A new species of Pythium isolated from wheat and apple roots in eastern Washington is described. Pythium abappressorium sp. nov. is characterized by abundant appressoria. Plerotic oospores and sporangia are formed from the appressoria and remnants of the appressoria remain attached to the base of sporangia at maturity. Smaller appressorial swellings, reminiscent of hyphal swellings, are also fo...

Daun pandan wangi ( Pandanus amaryllifolius Roxb . ) merupakan genus pandanus dari suku Pandanaceae. Pandan Roxb.) mengandung alkaloida, saponin, flavonoida, tanin, polifenol, fenil propanoid, dan zat warna, Antioksidan fenolik dapat digunakan untuk mencegah kerusakan akibat reaksi oksidasi pada makanan. Sediaan kosmetik yang paling sering perawatan kulit adalah bentuk sediaan gel karna mudah m...

A review of the Croatian and Serbian Tetrigidae is given and first records of Tetrix undulata (Sowerby, 1806) for Croatia and Serbia as well as Tetrix tuerki (Krauss, 1876) and Tetrix transsylvanica (Bazyluk & Kis, 1960) comb. nov. for Croatia are presented. The status of the genus Uvarovitettix Bazyluk & Kis, 1960 and the taxonomic position of T. transsylvanica comb. nov. are discussed. The ge...

Composts are known for their suppressive properties toward many different seed- and root-infecting pathogens and diseases. Although disease and pathogen suppression induced by composts is believed to be mediated by microbial activities, the nature of the microbial species and processes responsible for suppressiveness remain unknown. We demonstrated previously that seed-colonizing microbial cons...

The Palaearctic species of the Gasteruption assectator aggregate (Hymenoptera, Gasteruptiidae) are revised and three species are recognised. Two species are re-instated: Gasteruption boreale (Thomson, 1883), stat. n. and Gasteruption nigritarse (Thomson, 1883), stat. n., and both are excluded from the synonymy with Gasteruption assectator (Linnaeus, 1758). The general distribution of both speci...

Symplocos Racemosa (Roxb.) known in Hindi as Lodhra, is a common indigenous drug used by Ayurvedic practitioners for the treatment of diarrhoea. dysentery, liver diseases etc. (Chopra,1958, Nadkarni, 1954). Although it is a popular drug, no scientific investigation has been done to elucidate its pharmacological actions. This communication embodies the findings of a preliminary phytochemical and...

Three species of Xerolycosa: Xerolycosa nemoralis (Westring, 1861), Xerolycosa miniata (C.L. Koch, 1834) and Xerolycosa mongolica (Schenkel, 1963), occurring in the Palaearctic Region are surveyed, illustrated and redescribed. Arctosa mongolica Schenkel, 1963 is removed from synonymy with Xerolycosa nemoralis and transferred to Xerolycosa, and the new combination Xerolycosa mongolica (Schenkel,...