Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) is a tree in the subfamily Faboideae, native to North America, that has been naturalized and widely planted in temperate Europe and Asia. Black locust has important ecological and economic value, but its quality needs improvement. Hybridization programs are important for black locust breeding, but the low rate of fruit set after controlled pollination limits ...

preliminary investigation on antioxidative potentials of defatted fermented locust bean extract in comparison to defatted non-fermented locust bean was conducted. qualitative antioxidative assessment on the extract was accomplished by screening the phytochemical endowment, and similar bioactive components. also some antioxidative indices were quantitatively evaluated. results showed that the de...

Connections between locusts and people date back millennia remain a major food security challenge today throughout the world. Locust biology is often linked to abiotic conditions like temperature and/or precipitation, fueling perception that aside from active control, humans are not key players in interaction have with their environment. However, several studies shown land management practices ...

Background and Purpose: Most projections of the global energy use predict that biomass will be an important component of primary energy sources in the coming decades. Short rotation plantations have the potential to become an important source of renewable energy in Europe because of the high biomass yields, a good combustion quality as solid fuel, ecological advantages and comparatively low bio...

Desert Locusts, Schistocerca gregaria (Forskal), are the most dangerous of locust species. Under favorable environmental conditions, a few solitary individuals can dramatically multiply, form large swarms able to migrate great distances, and threaten agriculture over a large part of Africa, the Middle East and Southwest Asia. There have been six plagues of Desert Locusts this century, one of wh...

UNLABELLED PREMISE OF THE STUDY Fourteen genomic microsatellite markers were developed and characterized in honey locust, Gleditsia triacanthos, using Illumina sequencing. Due to their high variability, these markers can be applied in analyses of genetic diversity and structure, and in mating system and gene flow studies. • METHODS AND RESULTS Thirty-six individuals from across the species...

Although the specific mechanisms of locust phase transformation are wellunderstood for model locust species such as the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria and the migratory locust Locusta migratoria, the expressions of density-dependent phase polyphenism in other nonmodel locust species are not wellknown. The present paper is an attempt to review and synthesize what we know about these nonmode...

The sequence of a protein can be graphed as a discrete function and a cross-correlation between any two such number sets produces a similarity score. The scores are used to prepare a phylogenetic tree involving hierarchical cluster analysis, non-linear mapping, and minimal spanning routines. Changes are suggested in the sequences of cytochrome c's from Mediterranean fruit fly, locust, and rattl...