Patrick C. Thiaville 1,2,3,4 and Valérie de Crécy-Lagard 2,4, * 1 Genetics and Genomics Graduate Program, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 2 University of Florida Genetics Institute, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 3 Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Université of Paris-Sud, Orsay, France. 4 Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Flori...

Field studies were conducted to determine the potential for alterations in physiology and the intraspecific variation in sensitivity of 20 wheat (Triticum aestivum) cultivars to enhanced ultraviolet-B (UV-B, 280-315 nm) radiation. The supplemental UV-B radiation was 5 kJ m(-2), simulating a depletion of 20% stratospheric ozone. Out of 20 wheat cultivars (from South China, North China and Mexico...

The reproduction of a Wyoming population of Heterodera schachtii was determined for resistant trap crop radish (Raphanus sativus) and mustard (Sinapis alba) cultivars, and resistant and susceptible sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) cultivars in a greenhouse (21 degrees C/16 degrees C) and a growth chamber study (25 degrees C). Oil radish cultivars also were field tested in 2000 and 2001. In the greenh...

Fingerprinting with molecular markers allows precise, objective and rapid variety identification. In this study, simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers were used to fingerprint the forty-eight main commercial rice cultivars under cultivation at present in Zhejiang Province, China, and identify indica and japonica subspecies including eight groups of closely related cultivars. Eighteen of the thir...

Thirty rice cultivars were evaluated for salinity tolerance during the seedling stage and were divided into five tolerance groups including tolerant (T), moderately tolerant (MT), moderately susceptible (MS), susceptible (S) and highly susceptible (HS) which comprised 5, 10, 9, 4 and 2 cultivars respectively. Genetic diversity of all rice cultivars was evaluated using random amplified polymorph...

Greenhouse studies were conducted to evaluate the sensitivity of three commercial cultivars, eight experimental cultivars and common bermudagrass to clethodim, glufosinate and glyphosate. Each herbicide was applied at eight doses. Data were regressed on herbicide dose using a log-logistic curve (R2 = 0.56-0.95 for clethodim, R2 = 0.60-0.94 for glufosinate, and R2 = 0.70-0.96 for glyphosate). Th...

Cultivation of fungi for food by fungus-growing ants (Attini: Formicidae) originated about 50 million years ago. The subsequent evolutionary history of this agricultural symbiosis was inferred from phylogenetic and population-genetic patterns of 553 cultivars isolated from gardens of "primitive" fungus-growing ants. These patterns indicate that fungus-growing ants succeeded at domesticating mul...

Because most regions of Japan are in the temperate climate zone, many deciduous and evergreen fruit crops are cultivated in Japan. In addition to fruit cultivation in the temperate zone, some southern areas, such as the Ryukyu Islands that stretch from Kyushu to Taiwan, are at the northern limits for tropical fruit production without the need of artificial heating. At present, annual fruit prod...

The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District utilises dry ice-baited light traps to monitor mosquito populations on Key Largo, Florida. This paper describes the methodology of trapping, habitat description and dataset adult from 18 years weekly monitoring a single site Monroe County, Florida, USA. details previously unreported derived trap collections made at designated as “Gun Club Road.”

This report was authored by William K. Nuttle (former Executive Officer of the Florida Bay and Adjacent Marine Systems Program Management Committee [PMC]) and edited by John Hunt (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Florida Marine Research Institute, and PMC), Brian D. Keller (NOAA, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, and PMC), Raquel Filipek (The Nature Conservancy), and Lau...