S04-01 Calfacilitin: A new player in neural induction Costis Papanayotou, Ping Liao, Song-Quing Lu, Lei Zhu, Alex Shaw, Andrea Streit, Dejie Yu, Tuck Wah Soong, Claudio D. Stern, Guojun Sheng University College London, London, United Kingdom National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore, Singapore King’s College London, London, United Kingdom ...

Over 90% of the insect damage to cowpea seeds is caused by Callosobruchus maculatus. Although, many chemicals have proven their efficacy against C. maculatus, they adversely affect natural environment. Death non-targeted species which are enemies other pests and development resistance possible. Therefore, current study was conducted determine effect plant leaves Murraya koenigii (“Karapincha”),...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Development of insect resistance to synthetic pesticides, high operational cost and environmental pollution have created the need for developing alternative approaches to control vector-borne diseases. In the present study, larvicidal activity of flavonoid extracts of different parts of Vitex negundo (Linnaeus) and Andrographis paniculata (Nees) have been studied against...

Understanding how soil water source is used spatiotemporally by tree species and if native can successfully coexist with introduced crucial for selecting afforestation. In the rocky mountainous areas of Taihang Mountains, alien Robinia pseudoacacia L. has been widely afforested into shrublands dominated Ziziphus jujuba Mill var. spinosa Vitex negundo heterophylla to improve forest coverage nutr...