Abstract With the reduced availability of effective plant protection products, alternative control measures gain importance. Insect net covers are a promising tool in this regard, because they can reduce pest damage on crop by exclusion pests. However, as under practical conditions, most need to be removed several times during cycle manage weeds and apply fertilizers, complete pests is not alwa...

Biodiversity provided by non-crop plants has long been thought to strengthen conservation biological control providing food and habitat for natural enemies. More recently, greater evenness among enemies also suggested promote strong top-down control, but characteristics management strategies that or disrupt predators remain unclear. We examined effects of plants, the activity density invasive i...

Pseudomonas corrugata 28 is a Cr(VI)-hyper-resistant bacterium. A Cr(VI)-sensitive mutant was obtained by insertional mutagenesis using EZ-Tn5 Tnp. The mutant strain was impaired in a gene, here named oscA (organosulphur compounds), which encoded a hypothetical small protein of unknown function. The gene was located upstream of a gene cluster that encodes the components of th...

Marine sponges usually constitute the most diverse group of the benthic community in coral reefs. Although they are reasonably well studied at the northern Gulf of Mexico (GMx), the southern GMx is poorly known and lacks records from many major reef systems that lie off the Mexican coast. The present taxonomic study is the first sponge account from Alacranes reef, the largest coral reef system ...

Abstract The combined culture of fed species (bivalves, fish) and macroalgae, known as integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA), has been suggested a method mitigating localised nitrogen (N) increase from aquaculture, whilst simultaneously culturing macroalgae for commercial applications. development IMTA requires an understanding the N ecophysiology candidate macroalga species. We examined ...