion" traces a return from the new but busy and rapidly growing discipline of "bioethics" to its source in "fundamental philosophical inquiry." The dilemma between bioethics and medicine is examined in two ways. First, the philosophical concept of the "big question" is presented. If we ask of life or of human experience "What does it all mean?", the "it" needs to be defined, and w...

Graduate students and post-docs often ask “What do I need to do to succeed?” One popular answer is to boost your career by networking feverishly, finding powerful mentors, learning to pinpoint hot areas, and publishing in sexy journals. This approach has two problems: it makes succeeding in biology sound like learning to sell used cars, and it relies heavily on prognostication, a skill that eve...

Passion fruit (Passiflora edulis) is a nutritious tropical belongs to the family Passifloraceae. The purple passion local from southern Brazil through Paraguay northern Argentina. India, for long time, has appreciated moderate collect of in Nilgiris south and various parts India. good amount antioxidants, flavanoids, anti- inflammatory, bacterial, fungal ageing properties. This huge economical ...

Ochwo-Ssemakula, M., Sengooba, T., Hakiza, J. J., Adipala, E., Edema, R., Redinbaugh, M. G., Aritua, V., and Winter, S. 2012. Characterization and distribution of a Potyvirus associated with passion fruit woodiness disease in Uganda. Plant Dis. 96:659-665. This article describes the incidence and etiology of a viral disease of passion fruit in Uganda. Symptoms, including those characteristic of...