While plants are typically supposed to restrict the performance of radio frequency transceiver systems, they can act as efficient biogenic elements control. A high fraction water inside vegetation gives rise multiple electromagnetic Mie resonances, originating from interplaying a naturally permittivity and form factor. Opuntia ficus-indica, known nopal cactus, is representative example whose su...

Kristyna Rysava*2, 1, Tamara Mancero3, Eduardo Caldas4, Mary Carvalho6, Veronica Gutierrez5, Daniel Haydon2, Paul Johnson2, Rebecca Mancy2, Jesus F. Gonzalez Roldan5, Victor D. Vilas6 and Katie Hampson2 1University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences, Coventry, United Kingdom; 2University of Glasgow, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine, Glasgow, United Kingdom; 3Pan ...

Divergent selection between environments can result in changes to the behavior of an organism. In many insects, volatile compounds are a primary means by which host plants are recognized and shifts in plant availability can result in changes to host preference. Both the plant substrate and microorganisms can influence this behavior, and host plant choice can have an impact on the performance of...

Drosophila mercatorum is a sexual species that can reproduce parthenogenetically in the laboratory. A previous study showed that a natural population of D. mercatorum inhabiting the Kamuela garbage dump on the Island of Hawaii could produce both viable parthenogenetic adults and self-sustaining parthenogenetic lines. The present study deals with a second screen for parthenogenesis and an isozym...

Plains prickly pear (Opuntia polyacantha Haw.) is common throughout the Great Plains and often becomes detrimental to agricultural production on noncultivated lands. We examined direct fire effects on plains prickly pear and mechanisms of tissue damage to facilitate development of fire prescriptions. Cladodes from clones on three soils (claypan, gravelly, silty) were subjected to fire with two ...

the opuntia ficus indica mucilage was an abundant and a low cost product. in the presentpaper, it was tested as an eco-friendly flocculants for textile waste water treatment. its performance asflocculants in decolorization, cod removal and turbidity abatement was checked. the natural product wascharacterized using uv-vis and infra-red spectroscopy. the study of the effect, followed by an optimi...