Continued interest in the metabolites of Wedelia trilobata (L.) Hitchc, a notoriously invasive weed in South China, led to the isolation of twenty-six ent-kaurane diterpenoids, including seven new ones 1-7. Their structures and relative configuration were elucidated on the basis of extensive spectroscopic analysis, including 1D- and 2D-NMR experiments. The antimicrobial activities of all isolat...

We report the 4.51 Mb draft genome of Pseudomonas sp. strain BMS12, a Gram-negative bacterium in the class of Gammaproteobacteria, isolated from the rhizospheric sediment of Phragmites karka, an invasive weed in Chilika Lake, Odisha, India. The Pseudomonas sp. strain BMS12 is capable of producing proteases and is also an efficient plant growth promoter that can be useful for various phytoremedi...

to evaluate the effect of reduced doses of foramsulfuron and nitrogen rates on weed biomass in corn field, an experiment was conducted using split plots arrangement based on randomized complete block design with three replications at research field of ferdowsi university of mashhad, in 2011. main plots were weed control levels comprising three reduced herbicide doses of foramsulfuron (50, 75, a...

in order to study the phonological stages and growth period of invasive weed ranunculus ficaria based on degree days and to study the effect of planting depth on sprouting the tubers roots of this weed, two separate experiments were conducted in crd with 5 replications at ferdwosi university of mashhad in 2008. in the first study germinated tubers were planted in 5 cm depth and the observations...

Roger L. Sheley U.S. Department of Agriculture–Agricultural Research Service, 67826-A Highway 205, Burns, OR 97720 The impact of invasive weed management on plant community composition is highly dependent on location-specific factors. Therefore, treatment means from experiments conducted at a given set of locations will not reliably predict community response to weed management elsewhere. We de...

In this paper, an artificial-based optimizes and analysis of an optimal proportional, integral, derivative (PID) controller is introduced for a hydro-turbine generator governor. The main purpose, optimization PID controller parameters of hydro-turbine connected to the network for damping output frequency oscillation. In The proposed approach, an optimal and evolutionary based proportional, inte...

Climate change may exacerbate the impacts of plant invasions by providing opportunities for new naturalisations and for alien species to expand into regions where previously they could not survive and reproduce. Although climate change is not expected to favour invasive plants in every case, in Aotearoa-New Zealand a large pool of potential new weeds already exists and this country is predicted...

1. Parameter uncertainty challenges the use of matrix models because it violates key assumptions underlying elasticity analyses. We have developed a matrix model to compare Monte Carlo methods with elasticity analyses for estimation of the relative importance of factors in the asymptotic population growth rate, λ, of Cirsium vulgare (spear thistle) in Nebraska, USA. 2. We calculated λ for a bas...