Rapid establishment of closed canopy cover is a key goal in land reclamation. While re-establishment understory vegetation likely to positively contribute this goal, native herbaceous species are not typically planted on reclaimed sites though it an alternative reliance natural regeneration. The objective the present study was test principle hitchhiker production tree with recently industrial a...

Forest fires are increasingly becoming the cause of destruction a particular ecosystem or landscape, restoration which takes quite long time. Research on pyrogenic succession is one urgent tasks in modern science. In course this work, an analysis vegetation territory Barguzin Nature Reserve was carried out. After grass-roots fire ecological trails Shumilikha River valley and Davshinsky pillars,...

Flight activity was compared in colonies of Russian honey bees, Apis mellifera L. (Hymenoptera: Apidae), and Italian bees during commercial pollination of lowbush blueberries (principally Vaccinium angustifolium Aiton) in Washington Co., ME, in late May and early June in 2003 and 2004. Colonies of the two stocks were managed equally in Louisiana during autumn through early spring preceding obse...

Conspecific pollen precedence can be a strong reproductive barrier between polyploid and diploid species, but the role of genome multiplication in the evolution of this barrier has not been investigated. Here, we examine the direct effect of genome duplication on the evolution of pollen siring success in tetraploid Chamerion angustifolium. To separate the effects of genome duplication from sele...

Several plant extracts, including certain polyphenols, prime innate lymphocytes and enhance responses to secondary stimuli. Oenothein B, a polyphenol isolated from Epilobium angustifolium and other plant sources, enhances IFNγ production by both bovine and human NK cells and T cells, alone and in response to secondary stimulation by cytokines or tumor cells. Innate immune cell responsiveness is...

Post-planting weed control methods on abandoned farmland were studied in three fi eld trials in southern Finland using a completely randomized design with four treatments and 30 to 40 replications. Mulches of 60 × 60 cm [sheet mulch – strips of plane waste and plastic fi bre, newspaper – waste paper slurry, wood chips, pure wood fi bre slurry], herbicides [i.e. glyphosate or terbuthylazine alon...

Several species of berries, such as blueberries (Vaccinium angustifolium) and lingonberries (Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.), have attracted much scientific attention in recent years, especially due to their reported antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Berries, as with other types of plants, have developed metabolic mechanisms to survive various environmental stresses, some of which involve...

Wild blueberries (Vaccinium angustifolium Aiton.) are a rich source of dietary fiber and (poly)phenols with gastrointestinal immune health-promoting properties, however, their mechanisms action on the intestinal epithelial cells transient tissue macrophages remain to be elucidated. In this study, we evaluated individual effects anthocyanins, short-chain fatty acids (metabolites derived from fib...