Dog Rose is one of the most important species in Rosaceae family used as a medicinal plant and a rootstock for ornamental roses. This species is native to Iran, therefore, identification of indigenous genotypes of this species is important for genetic preservation or breeding purposes. Genetic diversity estimation of plant materials is one of the important pre-breeding activities in breeding cr...

Rose hips differ from other fruits with their high vitamin C, E, phenolic, and antioxidant content, making it an economical source of antioxidants. Exploring the fruit seed components different Rosa species could enable better use potential for various industries. Thus, rose corymbifera, rugosa (Thunb.), alba L., canina L. cultivated in same growing conditions were analyzed. Their activity capa...

Endozoochory is a mutualistic interaction between plants and animals. Such relationship has rarely been examined in the Eurasian otter Lutra lutra. This study aimed to assess use electivity of fruit by this carnivore, along with viability ingested seeds. Otter spraints were collected from River Bullaque (Guadiana basin, central Spain) June September 2018-2019. A high occurrence (> 40%) was foun...

Relevance . To identify the features of growth and development species roses different geographical origin, to establish biological minimum temperatures necessary for beginning flowering representatives genus Rosa L., study morphological indicators fruits. Methodology The research material was 12 wild belonging 4 sections: Canina Crep, Cinnamomeae DC, Luteae Pimpinellifoliae DC. carried out usi...

Comparative analysis of development and survivorship of two geographically divergent populations of the Natal fruit fly Ceratitis rosa Karsch designated as Ceratitis rosa R1 and Ceratitis rosa R2 from Kenya and South Africa were studied at seven constant temperatures (10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 33, 35 °C). Temperature range for development and survival of both populations was 15-35 °C. The development...